Every year, 2.6 million babies die before turning one month old. One million of them take their first and last breaths on the day they are born. However, millions of these young lives could be saved every year if every mother and every baby had access to affordable, quality health care, good nutrition and clean water. This report addresses the challenges of keeping every child alive, and calls for strong cooperation among governments, businesses, health-care providers, communities and families to give every newborn a fair chance to survive, and to collectively work towards the achievement of universal health coverage, and a world where no newborn dies of a preventable cause.
Direct Link to Full 44-Page UNICEF 2018 Report:
UNEQUAL JUSTICE – THERE ARE MORE WOMEN IN PRISON THAN EVER BEFORE
April 2, 2018 - The substances are different: in Thailand, it’s meth. In Ohio, opioids. In Mexico, women help their husbands, boyfriends and fathers run their drug businesses peddling pills, crack, heroin.
But all over the world, countries are imprisoning women at higher rates than ever before. The reason? Mostly, it’s drugs………
https://reliefweb.int/report/world/counting-cost-price-society-pays-violence-against-women
Direct Link to Full 35-Page 2018 CARE Report:
https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/Counting_the_costofViolence.pdf
IFJ – International Federation of Journalists - http://www.ifj.org/nc/news-single-view/backpid/1/article/ifj-urges-world-governments-to-back-a-proposal-for-a-ground-breaking-convention-on-journalists-pr/
On May 3, World Press Freedom Day, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) says that the recent spike in violence targeting journalists is a stark reminder that there can be no press freedom when journalists live and work in fear. The IFJ has recorded 32 journalists and media staff killed so far in 2018, with a chilling ratio of two journalists killed every week. The IFJ believes that the safety crisis in media calls for global action against impunity for crime against journalists and is urging world governments to commit to defending press freedom by endorsing the IFJ’s proposal for an International Convention on the safety and independence of journalists and other media professionals.
Direct Link to Full 150-Page 2018 Report:
http://ebrary.ifpri.org/utils/getfile/collection/p15738coll2/id/132273/filename/132488.pdf
https://www.ifpri.org/publication/2018-global-food-policy-report
2018 Global Food Policy Report
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
IFPRI's flagship report reviews the major food policy issues, developments, and decisions of 2017, and highlights challenges and opportunities for 2018 at the global and regional levels. This year's report looks at the impacts of greater global integration—including the movement of goods, investment, people, and knowledge—and the threat of current antiglobalization pressures. Drawing on recent research, IFPRI researchers and other distinguished food policy experts consider a range of timely topics:
