‘Low risk’ for humans, as cats in Poland test positive for avian influenza — Global Issues

‘Low risk’ for humans, as cats in Poland test positive for avian influenza — Global Issues

As of Wednesday, 12 July, no human contacts of A(H5N1) positive cats have reported any symptoms, the UN health agency said, adding that the surveillance period for all contacts has now complete. National first There have been previous “sporadic” cases of what is more commonly referred to as the bird…

World ‘wilfully ignoring’ child deaths during dangerous Mediterranean Sea crossings — Global Issues

World ‘wilfully ignoring’ child deaths during dangerous Mediterranean Sea crossings — Global Issues

The figure is equivalent to about 11 children dying each week, “far beyond what we hear in news headlines,” Vera Knaus, the agency’s Global Lead on Migration and Displacement, told journalists attending the biweekly UN humanitarian briefing in Geneva. “We cannot continue to ignore what is happening – stand by…

World ‘wilfully ignoring’ child deaths during dangerous Mediterranean Sea crossings — Global Issues

Accountability needed for ‘shocking’ violations by Russian forces in Ukraine — Global Issues

The High Commissioner told the Human Rights Council in Geneva that his office (OHCHR) had documented the arbitrary detention of more than 900 civilians between 24 February 2022 and 23 May this year. He added that that Russia gave no access to places of detention, “which leads inevitably to undercounting”….

World ‘wilfully ignoring’ child deaths during dangerous Mediterranean Sea crossings — Global Issues

Sweden and Mugabe — Global Issues

Opinion by Jan Lundius (stockholm, sweden) Wednesday, July 12, 2023 Inter Press Service STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Jul 12 (IPS) – The road to hell is paved with good intentions.                                   Proverb of unknown originThe war in Ukraine continues unabated; young men are sacrificed on battlefields, towns laid waste by aerial attacks, the threat…

World ‘wilfully ignoring’ child deaths during dangerous Mediterranean Sea crossings — Global Issues

‘Sadly, the killing continues in the world’ — Global Issues

Among the exhibit’s visitors were members of the Mothers of Srebrenica, an association that united thousands of people – mothers, sisters, and wives – who have lost loved ones in the massacre in their city. Munira Subašić doesn’t need photographs to remember the tragedy that claimed her husband, son, and…