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Putting an end to India’s oxygen crises
Scenes of relatives desperately trying to find oxygen supplies for hospitalized COVID-19 patients in India last year, alerted the world to an acute, deadly problem.
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First Person: Holocaust survivor, ‘hate is vicious’
During the Second World War, Pinchas Gutter, from Łódź, Poland, survived six Nazi concentration camps. Today he is a Holocaust educator, sharing his story in films and live events. As...
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CHINA: Xi Jinping’s sinicization, the new Cultural Revolution dear to Mao
Contribution of Willy Fautré, director of Human Rights Without Frontiers, to the debate at the conference “Diplomatic Boycott of the Winter Olympics in China” held at the Press Club in Brussels...
ECHR
Improve resistance to neglected tropical diseases, WHO urges
To mark World Neglected Tropical Diseases Day, the World Health Organization (WHO) on Sunday called for an international push to confront the inequalities that characterize NTDs, and ensure the poorest and…
Human Rights
End leprosy discrimination laws ‘without delay’, UN rights expert urges
More than 100 laws that remain in place around the world which discriminate against people affected by leprosy, should be abolished, an independent UN human rights expert said on Friday,…
America
Pro-Boxer Wins Same-Race Discrimination Lawsuit
A professional boxer catches the attention of Harvard Law and Yale in his biggest fight yet: to prove same-race discrimination against a famed Olympic medalist. These duties are not ones that...
Europe
Metsola and MEPs receive survivor a Holocaust victims
MEPs honoured the memory of the Holocaust victims, 77 years after the liberation of the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp on 27 January 1945. Survivor of Holocaust victims, Margot Friedländer, and...
Charities
A humanitarian train left for Afghanistan
A special "humanitarian train" carrying 750 tonnes of aid under the coordination of the Turkish government left for Afghanistan from Ankara yesterday. The train, with the help of 11 humanitarian...
Education
We pay tribute to the victims of the Holocaust
January 27 is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. As victims of anti-Semitism, millions of Jews from all over Europe died in Nazi death camps. Today, in 1845, the few survivors of...
America
WHO: New guidance on treating complications due to unsafe abortion
New insights into quality of care for girls and women facing medical complications due to unsafe abortion were published on Wednesday by the UN health agency and partners.