File photo A woman constable of the Railway Protection Force committed suicide in the Indian state of Bihar. According to Indian media, a 25-year-old woman committed suicide in the railway quarters, an investigation into the incident has been started. According to reports, preliminary investigations have revealed that the woman had bad relations with her husband…
Volker Perthes – Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Sudan and Head of the UN Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in the country (UNITAMS) – underscored that the rival military leaderships had agreed to respect international humanitarian and human rights law, and withdraw fighters from hospitals and medical facilities. Mr. Perthes also noted that the Sudanese…
Emergencies tend to exacerbate the vulnerabilities people who work in the arts already experience, as they face multiple threats such as online and offline harassment, loss of income, legal prosecution, violence, censorship, and silencing. Creatives also often lack minimal safety nets due to their precarious legal status, according to the report. Artists under assault In…
European Parliament and European Council negotiators have agreed on a new scheme for EU and international “geographical protection (GI)” of traditional handicrafts and similar industrial goods made in the EU. Under this scheme, cutlery, textiles, jewellery, glass, porcelain and other non-food products made in Europe will get GI category. The new legislation will protect the…
“The focus of the mission was to enhance the capacity of the early warning alert and response network (EWARN) and ensure rapid detection, verification and response to communicable diseases alerts and outbreaks”, the WHO office for the Eastern Mediterranean said in a statement issued on Thursday. They identified areas in preparedness and response that needed strengthening, said…
“The wave of deadly violence sweeping through the occupied West Bank since the beginning of this year is the inexorable consequence of an acquisitive and repressive occupation with no end in sight, and the culture of lawlessness and impunity Israel has nurtured and enjoyed,” UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese said in a statement. Tragic loss…
Between 2016 and 2020, an additional 50 million boys and girls aged 15 and under missed out on child benefits, driving up the total to 1.46 billion globally. Increased risk of hardship Child and family benefit coverage rates either fell or stagnated in every region of the world during this period, according to the report. …
NATO has announced the formation of a new ‘Critical Undersea Infrastructure Coordination Cell’ to protect undersea energy sources. Under this seal, NATO will be able to effectively protect its undersea infrastructure in and around the Baltic Sea. This was announced by NATO Secretary General Jen Stoltenberg today in Brussels. On this occasion, he also announced…
File photo A session court judge in the Indian state of Gujarat presented the strange logic of cow protection in the country. According to Indian media, the judge of the court has emphasized the need to protect cows and said that science has proved that houses made of cow dung are not affected by nuclear…
The UN humanitarian affairs office OCHA is calling for $4.3 billion to reach the 17.3 million most vulnerable people in need, whose lives have been turned upside down because of protracted war, displacement and economic collapse, compounded by recurrent natural disasters. Yemen’s civil war began in 2014 when Houthi rebels took the capital, Sana’a, forcing…
