Month: January 2022

FAIR Launches Spanish and English Ad Campaign Highlighting Amnesty Efforts Amid Historic Border Crisis

Stuart Mitchell

The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) launched a major targeted Spanish and English digital ad campaign this week highlighting misguided amnesty efforts amid the Biden Border Crisis. This is happening in the wake of new data showing the political shifts in Hispanic voting preferences.  “Congressional Democrats are still pushing for the largest amnesty in American history amid a border crisis triggered by President Biden, and it’s serving no one, including Hispanic Americans who are increasingly showing their independence through shifting voting patterns,” said Dan Stein, president of FAIR. Despite…

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bp and Maersk Tankers Carry Out Successful Marine Biofuel Trials

Stuart Mitchell

bp and Maersk Tankers, with support from the Danish Maritime Authority, have successfully completed trials using biofuel-blended marine fuel in product tankers, demonstrating that sustainable biofuels can be used as a marine ‘drop-in fuel’ to help reduce carbon emissions in shipping. Global shipping accounts for around 3% of the global carbon emissions. bp is a major global marine fuel and lubricants supplier and operator and charterer of tankers and other vessels worldwide. Maersk Tankers commercially manages the largest tanker fleet in the world. The companies came together in this trial…

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Winners of the 2021 ILO Global Media Competition on Labour Migration

Stuart Mitchell

To mark International Migrants Day on 18 December the International Labour Organization (ILO) announced four winners of its 2021 Global Media Competition on Labour Migration. This year, specific coverage of issues related to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on migrant workers was encouraged, as well as stories about migrant domestic workers to mark the 10th anniversary of the ILO Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189) . The competition aims to promote quality reporting on labour migration issues, since balanced and ethical reporting can play an important role in addressing stereotypes…

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Veganuary: Sodexo reports a steady increase in uptake of vegan and vegetarian meals

Stuart Mitchell

Marking Veganuary 2022, Sodexo has released food sales data showing the month-on-month increase in purchases of both vegan and vegetarian meals across its UK foodservice outlets at corporate client sites. In the twelve months to November 2021, the sale of vegan and vegetarian meal options formed on average 10% of all Sodexo’s food sales at corporate client sites  Vegetarian and vegan meal sales, as a proportion of all meals sold, almost doubled between November 2020 and November 2021 going from 7% to 13% In November 2021, 41% of all non-meat…

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New UNESCO Toolkit promotes peer-to-peer learning on policies for creativity

Stuart Mitchell

UNESCO organized an online peer-review workshop on 9 December 2021 to finalise the Toolkit on “Promoting policy and cooperation to support creativity”, which promotes peer-to-peer learning on policies for formulating and strengthening measures and policies for creativity following the guidance of the UNESCO 2005 Convention for the protection and promotion of the diversity of cultural expressions. The toolkit was developed as part of the programme “EU/UNESCO Expert Facility on the Governance of Culture in Developing Countries: Supporting new regulatory frameworks to strengthen the cultural and creative industries and promote South-South…

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