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I suppressed overt laughter as I stopped to shoot a short video of a faux-fur white poodle revolve at a fixed interval on a black and white target merry-go-round, imag...

From affordable art to photography to art books and more, the usual suspects return for a packed season.

Ambitious labor market reforms and investments in productivity enhancement and the green transition can boost the growth potential

The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women this morning opened its eighty-first session, hearing a statement from Orest Nowosad

8 March 2021 Elects Rosemary Kayess as Chairperson The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities this afternoon opened its twenty-fourth online session, hearing solemn declarations by seven new Committee members, electing its Chair and Bureau, and adopting its agenda and programme of work. Ibrahim Salama, Chief, Human Rights Treaties Branch, Human Rights Council and Treaty Mechanisms Division, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, opening the session, said that this was ...

Destitute woman sorting plastic waste on a Karachi street. Laws to control pollution in Pakistan exist, but are hardly enforced. Chemical health hazards abound. The South Asian country faces numerous adverse impacts of chemical pollution as its industrial activity and consumer market surge. Negative impacts affect air, water and soil. Especially the localities where poor people live are exposed. Sometimes the impacts are in plain sight. An accident killed at least 14 people in Karachi, Pakista...

This week's Crain's Focus Section takes a look at higher education in Northeast Ohio and the Midwest.  

This week's Crain's Focus Section examines the small business sector in Northeast Ohio. 

Committee on the Rights of the Child 18 January 2021 The Committee on the Rights of the Child today opened its online limited eighty-sixth session. Luis Ernesto Pedernera Reyna, Chairperson of the Committee, said the Committee had been working on the Third Optional Protocol, and General Comment 25, and would spare no efforts to discharge its mandate. Because of COVID-19, pre-existing problems had worsened. Child poverty was increasing and the closure of schools had had a devastating impact, in...