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Article content Seniors’ Week is coming up in Strathcona County and this year the county is inviting seniors to take a staycation. This year the annual event runs from Monday, June 7 through Sunday, June 13 and the county said it is celebrated because seniors are an important part of our community because of all their contributions. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. County celebrates Seniors’ Week Back to video “This year, it is espec...

An official of the US Senate is quoted as saying: “We urge national leaders in Ghana to uphold constitutional human rights protections and to adhere to international human rights obligations and commitments for all individuals. This includes members of the LGBTQI+ community.” “We call on all Ghanaians to respect the provisions under Ghana’s Constitution that guarantee freedom of speech, expression, and peaceful assembly.” undefined Valery Sharifulin/...

Image Children in the camp for internally displaced persons located at Mpoko Airport in Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic, in 2014. UN Photo/Catianne Tijerina Children and tents along the runway and livestock running across it: that was what passengers first saw when flying into Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic, during the 2013-2017 period. At its peak, as many as 100,000 internally displaced people (IDPs) were living in scrapped planes and squalid conditions i...

3 Min Read NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Major foreign aid donors called on Ghana on Tuesday to respect LGBT+ rights following a crackdown including arrests of people from sexual minorities and an increase in homophobic persecution. In the latest incident, police in the West African country arrested 21 people last week for promoting LGBT+ rights during a training workshop at a hotel in Ghana’s southeastern city of Ho. The United States and the World Bank told the Thomson Reuters Foun...

Global outrage over arrest of 21 people for ‘advocating LGBTQI activities’ in Ghana Muri Assunção The U.S. State Department and the World Bank are among foreign aid donors urging Ghana to protect the rights of the country’s LGBTQI community, days after 21 people were arrested for “advocating LGBTQI activities,” according to a police spokesman. On Thursday, 16 women and five men attending a conference at a hotel in the southeastern city of Ho were arrested by local po...

Major foreign aid donors called on Ghana on Tuesday to respect LGBT+ rights following a crackdown including arrests of people from sexual minorities and an increase in homophobic persecution.

May 24, 2021, 7:31 AM – Updated on May 24, 2021, 12:32 PM Word Count: 586 Visas to government and military officials from Ethiopia and its neighbor Eritrea, which is also involved in the violence in Tigray, will be restricted, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement. The action sets back relations between two longtime allies in the fight against Islamist extremism in the Horn of Africa. The U.S. sanctions will mainly affect financing to support Ethiopia’s budget, and will...

A. About Asian Disaster Preparedness Center ADPC is an autonomous international organization with a vision to reduce disaster and climate risk impacts on communities and countries in Asia and the Pacific by working with governments, development partners, international organizations, NGOs, civil society, private sector, media, and other key stakeholders. Established in 1986 as a technical capacity-building center, ADPC has grown and diversified its expertise across social and physical sciences t...

Author of the article: Lindsay Morey Publishing date: May 04, 2021  •  8 hours ago  •  5 minute read  •  After being established last spring, councils three COVID-19 task forces issued their final recommendations, which were unanimously accepted by elected officials during the Tuesday, April 27 meeting. The report will act as an outline for how the county will recover from the pandemic. Lindsay Morey/News Staff/File Article content The scope may be vast, but council has determ...

External | what does this mean? This content is provided by an external author without editing by Finextra. It expresses the views and opinions of the author. BBVA joins the net zero emission banking alliance 2 hours ago BBVA has joined the Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA) as one of the 43 founding members. Banks in this international alliance commit to ensuring that all of their credit and investment portfolios are neutral in net emissions of greenhouse gases b...