Europe
Life and Drugs, Part 1, An Overview
Drugs // "It is better and more useful to meet a problem in time than to seek a remedy after the damage is done" explains a Latin saying of the mid-13th…
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Environment
European Air Quality Index App now available in all EU languages
How is the level of air pollution where you live? Now you can use the European Air Quality Index App on your mobile phone in any of the EU’s 24…
Africa
Tropical tuna targeted, Bloom complains of flagrant fraud by French vessels
Tuna // Press release by Bloom - On 31 May, BLOOM and Blue Marine Foundation have lodged a complaint with the Public Prosecutor at the Paris judicial Court against all 21 vessels in…
Human Rights
Ukraine: Over 1,500 children killed or injured, concern rises over forced transfers
Russian attacks overnight, killed three people – including the girl’s mother – and wounded 11 others, according to news reports. It followed a reported 17 strikes on the capital during…
Human Rights
UN in Bangladesh decries devastating new round of rations cuts for Rohingya refugees
The cuts will reduce the value of rations provided to Rohingya refugees to $8 per month, or 27 cents per day. At the beginning of the year, refugees were receiving…
News
WMO makes urgent call to action over melting cryosphere
WMO warned on Tuesday that glaciers and ice sheet melt in Greenland and Antarctica accounts for some 50 per cent of sea level rise, which is accelerating, with disastrous impacts on small island…
Ahmadiyya
HRWF calls upon the UN, EU and OSCE for Turkey to stop deportation of 103 Ahmadis
Human Rights Without Frontiers (HRWF) calls upon the UN, the EU and the OSCE to ask Turkey to annul a deportation order for 103 Ahmadis Today, a Turkish court has…
Ahmadiyya
Over 100 Ahmadis at Turkish-Bulgarian frontier face imprisonment, or death if deported
More than one hundred members of The Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light, a persecuted religious minority, who presented themselves at the Turkish-Bulgarian border on May 24 requesting asylum face…
Human Rights
Despite ‘slightly’ improved food security in Yemen, hunger stalks millions
“The United Nations and its partners made strides in rolling back the worst food insecurity last year, but these gains remain fragile, and 17 million people are still food insecure…
News
Green light for global greenhouse gas tracking network
The landmark decision comes as heat-trapping greenhouse gas concentrations are at record levels – “higher than at any time over the last 800,000 years”, WMO warned. Data from Earth and…