Wed 10 March 2021: Nearly one in three women worldwide is subjected to physical or sexual violence during her lifetime, pervasive criminal behavior that has increased during the coronavirus pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday. The UN agency urged governments to prevent violence, improve services for victims and tackle economic inequalities that often […]
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Tue 09 March 2021: Availability of data on violence against women and girls has increased significantly in recent years, and data on the prevalence of intimate partner violence is now available for at least 106 countries. Calls to helplines have increased fivefold in some countries as rates of reported intimate partner violence increase because of […]
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Mon 08 March 2021: A new report has warned that the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic may undermine a quarter century’s progress in curbing child marriages and increase under-age pregnancies. COVID-19: A threat to progress against child marriage – released on International Women’s Day – warns that school closures, economic stress, service disruptions, pregnancy, and parental […]
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Mon 08 March 2021: International Women’s Day 2021 Date: Celebrated on March 8 every year, this day is symbolic of the historic journey women around the world have taken to better their lives. It comes as a reminder that while a lot has been achieved, the journey is long and a lot more needs to be […]
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Fri 05 March 2021: An estimated 17 percent of food available to consumers, which amounts to 931 million metric tonnes (1.03 billion tonnes), was wasted in homes, retail outlets and restaurants in 2019, according to research published by the United Nations. The report, produced jointly by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and WRAP, a […]
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Wed 03 March 2021: Greece’s practice of pushing back refugees to Turkey amounts to a clear violation of the 1951 Refugee Convention, the European Convention on Human Rights, and European Union law, the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said on Tuesday. The remark came from UNHCR spokesperson Boris Cheshirkov at a briefing in Geneva as […]
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Sun 29 February 2021: Education budgets were cut by 65 per cent of low and lower-middle income countries after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic while only 33 per cent of high and upper-middle income countries did so, according to a report by the World Bank. The report, compiled in collaboration with UNESCO’s Global Education […]
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Sat 27 February 2021: Özlem Türeci and Uğur Şahin, Turkish-German nationals who are the founders of the pharmaceutical company BioNTech, which invented one of the first COVID-19 vaccines, are to receive the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, the presidential office announced Friday. Steinmeier will personally present the Federal Republic’s Great Cross […]
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Wed 24 February 2021: Digital labor platforms are creating new job opportunities, allowing flexible work for some, but they are also changing the way it is organized leading workers to struggle with pay and social security, the head of the International Labor Organization said Tuesday. The UN body released its flagship report, World Employment and […]
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Tue 23 February 2021: Canada’s House of Commons has voted overwhelmingly to declare China’s treatment of its Uighur minority population a genocide– a deliberate attempt to obliterate a group of people. The motion makes Canada just the second country after the United States to recognise China’s actions as genocide. “A genocide is currently being carried […]
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