To mark World Neglected Tropical Diseases Day, the UN agency has released a report highlighting progress and challenges in delivering care for these 20 conditions, which mainly affect the world’s poorest people. NTDs are caused by a variety of pathogens including viruses, bacteria, parasites, fungi and toxins, and can be deadly. Other examples are Buruli…
Tedros’s decision follows the advice offered at the latest coronavirus Emergency Committee meeting last Friday, held at the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva via videoconference. “There is little doubt that this virus will remain a permanently established pathogen in humans and animals for the foreseeable future,” the Committee said. It is three years to…
Representing the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC), they stressed that the world’s largest humanitarian operation – supporting some 28 million people in Afghanistan – simply cannot function without women staff. The officials reported on their mission to the country last week, in the wake of the edict prohibiting Afghan women from working with local and international…
“Children continue to pay the highest price of violence,” the statement declared. “As the situation remains very volatile, UNICEF fears that an increasing number of children will suffer.” Just a few weeks into the new year, seven Palestinian children and one Israeli child had been killed and many more injured. Since 26 January alone, the terrorist attack outside…
The rise and impact of hate speech is being amplified, at an unprecedented scale, by new communications technologies, one of the most common ways of spreading divisive rhetoric on a global scale, threatening peace around the world. According to leading international human rights organization, Minority Rights Group, one analysis records a 400-fold increase in the…
The youth was carrying meat on a bike, Photo: Video Grab Bangalore: In the Indian state of Karnataka, a young man riding a motorcycle was tied to a pole on the side of the road and tortured by the workers of the extremist Hindu party, the video of which went viral. Journalist and human rights…
Former national cricket team captain Shahid Afridi says that Mickey Arthur’s online coaching method is beyond my understanding. In a conversation with the media, the former all-rounder said that foreign coaches are not so necessary, local coaches are also talented, hopefully the Pakistan Cricket Board will definitely take appropriate measures. He said that I showed…
The concerned officials are moving the dead bodies. During the birthday celebration in South Africa, 8 people were killed and 3 were injured by gunmen. According to the police, on Sunday evening, the owner of the house was celebrating his birthday in Qaibarah city, when two unknown armed suspects entered the yard and started firing…
Shanghai: A healthy person died after a neck massage in China. Massage can be useful for relieving the mental and physical stress of modern fast-paced life, but a man in China lost his life due to massage. According to reports, Zhang, a 27-year-old healthy citizen, went to a massage parlor in Shanghai, where he got…
Bani Gala: Unknown suspects opened fire on the Jhang Police team coming to Bani Gala and martyred an officer. According to Express News, unknown persons opened fire on the team of Punjab Police who came to arrest an accused near Imran Khan Chowk area of Bani Gala police station, as a result of which Punjab…
