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27th June 2019 King Charles Street, London
Celebrating women in science
Someone rightly said, the only barrier to promotion should be talent and effort. But women who account for almost 50% of the world’s population, whose contributions to our society are key to its functioning, despite exceling in a variety of fields have abysmal representation in them. One such area is Science, where less than 30% […]
26th June 2019
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I Fought The Rule of Law, and The Rule of Law Won*
The rule of law. It’s a phrase I hear almost every day. I probably use it as often. It is the basis of complaints from citizens, accusations between politicians, and criticisms from civil society. It is at the heart of the European Commission’s recent ‘Opinion’ on BiH. I am not sure we know what we […]
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25th June 2019
Female reporters must prove themselves twice
Sheila Nduhukire has been a journalist for more than eight years, most recently working as a senior news anchor and reporter for NTV Uganda. She’s currently on a Chevening scholarship at Cardiff University in the UK. In this guest blog for the Foreign Office, she talks about being forced to prove herself as a female […]
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21st June 2019 London,UK
Acid Drops
When I first received the diagnosis of “reflux”, I was almost pleased. It had a commonplace sort of sound. I had feared worse. But what this really said is that I didn’t understand what reflux meant. I have soon come to realise that I was not alone in that. I have always been very British […]
18th June 2019 Stockholm, Sweden
Supporting UK Cleantechnology’s Access to Finance
According to the recent UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 1.5 degree report, the world must see an annual investment of $2.4 trillion in clean energy through 2035 to limit our global average temperature increase within 1.5 degrees and stave off some of the most catastrophic damage from climate change. Considering the longer payback […]
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18th June 2019 Beijing, China
UK and China join hands to address agricultural challenges
Spring is an important season for farmers as it is a season that they start to sow and hope for a bumper harvest in autumn; it is also the season for agricultural production which helps to maintain the stability of economic development. This spring saw the kick-off of our Newton Fund UK-China Agri-tech Challenges projects. […]
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14th June 2019 Brazil
A Venezuelan exodus
Recently, I visited refugee camps on the Brazil-Venezuela border, talking to those who have escaped Venezuela. The main crossing point is a small Brazilian town called Pacaraima, at the very northern-most tip of the country, in the smallest, poorest Brazilian state of Roraima. A city of 12,000 inhabitants receives between 500 to 1,000 migrants a […]
14th June 2019
Journalists now keen on nutrition reporting
In this guest blog for the Foreign Office, journalist Mwape Kumwenda from Zambia talks about nudging farmers towards more diverse crops and turning viewers off junk food. My work centres on community news reporting. I work on diverse issues to do with poverty, agriculture, health, corruption, human rights, press freedom, gender and education with healthy […]
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11th June 2019 Vienna, Austria
Turner comes to Gmünd
Are there 2,550 reasons to visit Gmünd, in Carinthia? No. There are 2551. When I first started work at the Department of the Environment in 1979, I used to go once a week with a friend at lunchtime to visit the Tate Gallery (now Tate Britain) on Bankside. I was fascinated to discover the works […]
8th June 2019 Science Innovation USA
Building the Blue Economy and solving global challenges in San Diego, California
As global population grows, so does our impact on the world’s oceans. Even today, on this World Ocean Day, we continue to hear about scary things such as ocean acidification, the proliferation of plastic in the ocean, and ecosystem destabilization. Every day brings a new report of man-made environmental disasters. But all is not lost. […]
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