The United Nations expresses concern over potential war crimes in Israeli raids on Jabalia refugee camp

The United Nations expresses concern over potential war crimes in Israeli raids on Jabalia refugee camp

(CNN) – The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights expressed concern on Wednesday that the Israeli raids on the Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza “may amount to war crimes.” The UNHCR said on social media: “Given the large number of civilian casualties and the scale of destruction that followed the Israeli air strikes on … Read more

The Increasing Role of Women in the Labor Market in Colombia: A Historical Analysis

The Increasing Role of Women in the Labor Market in Colombia: A Historical Analysis

Bogotá — During the 20th century, women in Colombia achieved a significant milestone by notably increasing their participation in the labor market, especially in the second half of the century. Female labor participation (the fraction of working-age women working or looking for work) rose from 18% in 1951 to 26% in 1978, then to 47% … Read more

Beirut Dignity – Human Rights Film Festival: Stand Together for Human Rights

Beirut Dignity – Human Rights Film Festival: Stand Together for Human Rights

General view of Beirut | yandex.com Haitham Shamas, director of the “Beirut Dignity – Human Rights Film Festival,” which launched its seventh edition in Beirut on Thursday and continues until next Sunday, said that the festival’s slogan, “Stand Together,” “came from the reality of the situation we are living in, which is witnessing collapses at … Read more

Chinese Vice President Han Zheng’s Speech at the United Nations General Assembly: Addressing Critics on Human Rights and Hypocrisy

Chinese Vice President Han Zheng’s Speech at the United Nations General Assembly: Addressing Critics on Human Rights and Hypocrisy

Chinese Vice President Han Zheng delivers a speech at the United Nations General Assembly at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on September 21, 2023. (Photo credit: Kena Betancur/Getty Images) Look at Chinese websites that are prohibited from creating mirror sites. Return to the genuine Chinese website. [Watch China News on October 2, 2023](Watch … Read more

US Secretary of State Blinken Highlights Threats from China and Russia in Post-Cold War Era

US Secretary of State Blinken Highlights Threats from China and Russia in Post-Cold War Era

2023/09/14 04:12 [Central News Agency]US Secretary of State Blinken said today that the post-Cold War era has ended and that it has entered a fierce competition with authoritarianism. He named China and Russia as threats, saying that the United States will strengthen existing alliances, connect different allies, and build new alliances to respond to the … Read more

‘We are livestock for data farms’

‘We are livestock for data farms’

We are monitored by applications, even when we are not monitored by services. This is now the environment in which we operate – an environment that Professor Ronald Deibert identifies as “surveillance capitalism.” Director of the Citizen Lab, the institute at the University of Toronto’s Munk School that identified the first Greek device infected with … Read more

The Lingering Pain: Two Years After the Chaotic US Military Withdrawal from Afghanistan

The Lingering Pain: Two Years After the Chaotic US Military Withdrawal from Afghanistan

Two years ago, on August 30, the U.S. military announced the completion of its evacuation mission from Afghanistan. During the hasty withdrawal process that lasted for half a month, the disorder, chaos, and killing of the US military brought huge disasters to the Afghan people. Today, two years later, the pain caused by the withdrawal … Read more

Iranian Director Sentenced to Prison for Screening Film at Cannes

Iranian Director Sentenced to Prison for Screening Film at Cannes

Dubai, United Arab Emirates (CNN) – The famous Iranian director, Saeed Rostai, was sentenced to six months in prison, after showing his latest film during the Cannes International Film Festival last year, according to local reports. Rostai premiered his film “Laila’s Brothers”, which deals with the story of a family in Tehran trying hard to … Read more

German CIA Victim Khaled El Masri Living in Graz on Welfare Case

German CIA Victim Khaled El Masri Living in Graz on Welfare Case

14.07.2023 20:46 (Akt. 14.07.2023 20:46) El Masri had made his ordeal public (stock image) ©APA/Getty Images North America Twenty years after his fateful kidnapping, the German CIA victim Khaled El Masri is living in Graz on a welfare case. As the daily newspaper “Der Standard” (weekend edition) reports, his family is threatened with losing their … Read more

UN Report Reveals 165 Million People Plunged Below Poverty Line Due to COVID-19 Pandemic

UN Report Reveals 165 Million People Plunged Below Poverty Line Due to COVID-19 Pandemic

New York (dpa) – According to a UN report, 165 million people worldwide have slipped below the poverty line in recent years. Because of the Covid pandemic and the subsequent economic turmoil since 2020, the daily money available to those affected has fallen below the threshold of $3.65 (about €3.26), the UN development agency UNDP … Read more