Rights expert urges Italy to stop criminalizing activists saving migrant lives at sea

Rights expert urges Italy to stop criminalizing activists saving migrant lives at sea

Preliminary criminal proceedings opened last May in Sicily against 21 people charged with aiding and abetting illegal immigration in connection with several search-and-rescue missions conducted between 2016 and 2017.  Those accused include four crew members of the Iuventa, a former fishing trawler credited with saving some 14,000 migrant lives in the Mediterranean Sea, and human…

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Charlie Hebdo didn't stop with Islamophobia, making fun of thousands of deaths from the earthquake

Charlie Hebdo didn’t stop with Islamophobia, making fun of thousands of deaths from the earthquake

Photo: Anadolu Agency Paris: French magazine Charlie Hebdo has once again published a controversial cartoon mocking earthquake victims in Turkey and Syria. According to the foreign news agency Al Jazeera, a drawing by artist Pierre-Join shows collapsed buildings amid piles of rubble and reads, “There is no need to send tanks.” Social media users are…

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Pakistan pharmaceutical manufacturers announced to stop production of medicines after a week

Pakistan pharmaceutical manufacturers announced to stop production of medicines after a week

Pakistan pharmaceutical manufacturers announced to stop the production of medicines after a week. Speaking to Jang News, Pakistan Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association leader Qazi Mansoor Dilawar said that the production of medicines will be stopped after a week. He further said that due to the huge increase in the value of the dollar, it is not…

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Attempt to stop the documentary film made on Modi, America's position came out

Attempt to stop the documentary film made on Modi, America’s position came out

File photo The statement of the United States against the ban on showing the documentary film made by the British Broadcasting Corporation about Prime Minister Narendra Modi in India and against it came out. According to foreign media, the 2-part documentary film (India: The Modi Question) of the British Broadcasting Corporation has claimed that the…

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Top UN body asks what more can be done to stop genocide, atrocity crimes

Top UN body asks what more can be done to stop genocide, atrocity crimes

The UN fears risk of these atrocities is heightened given current global crises that include conflict, soaring food and energy costs, and deepening inequalities and tensions, all exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change.  In her opening remarks, ECOSOC President Lachezara Stoeva highlighted how the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, together with global commitment…

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