Europe
MEPs call for stronger EU action against cancer
Parliament’s Special Committee on Beating Cancer adopted its final proposals on how to strengthen the EU’s role in the fight against cancer. In the report adopted on Thursday by 29...
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Health
Addressing technical gaps and fostering leadership on environment and health: the WHO Bonn School
This November has seen the second edition of the Bonn School on Environment and Health, focused on creating transformative public health leadership in the WHO European Region and at country...
Europe
Update on COVID-19: We need to shift from reaction to stabilization mode in this crisis
Statement by Dr Hans Henri P. Kluge, WHO Regional Director for Europe 7 December 2021 Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, Last month, we alerted that a further half a...
America
The healing pedagogy of the Saint Man Porphyry Cavsocalivite
Author: PROF. GEORGI KRUSTALAKIS We live in a land of wonders, a land of divine madness, as the old man Porphyry said, and we are too weak to respond appropriately...
Economy
EU agrees on a common position on minimum wage directive
Social Europe continues to move forward and is a little closer to putting in place a common European system for the establishment of living minimum wages throughout the European Union
Europe
Spain celebrates the 43rd anniversary of their Constitution
The representatives of the highest State institutions have celebrated Constitution Day with an institutional act in the Congress of Deputies, presided over by Meritxell Batet The Spain's Cortes Generales (the...
News
In Athens speech, Pope Francis regrets global ‘retreat from democracy’
Pope Francis has lamented a global "retreat from democracy" in a speech in Athens, the cradle of Western civilization.
Europe
Supreme Court condemns psychiatrist to 7 years prison for sexual abuse, in Spain
As reported by the Spanish online legal news portal CONFILEGAL, the Spanish Supreme Court (SC) has confirmed a sentence of seven years and one day in prison and three and...
International
Croatia: Decades after Balkan wars, UN expert urges new push for justice
Following armed conflict from1991 to 1994 in Croatia and the rest of former Yugoslavia, that triggered increased radicalization and hate speech, an independent UN human rights expert urged the authorities…
Human Rights
Workers with HIV-AIDS continue to face stigma, discrimination: ILO
“Myths and misconceptions” about HIV and AIDS continue to fuel stigma and discrimination in the workplace, the International Labour Organization (ILO) said on Tuesday.