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The Forgotten Holocaust
The great humanitarian act - the rescue of the 150,000 Bulgarian Roma from the "fascist death camps", together with the 50,000 Bulgarian citizens of Jewish origin in 1943, still needs…
Books
Book fair to feature e-commerce for first time as well as traditional
The annual Shanghai Book Fair, scheduled to open on August 11, will include more individual brick-and-mortar bookstores as well as e-commerce platforms for the first time, Xu Jiong, head of…
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ECHR
South African churches’ leaders appeal for calm after looting following jailing of former president
The South African Council of Churches has expressed deep concern at the violence and destruction of property engulfing the country after the imprisonment of the former president Jacob Zuma on…
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ECHR
UN chief says race to reach SDGs ‘can and must’ be turned around
The COVID pandemic has taken four million lives, devastated the global economy, pushed a further 124 million people into extreme poverty and continues to inflict profound suffering – dramatically impacting progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the…
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Pope Francis visits with patients in Pediatric Oncology ward – Vatican News
The Pope shows his solidarity by visiting with young patients in the Pediatric Oncology department located on the same floor where he is recovering at Rome's Gemelli Hospital.
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UN body unveils new plan to end ecological destruction, ‘preserve and protect nature’
Equitably “redirecting, repurposing or eliminating incentives” that harm biodiversity by at least $500 billion per year is just one of the 21 ambitious targets of a new draft agreement released…
America
Minority Mental Health Month: Time for American Psychiatric Association to Disavow Slave-Owning “Father of Psychiatry”?
"Father of American Psychiatry" Benjamin Rush was a slave owner The APA still honors the slave-owner whose theories set a precedent for the “scientific racism” of later psychiatrists and psychologists.…
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UN: hunger, malnutrition worse in 2020 pandemic year – Vatican News
The number of people affected by chronic hunger in 2020, rose by more than in the previous five years combined. This was largely due to the effects of the Covid-19…
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(Video) Iran: This is a Test for the International Community to Stand with the Iranian People or the Genocidal Regime
(PMOI / MEK Iran) and (NCRI): Maryam Rajavi: This is a litmus test of whether the international community will engage and deal with this genocidal regime or stand with the…
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Europe
How Europe pays for geriatric care
Isabella Marchinek knows from personal experience: "Polish caregivers are fleeing from Germany to Switzerland."