Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, Ethiopian nun and piano virtuoso, dies at 99

Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, Ethiopian nun and piano virtuoso, dies at 99

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Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, a classically trained musician who once abandoned music for a hermit-like life as nun in her native Ethiopia and later returned to the piano with a genre-defying blend of Western and Ethiopian influences, died March 26 at her convent in Jerusalem. She was 99. Her niece, Hanna…

‘Simple dreams’ of Syrians following earthquake — Global Issues

‘Simple dreams’ of Syrians following earthquake — Global Issues

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Shirin Yaseen from the Office of the Spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General visited northwestern Syria as part of an interagency mission to assess the situation there. “On the day we visited Jindairis in northern Syria, one of the areas most affected by the February earthquake, the weather conditions were very bad. A…

CIVICUS Report Exposes a Civil Society Under Attack — Global Issues

CIVICUS Report Exposes a Civil Society Under Attack — Global Issues

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Ines Pousadela at the launch of the CIVICUS State of Civil Society Report. Credit: Joyce Chimbi/IPS by Joyce Chimbi (nairobi) Friday, March 31, 2023 Inter Press Service NAIROBI, Mar 31 (IPS) – As conflict and crises escalate to create human emergencies that have displaced over 100 million people worldwide, civil society’s…

Bahrains Botched Whitewashing Attempt — Global Issues

Bahrains Botched Whitewashing Attempt — Global Issues

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Opinion by Ines M Pousadela (montevideo, uruguay) Friday, March 31, 2023 Inter Press Service MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Mar 31 (IPS) – The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), an organisation whose motto is ‘For democracy. For everyone’, just held its global assembly in a country with a mock parliament and not the slightest semblance of…

The Need for a Strong Legal Treaty on Business & Human Rights — Global Issues

The Need for a Strong Legal Treaty on Business & Human Rights — Global Issues

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The open-ended intergovernmental working group on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights was established in 2014 in response to Human Rights Council resolution 26/9 with a mandate to elaborate an international legally binding instrument to regulate, in international human rights law, the activities of transnational…

UNAIDS launches campaign to advocate for rights of transgender children — Global Issues

UNAIDS launches campaign to advocate for rights of transgender children — Global Issues

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“Many of us take our gender identity for granted, but for many children it is not so easy,” said Mahesh Mahalingam, the UNAIDS Director of Communications and Global Advocacy. “It’s a matter of daily survival, a daily struggle. Children all around the world must be supported in expressing their identity…

UN experts call for repatriating detained Syria children — Global Issues

UN experts call for repatriating detained Syria children — Global Issues

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Children in conflict zones must be protected, not punished, said the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, together with Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, UN Special Rapporteur on the protection and promotion of human rights while countering terrorism, in a joint statement. “It is now time to bring them home,”…

Türkiye, Syria quake response continues, food security threat rising — Global Issues

Türkiye, Syria quake response continues, food security threat rising — Global Issues

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OCHA Spokesperson Jens Laerke, told reporters in Geneva that the current phase was still “a humanitarian emergency where we look at, ‘What do the survivors need? How can we support those who have survived this devastating earthquake?’” Help for millions in need In Türkiye, where over nine million have been directly affected,…