Human Rights
Displaced in northeast Nigeria ‘knocking on door of starvation’: WFP
Displaced families in Nigeria’s northeast are “knocking on the door of starvation”, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday.
Year: 2021
Human Rights
Rising poverty a ‘moral indictment of our times’: Guterres
For the first time in two decades, extreme poverty is on the rise, the UN chief said in his message released on Friday, marking the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, on 17 October.
News
Interview with the Daughter of a Forgotten Canadian Olympic Legend. A True Underdog Story
Incredible Real Life Stories & The Ultimate Career Advice Chun Hon Chan is a Canadian who hasn't been recognized yet, but he was the FIRST Chinese-Canadian to represent Canada in…
ECHR
International Day honours rural women’s critical role in feeding the world
Although rural women and girls have an essential role in food systems, they still do not have equal power with men, therefore earn less, and experience higher levels of food insecurity, according to UN…
Europe
Portuguese beaches lead the way during UN, EU clean-up campaign
In recent months, some 260 different clean-up operations have been undertaken across, aimed at protecting life under the sea, with the UN and European Union’s #EUBeachCleanUp campaign, managing to remove…
Europe
Recent Kosovo-Serbia tensions could ‘unravel steady but fragile progress’
Tensions over vehicle licence plates and anti-smuggling operations, between authorities in Kosovo and Serbia, in recent weeks, may contribute to unravelling “steady but fragile progress made in rebuilding trust among communities” in Kosovo and Serbia.
Council of Europe
EU Military Training Mission in Mozambique set to start its operations
The Council today adopted a decision launching the European Union Military Training Mission in Mozambique (EUTM Mozambique). The mission will support a more efficient and effective response by the Mozambican…
America
Food ration cuts loom for crisis-hit people in north-eastern Nigeria as severe hunger reaches 5-year high
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warns that it may soon be forced to cut food rations to more than half a million women, men and children in north-eastern…
ECHR
CEC contributes European perspectives to WCC health and healing consultation
Deep connection between Christian ethics and health and healing was emphasised by Rev. Sören Lenz, Executive Secretary of the Conference of European Churches (CEC). He was participating at the World…
Environment
La Palma: an impressive “tsunami” of lava from Cumbre Vieja hits the island again
The impressive lava flow with crazy speed captured this Friday, October 15 in La Palma. An impressive flow of lava has been unleashed at high speed from Cumbre Vieja, the…