The agency’s emergency food and nutrition assistance operation in the Sahel began in June, focussing on refugees, newly displaced people, malnourished children under five, pregnant women and breastfeeding women and girls. © WFP/Cheick Omar Bandaogo A mother gives her 10-month-old daughter porridge in Burkina Faso in the Sahel region, where WFP is providing assistance to…
The violations include conflict-related sexual violence against internally displaced and refugee women and girls forced to flee for their lives. Agency chiefs from humanitarian coordination office OCHA, the human rights office (OHCHR), the UN refugee agency (UNHCR), the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the UN sexual and reproductive health agency (UNFPA), UN Women and the World…
According to a new UNCTAD report, developing countries actually face a staggering $4 trillion gap in sustainable development investments. UNCTAD Secretary-General Rebeca Grynspan said that a “significant increase” in material support for renewable energy in developing countries is “crucial” for the world to reach its climate goals by 2030. Poorer countries left behind in renewables boom…
Presenting her latest annual report, Virginia Gamba, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, appealed for “bold and resolute action” to protect boys and girls at risk of death, recruitment, rape and other horrors. The report covers 26 situations in five regions worldwide, representing another high. Countries include Ethiopia, Mozambique and…
When a man from the Indian state of Chhattisgarh got one of his wishes, he decided to sacrifice a goat, which took his own life. According to Indian media reports, a 50-year-old man named Bagar Sai from Surajpur district of Chhattisgarh got his wish and decided to sacrifice a goat. According to media reports, Bagar…
Photo, Indian media Protests were held in India over the killing of Khalistan Tiger Force chief Hardeep Singh Nagar. According to Indian media reports, Sikhs demonstrated outside the district headquarters of intelligence agency RAW in Amritsar. The report also mentions that the protestors carried posters against the secret agency RAW. The protesters have also accused…
Photo courtesy of Twitter In Chechnya, a female Russian journalist was subjected to severe torture and her hair was also cut off, after which she was taken to a hospital. According to foreign media, Elena Malashina, a journalist and human rights activist working for the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta, was attacked while covering the verdict…
File photo Mark Zuckerberg has announced the launch of a new website similar to Elon Musk’s micro-blogging website Twitter. The new app is called ‘Threads’ which will go live from Thursday i.e. tomorrow and can be pre-ordered on the Apple Store to get it. Meta says of Threads that it is a ‘text-based conversation app’…
File photo The Netherlands has banned mobile phones in classrooms to prevent technology from disrupting the teaching process. According to foreign media reports, the Dutch government says that mobiles, tablets and smartwatches are disrupting the learning process of students, so they will not be allowed in class from the beginning of the new session. The…
Tel Aviv: 8 people were injured in an attack in Tel Aviv on the second day of Israeli army operations. According to foreign media reports, after the biggest military operation of the Israeli army in the occupied West Bank in 20 years, eight people have been injured in a car collision and stabbing incidents in…
