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12 July, 2018 (UN Women)* — It’s 7 a.m. on a Monday morning in Gaza, Palestine. The 70-square-metre kitchen, located in the ground floor of the Hayat Centre, the first anti-violence centre in the Gaza Strip, is bustling with activities. Five women in chef’s coats are happily preparing ingredients for cooking.
Manchester Brexit protest for Conservative conference, October 1, 2017 | Author: Ilovetheeu | Creative CommonsAttribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
At last. After two years of weird, stifling repression, a realisation. There cannot be a Brexit ‘Independence Day!’ There can be only different ways of being within our European domain. Boris Johnson, formerly the UK’s Foreign Secretary and the face of Brexit, and David Davis a long-time anti-European who headed the special Brexit department, were finally obliged to sup with reality and threw up.
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Colombia plans to use some of its peace dividend to boost its tourism sector that had struggled during decades of conflict. An ILO study looks at how the city of Cali can promote tourism, and, as a result, generate jobs.
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The poll was conducted in the four EU countries that host US nuclear weapons: Belgium, Netherlands, Germany and Italy.
In each country, an overwhelming majority of people surveyed were in favour of removing the weapons from their soil, and for their countries to sign the Treaty that bans them outright.
Iceland has for the first time been elected to the Human Rights Council, filling the seat vacated by the United States, which withdrew from the body last month, citing bias.
The United Nations General Assembly on 13 July 2018 elected Iceland to serve on the Geneva-based global rights body effective immediately, through to the end of next year.
“Water is the driving force of all nature.” — Leonardo Da Vinci
9 July 2018 – TRANSCEND Media Service – India has long undervalued one of its most precious resources—water. The country’s chronic mismanagement of water is staring at it now.
Over 600 million Indians rely on the monsoon to replenish their water sources and the unpredictable nature of rain leaves them vulnerable.
12 July 2018 (Greenpeace)* — Seven years ago we launched the Detox My Fashion campaign to stop companies from polluting rivers and oceans with toxic chemicals used in their production.
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33 people whipped off their clothes in Chatuchak market, Bangkok © Athit Perawongmetha / Greenpeace
When some of our favourite global brands told us that they didn’t know which companies in their supply chain were producing their clothes, and that change wasn’t possible, you didn’t accept no for an answer.
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