Nepal’s silent epidemic
The devastating human and financial toll of surging non-communicable diseases Writing for Nepal’s leading digital news portal, Online Khabar, Pushparaj Chaulagain warns us of an epidemic: the sharp rise in non-communicable diseases (NCDs). These are non-transmissible health conditions like diabetes, heart attacks, strokes, and kidney disease caused by air pollution, excessive alcohol and smoking, unhealthy diets, […]
A victory on paper and nothing more
Why Romania’s efforts to legally recognize freelance cultural workers were doomed to fail In April 2023, Romania launched a landmark programme: the Professional Cultural Worker Law. This promised to be a lifeline for the country’s 100,000 independent cultural workers – artists, curators, managers, dancers, writers, freelancers – all of whom operate without social protection, stable […]