– Inter Press Service
MADRID, Jan 20 (IPS) – As if the 100 billion {dollars} that america has thus far supplied to Ukraine in each weapons and help weren’t sufficient, the US has now began to put in in Europe its model new, extra damaging nuclear warheads.
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The UN deputy chief and head of UN Girls have conveyed a direct message to Afghanistan’s Taliban management calling on them to put the nice of the nation first and finish current insurance policies in the direction of girls and women which have confined them in their very own houses, and violated their primary human rights.
– UN Information
China is “making monumental progress and energy” to get each older grownup vaccinated towards COVID-19, the UN well being company stated on Friday, whereas additionally cautioning that it’ll take time to guard everybody.
– UN Information
Cambodia is poised to make strides in the direction of the complete social integration of homosexual, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals, defending them from violence and discrimination, a UN-appointed impartial human rights consultants stated on Friday.
– UN Information
The continuing collapse of the rule of regulation and judicial independence in Afghanistan is “a human rights disaster”, UN-appointed impartial human rights consultants warned on Friday.
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An modern challenge in search of to develop local weather resilience, self-sufficiency and the empowerment of weak rural communities in southern Madagascar, might provide a game-changing template for future humanitarian work, the UN World Meals Programme (WFP) stated on Friday.
– UN Information
– Inter Press Service
NABARNIZ, Spain, Jan 19 (IPS) – It is 23 hours a day in a cell with out pure gentle and only one to stroll round in a 7×4-metre courtyard. For Pablo González, an impartial Spanish-Russian journalist, it has been nearly a yr spent in solitary confinement in Poland.
– Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Kenya, Jan 19 (IPS) – United States Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is touring to South Africa, Zambia, and Senegal this week within the hopes of strengthening U.S.-Africa relations at a time of waning U.S. affect on the continent — the primary in a collection of Biden administration journeys introduced finally month’s U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit.
– Inter Press Service
KARNATAKA, INDIA, Jan 19 (IPS) – The South Indian State of Karnataka has been reeling for the previous three years—the late arrival of monsoons, the surging temperatures, and drastic modifications within the climate patterns are placing the state’s farmers in dire straits.