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Every year, human rights estimate that several hundred minor girls are forcibly married in Pakistan. While this is an issue that affects minor girls from all communities, girls from religious minorities are particularly vulnerable. Several reports also found that the minor girls were also forcibly converted to Islam

“The international armed conflict has led to a wide range of human rights violations affecting both civilians and combatants”, the executive summary states, adding that the Office has “verified numerous allegations of arbitrary deprivation of life, arbitrary detention and enforced disappearance, torture and ill-treatment, and conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV).” During the reporting period, a total of 5,987 civilian […]

Glaciers are “critical to all life on Earth”, the UN chief reminded the UN 2023 Water Conference on Wednesday, warning that unless the rise in sea level due to global warming is reversed, “the consequences will be catastrophic.”

A distinguished panel of Judges consisting of two judges from the Constitutional Court of Romania and the vice-President of the Romanian Senate preceded over this educational Mock Trial. Judge Ms Laura-Iuliana Scântei summarized the decision stating that if the defendant former Eugenics leader and prof. of psychiatry, Ernst Rüdin (1874-1952) would have been standing before […]

Students in Malawi during one of the consultations. Photo: UNDP. Lilongwe, Malawi, 20- 24 February 2023 — In Chichewa, one of the indigenous languages of Malawi, there is an old saying: “Kali kokha nkanyama; ali awiri ndi anthu”. Translated to “No man is an island,” it stems from the African indigenous philosophy of uMunthu and reflects […]

Parliament and Council reached a deal on cleaner maritime fuels, asking to cut ship emissions by 2% as of 2025 and by 80% as of 2050, to help the EU become climate neutral.

The CEO of the American company announced on Monday 20 March a new redundancy plan at Amazon involving the loss of 9,000 jobs.

The world’s precious water resources are “in deep trouble” and leaders are meeting at UN Headquarters this week to address what has become a multifaceted global crisis, before it is too late. 

According to a decade-long study of older adults a healthy lifestyle, particularly a healthy diet, is linked to slower memory decline.

Young people aged 16-30 working on EU projects can apply for the European Charlemagne Youth Prize.

This morning, a group of Muslim scholars from Malaysia, Sweden and the USA received an audience with His Holiness the Dalai Lama at his residence in Dharamshala.

United Nations was asked to take cognizance of human rights violations and crimes against humanity in Balochistan

The price of gold in Monday’s session is rising, passing the psychological threshold of 2,000 dollars per troy ounce. Investors generally pay attention to the news from the banking sector in Europe and the United States, assessing the economic prospects and the possibility of a sale in the leading countries, writes Bloomberg. Yesterday at 8:35 […]

By Tatyana Popova About the Church and power, about Patriarch Tikhon and the Bolsheviks, about the influence of the Russian Orthodox Church on power, about the insult and national ideology of today’s Russia, about monasticism and the Kiev-Pechora Lavra, about the war. Tatyana Popova’s interview with Prof. Andrey Kuraev*, from the series “Chronicles of the […]

New demonstrations took place on Saturday in several cities in Israel against the government of Benjamin Netanyahu and the controversial bill it supports, aimed at reforming the judicial system.

The UN 2023 Water Conference, which takes place at UN Headquarters from 22-24 March, is being hailed as a once-in-a-generation opportunity to accelerate progress towards universal access to safe water and sanitation by 2030.

The new Effort Sharing Regulation reduces the allowed maximum level of greenhouse gas emissions in member states from transport, buildings and agriculture until 2030.

The International Criminal Court in The Hague accused Putin and the children’s ombudsman of the President of the Russian Federation, Maria Lvova-Belova, of war crimes. An arrest warrant has been issued for both of them. The accusation is that thousands of Ukrainian children were deported to Russia and held in camps or handed over to […]

The new report, published on Monday (13 March) by the European Court of Auditors, explored how conflicts of interest are addressed in agricultural and cohesion policies, the two biggest spending areas in the EU which together amount to around half of the EU budget.

In a study of 264 college students, those who reported higher levels of loneliness also had a higher fat diet and were more likely to engage in sedentary and low physical activity behaviors compared to those who reported lower levels of loneliness. College students who reported a higher level of loneliness also reported engaging in […]