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Jaswant Singh Khalra was remembered at the Human Rights Council
Jaswant Singh Khalra was remembered at the Human Rights Council
Year: 2020
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Much Upside Left In Pinterest
Lately, social media company Pinterest (PINS) has been in the news, mostly for the right reasons. Founded in 2010, the company is mainly a visual search engine that helps people…
News
Food loss and waste ‘an ethical outrage’, UN chief says on International Day
Last year, the UN General Assembly designated 29 September as the International Day, recognizing the fundamental role that sustainable food production plays in promoting food security and nutrition and highlighting…
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COVID-19: ‘Legitimate concerns’ must be heard, and fears addressed over misinformation
Amid continuing uncertainty, fear and anxiety around the world over the COVID-19 pandemic, senior UN officials are keen to stress the legitimacy of concerns, listen carefully to citizens around the…
Europe
WHO and EU help healthcare workers during COVID-19 in Uzbekistan
TASHKENT (TCA) — The European Union has provided more than EUR 2 million for a project focused on effective, rapid, and coordinated response to COVID-19 in Uzbekistan. The project, which…
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Millionth death from COVID-19 ‘an agonizing milestone’
With over one million lives now lost to COVID-19 globally, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has said that while the “agonizing milestone” is a “mind-numbing figure”, the world must never lose…
Europe
EU and corporate tax regime
Sir, – In her article on the French official assault on Ireland’s corporate tax regime, Lara Marlowe quotes from a report by the Paris-based Jacques Delors Institute, which claims that…
Europe
European Union Digital Asset Legislation Anticipated to Create Confidence, Open the Market to DLT Innovators
A Discussion with Franck Guiader of Gide 255 Last week, the European Commission adopted a Digital Finance Package along with legislative proposals on cryptoassets (digital assets). The move had been widely…
Europe
Turkey sees EU summit as chance for reset: Presidential spokesperson
ISTANBUL-Reuters Turkey sees a European Union summit this week as an opportunity to reset relations between them, but the bloc must produce specific proposals and a timetable to work on…
Europe
World: New EU Asylum Rules: Even the Bare Minimum Will Require Radical Politics
BYClaudia MeierJulian Lehmann For the past five years, European Union leaders have tried but failed to reform the block’s rules on asylum. The main bone of contention was the Dublin…