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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Sun 05 March 2023: People who share news items extensively on social media often tend to discern less over their accuracy, according to a study. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) conducted an experiment to understand a core tension between the impulse to share news and to think about whether it is true. […]
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Sat 04 March 2023: Guterres says wealthy nations should provide $500bn a year to help the most deprived states ‘trapped in vicious cycles’ boost their economies. United Nations chief Antonio Guterres has condemned rich countries and energy giants for throttling poor nations with “predatory” interest rates and crippling fuel prices. Speaking on the first day […]
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Sat 04 March 2023: A record number of countries have enforced internet shutdowns in 2022 that had a “devastating impact on human lives”, a new report has found. The digital rights group Access Now and the #KeepItOn campaign – a coalition of about 70 organisations – documented 187 blackouts following protests, active conflict, examinations, elections and political […]
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Fri 03 March 2023: More than 50% of the world’s population will be overweight or obese by 2035 without significant action, according to a new report. According to the World Obesity Federation’s 2023 atlas, 51 percent of the world’s population, or more than four billion people, will be obese or overweight within the next 12 […]
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Thu 23 February 2023: The World Health Organization (WHO) says one woman dies every two minutes during pregnancy or childbirth, according to the latest data, with too few countries in the world managing to substantially reduce maternal death rates since 2016. The report, Trends in Maternal Mortality, showed that while there was significant progress in reducing […]
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Tue 21 February 2023: The developer still has to obtain an official certification for its aircraft. For now, there are no clear rules for this sector, so the company expects authorities to make progress in establishing official regulations this year. The brand Eve is a subsidiary of the Brazilian aerospace manufacturer Embraer. The company has […]
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Tue 14 February 2023: Violations against children in armed conflicts “remain at a shockingly high level,” the UN warned Monday as the international community seeks to curtail the tragedies. Virginia Gamba, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ special representative for children and armed conflict, told the Security Council that children continue to face alarming levels of violations, including […]
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Mon 16 January 2023: Charity calls for more taxes on the rich as World Economic Forum gathers for annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland. The world’s top 1 percent grabbed nearly two-thirds of the $42 trillion in new wealth created since 2020, Oxfam says in a new report released to coincide with the annual meeting of […]
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