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Earth Today | CANARI releases new report on marine security

WITH MORE intense hurricanes and climate extremes, mass sargassum influxes and the ongoing challenge of COVID-19, building resilience is a priority for Caribbean small island developing states. A new report, titled Rising to the climate challenge...

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Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals freedom from infringement by governments, social organizations, and private individuals. They ensure ones ability to participate in the civil and political life of the society and state without discrimination or

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White House slams Fauci over coronavirus disagreement with Trump : TheGrio

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has found himself in the cross-hairs of President Donald Trump. The post White House slams Fauci over coronavirus disagreement with Trump appeared first on TheGrio.

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South Africa's national government said on Tuesday that the "regrettable death" of George Floyd presented the US with an "opportunity to address fundamental issues of human rights, such as freedom dignity and

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Somalia: UN Agencies Warn Somalia's Gains At Risk From 'Triple Threat'

The political and security gains made by Somalia over recent years could be at risk of reversal if swift action is not taken by the international community to help local authorities avert a major humanitarian crisis due to the combined effect of devastating floods, desert locusts and the widespread

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Rwanda: Mukasine Named New Chairperson of the Human Rights Commission

A cabinet meeting held Tuesday, June 16, chaired by President Paul Kagame named Marie-Claire Mukasine as the new Chairperson of the National Human Rights

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Holness admin gets failing grade for corruption - Ja won’t get rid of scourge until bigwigs jailed, citizens open eyes to crippling effects

Despite occasional howls from civil society, Jamaica will not see a dramatic decline in corruption – or the perception thereof – until enablers in high places are collared and locked away, insists management consultant Dr Henley Morgan as three...

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IUCN launches a promotional video to tackle marine plastic pollution in the Caribbean - Voice Online

THE INTERNATIONAL Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has launched a promotional video that introduces... The post IUCN launches a promotional video to tackle marine plastic pollution in the Caribbean appeared first on Voice Online.

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What Pandemic? Billionaires Are Getting Richer During COVID While the Economy and Labor Force Tank

According to a new report by Americans for Tax Fairness and the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), the nation’s 623 billionaires saw their net worth increase by $434 billion in the first two months of the pandemic thanks in large part to tax cuts and

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George Floyd's last words flown in the sky across five major US cities

The last words of the posthumously famous George Floyd have flown in the sky as part of an emotional and inspirational tribute thanks to black artist Jammie

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Tourism, fishing trawlers hurt seagrasses of East Africa - UN

In its new report titled Out of the blue: The value of seagrasses to the environment and to people, launched on World Oceans Day on June 8, Unep blames these unsustainable activities for a deteriorating coastal ecosystem, a decline in coastal productivity, and affected certain supportive functions

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Low-income areas will struggle to contain Covid-19

A s the Covid-19 crisis continues, a new report suggests that it will be hard to control the spread of the virus in low-income

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Covid-19: Electoral Court grants IEC permission to postpone by-elections

The Electoral Court has granted the Electoral Commission of SA (IEC) permission to postpone by-elections in the country due to the continuous effects of the

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Trump too busy golfing to quickly delete white power retweet: report

President Donald Trump received backlash for retweeting a clip of one of his supporters from The Villages shouting “White Power.” The post Trump too busy golfing to quickly delete white power retweet: report appeared first on TheGrio.

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Gay Men of African Descent (GMAD) (1986- )

Gay Men of African Descent (GMAD), founded in 1986 in New York City, is one of the oldest organizations working toward the welfare of black gay men in the United States. They began offering services for persons with AIDS toward the beginning of the US pandemic which started in

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President Bio discusses recent violence and covid-19 with civil society leaders

He said that his government intends to continue to listen and stay engaged with every voice in the civil society space because his government believes that each voice matters and every voice would make the country’s democracy better and

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Research and innovation key to fighting COVID-19

Here are some of the key outcomes from the virtual national conference on COVID-19, which took place on Friday, 31 July 2020.

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Gabrielle Union Files Discrimination Complaint Against “AGT” Producers And NBC, Says She Was Threatened For Whistleblowing

The saga between actress and host Gabrielle Union and the NBC’s show “America’s Got Talent,” is far from

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Much-needed aid announced for agricultural producers greatly affected by COVID-19 - Dallas Examiner

By PAUL SCHATTENBERG Texas AM AgriLife The Agricultural and Food Policy Center at Texas AM University in College Station has released a new report providing details and insights into the Coronavirus Food Assistance

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Tanzania: Report - Tanzania Ranking On Budget Transparency On the Decline

[Citizen] Dar es Salaam -Tanzania can improve its ranking in budget transparency by timely publishing information on its budget processes, a new report suggests.

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This Journalist Helped Eradicate Hospital Debt for Thousands in Memphis

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Africa: COVID-19 Presents Unique Opportunities to Speed Up Africa's Integration Agenda and Implementation of AfCFTA

The Africa Regional Integration Index, ARII 2019, a new report jointly launched by the African Development Bank, UN Economic Commission for Africa, UNECA, and the Africa Union, AU, Commission launched the Africa Regional Integration Index report last

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Dressing While Black: Self-Censoring To Pass In White Spaces

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Africa: World Has Failed to Protect 1 Billion Children From Violence, Sexual Abuse - UN Warns

The report is the first of its kind, charting progress in 155 countries against the "INSPIRE" framework, a set of seven strategies for preventing and responding to violence against

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In Africa schools are closed but learning goes on

Globally, school closures due to COVID-19 have affected 1.29 billion students in 186 countries, which is 73.8 per cent of the world’s student population, according to the UN Education Science and Cultural Organization

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Tunisia-UNDP - Will to Diversify Cooperation in Economic and Social Rights Field

Tunis/Tunisia — Minister of Human Rights, Relations with Constitutional Authorities and Civil Society Ayachi Hammami expressed, on Wednesday, the Ministry's willingness to strengthen cooperation with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Tunisia to include other areas related to the

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Africa: COVID-19 - United Nations Launches Global Initiative to Combat Misinformation

Today the United Nations is launching "Verified", an initiative to combat the growing scourge of COVID-19 misinformation by increasing the volume and reach of trusted, accurate

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Condemn Zim human rights violations, EU Parly told

AN informal network of European non-governmental organisations, the Zimbabwe Europe Network (ZEN) has called on the European Union Parliament to pass a resolution condemning ongoing human rights violations in the southern African

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Foreign officials reach out to protest leader in troubled Mali

Officials from the UN, West Africa and the African Union (AU) have met an influential Muslim cleric behind demonstrations against Mali's beleaguered president, the coalition behind the protests said on

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Keith Lowenfield

Of these 185,260 votes he allocated 125,010 to the coalition, and 56,628 to the PPP/C, in other words inverting the result of the recount which put that party ahead of the incumbent in

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