Call It Old, Contemporary, Modern or Whatever: It Is Slavery
MADRID, Dec 01 (IPS) – No matter what it is called — it is the abhorrent daily life of a billion enslaved humans. The...
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Women and girls at high risk of being pushed into modern slavery
Women and children are at high risk of being pushed into contemporary forms of slavery, UN-appointed independent rights experts said on Wednesday. Read the full story, “Women and girls at high...
GENEVA, Dec 01 (IPS) – This week I called out to the world to warn them that inequalities are making us all unsafe. I...
Series of appalling deadly attacks on displaced people in DR Congo
The UN refugee Agency, UNHCR, is “appalled by a series of deadly attacks” on displaced people in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC),...
The head of the UN health agency has criticized “blunt” and “blanket” measures taken by countries in the past few days to stop the spread of...
Battle to end HIV, COVID, demands greater international solidarity
The early years of the HIV/AIDS epidemic were “plagued by confusion, fear, isolation, and discrimination” against those infected or at high risk, the President...
Israel-Palestine: Risk of ‘deadly escalation’ in violence, without decisive action
With violence continuing daily throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory, the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process urged the Security Council on Tuesday to adopt a more coordinated approach to the...
Global trade is expected to be worth about $28 trillion this year – an increase of 23 per cent compared with 2020 – but...
“Myths and misconceptions” about HIV and AIDS continue to fuel stigma and discrimination in the workplace, the International Labour Organization (ILO) said on Tuesday. Read the full story, “Workers...
UN chief: Global vaccination plan is ‘only way out’ of the pandemic
With more people dying due to COVID-19 this year than in 2020, the UN Secretary-General argued on Tuesday that “the only way out of a global pandemic – and out of this unjust and...
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