Please see below key headlines from 2020 for all of the elements that Halcyon monitors.
ACCEPTANCE
March 2020
February 2020
January 2020
ACTIVISM
March 2020
While nearly one in 10 still live on less than $1.90 a day, fifty years ago it was one in two.
A leading web curator noted that children’s books, especially classic ones with timeless wisdom for grown-ups, can be combined with minimalist posters that show complex stories or ideas in clean graphics.
A series of such hyper-minimalist takes on beloved children’s classics was created by designer Christian Jackson.
Each week, Halcyon brings you a short, sharp and stimulating read - 7 issues that have witnessed significant change over the past 7 days.
Each Sunday Halcyon brings you a short, sharp and stimulating read - 7 issues that have witnessed significant change over the past 7 days.
This week, the deepening global coronavirus threat focused attention on animals and on transport. There were also worrying developments around freedom and migration, but better news on equality and on poverty and meanwhile things were rather active out in space!
Animals
Today, every country in the world has constitutionally banned slavery. Three, however, continue to violate the UN’s Universal Declaration on Human Rights by compelling citizens to work for no pay. North Korea is ranked the worst. The Uzbek and Turkmen cotton industries are also dependent on forced labour.
The risk of being murdered has been declining for a quarter of a century. Eastern Europe in particular has seen steep drops, by as much as 75%.
If the world were a village of 100 people, what would it look like? Various answers have circulated around the internet for years, but a set of 20 posters provides a visual perspective on this fascinating hypothetical question.
In 2000, as part of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) the world pledged to half to share of people without access to an improved water source by 2015 from 1990 levels. The world surpassed this target by 2010, increasing access to 91 percent by 2015. Globally, 2.6 billion people gained access over this period — more than a third of the world's population have gained access to improved water since 1990, according to Our World in Data. The progress over this 25-year period is shown by region in the chart below, as the share of the population who have gained access since 1990.
Access to improved water sources is increasing across the world, rising from 76 percent of the global population in 1990 to 91 percent in 2015, according to Our World in Data.
