Weather disasters that happen more often because of climate change create conditions in which gender-based violence often spikes, according to new research.The study, published in the journal The Lancet Planetary Health, reviewed research from five con…
AbstractIt is often taken as a given that community-based disaster risk reduction (CBDRR) serves as a mechanism for the inclusion of local knowledge (LK) in disaster risk reduction (DRR). In this paper, through in-depth qualitative analysis of empirica…
DEDZA, Malawi – For the past three years, Lusita Maikolo has been in and out of school. Her parents could not manage to pay her school fees regularly, and this led to her being excluded and missing entire periods of learning.The 17-year-old girl never …
Published by The Pavlovic Today Sze Yan Liu, Montclair State University When people living in poverty in countries like Malawi, Indonesia and Ecuador receive cash payments without having to do anything in return, they have better health, according to a Read more
Press freedom groups and the U.S. and British ?mbassies in Malawi have expressed concerns after police interrogated an investigative reporter over his sources and confiscated his equipment.Gregory Gondwe says police held him for four hours Tuesday in a…
After a sharp plunge in value at the beginning of the war in Ukraine, the Russian ruble has recovered much of its value against other world currencies, a change made possible by aggressive capital controls put in place by the government in Moscow and a…