Toronto: A new study suggests that working night shifts may cause memory problems in middle-aged and older adults. A team of researchers from Canada’s York University analyzed data from 41,811 people. The data consisted of information from job, work hours and results of mental performance tests. Of this number, 20 percent had worked some form…
Jakarta’s Worst Traffic Jam Mantra Experts say that traffic jams on most of the city’s roads have led to an alarming increase in air pollution. Half of the bureaucrats have started working from home to reduce air pollution in Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia. Jakarta’s air quality has dropped alarmingly in recent weeks, with a…
Despite wide international condemnation of terrorism, victims and survivors of violence often struggle to have their voices heard, their needs supported, and their rights upheld. Most need long-term support – physical, psychological, social and financial. However, few Member States have the resources or the capacity to help those affected by terrorism fully recover, rehabilitate and…
Gerard Quinn, the UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities, said that “dead-end jobs, low wages, poor conditions and little room for social mobility” in the care sector are not a way to build resilient systems – as the COVID-19 pandemic has shown. Women carers ‘severely disadvantaged’ Speaking at the opening of the…
bill to: The Taliban government in Afghanistan has started the process of extracting oil from wells in the north of the country. According to Afghanistan’s official media Bukhtar News Agency, the Acting Minister of Mines and Petroleum, Sheikh Shahabuddin Dilawar, while addressing the ceremony, said that the employment of technical and non-technical personnel for oil…
Female employees of the Norwegian Refugee Council working in Afghanistan, file photo In Kandahar province, Afghanistan, the Taliban have banned female employees from working on a refugee project. An official letter issued by the Taliban has banned women from working, although some organizations have made exceptions for their female employees. The letter said that the…
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has developed a new working model for government employees, which includes 4 days of work and 3 days of rest. According to Emirati media from Abu Dhabi, the Federal Authority for Government Human Resources has issued new instructions. Emirati media also said that government employees should work four days a…
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) stopped working with the US-led Gulf Maritime Alliance. The UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement, without giving a reason for the move, that the UAE withdrew its participation in the 38-nation Combined Maritime Forces two months ago. According to reports, the US-led Gulf Maritime Alliance is protecting…
File photo Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla and SpaceX, has strongly criticized people working from home, calling it an abuse of office workers and morally wrong. According to foreign media reports, while giving an interview to an international channel, Elon Musk took those who work from home with bare hands. It has to come….
The resolution passed unanimously by the 15-member body in New York, calls for the “full, equal, meaningful and safe participation of women and girls in Afghanistan”, and urges all countries and organisations with influence on the fundamentalist rulers of the country, “to promote an urgent reversal” of policies which have in effect erased women from public…
