Chad: UN rights office profoundly disturbed over violence against protesters
The UN rights office, OHCHR, said on Friday that it is deeply disturbed by security forces in Chad’s use of live ammunition during recent protests...
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands, Apr 30 (IPS) – The writer is Co-Editor, Jadaliyya, www.jadaliyya.com, an independent ezine produced by the Arab Studies Institute based in...
WASHINGTON, Apr 30 (IPS) – The writer is CPJ Washington Advocacy Manager 3 May is World Press Freedom Day. This is part of...
UN Banks on Water as the Game Changer in Food Production and Consumption
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 29 (IPS) – As the United Nations prepares for its solutions-based Global Food Systems Summit in September, officials say resolving issues...
The Day UN Buried its Report Focusing on Apartheid in Israel
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 30 (IPS) – When the UN’s Beirut-based Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), released a landmark 2017 report on...
An 89-year-old pianist who escaped the Holocaust in Nazi Germany almost eight decades ago, has been explaining how he started playing jazz in memory...
Just over 460 days since the first COVID-19 cases were reported in Europe, more citizens living in the region have now been vaccinated, than the...
An unrelenting drought in southern Madagascar, an island State off the East African coast in the Indian Ocean, is forcing hundreds of thousands to...
People working in the petroleum industry or living near petroleum facilities are at increased risk of developing several different cancer types, according to a...
A “complex and unpredictable security situation” in Tigray continues to impede the delivery of life-saving assistance to Ethiopia’s northern region, the Deputy UN Spokesperson...
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