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The Executive Director of the UN Children’s agency, UNICEF, says children’s lives and well-being will be put at immediate risk if fighting in Ethiopia’s Tigray region further escalates.
In this week’s edition of “Gospel Truth”, the late Jill Bevilacqua and Seán-Patrick Lovett bring us readings and reflections from the Gospel of St. Mark 13:33-37 of the First Sunday of Advent.
On Thursday, the European Parliament adopted three resolutions taking stock of the human rights situation in Belarus, Ethiopia, and Algeria.
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Subcommittee on Human Rights
Source : © European Union, 2020 – EP
MEPs condemn the setback to women’s sexual and reproductive rights in Poland and stress the EU’s legal obligation to uphold and protect them.
Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs
Source : © European Union, 2020 – EP
Parliament agreed to eliminate EU tariffs on lobsters in return for lower US tariffs on a range of EU exports.
Committee on International Trade
Source : © European Union, 2020 – EP
Turkey’s decision to “open” the sealed-off suburb of Varosha undermines prospects of a comprehensive solution to the Cyprus problem, warn MEPs.
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Source : © European Union, 2020 – EP
Countries should adopt ambitious new targets to tackle HIV / AIDS to avoid hundreds of thousands of additional infections and deaths linked to the COVID-19 pandemic, the UN said on Thursday.
Every month, more than 300 Christians in 50 countries of the world are kidnapped or unjustly jailed because of their faith. The dramatic figure emerges from the latest report by “Aid to the Church in Need” (ACN), released on Wednesday.
More than three billion people live in agricultural areas with high levels of water shortages and scarcity, the UN agriculture agency said in a new report launched on Wednesday.
The Holy See’s Permanent Observer to the United Nations in Geneva calls for universal adherence to the Convention on Cluster Munitions.
