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Together, we must tackle growing hunger, urges Guterres
growing hunger: Inefficient global food production is at the root of a huge rise in hunger as well as one-third of all emissions and 80 per cent of biodiversity loss,…
Year: 2021
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Care home combats loneliness for International Day of Friendship
The staff and residents at Harleston House, a Greensleeves Care home in Lowestoft, are demonstrating the ways in which they prevent loneliness within the home, in time for International Day…
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WHO/Europe releases report on mechanisms for improving transparency of markets for medicines, vaccines and health products
Two years after World Health Assembly Resolution 72.8 was agreed on improving the transparency of markets for medicines, vaccines and other health products, WHO/Europe has released a report identifying and…
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Sierra Leone: Abolition of Death Penalty a Major Victory
Download logo Reacting to the news that Parliament voted on 23 July to abolish the death penalty in Sierra Leone, Amnesty International’s West and Central Africa Director Samira Daoud said:…
Europe
Remarks by Executive Vice-President Dombrovskis at the ECOFIN press conference
European Commission Speech Brussels, 26 Jul 2021 First of all, Europe's recovery, and as the minister already said, some positive news from today's ECOFIN meeting. Ministers discussed four more recovery…
Europe
Good catch in joint actions targeting illegal fishing
More than 11 tonnes of fish, molluscs and crustaceans were seized during the operation The Portuguese Guarda Nacional Republicana led an EMPACT Joint Action Day targeting illegal fishing. The action…
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Tajikistan completes second round of immunization campaign against circulating poliovirus
Over 1.2 million children in Tajikistan received oral polio vaccine in the second round of the supplemental immunization campaign completed on 5 July 2021. The immunization campaign was conducted in…
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St. Charles library again accepting book donations
The St. Charles Public Library is again accepting donations of books and other items at its new facility. With the library back at its original location at 1 S. Sixth…
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A light book about serious things
Book Review By Derryll White Scrimger, Richard (2016). Lucky Jonah. This is a Canadian novel with the main character, Jonah, 13 in Grade 8 in a small Ontario town. Jonah…
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Religious Sisters organise a Day of Prayer for eSwatini and South Africa. – Vatican News
Following the social unrest that engulfed South Africa and eSwatini recently, women religious leaders in Southern Africa organised an online Day of Prayer to intercede for their countries.