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UN special adviser denounces genocide denial in Bosnia

Raising concerns over such continuous reports of revisionism concerning atrocity crimes perpetrated during the three-year-long conflict that began in 1992, she also pointed to recent incidents reported following a decision to amend the Law on the Center for...

UN Security Council hears echoed demands to end war in Ukraine

“Life is a living hell for the people of Ukraine,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres told the Council, which has held more than 40 debates on the conflict since Russia’s full-scale invasion one year ago. On the occasion, the...

UNODC and Cafés Malongo celebrate 5th anniversary of cooperation to help farmers worldwide

Vienna (Austria), 13 February 2023 — In many of the world’s drug crop-growing areas, isolation and poverty are inherent. Farmers in vulnerable populations cultivate illicit drug crops such as coca and opium poppy because they...

SUDAN: The Vice President of the Sovereign Council receives the UN Independent Expert for Human Rights

The Vice President of the Sovereign Council, Lieutenant General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, received today the United Nations Independent Expert on Human Rights in Sudan, Mr. Radhouane Nouicer. The meeting discussed the human rights situation in Sudan, the developments achieved,...

Holocaust remembrance: beware ‘siren songs of hate’ – UN chief

In his speech, delivered at UN Headquarters in New York, Mr. Guterres recalled that, within months, the Nazis had dismantled fundamental constitutional rights and paved the way for totalitarian rule: members of parliament were arrested,...

Qatargate, Developments in the European Parliament corruption scandal

QatarGate – The major corruption scandal involving Members of the European Parliament has entered a new phase since its outbreak, after Greek MEP Eva Kaili admitted to some of the facts

Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Scientology and Sikhism have joined the United Nations to protect Human Rights

UNITY AMONG PEOPLE OF FAITH TO PROTECT HUMAN RIGHTS Newsroom/EINPRESSWIRE. At a time when human rights are under threat all over the world, both in so-called developing countries and in countries whose motto is related to...

Horn of Africa faces most severe drought in more than two generations – UNICEF

The number of children suffering from dire drought conditions across Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia has more than doubled in five months, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Thursday. Around 20.2 million children are under...

Historic achievement: Helena Bonham Carter is the first female president of the London Library

The actress has been a member since 1986. We rarely focus on books lately. Streaming platforms, television and cinema have taken a huge part of everyday life and fixed our attention on the screens....

Need fast facts on drugs, crime, or criminal justice? Check out our updated Data Portal

More than 250,000 data points available on the Data Portal of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), now with a new, user-friendly interface Vienna (Austria), 25 October 2022 – Did you know that more than 400,000...

UN Development Programme calls for debt relief now for 54 countries

The UNDP calls for urgent debt relief for 54 countries with high poverty rates. Without action, poverty will increase and climate investments will suffer. Learn more: [link not provided]

UN Committee issue recommendations for children with mental health problems in Germany

The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child completed its review on the implementation of human rights for children in Germany. The Committee issued updated Recommendations to be implemented in the next...

The EP called on the EU countries to provide housing for the Roma

The European Parliament adopted a set of recommendations aimed at improving the precarious situation of Roma settlements in the EU. The Roma, in all the diversity that the term encompasses, are the largest ethnic minority...

Building inter-regional cooperation to combat crimes in the fisheries sector 

27 September 2022 - 58 million people employed. 214 million tonnes produced. 20.2 kg consumed per person each year. These statistics, from the Food and Agriculture Organization’s 2022 State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture, demonstrate...

Russia vetoes Security Council resolution condemning attempted annexation of Ukraine regions

Peace and Security - Russia on Friday vetoed a Security Council resolution which described its attempts to unlawfully annex four regions of Ukraine earlier in the day with a formal ceremony in Moscow, as...

Ukraine: de-escalate the situation around the embattled Zaporizhzhia

Briefing the Security Council on Tuesday, UN Secretary-General António Guterres again underlined the need to de-escalate the situation around the embattled Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine. 

Church and church organization

The proposed article was originally printed in the Church Gazette (issues 15, 17 and 19) - an edition of our diocese, as a review of the book of Fr. M. Polsky The canonical position...

UN congratulates couple who married with ‘equality agreement’

A couple in the western province of Izmir has set the stage for a new trend in Turkey by signing a "gender equality agreement" before getting married, saying there can be no love when...

Connecting Ports and People – A photo exhibition in the Western Indian Ocean region

A photo exhibition in the Western Indian Ocean region Ports play a vital role in the global economy, with over 90% of goods being traded across the ocean. Yet ports also have a large impact...

Social housing in Byzantium

The Byzantine Empire had an extensive network of social institutions supported by the state, the church, or private individuals. Already in the decisions of the First Ecumenical Council in Nicaea (4th century), the obligation...

Ukraine: ‘Physical integrity’ of Zaporizhzhya nuclear plant ‘has been violated several times’

Further damage to the embattled Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine “cannot” be allowed to happen, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has said. 

World food prices have fallen for fifth consecutive month

World food prices have fallen for a fifth consecutive month but are still nearly eight per cent higher than a year ago

The Volokolamsk Metropolitan Antony (Sevryuk) reacts to the speech of the German president

Volokolamsk Metropolitan Antony (Sevryuk), who in his capacity as chairman of the Department for External Church Relations represents the Russian Orthodox Church at the WCC Assembly in Karlsruhe, reacted to the speech of German...

Ukraine: IAEA experts arrive in Zaporizhzhia ahead of mission to nuclear plant

Experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) arrived in the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia on Wednesday

In India, youth is key to integrity, peace, health and sustainable development

New Delhi (India), 31 August 2022 - Youth, children and adolescents comprise the core of India’s 1.3 billion strong population. Over 27 percent of the country’s population is between the ages of 15-29 years....
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