The report examines the gendered impact of the conflict, which has left more than 23,000 Palestinians dead, according to Gazan health authorities, about 16,000 of whom are women or children. Failure and trauma “We have seen evidenced once more that women and children are the first victims of conflict and that our duty to seek…
Fionnuala Ni Aolain, UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, is the first independent rights expert to gain access to the infamous facilities Al Hol and Al Raj, as well as other places of detention. After her six-day visit to northeast Syria, Ms. Ni Aolain said…
Among the exhibit’s visitors were members of the Mothers of Srebrenica, an association that united thousands of people – mothers, sisters, and wives – who have lost loved ones in the massacre in their city. Munira Subašić doesn’t need photographs to remember the tragedy that claimed her husband, son, and 20 other close relatives. “I…
Photo courtesy of Indian Media After the daughter killed her mother in Bengaluru, India, the body was kept in a suitcase and reached the police. According to Indian media, the 35-year-old woman entered the police station with a suitcase containing her mother’s body, after which the woman handed herself over to the police. According to…
The young boy has been living in the cemetery for two years; Photo: Al Arabiya Algiers City: In Algeria’s southern province of Adrar, a young man named Ismail Beraba has been sleeping next to his mother’s grave for 2 years and has been living in the cemetery. According to Al-Arabiya News, pictures of a son’s…
Children are more than life for any mother. In UAE, a mother risked her life to save her son. According to foreign media, Emirati woman Fatima Al-Zayoudi has given a piece of liver to her 17-year-old son Yusuf Al-Naqbi, proving the truth that children are their mother’s liver. A successful liver transplant was performed at…
The finding is the result of a survey conducted by the UNICEF Refugee Response Office in Poland, which also revealed that 53 per cent had considered getting, or had already accessed, mental health support since arriving in the country. ‘Not a surprise’ “The psychosocial toll of the war in Ukraine is immense so the results…
But, for hundreds of thousands of women globally, this gratitude only goes so far, the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) said on the occasion of Mother’s Day, observed on Sundays throughout May. According to recently released data, a woman dies from pregnancy or childbirth every two minutes, with the vast majority of these deaths due to…
Photo courtesy of the Denver Coleman family For the first time in the world, American doctors successfully operated on the brain of a child in the mother’s womb. According to foreign media, the child had a malformation of the blood vessels inside the brain, which was treated. According to foreign media, the baby girl was…
“This new research highlights the vast economic and political power of the big formula milk companies, as well as serious public policy failures that prevent millions of women from breastfeeding their children,” said Nigel Rollins, one of the authors of a series on the $55 billion-a-year industry and their marketing “playbooks”, published in the peer-reviewed…
