Tag: pandemic
Lessons from the past: Protecting women and girls from violence during...
Little attention has been paid to women and girls in humanitarian settings, those whose safety has already been reduced due to conflict, natural disaster or displacement.
Beyond COVID: The essential building blocks of a just world
The qualities inherent in this global cleansing are perennial principles that many hold dear: sharing, cooperation, tolerance, understanding.
Support for families needs to be permanent
"The pandemic didn’t create the impossible conditions facing moms—it only exacerbated them."
How a Seattle neighborhood confronted food insecurity in the pandemic
Seattle’s square-mile neighborhood of South Park has turned its early pandemic community supports into a sustainable system tackling food insecurity.
Is a mental health crisis the next pandemic?
Whether your share of damage from the pandemic is visible out in the open or not, you need to credit yourself for putting up with it.
Taking on a billionaire landlord in the Twin Cities
Private equity firms snatched up rental properties, then neglected them. So Minneapolis activists organized the tenants to fight for their rights.
Jackson mayor demands help After month-long water crisis amid pandemic, racism,...
The crisis in Jackson, which is 82 percent Black, highlights how climate catastrophe threatens much of the nation’s aging infrastructure.
Omar leads bill to cancel rent and mortgage payments during pandemic
"To avoid an even larger crisis, we must cancel rent and mortgage payments during this pandemic."
Rich nations are getting vaccines, poor countries not: Which is a...
“Between them, G7 nations have secured enough vaccines for every one of their citizens to be vaccinated three times over, while many poor countries are yet to receive a single dose."
Pandemic may have left over 250 million people with acute food...
With the future looking ever more uncertain due to the climate crisis — one of President Biden's top priorities — adapting to new ways of producing and transporting food will be key to our survival.
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Plastic is poisoning the soil that grows our food
New research finds agricultural land holds 23 times more microplastics than oceans, with toxic particles infiltrating crops, ecosystems, and human bodies while global regulation lags behind.
The richest Republicans in Congress push tax cuts for themselves while slashing food, healthcare,...
A new report reveals 35 of the wealthiest GOP lawmakers—worth over $2.5 billion—stand to profit from Trump’s tax cuts while their constituents lose access to SNAP, Medicaid, and student aid.
NOAA: 2025 Atlantic hurricane season predicted to be above normal with 13 to 19...
NOAA predicts a 60 percent chance of it being “above normal,” a 30 percent chance of it being near normal and a 10 percent chance that it will be below normal.
The forgotten 10 billion lives: A tale of suffering, survival, and the fight to...
Photographs, storytelling, poetry, and well-documented research unveil the immense suffering, ecological devastation, worker exploitation, and economic injustice caused by the animal agricultural industry.
Trump pledged to ‘Make America Healthy Again,’ then cut a program many tribes rely...
The USDA has ended a program that dozens of tribal food banks say has helped them provide fresh, locally produced food that is important to their traditions and cultures.