A pandemic like corona virus disease (COVID-19) has added more fuel to fire to push the region (and perhaps the rest of the world too) several steps back to achieve 'Health for all' by 2030 by ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) also declared, “older people are at highest risk from COVID-19, but all must act to prevent community spread.” In India, government data shows that although only 19 ...

Non-communicable diseases (NCDs), mostly cardiovascular diseases, cancers, diabetes, and lung diseases, account for over two-thirds of world's deaths each year. "Of these, the lung diseases are the ...

27 June 2016 – The head of the United Nations agency tasked with defending press freedom today called for an investigation into the killing of journalist Zamira Esther Bautista in Ciudad Victoria, the ...

The Authoritarian Personality and Rise of Right-Wing Extremism Sam Ben-Meir - September 6, 2021 If nothing else, the Republican Party has steadily removed any doubt that it has embraced an extremism ...

Source:UN News. On Wednesday, the World Health Organization (WHO) upgraded the status of the COVID-19 outbreak from epidemic to pandemic. Here are five important pieces of information on what this ...

GENEVA, March 8, 2016 – In the wake of last Friday’s Government takeover of Turkey’s major opposition newspaper, Zaman, following a controversial court order a few hours earlier, international ...

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“Cursed be that mortal inter-indebtedness which will not do away with ledgers. I would be free as air; and I’m down in the whole world’s books. I am so rich… and yet I owe for the flesh in the tongue ...

(When I was growing up, I wanted to be a successful lawyer or a doctor. My objective was to defend people or help people. Only later on I became more interested in economics, teaching, literature and ...

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The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) has the lowest female employment rate of anywhere in the world. Though most countries in the MENA region, including Libya and Iran, have seen gradually ...