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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Tue 10 January 2023: Some 5 million children are estimated to have died before turning five years old in 2021, according to UN data published on Tuesday. The latest estimates released by the United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME) also found that 2.1 million children and youth aged between 5–24 years […]
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Fri 30 December 2022: Nearly 1,700 journalists have been killed worldwide over the past 20 years, an average of more than 80 a year, according to an analysis published by Reporters Without Borders (RSF). The two decades between 2003 and 2022 were “especially deadly decades for those in the service of the right to inform”, […]
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Thu 29 December 2022: A hundred million people across the world were forced to leave their homes in 2022 and the United Nations is continuing to help those in need in a myriad of ways, UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, said on Monday. Filippo Grandi, head of the agency, described the figure as “a record […]
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Iranian journalists Niloufar Hamedi and Elaheh Mohammadi was arrested by regime, with propaganda against the state and conspiring against national security. Wed 14 December 2022: According to an annual tally by the press freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders, the number of journalists imprisoned around the world has reached a new high (Reporters Sans Frontieres, or […]
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Sat 10 December 2022: According to a new report released on Friday, the number of journalists and media professionals killed while performing their jobs in 2022 has climbed by more than 40% compared to last year. According to the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), 67 media professionals have been killed while performing their jobs this […]
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Mon 25 December 2022: Annual report on weapons trade shows sales up 1.9 percent, with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine adding to supply chain problems. Sales of arms and military services by the world’s 100 biggest defence companies rose 1.9 percent to $592BN in 2021 despite supply chain issues that held up shipments of critical components, […]
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