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Erdogan’s Regime Faces Criticism for Detaining Teenage Girls in Turkey
In an act that shows a lack of respect for human rights the Turkish government led by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has stooped to a new level by arresting 15…
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Women and girls in Sudan disproportionately impacted by ongoing conflict
The need for gender-based violence-related services has increased 100 per cent since the crisis began in April 2023, the UN agency championing gender affairs reported, with up to 6.7 million people…
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World News in Brief: 1.3 billion teens suffering mental disorders, Russia’s Indigenous Peoples face ‘extinction’, Belarus rights update
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that failing to address the mental, sexual and reproductive health of adolescents will have “serious and life-threatening consequences for young people”. It will also…
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Panama to host the 4th Edition of the Faith and Freedom Summit
As published by the well-known digital newspaper ‘Panoráma Económico Panama’, the most read digital news of Panama, the Parlatino will host this week the 4th edition of the prestigious ‘Faith…
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‘Fear of war’ causing speech problems in Gaza
In a modest tent in a makeshift camp for displaced people west of the town of Al-Zawaida in Deir al-Balah governorate in Gaza, children whose lives have been turned upside…
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Russian attacks on Ukraine energy set to push 500,000 people out of country
The alert from the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine follows significant destruction to power plants and the worsening energy crisis that has affected access to electricity, clean water…
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France – Yoga: Disproportionate widescale police raids with abuses starting from a personal settlement of scores
The starting point was a personal revenge by an academic who got a suspended sentence of four months in prison for harassment On 28 November 2023, just after 6 a.m.,…
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Iran: Repression of women ‘intensifying’, two years on from mass protests
“The Islamic Republic of Iran relies on a system, both in law and in practice, that fundamentally discriminates on the grounds of gender,” the update noted, highlighting the far-reaching impacts…
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Dozens of Bulgarian Roma families are moving out of their homes in Duisburg
Dozens of Bulgarian families from Duisburg have received letters from German municipal authorities with a notification that they must leave their apartments by mid-September 2024. This was reported by the…
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Community policing and crime prevention in Nigeria
By Emmanuel Ande Ivorgba, Centre for Faith and Community Development, Nigeria (eivorgba@gmail.com) 1. INTRODUCTION Crime prevention – whether at the societal, community or individual level – is a much sought-after…