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UN data helps balance New Year’s weight loss resolutions

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America

UN data helps balance New Year’s weight loss resolutions

At the heart of many New Year’s resolutions is a fresh gym membership and an intensive exercise regime that promises to deliver quick results. But that is not necessarily the…

31 December 2021 · 4 min read

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Books

Pennsylvania students fight back against anti-racism books being banned from school libraries

The Pennsylvania Board of Education has overturned the decision to ban anti-racist books and resources. The Central York Board of Education unanimously approved the resurgence of anti-racist books and a…

31 December 2021 · 3 min read

Transformative changemakers named UN’s 2021 Champions of the Earth

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America

Transformative changemakers named UN’s 2021 Champions of the Earth

Nairobi, December 2021 – The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) today announced its 2021 Champions of the Earth. The Champions were chosen for their transformative impact on the environment and their leadership in…

28 December 2021 · 4 min read

Books 2022: A pick of of what's coming up

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America

Books 2022: A pick of of what’s coming up

By Rebecca ThomasArts and entertainment reporter Image source, Getty Images Many of us have felt a more pressing need to find our own corner of heaven over the last two…

28 December 2021 · 12 min read

Rights experts hear how ‘racialized gatekeeping’ impacts development in France

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Europe

Rights experts hear how ‘racialized gatekeeping’

France should consider the economic and development benefits of partnership with people of African descent, the head of a Working Group appointed by the UN Human Rights Council said in a…

27 December 2021 · 3 min read

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Health

Mental Health: from “bad” to “mad”: Medical power and social control

This is a section from the report filed by the Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health…

27 December 2021 · 8 min read

Facebook bans ad aimed to help abused women

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News

Facebook bans ad aimed to help abused women

A charity has slammed a global media platform for censoring its ad campaign highlighting sexual violence against Christian and other religious-minority women and girls. Original here Aid to the Church…

27 December 2021 · 3 min read

New EU policy on Disarmament and Reintegration of former combatants

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Europe

New EU policy on Disarmament and Reintegration of former combatants

European Union's new policy to support disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration of former combatants (DDR), as part of the EU's wider contribution to peacebuilding. On December 21st, the High Representative and…

27 December 2021 · 4 min read

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Food

New Food Safety Community of Practice will help share knowledge and improve practice

WHO announces the launch of a new Food Safety Community of Practice (COP). Community of Practice is a new peer-to-peer online forum for global professionals working on and sharing interest in…

27 December 2021 · 1 min read

Olha Ovdiychuk lob wins Women’s Champions League Goal of the Group Stage

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Sports

Olha Ovdiychuk lob wins Women’s Champions League Goal of the Group Stage

Olha Ovdiychuk's first-time long-range lob for WFC Kharkiv at Breidablik was voted Goal of the Group Stage. Olha Ovdiychuk's first-time long-range lob for WFC Kharkiv at Breidablik has been named…

27 December 2021 · 2 min read