By Olivera Živković (DW) – As EU member states roll out coronavirus vaccines, refugees and undocumented migrants will have to be inoculated if the spread of the virus is to be stopped. But not all nations plan to include them in their campaigns. The European Commission adopted a recommendation for effective…

WebPublicaPress – New York/ London -- A new study has found that small businesses are playing an increasing role in supporting education in local communities, particularly for underserved students. The study, released by the Global Business Coalition for Education, examines businesses in 18 countries, highlighting the role small and medium enterprises play in…

By Ben Knight, Alex Berry (DW) – For the first time ever, the acting US president spoke at the Munich Security Conference (MSC) to re-affirm the trans-Atlantic alliance, which many world leaders feared had been left in diplomatic disarray by his predecessor, Donald Trump. “I speak today as president of the United States and I’m sending a clear…

WebPublicaPress (New York) - Although the US has hit a grim milestone in the pandemic, overall daily case numbers and deaths are dropping. President Joe Biden has urged Americans to “remain vigilant.” The number of coronavirus deaths in the United States surpassed 500,000 on Monday, according to data from the Johns…

WebPublicaPress (UNITED NATIONS) NEW YORK and (AP) WASHINGTON — “Today is a day of hope, as the United States officially rejoins the Paris Agreement. This is good news for the United States — and for the world,” UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said welcoming Biden Administration Special Envoy John Kerry. UN Chief…

By Roderic Grigson * - MELBOURNE, Australia — The United Nations is an institution mired in politics focusing primarily on military conflicts, civil wars, economic sanctions, peacekeeping, plus sustainable economic development. But there is also a lighter side to it, which is brilliantly laid out in a new book released last week on…

By Inger Anderson* UNITED NATIONS - Even amid a pandemic, 2021 can go down as the year we made peace with nature and set the planet to healing. As COVID-19 upends our lives, a more persistent crisis demands urgent action on a global scale. Three environmental crises – climate change, nature…