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Russian opposition is calling on its supporters to take to the streets Saturday in Moscow to demand free elections. The protest, unauthorized, will run almost without leaders since the convictions have increased since the protest last weekend in the Russian capital, which resulted in nearly 1,400 arrests. Russian courts also remanded 88 people and sentenced […]
More than 900 migrant children have been separated from their families on the United States-Mexico border for the past year, although the Trump government has said it has put an end to the policy, the ACLU said, powerful American civil rights group. The organization says in court documents filed in federal court in San Diego, […]
In Portugal, the summer is again sadly marked by a large fire. More than a thousand firemen fought against the fire on Saturday night in the Castelo Branco region. The fires have already injured eight people in the mountainous region of central Portugal, 200 kilometers from Lisbon. Two years ago, the fire killed a hundred […]
Several hundred people demonstrated Saturday in Paris to urge the government to take concrete action against feminicides in France. More than 70 women have been killed by their spouse or ex-spouse since 1 January, announced the collective “Femicide by companions or ex”. The demonstrators observed 74 seconds of silence in tribute to these victims. “Stop […]
Heavy monsoon rains in Bangladesh have flooded the Cox’s Bazar camp, home to more than 900,000 Rohingya refugees, destroying some 273 shelters and injuring 11 people, according to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR). About 2,137 people have been displaced, either because their shelters have suffered significant damage or as a precautionary measure. www.un.org
Civil and political freedoms continue to be violated in Eritrea, despite the promises of the peace agreement signed last July with Ethiopia. Incarceration incommunicado, enforced disappearance, encasement of youth, nothing has changed in this closed country of the Horn of Africa, according to Daniela Kravetz, the new special rapporteur on human rights of the UN […]
Global warming is expected to result in increased heat stress at work, affecting productivity and causing economic and job losses. According to the ILO, rising heat stress should even lead to productivity losses equivalent to 80 million full-time jobs in 2030 and economic losses of $ 2.4 billion. “The impact of heat stress on labor […]
At least 65 people were wounded in a Taliban-claimed complex bombing aimed at a logistics center at the Ministry of Defense. Six civilians and nine pro-regime fighters died during Israeli strikes on Sunday in Syria, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH). The official Syrian news agency Sana reported overnight that four civilians […]
Some 115 million boys and men around the world were married during their childhood, according to UNICEF in its first-ever in-depth analysis of married boys published this month. Among them, one in five boys would have been married before the age of 15, which represents 23 million boys (…) Read more on http://www.unicef.org
Tens of thousands of protesters paralyzed Hong Kong on Wednesday, delaying consideration of a controversial bill to allow extradition to China. The protesters, mostly young people and students, surrounded the government buildings in the center of the city to demand the withdrawal of the project supported by Beijing. .. AFP
