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WHO/Europe urges countries to collect gender data through their health information systems
ECHR
Accurate gender data is critical for building an effective and equitable response to the COVID-19 pandemic, says a new WHO report launched at this year’s Gender Equality Index conference.
Human Rights
A police team in India responded to a signal from a woman who said she had been sold by her 17-year-old husband. The couple married in July this year, according…
America
The Mobile Museum of Tolerance is the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s newest educational initiative, bringing world-class learning experiences to communities across the state of Illinois. The purpose of the MMOT is to…
Education
Some museums and cultural institutions around the world are already implementing architectural accessibility projects or special events for visitors with disabilities and additional needs. Trainings are organized to expand the…
ECHR
On Oct. 10, 2021, Pope Francis formally opened a two-year process called “a synod on synodality,” officially known as Synod 2021-2023: For a Synodal Church.” In brief, the process involves…
Books
President Rumen Radev, who is taking part today in the Jewish Cultural Center in Sofia in the opening of the "Remembered for Good" initiative, created on the occasion of the…
America
In early December 1963, African students occupied Red Square to record the first racial protest in the USSR. It is also the first in Moscow's history since the 1920s. The…
Environment
President Vladimir Putin congratulated Novaya Gazeta editor-in-chief Dmitry Muratov, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Putin expressed his congratulations during a speech at the Valdai club, RBC correspondent reports.…
Human Rights
Putin also commented on racism, gay rights, transgenderism and global warming The gas crisis in Europe is a consequence of non-functioning capitalism. This was stated by Russian President Vladimir Putin…
ECHR
The suffering of survivors of sexual abuse allegedly perpetrated by World Health Organization staff during the tenth Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is going to be “the catalyst for a profound…
