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The 2023 UNU-WIDER Annual Report celebrates the end of the 2019–23 work programme. UNU-WIDER has achieved significant milestones in research, partnership, and global engagement over the last five...

What do today’s rural Nepalese women have in common with American women in the 1940s? The answer to what might seem a random question relates to the migration of men. Just as American women stepped...

Desertification is a complex issue that negatively impacts the lives and livelihoods of 3.2 billion people worldwide. During the 1992 Rio Summit, desertification was identified as one of the greatest...

Eduardo Albrecht, Eleonore Fournier-Tombs, and Rebecca Brubaker Artificial intelligence (AI) capacity and use has developed rapidly over the last five years. As the international community...

Donors increasingly speak of locally led aid response, but often do not walk the walk. Case in point is the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the humanitarian and...

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected societies to their core, impacting the most vulnerable the hardest. In many places, COVID-19 and concurring hazards have worsened challenges in the informal sector...

UNU-IIGH Strategic Plan 2024-2028 Addressing Inequalities in Global Health Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – 09/01/2024 – The United Nations University - International Institute for Global Health (UNU-IIGH)...

By Sonja Fransen, Alexander Hunns, Tarek Jaber and Teresa Janz Abstract Forcibly displaced people are at the forefront of climate emergencies worldwide. This article presents a scoping review of the...

Marta Furlan As COP28 unfolds, I share new findings on the impact of climate change on human rights violations and, more specifically, on human trafficking as addressed in Target 8.7 of SDG 8: Decent...

Sanae Okamoto, UNU-MERIT; Nidhi Nagabhatla, UNU-CRIS; Kariuki Weru, UNU-EHS; and Robert Oakes, UNU-EHS Highlights 1 . Teachers and caregivers are not yet equipped to teach and discuss climate change...