H.E. Mr. António Guterres Secretary-General United Nations New York, New York H.E. Mr. Volker Turk High Commissioner for Human Rights United Nations Geneva Excellencies, On 16 March 2023, the...
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Securing Refugee Higher Education Futures and the Need to Close the Digital Divide in East Africa
Quick Summary During 2021-2022, UC Davis Human Rights Studies faculty, staff, and students collaborated with Kepler to empower higher education access for over 2200 university-age refugee young...
New Research Shortens the Hungry Season and Increases Maize Productivity in Rural Zambia
During the hungry season in Zambia, maize-farming families face shortfalls in food and savings long before the next harvest. New research shows that the way people budget can make a difference. Feed...
COP27: Three Evidence-based Ideas Can Jumpstart Climate Adaptation by Addressing Risk
As world leaders meet at COP27 in Egypt to discuss the climate future, the lives of small-scale agricultural families hang in the balance. More than a decade of field-tested research has yielded...
Jordan + 4 more
Child Marriage in Humanitarian Crisis: Girls and Parents Speak Out on Risk and Protective Factors, Decision-Making, and Solutions [EN/AR]
INTRODUCTION CHILD MARRIAGE, defined as a formal or informal union before the age of 18, is a well-recognized global phenomenon.1,2 Only in recent years, however, have we begun to understand the...
Resilience+ Innovation Facility to Unlock Agricultural Transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia
Agriculture is the cornerstone of livelihoods across the world. In Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, where small-scale farmers’ livelihoods depend on the food they can grow, climate change has...
New USAID research led from Ghana is testing ways to build rural resilience
Posted by MRR Innovation Lab Ghana has made tremendous progress against poverty in its rural communities over the past decade. It was the first country in Sub-Saharan Africa to attain the Millennium...
World + 3 more
How Digital Technology Is Reshaping Rural Microfinance
When M-Pesa launched as a mobile money service in Kenya in 2007, it quickly extended banking and money transfers to remote rural areas where there were no brick-and-mortar banks. Today, M-Pesa is a...
New Research in Kenya Tests Digital Advisories to Promote Resilience in Farming Communities
Farmers disproportionately bear the burden of climate change and the extreme unpredictable weather it brings. This is particularly true in Sub-Saharan Africa, where in the past year alone farmers in...
Monitoring Impacts of Shocks on Households in Kenya
The COVID-19 pandemic has created an urgent need for timely data and evidence to help monitor and mitigate the social and economic effects of the crisis. Once the recovery from the pandemic had...
Kenya + 1 more
Can Rural Development Programs Build Resilience to the COVID-19 Pandemic?
Posted by Alex Russell COVID-19 restrictions have changed everything in northern Kenya. In drought-prone Samburu, government restrictions have closed local markets where families sell their livestock...
Leveraging machine learning to improve livestock insurance for pastoralist families
Posted by Andrea Esquetini. A century ago, the thought of seeing the Earth from space might have seemed impossible. Since the 1970s, satellite technology has allowed us to measure healthy vegetation...
Protecting Small Farms in Mozambique From Drought
Project Aims to Halt Cycle of Hunger and Poverty By Alex Russell on April 22, 2019 in Food and Agriculture During the months that Jonathan Malacarne spent traveling from village to village in rural...
New Project to Develop Advanced Index Insurance for Small-scale Farmers in Ghana
March 06, 2019 Posted by Alex Russell In Ghana, small-scale farmers who rely on rain to grow their crops are increasingly at risk drought. It’s also this risk of drought that keeps farmers from...
“I don’t know who can help”: Men and boys facing sexual violence in Central African Republic
Los Angeles – All Survivors Project (ASP), hosted by the Williams Institute, UCLA School of Law launches a new report detailing the underreported problem of rape and other sexual violence against men...
Sri Lanka + 1 more
Legacies and Lessons: Sexual violence against men and boys in Sri Lanka and Bosnia & Herzegovina
Eight years on from the end of armed conflict in Sri Lanka, the country is grappling with the legacy of massive human rights abuses committed during the war. As it does so, sexual violence against...
Syria + 1 more
Destroyed from within: Sexual violence against men and boys in Syria and Turkey
The armed conflict in Syria has resulted in a human rights and humanitarian crisis of staggering proportions in which the civilian population suffers daily threats to life, dignity and wellbeing...
Valuing the Global Mortality Consequences of Climate Change Accounting for Adaptation Costs and Benefits
This study provides the first comprehensive economic assessment of the lethal potential of climate change with a method that accounts for both the benefits and costs of adaptation. The researchers’...
World + 5 more
Health systems in low- and middle-income countries not prepared to diagnose and treat common diseases: UCLA's Corrina Moucheraud says policymakers should focus on training health workers, ensuring access to essential medicines
Cardiovascular diseases, chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes are among the leading causes of death worldwide. A new UCLA study has found that Bangladesh, Haiti, Malawi, Nepal and Tanzania each...
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UC Davis Launches Digital Tool in Lebanon to Help Syrian Refugees Reclaim Right to Education
By Julia Ann Easley Jihad Qusanyeh, imprisoned and tortured as a student, will be among the first Syrian refugees to assemble a virtual “backpack” in a new project to help them reclaim their right to...