Towards equitable education

Frozen embryos: towards an equitable solution.

Making Education Equitable in Rural China through Distance Learning

The Distance Education Project for Rural Schools (DEPRS) was implemented by the Chinese government between 2003 and 2007 to improve the quality of basic education in rural areas of China, especially in the poorer western provinces. It has been referred to as “the largest ICT project in the world up to now” because “it serves a larger population than any other similar projects and therefore will...

Protecting the Global Environment: towards Effective Governance and Equitable Solutions

Before this decade ends and human civilization enters the new millennium, these ten years will be remembered as a period that saw the emergence of several concerns on protecting the global environment. We see today a unique combination of scientific endeavour, economic decisionmaking and the formulation of public policy that embraces various actions directed towards understanding and halting wi...

Global Action for Women towards Sustainable and Equitable Development

1. Sustainable Development Concept: Russian Realities 1.1 Specific Features of Women’s Position 1.2 Women’s Position as an Indicator of Crisis of Patriarchal Culture 2. Gender Grounds for the Development of World Culture 3. Specific Features of Russia 4. Expectations and Prospects 4.1 Democratization through “Feminization” 4.2 Family and Gender Policy 4.3 Russia as a Multinational State 5. Prac...

Towards an equitable internship programme at WHO: is reform nigh?

Correspondence to Dr Ashton Barnett-Vanes; ashton.barnett-vanes11@ alumni.imperial.ac.uk The global health workforce is under immense strain. For example, Africa—a continent with one-third of the world’s disease burden has only ∼3% of global health personnel. This year WHO launched its Global Strategy on Human Resources for Health (GSHRH)—calling for a redoubling of efforts to better train and ...