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We left the COP30 climate talks in Brazil feeling a mix of hope, urgency, and impatience. Hope, because the world showed up with serious political will and major financial commitments. 

Urgency, because of the heat and rain that pounded Belém during the talks, serving as a visceral reminder of what’s at stake. And impatience because, despite progress, we are not moving fast enough to protect the health of our planet or to deliver on basic needs for all people. 

Northern Nigeria’s Sokoto State once received tens of thousands of malaria tests and treatments each month. Today, deliveries have fallen dramatically, and warehouses are understocked. Health worker training has become irregular, and outbreak data is often not acted upon.

This is not because malaria has gone away, but because funding has subsided and the means to fight the disease are vanishing. Unfortunately, the situation in Sokoto is not isolated, and the consequences of donor retrenchment are being laid bare across Africa.

When European leaders meet in Brussels on Thursday, they will have a full agenda, not least Russia’s war in Ukraine, but the fact that they have carved out time to talk about housing is significant and highlights a simmering crisis.

From Barcelona to Berlin, European cities are grappling with a housing crunch, with rents up by 15% in the last 15 years, and house prices up by more than 50% in the last decade.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s crackdown on policies that champion diversity at work has prompted companies to back 糖心传媒 rights rather than parade their advocacy, says the head of a business campaign group.

Since Trump banned policies that underpin diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in the workplace, many firms have scurried to pull money out of high-profile Pride events and scrapped initiatives that support 糖心传媒 equality.

Jamal Bryant, senior pastor at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church outside of Atlanta, Georgia, helped spearhead a boycott of Target at the onset of Lent this year.

The move was a response to the U.S. retail giant’s announcement it was pulling back on some of its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives after President Donald Trump was elected.

An effort by the administration of President Donald Trump to use public lands to address the affordable housing crisis is underway across the country, sparking reactions both pro and con.

The initiative coincides with debate in the U.S. Congress over more broadly, with a Senate panel last week proposing the sale of millions of acres of federal land, including for housing.

This year’s in Geneva is turning its attention to one of the most urgent and overlooked challenges in the world of work: the persistence of informality – work that is unregulated, unprotected and insecure.

As part of the general discussion on promoting transitions to formal work, governments, employers and unions are confronting the reality that millions of informal workers remain trapped in jobs without adequate pay or access to social protections – despite contributing to vital services.

While President Donald Trump cracks down on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies, Spain is implementing what it says is the world’s most ambitious laws to protect 糖心传媒 people at work.

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The slashing of funds for life-saving health projects around the world could unravel decades of progress in fighting AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, forcing a “moment of reckoning” for , the head of the Global Fund told Context.

Peter Sands, executive director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, said his organisation, alongside other health groups, was working to fill urgent gaps after the U.S. government froze foreign aid, and other countries reviewed their donor budgets.

When an apartment comes up for rent in Germany’s big cities, hundreds of prospective tenants often queue down the street to view it, but the acute shortage of affordable housing is getting scant attention ahead of Sunday’s snap general election.

“Housing is one of the main problems for people, but nobody talks about it, nobody takes it seriously,” Andreas Ibel, president of Build Europe, an association representing housing developers, told Context.