Bridging the Skills Gap between Aspiring Youths and Market Landscape in India BY Pranav Kumar Choudhary ( from AVPN)

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Youths in India are facing employment and career mobility challenges due to lack of relevant skill-sets and market constraints. Reddy’s Foundation’s 2-year initiative, GROW, aims to bridge the skilling gap with a multi-pronged model that equips all stakeholders, from students to employers to parents. GROW shares 5 key learnings on what it takes to scale their solutions

Everyone’s Business: 2018 Sexual Harassment Survey

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The Australia Human Rights Commission published a survey about gender discrimination and abuses in Australia. The numbers are quite staggering with 71% of Australians have been sexually harassed at some point in their lifetimes, with more than four in five (85%) of Australian women and more than half (56%) of Australian men over the age of 15 experiencing the behavior (The Guardian).

remembering south african hero Stephen Biko ( The Sunday Times)

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Stephen Bantu Biko died in police custody 41 years ago on September 12 1977. He remains one of our country's most iconic struggle heroes and his life and ideas continue to inspire generations.

USA Ambassador Remarks at a UN Security Council Debate on UN Peacekeeping Reform

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The USA wants to reform the UN Peacekeeping mission, ensuring that civilians who have been abused or attacked by UN Peacekeeping soldiers will be punished

Social Innovation and Global Ethics Forum 12-13 September 2018 ( Singapore)

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SIGEF 2018 is the leading international forum for impact solutions, CSR, and philanthropy, in resonance with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)

The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2018

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New evidence continues to signal that the number of hungry people in the world is growing, reaching 821 million in 2017 or one in every nine people, according to The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2018

Beyond Sport United & Global Awards 2018

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Beyond Sport United will return to New York on 12-13 September to convene leaders and change-makers from around the world to explore how sport is being used to create positive social change in communities across the globe.

Media advisory: Foreign bribery goes unpunished by most big exporters

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Berlin, 10 September 2018 – Most of the world’s most powerful export markets are failing to punish corporations paying bribes overseas, according to a new report from Transparency International to be released on 12 September 2018.

‘Investing in Global Prospects’: The new Netherlands Global Aid Policy strategy

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Prevention by investing now and giving people opportunities; that is how violent conflict, poverty, inequality, climate change and irregular migration can be avoided or mitigated. This is one of the key themes in the policy document Investing in Future Prospects

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