Fri 10 December 2021: AlgorithmWatch warns that a plethora of automated decision-making systems were implemented in haste under the guise of public health. The COVID-19 pandemic was exploited as an excuse to further normalise surveillance and monitor an increasing number of daily activities of people around the world under the guise of public health, a […]
Continue Reading
Wed 08 December 2021: Rights groups record more than 300 attacks on Christians and their religious places in the first nine months of this year. New Delhi/Roorkee, India – In late October, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi met and invited Pope Francis to India, the country with the second-largest Christian population in Asia. However, in a speech about […]
Continue Reading
Mon 06 December 2021: Sales of weapons and military services by the world’s 100 biggest arms companies reached a record $531bn in 2020, an increase of 1.3 per cent in real terms compared with the previous year, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). The Swedish think tank said 2020 marked the sixth […]
Continue Reading
Sat 04 December 2021: A new report showed that the United States is by far the biggest contributor to global plastic waste in the world. The report that was submitted to the federal government Wednesday called for a national strategy to tackle the growing crisis. Overall, the U.S. contributed around 42 million metric tons (MMT) […]
Continue Reading
Fri 03 December 2021: December 3 is International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD), and on this Day WHO joins other partners around the world to celebrate a day for all. According to figures released by the World Health Organization on Thursday, more than 1 billion people throughout the world live with some sort of […]
Continue Reading
Fri 03 December 2021: The United Nations’ Food Price Index climbed for a fourth straight month in November to its highest level since June 2011. The price of food staples continued to grow in November amid a global environment of strong demand and tight supply, according to the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). […]
Continue Reading
Thu 02 December 2021: Internal displacement is increasing around the world, despite COVID-19 mobility restrictions, as a result of natural catastrophes, military conflicts, and violence, according to the International Organization for Migration’s (IOM) World Migration Report 2022, released on Wednesday. “We are witnessing a paradox not seen before in human history. While billions of people have been […]
Continue Reading
Wed 01 December 2021: Latin America and the Caribbean is facing a critical situation in terms of food security, UN official says. The number of hungry people in Latin America and the Caribbean has risen by 30 percent since 2019 to reach its highest level in 15 years, a coalition of United Nations agencies said, […]
Continue Reading
Mon 29 November 2021: Former UK prime minister Gordon Brown said that 100 million vaccines would be “wasted” by western countries by the end of the year. Brown, who is ambassador for global health financing at the World Health Organisation, told Sky News: “We’ve got to get vaccines out to the rest of the world. […]
Continue Reading
Sat 27 November 2021: A woman or girl is being killed by someone in their family every 11 minutes in the world, UNODC Executive Director, Ghada Waly said on Thursday and Anadolu News Agency reports. “In 2020, 47,000 women and girls worldwide died at the hands of intimate partners or other family members, according to new data […]
Continue Reading
