After restrictions on women’s education and employment in Afghanistan, now male tailors have been banned from making women’s clothes. Tailors in the Afghan province of Parwan say that Taliban officials have given them verbal orders that they cannot sew women’s clothes. The new ban has added to their economic woes. On the other hand, the…
America, Great Britain and Australia have signed a submarine agreement, Photo: File Beijing: China strongly criticized the US, UK and Australia’s submarine agreement, calling this security deal a sign of the Cold War mentality. According to the World News Agency, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Wang Wenbin accused the three Western allies of inciting an arms…
File photo The Chinese government is considering gradually increasing the retirement age in view of the country’s growing elderly population. According to Chinese state media, a senior expert at the Ministry of Human Resources said that China will take a progressive, simple and different path on the issue of retirement age. Jin Weigang, president of…
Kuwaiti Ambassador to the US Sheikha Al Zain Al Sabah, file photo Sheikha Al-Zain Al-Sabah of Kuwait was sworn in as ambassador to the United States on Monday. Sheikha Al-Sabah received her bachelor’s degree in Communication from Boston University in 1996. He also holds a Masters Degree in Filmmaking from the University of Southern California….
In a report to the latest session of the Human Rights Council, the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights while countering terrorism, Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, warned of an alarming increase in the use of “intrusive and high-risk technologies”, according to a press release issued by the UN human rights office (OHCHR). This…
According to the UN agency, African nations have been worst-hit by the phenomenon, with 37 countries on the continent facing health worker shortages that threaten their chances of achieving universal health care by 2030 – a key Sustainable Development Goals pledge. The actions of wealthy countries that belong to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) come under scrutiny in the WHO…
“Let me be frank: we are not doing well. Our progress towards the SDGs has faltered and even gone into reverse on some important targets and Goals, leaving many behind,” she said in opening remarks to the Arab Forum for Sustainable Development (AFSD) in Beirut, Lebanon. World leaders adopted the 17 SDGs in 2015, laying…
Some 12.1 million Syrians are food insecure, while nearly three million more are at risk of sliding into hunger, the UN agency warned, highlighting the urgent need for increased humanitarian assistance. Malnutrition is also on the rise, with stunting rates among children at 28 per cent, according to recent data. Maternal malnutrition is also reaching…
The Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition in Europe and Central Asia 2022 report is a joint effort by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO); Agricultural Development fund, IFAD; the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF); the UN Development Programme (UNDP); the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE); the World Food Programme (WFP); the World Health…
She added: “We want to make sure that street children are an issue of the past. That’s what we will be working for day-in and day-out.” Recognizing the unprecedented economic hardship that people in Lebanon are facing and renewing the UN’s commitment to supporting Lebanon to respond to increasing needs, are two main issues addressed…
