Vaccine Equality Is as Vital for Livestock as for People — Global Issues

Vaccine Equality Is as Vital for Livestock as for People — Global Issues

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Enrique Hernández Pando Opinion by Enrique Hernandez Pando (madrid, spain) Tuesday, August 22, 2023 Inter Press Service MADRID, Spain, Aug 22 (IPS) – Enrique Hernández Pando is Executive Director, Commercial Development & Impact, GALVmedEl Castellar – For 33-year-old mother-of-seven and poultry farmer Helena Kindole in Chanya village in Tanzania, one of…

Rage, Ignorance and Prejudice — Global Issues

New financing tool aims to increase access to lifesaving mosquito nets — Global Issues

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The so-called Revolving Facility is an initiative of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, a UN partner that invests $4 billion annually to stamp out these deadly diseases and strengthen health systems in more than 100 countries. The Revolving Facility will negotiate improved supply terms for health…

Rage, Ignorance and Prejudice — Global Issues

From Death Valley to the Swiss Alps, extreme weather records hit new heights — Global Issues

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Speaking in Geneva, WMO spokesperson Clare Nullis said that a new altitude record for the freezing point had been set a day earlier, climbing to 5,298 metres (17,381 feet) – well above Europe’s very highest peaks including Mont Blanc, at 4,811 metres (15,784 feet). WMO figures show that this is…

Rage, Ignorance and Prejudice — Global Issues

Afghanistan’s Taliban responsible for revenge killings, torture of former officials — Global Issues

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A new publication from the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) presents “credible” reports that between 15 August 2021 and 30 June 2023, the country’s de facto authorities were responsible for 218 extrajudicial killings, 14 enforced disappearances, over 144 instances of torture and ill treatment, and 424 arbitrary arrests and…

Rage, Ignorance and Prejudice — Global Issues

Fierce clashes in Tripoli highlight ‘precarious’ situation — Global Issues

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At least 55 people were reported killed and over 100 injured – including civilians – in fighting between the Deterrence Apparatus for Combatting Organized Crime and Terrorism (DACOT) and the 444 Brigade, on 14 and 15 August, the head of the UN political mission in Libya, UNSMIL, told the Security…

Rage, Ignorance and Prejudice — Global Issues

UNs Annual Culture of Peace Forum Remains Derailed– & Civil Society Bypassed — Global Issues

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Opinion by Anwarul K. Chowdhury (new york) Tuesday, August 22, 2023 Inter Press Service NEW YORK, Aug 22 (IPS) – 14 June has become a black day for the UN High Forum on The Culture of Peace (HLF-CoP) convened by the successive Presidents of the UN General Assembly since 2012. This…

U.S. citizens should leave Belarus immediately, embassy warns

U.S. citizens should leave Belarus immediately, embassy warns

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Comment on this storyComment The United States is urging Americans in Belarus to leave the country “immediately,” citing spillover risks from the war in Ukraine, including a buildup of Russian troops in Belarus. The U.S. Embassy in Minsk, the Belarusian capital, said in an advisory on Monday that Americans should…

Thailand leader Thaksin returns from exile as Pheu Thai prepares PM vote

Thailand leader Thaksin returns from exile as Pheu Thai prepares PM vote

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Comment on this storyComment BANGKOK — Thailand’s former prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, has returned to the country after 17 years in self-exile, arriving in the capital, Bangkok, hours before the party he helped establish, Pheu Thai, is set to form a coalition government with members of the conservative military establishment…

Saudi forces killed hundreds of Ethiopians at Yemen border, report says

Saudi forces killed hundreds of Ethiopians at Yemen border, report says

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Comment on this storyComment Saudi security forces have killed hundreds of Ethiopian migrants and asylum seekers attempting to cross the country’s border with Yemen, Human Rights Watch said, shooting people at close range and firing explosive weapons at groups in the mountains in what could amount to crimes against humanity….