Every product or service that you consume is part of a supply chain. Supply chains include an array of activities connecting mining or harvesting, processing, manufacturing, logistics, marketing, retail, consumption, and waste management. Even quite simple products or services can have complex supply chains that span the globe. Each of these activities along the supply chain will have an impact, socially and environmentally. Some are positive, such as job creation and training opportunities. Others are negative, such as deforestation to expand rangelands for meat production. For years, large companies and brands have come under increasing pressure from governments, NGOs and…
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The war has affected more than a quarter of Ukraine’s territory, according to the authorities, and caused large-scale destruction to buildings that has left thousands of tonnes of debris, creating a huge problem that will take decades to resolve. In most communities, this waste is not properly sorted, resulting in the formation of “spontaneous landfills”. Equipment and training UNDP has been dismantling the rubble from destroyed buildings and introducing a system of waste management. The agency, with support from the European Union (EU), recently helped establish a station to process waste that has accumulated in Bucha, located in the Kyiv…
The United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom worked tirelessly to strengthen the AUKUS partnership by furthering defense trade integration. Today, the Department of State submitted to the Congress a determination that Australia and UK export control systems are comparable to those of the United States and have implemented a reciprocal export exemption for U.S. entities. The Department of State will shortly publish an interim final rule to amend the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and implement an export licensing exemption for Australia and the United Kingdom. The ITAR exemption will be effective September 1, 2024. All three nations…
In the landscape of global health, vaccine diplomacy has emerged as a compelling strategy, melding healthcare initiatives with international relations. This approach is pivotal in the ongoing battle against infectious diseases, most recently the COVID-19 pandemic. Vaccine diplomacy involves countries utilizing their surplus vaccine supplies to forge diplomatic ties, enhance global influence, and foster goodwill. This is often done in partnership with private pharmaceutical entities and public health organizations. However, while aiming to address the urgent need for equitable vaccine access worldwide, vaccine diplomacy raises critical questions concerning human rights and health equity on a global scale. Evolution of Vaccine…
Circle K Stores Inc. failed to protect employee from workplace violenceORLANDO, FL – A subsidiary of one of the world’s best-known operators of convenience stores and fueling stations could have prevented a store cashier in Orlando from suffering a serious gunshot injury by following the company’s own established safety procedures, a U.S. Department of Labor investigation has found.Inspectors with the department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration learned that two unidentified men entered the Circle K location on Silver Star Road shortly after 1 a.m. on Jan. 19, 2024, pointed firearms and screamed at the cashier to open the register. As the employee…
The Technical Working Group on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (TWG-SMSPS) for the Far North region, under the co-lead of the United Nations Migration Agency (International Organization for Migration (IOM)), was presented at the French-speaking session of the MHPSS reference group of the Interagency Scale Committee (IASC). Chaired by Cecile Bizoueme and Barbara Levin, both members of the IASC MHPSS, this session brought together participants from French-speaking countries such as Cameroon, Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Chad and Haiti.The session was an opportunity for IOM to demonstrate its commitment and expertise in…
“When I was a child in Ireland, a spring would suddenly appear and yield forth buckets of beautiful clear water, then just as suddenly it would dry up. The water-diviners would come with their rods and sometimes another spring would be found. One has to be one’s own water-diviner.”In six decades of writing on love, loss, and Ireland, Edna O’Brien was her own unique water-diviner. In terms of the lovely nature-based metaphor she used in a celebrated Paris Review interview, her prose was an endless spring: clear, deeply felt, and often very funny.Yet her debut novel The Country Girls faced…
Mar-Jac Poultry withdraws contest of citations; require added supervision, training HATTIESBURG, MS –The U.S. Department of Labor has reached a settlement agreement with a Hattiesburg poultry processing plant that requires the company to pay $164,814 in fines and implement enhanced safety measures to protect their employees from well-known machine hazards.The agreement follows an investigation by the department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration into the failure by Mar-Jac Poultry to use required safety procedures that would have kept a teenaged worker from being fatally caught in a machine as they cleaned it in July 2023. In addition to abating all violations cited by OSHA,…
The Department of State announces the selection of The Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design, University of Arkansas, in partnership with Design Connects and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art to represent the United States at the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale in 2025 with their exhibition, “PORCH: An Architecture of Generosity.” The exhibition will focus on the representation of the United States through the contemporary manifestation of the porch in American architecture – a quintessential constructed place that is at once social and environmental, tectonic and performative, hospitable and intimate, generous and democratic. The porch is an unheralded American…
Published: Wed 14 Aug 2024, 1:28 PM Last updated: Wed 14 Aug 2024, 1:46 PM James Cox Manchester United called on Irish actor Barry Keoghan to star in their latest kit launch video. The video shows the Dubliner walking the streets of Manchester, attending a park game, and speaking about his love of the game. The 31-year-old is a cousin of Frank Stapleton, who played for United in the 1980s, and the former Ireland international also makes a cameo in the video. United have previously released promotional videos with former stars like Roy Keane and Eric Cantona, along with celebrities…