World Environment Day, as the biggest global platform to advocate worldwide awareness and action for environmental sustainability, is held every day on June 5th. This year, World Environment Day is symbolized with the theme regarding biodiversity. 2020 has been called as year for urgency, ambition and action to address the Read more
Author: Jesica Milenia For seven decades, East Africa never experiences a locust outbreak. Until they detected large swarms of locust in early 2020 before the coronavirus hit them.[1] Now, they’re anticipating the second larger wave that will come from breeding grounds in Somalia. The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Read more
The first UN Peacekeeping in 1948 mission was named “United Nations Truce Supervision Organization”, or UNTSO, and operated in Palestine. Since that first mission, 3900 military, police, and civilian personnel have lost their lives in the service of peace as a result of acts of violence, accidents, and disease. On Read more
Literally means “festival of breaking of the fast”, Eid al Fitr is a day to celebrate the completion of 29 or 30 days in the Islamic month of Ramadhan. Rather than celebrating the month of fasting coming to an end, Eid al Fitr is an opportunity for Muslims to be Read more
Due to the growing COVID-19 outbreak, we conducted our second Biweekly Discussion online. We discussed about a serious and impactful case that has been headlining many social media platforms recently, which is sexual violence. What is sexual violence? How does it impact women in Asian countries? What are the cases? Read more