Tue 01 December 2020: Facing protests of the measure, France’s Parliament on Monday decided to drop a controversial plank of a new security bill which would restrict the right to film or take pictures of police officers on duty. Christophe Castaner, head of the ruling LREM Party, told a press conference that the article will […]
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Fri 27 November 2020: Police and border guards must combat racial profiling and ensure that their use of “big data” collected via artificial intelligence does not reinforce biases against minorities, United Nations experts said on Thursday. Companies that sell algorithmic profiling systems to public entities and private companies, often used in screening job applicants, must […]
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Thu 26 November 2020: Attacks motivated by right-wing extremist ideologies have significantly increased in North America, Western Europe and Oceania over the last years, the annual Global Terrorism Index (GTI) published on Wednesday shows. According to the study, compiled by researchers at the British Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP), the number of far-right attacks […]
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Wed 18 November 2020: The United Nations released $100 million of emergency funding on Tuesday to stave off the risk of famine in seven countries most at risk from a hunger epidemic fueled by conflict, economic decline, climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic. A statement overnight said $80 million of the money will go to Afghanistan, Burkina […]
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Sun 15 November 2020: Amnesty International has said that the French government is not the champion of free speech that it likes to think it is. “French government’s rhetoric on free speech is not enough to conceal its own shameless hypocrisy,” the UK-based organisation said in its report published on Thursday. “Freedom of expression means nothing unless […]
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Fri 13 November 2020: Over 80% of vaccine doses bought by governments with only 14% of global population The vast majority of US pharma giant Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine has already been bought by the richest governments in the world, Global Justice Now warns today. Over 1 billion doses have already been sold to rich governments, […]
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Thu 12 November 2020: Women bear the brunt of increasing digital abuse – threatened with rape and exploited for porn – as the coronavirus pandemic drives ever more people online, media experts said on Wednesday. Through salacious claims and viral memes, Brazilian journalist Patricia Campos Mello said she has repeatedly faced attack online for reporting […]
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Mon 09 November 2020: “It is survival of the fittest here. We have to wake up early and join the queue to get water from this borehole. If you wake up late, you may not get the water,” said Nyarai Mudavanhu (27) as she narrated how the shortage of water in her community is posing […]
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Sat 07 October 2020: The FAO and WFP analysis lists another 16 countries and territories – from Haiti to Zimbabwe – as at risk of rising levels of acute hunger and urges developed countries to take urgent action to avoid an international food emergency. Hotspots in four countries – Burkina Faso, Yemen, South Sudan and […]
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Wed 04 November 2020: ‘Killing one soul is as if killing all of humanity,’ says Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Several Muslim countries along with Tunisia’s Ennahda movement and the head of Egypt’s Al-Azhar institution on Tuesday condemned yesterday’s terrorist attack near a synagogue in the Austrian capital Vienna. Ahmed al-Tayeb, the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar […]
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