Loneliness is a major public health problem – and young people are bearing the brunt of it: Hannah Wei|Unsplash Writing in the Week, journalist Theara Coleman has declared 2023 “the year of the loneliness epidemic”. In May, the US surgeon general, Vivek Murthy, said loneliness posed a public health risk on a par with smoking …
Farmers are bearing the brunt of big food companies’ decarbonisation efforts – here’s why: The corporate rush to reduce the environmental footprint of their food supply chains poses several challenges for farmers. StockMediaSeller/Shutterstock More than a third of the global greenhouse gas emissions resulting from human activity can be attributed to the way we produce, …
Tigray’s healthcare workers haven’t been paid in over a year — and bear the brunt of the war: The unfolding crisis will only worsen the situation in Tigray. Eduardo Soteras/AFP via Getty Images Tragic stories of suffering and death have emerged from Tigray since 2020, when civil war erupted between the central Ethiopian government and …
Young people and women bear the brunt of South Africa’s worrying jobless rate: Women fill plastic shopping bags with light polyethelene plastics to make soccer balls from re-used plastics in Cape Town. Women bear the brunt of joblessness in South Africa. EFE-EPA/Nic Bothma South Africa’s unemployment figures have made for grim reading for a long …
South Africa in the news: Young people and women bear the brunt of South Africa’s worrying jobless rate: We considered youth unemployment trends by using two sets of data – Statistics South Africa’s Quarterly Labour Force Survey and the long-running National Income Dynamics Survey. As has long been the …: “South Africa” – BingNews Sri …
South Africa in the news: COVID-19 rages in Brazil, with young victims bearing the brunt: As the rest of the world begins to emerge from the pandemic, Brazil is being ravaged by COVID-19 — with a more contagious variant spreading and deaths surging, particularly among younger people.: “South Africa” – BingNews We are capable of …
Young ethnic minorities bear brunt of recessions, and it’s happening again – here’s how to stop it: The official unemployment figures that have just been published for the last quarter of 2020 reveal the continued economic impact of COVID-19 on Britain’s ethnic minority groups. Among all groups, Black African/Caribbean people fared worst, with unemployment rates reaching …
South Africa in the news: South Africa’s waning economic fortunes demand harsh policy adjustments: who will bear the brunt?: The social and economic crisis generated by the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated South Africa’s fiscal crisis. But the origins of the fiscal crisis are deeper. It is a structural crisis that will …: “South Africa” – …
South Africa’s waning economic fortunes demand harsh policy adjustments: who will bear the brunt?: South African Minister of Finance Tito Mboweni. The origins of the country's fiscal crisis are deeper than COVID-19. Getty Images The social and economic crisis generated by the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated South Africa’s fiscal crisis. But the origins of the …
How women in academia are feeling the brunt of COVID-19: The disproportionate effect of COVID-19 on the productivity of women could see many leave academia. Shutterstock The COVID-19 pandemic and the consequent public health response of lockdown has brought into sharp relief the constraints faced by women across the board. We have been keeping a …
Women bear the brunt of Africa’s urban disasters, such as the collapse of landfills: The Hulene landfill in Maputo, Mozambique. Wikipedia Commons The last 12 months have been bracketed by two catastrophic, and predictable, events: the collapse of the Koshe Garbage landfill on March 11, 2017, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and the collapse of the …