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The degradation of nature can lead to gender-based violence including sexual assault, domestic violence and forced prostitution, according to a new IUCN study published 29 January 2020. Competition over increasingly scarce and degraded resources can exacerbate these forms of violence, the review study finds. Environmental degradation now affects our lives in ways that are becoming…

The 2020 edition of the World Water Development Report (WWDR 2020) entitled ‘Water and Climate Change’ aims at helping the water community to tackle the challenges of climate change and informing the climate change community about the opportunities that improved water management offers in terms of adaptation and mitigation. ‘Leaving no one behind’ is at the heart of the commitment of the…

Weather is an ever-present part of daily life, and decisions large and small revolve around what the weather is doing and is going to do. The stakes may be fairly low – getting caught in the rain without an umbrella – or extremely high. Hazardous weather conditions can make the transportation of goods and people unsafe, and can put property, livelihoods and lives at risk. Advanced warnings of…

The Global risk analysis outlines 18 contexts where a significant deterioration is expected to occur within the next six to nine months, leading to a spike in humanitarian needs. This report comes as a result of ACAPS daily monitoring and independent analysis of the globe to support evidence-based decision-making in the humanitarian sector. Considering the diversity and complexity of…

What is migration? Migration is the movement of people, including children, within a country or across an international border. Migrants can be divided into 2 main categories: international migrants, who cross country borders; and internal migrants, who move within the country where they were born (from a rural area to a city for example). The estimated number of international…

What is #ZeroHunger? World hunger is sadly on the rise: an FAO report shows that in 2016 there were 38 million more people suffering from hunger than in 2015. Every day, over 800 million people struggle to get any food at all, and risk starvation. That’s more than the inhabitants of Indonesia, the USA and Pakistan put together! The Zero Hunger mission aims to reduce that…