Author: Robertson
Living Longer at Age 80
Upon reaching the age of 80, men and women are living longer than ever before. These gains in longevity among octogenarians represent a…
Rosslyn Coffee boss James Hennebry tells us the secret to great coffee
We’re into the final round of voting for the 2026 Toast the City Awards. We’ve been catching up with some of…
We can’t all create jobs. But we can all create opportunities.
Headlines about the challenges facing young people trying to secure their first meaningful job have become hard to ignore. And with…
Asia’s Energy Progress Is Great, But Must Pick Up Pace
In much of the Asia-Pacific region, energy is a success story. Electricity access has greatly increased and the use of clean cooking fuels…
Where Some See Waste, Others See Opportunity: Young Sierra Leoneans Fight Against Electronic Waste, Plastic Pollution
Growing up, Peter George, a young innovator in Bo District in Southern Region, Sierra Leone, watched people dump electronic waste near the farmland…
INDIA: ‘The Cockroach Janta Party Brings Together Everyone Who Has Been Neglected for Years’
CIVICUS discusses India’s Cockroach Janta Party movement with Harshit Singh, a young activist, poet and storyteller who took part in protests in…
Palestinian Children Deserve Education, not Ethnic Cleansing
World News are more or less currently fully occupied with the U.S. – Iran debacle and to a lesser degree the Gaza genocide,…
US Military testing sowing chaos in civilian skies
Almost every day, the military tests various emerging technologies across the U.S., including drone and counter-drone systems and GPS jamming.To a certain extent,…
Israel is going all out to stop Turkey from getting F-35s
For the first time in years, Washington is discussing Turkey’s return to the F-35 program as a serious possibility. At the NATO summit…
Why the Trump administration will have to accept a Hormuz toll
In the weeks since the U.S.-Iran Memorandum of Understanding collapsed, Washington and Tehran have used the time to strengthen their respective positions in…
