Fri 02 June 2023: The UN Office on Drugs and Crime says almost 151 tonnes of methamphetamine seized in Southeast, East Asia in 2022. The synthetic drugs market in Southeast and East Asia is becoming more diverse, the United Nations has warned, and drug trafficking syndicates are using new smuggling routes to ship large quantities […]
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Tue 30 May 2023: Hunger is projected to worsen in 18 “hotspots” throughout the world, including Sudan, where conflict has left millions at risk of starving, said a report released Monday. The report by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) said that acute food insecurity threatens 22 countries. Sudan, Burkina Faso, Haiti and Mali have been elevated to the […]
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Sun 28 May 2023: Ten percent of the world’s population does not have enough food, the highest number in more than a decade. Hunger levels are rising around the world. As many as 828 million people – or 10 percent of the world’s population – go to bed hungry each night, 46 million more than […]
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Wed 24 May 2023: The world is failing to protect civilians as the death toll of people caught up in conflicts surged more than 50 percent from the previous year, the United Nations chief said. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the Security Council “to live up to its commitments” to protect civilians as enshrined in international humanitarian […]
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Mon 24 Apr 2023: World military spending reached an all-time high of $2.24 trillion in 2022, as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine fuelled a sharp jump in military spending across Europe, according to a leading defence think tank. Global spending rose for the eighth consecutive year, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) said on Monday […]
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Tue 28 March 2023: Amnesty International publishes annual report highlighting the state of human rights in more than 150 countries. The invasion of Ukraine has exposed the “double standards” of human rights internationally, a new Amnesty International report has said, with the West adopting a tough response to Russia’s war of aggression while also maintaining a […]
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Mon 27 March 2023: Global societies are still feeling the effects of the more than 400-year-long transatlantic slave trade, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned on Monday, Anadolu Agency reported. Speaking at a commemoration ceremony marking the UN’s International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, Guterres said the “evil enterprise” of […]
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Mon 20 March 2023: Children’s lives are in danger worldwide due to contaminated drinking water and a lack of sanitary infrastructure, according to UNICEF, the UN agency for children. According to a UNICEF report released in New York on Monday, more than 1,000 children under the age of five die each day from diseases brought […]
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Sharp lead pellets fired by Indian security forces from pellet gun, had hit12-year-old Moin Mushtaq. The pellets destroyed his right eye beyond repair (2 October 2016). Tue 14 March 2023: Rights group says a global Torture-Free Trade treaty is urgently needed to regulate the trade in policing equipment. Police misuse of rubber bullets and other […]
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Sun 12 March 2023: The inaugural Islamic Arts Biennale is underway in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. (Biennales are large and prestigious international art exhibitions held every two years.) This important new event for the Muslim world features numerous African artists. And the biennale’s artistic director is Sumayya Vally, a South African architecture professor and principal of Counterspace design studio. A rising star in the art […]
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