What is the 4B feminist movement from S Korea that’s taking off in the US? | US Election 2024 News

What is the 4B feminist movement from S Korea that’s taking off in the US? | US Election 2024 News

A feminist movement sweeping South Korea, in which women are saying “No” to any form of intimate relationships with men, is taking hold in the United States following former President Donald Trump’s resounding victory in the presidential election. So what is the 4B movement and why are American women turning…

Could legal bid stop ‘cruel’ UK government plan to axe winter fuel benefit? | Politics News

Could legal bid stop ‘cruel’ UK government plan to axe winter fuel benefit? | Politics News

A couple from Scotland is suing the UK government over its decision to abolish an allowance for at least 10 million elderly people to spend on additional heating fuel in the winter. Following the Labour Party’s landslide election victory in the UK’s general election on July 4, one of the…

Commonwealth summit in Samoa: Why won’t the UK discuss slavery? | Human Rights News

Commonwealth summit in Samoa: Why won’t the UK discuss slavery? | Human Rights News

Commonwealth leaders have gathered in Samoa for the biennial Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) this week. This is the first time the summit has taken place on a Pacific Small Island Developing State (PSIDS). At the summit, a demand that the United Kingdom pay reparations for its role in…

‘No place to go’: As Israel bombs Lebanon, African migrants feel abandoned | Israel attacks Lebanon News

‘No place to go’: As Israel bombs Lebanon, African migrants feel abandoned | Israel attacks Lebanon News

Soreti*, an Ethiopian migrant domestic worker living in Lebanon, says she feels lucky to be alive. She was not home when Israeli air strikes struck buildings in her neighbourhood in the southern Lebanese city of Tyre on September 23. “It was a massacre,” the 34-year-old said from a private home…

What’s behind India’s latest #MeToo movement in Malayalam cinema? | Human Rights News

What’s behind India’s latest #MeToo movement in Malayalam cinema? | Human Rights News

A spate of allegations of sexual misconduct has rocked the film industry in India’s southern state of Kerala, triggering a flood of police cases and leading to calls for a broader reckoning within what is known as Mollywood. The latest wave of the #MeToo movement, which first took off in 2017,…

How a beauty queen became the face of South Africa-Nigeria tensions | Social Media News

How a beauty queen became the face of South Africa-Nigeria tensions | Social Media News

Johannesburg, South Africa – Anita Odunyao Solarin, a 21-year-old Nigerian who has spent her entire life in South Africa, finds it safer not to disclose her West African roots. She does her best to assimilate with her peers and rarely volunteers her origins. This, she says, shields her from persistent…

After COVID and Ebola, doctors take on mpox amid conflict in eastern DRC | Health News

After COVID and Ebola, doctors take on mpox amid conflict in eastern DRC | Health News

Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo – It’s dawn at the mpox treatment site at Nyiragongo General Referral Hospital, north of the city of Goma, and Congolese medics are already hard at work, calmly and efficiently screening, isolating and caring for patients infected with the disease. Two days prior, the…

Officials at UN Security Council push for a permanent seat for Africa | United Nations News

Officials at UN Security Council push for a permanent seat for Africa | United Nations News

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urges reform, says the African continent is underrepresented in a changing world. The United Nations chief has called for the UN Security Council (UNSC) to reform its outdated structure and assign Africa a permanent seat at the table, stressing that the continent is underrepresented. Addressing the…

Where are the world’s millionaires and how is wealth divided globally? | Business and Economy News

Where are the world’s millionaires and how is wealth divided globally? | Business and Economy News

The world has at least 58 million US dollar millionaires, accounting for 1.5 percent of the global adult population, according to the 2024 UBS Global Wealth Report (PDF), which sampled 56 markets that account for 92 percent of global wealth. The United States has the highest number of millionaires, with…