UNAIDS celebrates Pride Month, demands decriminalization worldwide — Global Issues

UNAIDS celebrates Pride Month, demands decriminalization worldwide — Global Issues

Pride Month provides an opportunity to celebrate the resilience, diversity, and achievements of LGBTQI individuals, UNAIDS said in a press release, while also reflecting on continuing struggle for full equality, dignity and recognition. This momentous occasion also serves as a reminder of the important collective commitment to human rights, equality,…

Perus Agro-Export Boom Has not Boosted Human Development — Global Issues

Perus Agro-Export Boom Has not Boosted Human Development — Global Issues

Her hands loaded with crates, Susan Quintanilla, a union leader of agro-export workers in the department of Ica in southwestern Peru, gets ready to collect different vegetables and fruits for foreign markets. She has witnessed many injustices, saying the companies “made you feel like they were doing you a favor…

Thailands Opposition Prepares for Office Despite Military Resistance — Global Issues

Thailands Opposition Prepares for Office Despite Military Resistance — Global Issues

Thailand’s local newspaper Bangkok Post uses the vow of not launching a coup, promised by the Thai military days before the May 14 election, as the front story. Thailand has had periods of anti-coup protests and brutal crackdowns. Photo: Thompson Chau/IPS by Thompson Chau (bangkok) Wednesday, May 31, 2023 Inter Press…

Guterres voices deep concern as Anti-Homosexuality Act signed into law — Global Issues

Guterres voices deep concern as Anti-Homosexuality Act signed into law — Global Issues

The draconian law foresees the application of the death penalty and long prison sentences for consensual sex between adults. Non-discrimination principle Mr. Guterres called on Uganda to fully respect its international human rights obligations, “in particular the principle of non-discrimination and the respect for personal privacy”, irrespective of sexual orientation…

UN commends Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia, as final judgement is delivered — Global Issues

UN commends Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia, as final judgement is delivered — Global Issues

Jovica Stanišić and Franko Simatović were convicted by the court – part of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT) which took over from the ICTY – in 2021, for their roles training death squads accused of ethnic cleansing during the conflict that saw the breakup of the former…

Oversight’s key to ensure sustainability in outer space: Guterres — Global Issues

Oversight’s key to ensure sustainability in outer space: Guterres — Global Issues

“Our common interest in preserving the domain of outer space, a province of humankind that benefits us all, requires agile and multi-stakeholder governance responses,” he wrote in the introduction. The policy brief examines some of the “unprecedented” changes underway in outer space, including the sheer volume of satellites being launched…

Waiting Game for Nigerian Students Awaiting Evacuation on Egyptian Border — Global Issues

Waiting Game for Nigerian Students Awaiting Evacuation on Egyptian Border — Global Issues

Student evacuees from Sudan wait to return to Nigeria. Credit: Handout by Abdullahi Jimoh (abuja) Tuesday, May 30, 2023 Inter Press Service ABUJA, May 30 (IPS) – Seven weeks after the bloody conflict in Khartoum, Sudan started, and 41 days after the Nigerian government began the evacuation of residents studying there,…

UN humanitarians complete first food distribution in Khartoum as hunger, threats to children, intensify — Global Issues

UN humanitarians complete first food distribution in Khartoum as hunger, threats to children, intensify — Global Issues

WFP’s Country Director in Sudan, Eddie Rowe, told reporters in Geneva that in a major breakthrough, the agency distributed food assistance to 15,000 people in both Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) controlled areas of Omdurman, part of the Khartoum metropolitan area, beginning on Saturday. Speaking from…