Day: 21 April 2025

More protection, less inequality: the urgent need for a gender perspective in occupational safety and health

Stuart Mitchell

Historically, medicine and the management of occupational safety and health (OSH) have been designed around a male reference model, which has led to the underestimation of workplace risks that affect women and men differently. A new report by the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Ibero-American Social Security Organization (OISS) highlights how this androcentric perspective has failed to consider both the biological differences between men and women, and the broader gender-related aspects. The report, entitled Occupational Safety and Health with a Gender Perspective: Challenges and Advances in Ibero-America (available in…

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CIPR publishes first Annual EDI Progress Report

Stuart Mitchell

The Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) has published its first Annual EDI Progress Report, highlighting its achievements in advancing equity, diversity and inclusion across the PR profession in the year since it launched its EDI Strategy. The report covers the period between October 2023 and October 2024 and demonstrates the Institute’s progress across the four key pillars outlined in its EDI strategy: leading practice development, championing lifelong learning, building a resilient community, and advocating for public relations. It showcases the CIPR’s work in expanding its offer of EDI learning…

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PRCA launches second phase consultation on proposed Code for Professional Lobbying

Stuart Mitchell

The Public Relations and Communications Association (PRCA) has launched the second phase of its consultation on the revised Public Affairs Code, now proposed to be renamed the Code for Professional Lobbying. The consultation opened on Monday, 24th March 2025, and will run for five weeks, concluding on Monday, 28th April 2025. This marks a central stage in the PRCA’s review of its Public Affairs Code, ensuring that it is clear, relevant, and fit for purpose. The process began with a Call for Evidence, launched on 9th December 2024, which closed…

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Glaciers and mountains: melting water towers will aggravate global crises (report)

Stuart Mitchell

The United Nations World Water Development Report 2025, published by UNESCO on behalf of UN-Water, reveals the extent to which climate disruption, biodiversity loss, and unsustainable activities are transforming mountain environments at an unprecedented rate, threatening the water resources upon which billions of people and countless ecosystems depend. There is now an urgent need for international cooperation and adaptation strategies and actions to face the unfolding crisis in our mountains and glaciers.   Click here to view the full report. Regardless of where we live, we all depend in some…

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Hunger skyrockets by nearly 80 percent in Eastern and Southern Africa over past five years amidst worsening water crisis

Stuart Mitchell

The climate crisis has dramatically worsened water scarcity in Eastern and Southern Africa over the past few decades, leaving nearly 116 million people – or 40 percent of the population – without safe drinking water, according to a new Oxfam report. Climate change is supercharging extreme weather events like droughts, cyclones and flash floods, and has led to the disappearance of more than 90 percent of Africa’s tropical glaciers and the depletion of groundwater. This has had knock-on effects on Africa’s small-scale farmers, pastoralists and fisherpersons leaving millions without basic…

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