Without a shadow of a doubt, foie gras production is one of the cruelest things animals undergo on factory farms today. It is one of the very few products made by intentionally inducing a painful, Read More
International Women’s Day (IWD) has been recognized since the early 1900s when women finally had experienced enough oppression to organize and demand change. In 1908, 15,000 women marched through New York City because they wanted better Read More
Thousands of refugees are at risk of being left homeless by the abrupt termination of an EU-funded program providing cash assistance and temporary shelter to people granted asylum in Greece.Read More
Since 11 February, security forces have detained at least six journalists in Myanmar as protests continue against the military government. Myanmar’s military government must stop detaining, harassing, and threatening journalists, and allow the media to Read More
Some are leaving because they fear punishment for supporting the pro-democracy protests that swept the former British colony in 2019. Others say China’s encroachment on their way of life and civil liberties has become unbearable, Read More
What exactly is FakeNews and how can we spot it? How can we identify it, especially now that, due to the Pandemic, fake news has developed into a scourge spreading false and inaccurate information not Read More
Depleted shelves are seen in a Sainsbury’s supermarket at the Forestside shopping center in Belfast, on Monday, Jan. 11, 2021. The U.K.’s biggest supermarket chains warned Wednesday, Jan. 13 that food supplies in Northern Ireland Read More
The fur trade is a deadly business. Every year, around 100 million animals suffer and are killed for their fur. The vast majority are kept on intensive fur farms. Animals including fox, mink, raccoon dogs, and Read More
Twitter Inc said on Wednesday that it will start removing false or misleading tweets about COVID-19 vaccinations that could be harmful, including false claims the vaccines will intentionally cause harm or control populations or that Read More
The Hessian Peace Prize for 2020 has been awarded jointly to the former Prime Minister of Greece, main opposition SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance leader Alexis Tsipras, and the Prime Minister of North Macedonia, Zoran Zaev, it was announced Read More
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns Afghan woman journalist Malalai Maiwand’s targeted murder today in the eastern city of Jalalabad and calls on the Afghan authorities to guarantee the safety of media personnel instead of Read More
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is unveiling its new international awareness-raising campaign video entitled #FightForFacts. Produced by the French advertising agency BETC, it aims to help viewers appreciate journalism’s importance in enabling people to understand Read More
JEUMONT, France (Reuters) – Since the COVID-19 outbreak, French care home resident Colette Dupas’s contact with her daughters has been limited to talking via video call, or through a window. Now the 97-year-old has been Read More
The Conference of the States Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention, at its 20th Session, decided that a memorial Day of Remembrance for all Victims of Chemical Warfare would be observed on 30 November each year Read More
Depuis 8 ans de réalisation, les Fêtes du Plurilinguisme, telles qui sont présentées au centre de la ville de Thessaloniki, constituent de vrais Synergies et de nouveaux réseaux de sens – l’Read More
DW Akademie and its partners in Serbia are using YouTube influencers to make MIL more appealing to young people. The project turns kids’ idols into their teachers. Tabloids set the tone in the Serbian media Read More
Intersex Day of Remembrance 2020 is on November 8. The day aims to highlight the issues faced by intersex people. The day also marks the birthday of Herculine Barbin, a 19th-century French intersex person whose memoirs were Read More
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Nurses and Midwives, clean care is in your hands! Clean health care is among the most urgent challenges identified by the United Nations to be tackled in the next 10 years by the global community, in Read More
The 2020 World Press Freedom Index, compiled by Reporters Without Borders (RSF), shows that the coming decade will be decisive for the future of journalism, with the Covid-19 pandemic highlighting and amplifying the many crises that Read More