The effects of climate change usually fall heavily on marginalized populations, including millions of persons with disabilities (PWDs) worldwide, especially those living in rural areas and poor communities. Almost 13 years ago, at COP16 of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the 2010 Cancun Agreements identified PWDs as disproportionally affected by the climate…
The planet is on fire metaphorically (and unfortunately, quite often literally). As a young human in their mid-20s, I’ve slowly and painfully learned, as I’m transitioning into adulthood, that the world I’m living in, and one day maybe my children, is on a downhill spiral of environmental degradation and that increasingly tougher times are ahead. …
Looking at the history of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) from the 1930s – when Austrian psychiatrist Leo Kanner diagnosed Donald Triplett as the first case of autism at age 5 – to the present day, one can understand that there have been great strides in health area since then. According to the CDC (Centers for…
Katoikos lanzó esta petición ante las Naciones Unidas, el Secretario General de la ONU y los líderes de todos los países La urgencia global del COVID-19 ha puesto de relieve no solo las debilidades de los sistemas de salud mundiales, sino también el bajo nivel de preparación de los países para tales desastres, así como…
Katoikos a lancé cette pétition adressée à l’Organisation des Nations Unies, au Secrétaire général de l’ONU et les dirigeants de tous les pays L’urgence globale du COVID-19 a mis en lumière non seulement les faiblesses des systèmes de santé mondiaux, mais également le faible niveau de préparation des pays face à de telles catastrophes, ainsi…
The corona virus pandemic has sickened nearly 2 million people, killed over 100,000 and wrought economic ruin around the world within the space of a few months. It is a global calamity such as humankind has not witnessed since the Second World War. It is also an opportunity and an imperative for the United Nations…
Over the past weeks the global patchwork of economic interactions has unravelled, with economic activity grinding to a near halt as consumer spending collapsed, businesses closed, financial markets imploded, and supply chains fractured. According to the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Managing Director, the world has entered into ‘a recession at least as bad as during…
