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Recycling food waste helps us all tackle climate change, reveals report

Stuart Mitchell

The ground-breaking Carbon Metric, an innovative tool developed by Zero Waste Scotland, shows how waste reduction and sustainable waste management plays a critical role in the fight against climate change. It measures the whole-life carbon impacts of Scotland’s waste, from resource extraction and manufacturing emissions, right through to waste management emissions, regardless of where in the world these impacts occur. It is a pioneering way to measure the carbon impact of our waste, not just the amount that is recycled. It shows that, in 2017, Scottish households reduced the amount…

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What is Fair Trade? International Fair Trade Charter defines vision for a fairer world

Stuart Mitchell

Many people use the term “fair trade”, but what does it actually mean? Today, more than 250 organizations around the world are uniting to launch an International Fair Trade Charter that sets down the fundamental values of Fair Trade and defines a common vision towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Business as usual will not deliver the step change needed to meet the SDGs, adopted by the world’s nations on 25 September 2015 amid a fanfare of optimism, and whose third anniversary is being marked today in New York…

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25 Years of Empowering Girls and Young Women

Stuart Mitchell

In 1993, the Campaign for Female Education (CAMFED) was founded with a mission to educate marginalized girls in rural and remote sub-Saharan Africa. What started with a bake sale to support 32 girls in Zimbabwe to go to school has grown into a movement which, 25 years later, has educated 2.6 million children, and launched young women across five countries into entrepreneurism and leadership roles. To celebrate a quarter century of empowering girls and young women to break the cycle of poverty and inequality – at the root of so…

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Equality Now and WeSpeakOut Roundtable Discuss Eliminating FGM/Khafz in India by 2030

Stuart Mitchell

Despite Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) being prevalent in India amongst the Dawoodi Bohra community and some Sunni Muslim sects, India does not have a separate law against it. During an ongoing Public Interest Litigation seeking a ban on FGM, the Supreme Court of India remarked that the practice is a clear violation of a woman’s bodily integrity as laid down in the Indian constitution.     FGM among the Bohra community – where it is referred to as Khafz – was shrouded in secrecy until 2015, when the first-known anti-FGM/Khafz…

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ATV safety campaigns and new laws may help save lives and prevent injuries

Stuart Mitchell

A new research article published in the September 15, 2018 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons analyzes the impact of an American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons’ (AAOS) ATV public safety campaign and implications for future efforts to reduce injuries. According to Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) data, ATV injuries led to over 2 million emergency department visits from 2000 to 2015. ATV accidents can lead to traumatic brain injuries, skull fractures, concussions, spinal fractures, and broken bones. “While the AAOS campaign, and various other public…

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