UK black youth ‘three times as likely’ to be jobless after COVID-19
With new data showing the UK’s most severe black youth employment slump in 40 years, has COVID further exposed deep-rooted inequality within the job market? Young black workers in the UK have been hit disproportionally hard during the pandemic, and the knock on effects could put a dent in our...
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Brazil’s catastrophic COVID response may have global implications
Surrounding Latin American countries are scrambling to protect themselves from what experts warn has become the perfect environment for the virus to adapt. In the months following the first reported case of Coronavirus in Latin America, much of the conversation surrounding its impact on the region centred heavily on Brazil,...
How you can help reduce period poverty in the UK
A government scheme to fight period poverty in schools was launched in 2021, but less than half of all schools and colleges have opted in. Here’s what you can do to help. Period poverty is an issue that affects women and girls across the country (and the globe) who are...
Changemakers to meet with Dalai Lama in online event
Big names including Killer Mike, Buffy Sainte-Marie, and twelve others will be chatting to the Dalai Lama via video call, asking for advice on social change. Have you been using Zoom for your everyday lessons or company meetings? Twelve change-makers and big name influencers are about to step-up their video...
Thousands flee as Venezuelan troops clash with Colombian rebels
In what rights groups are calling a ‘humanitarian time bomb,’ close to 5,000 Venezuelan refugees have been displaced by intense and continuing battles along the Colombian border. Home to the largest oil reserves in the world and once the richest nation in South America, just two decades on Venezuela has...
New Zealand introduces paid bereavement leave for miscarriages
New Zealand's parliament has passed legislation giving mothers and their partners the right to paid leave following a lost pregnancy. On Wednesday, New Zealand’s parliament unanimously approved legislation giving couples the right to three days of paid leave following a miscarriage or stillbirth in an effort to promote greater...
Why is conversion therapy still legal in the UK?
Over 1,000 days since the government initially promised to ban the cruel anti-LGBTQ+ practice, campaigners are still demanding definitive action. Conversion therapy is the widely discredited and often cruel pseudo-scientific practice that many LGBTQ+ people have suffered through in an attempt to ‘cure’ their identity. In 2018, a study conducted by the Ozanne Foundation revealed that 68.7% of all participants experienced suicidal thoughts or long-term mental health impacts after undergoing the...
The pandemic could leave 12 million children unable to read
Covid-19 has contributed to 17% of the total number of 10-year-olds falling victim to the global learning crisis, as education inequality worsens. According to new analysis released by anti-poverty group One Campaign, 11.5 million of the world’s 10-year-olds could be unable to read by the end of 2021. This was initially uncovered by UN population data, which found that more than half of all children across the globe will reach their...
9 groups fighting for Asian Americans that you can support
These groups are organizing for equity and justice, and you can help out right now by getting involved from home. Over the past year, at least 3,800 hate incidents against Asian Americans have been reported amid the COVID-19 pandemic, which activists say were stoked by misinformation and rising anti-Asian rhetoric from political figures and media pundits. The shootings in Atlanta, Georgia, on Tuesday that killed eight people, including six Asian women, took place amid this violence...
Report shows transgender people increasingly hiding identities at work
The number of transgender people hiding their true identities at work has risen sharply in the past five years, according to UK research. The modern world is undoubtedly more inclusive than ever before, and workforces are becoming increasingly diverse in most sectors. Yet alarming reports from the UK continue to remind us that we’re far from perfect. When it comes to working in the UK in 2021, transgender people are said...
