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COST Action ERNST focuses on taking care of second victims Patient Safety is a Priority in Europe and has improved over the years. Nevertheless, every year between 8 and 12% of the people admitted to hospitals and around 6% of those in primary care suffer from an adverse event (AE) while receiving healthcare. Second victims are healthcare providers and caretaker involved in an unexpected adverse event, medical error or injury affecting a patient, who become victims in the sense they are traumat...

/PRNewswire/ -- The Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP), the premier global, molecular diagnostic professional society, today released the preliminary...

Attack on PS752: Iran violated multiple human rights obligations - UN experts Format GENEVA (23 February 2021) – Iran committed multiple human rights violations in shooting down Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 and in the aftermath of the deadly attack, two UN experts said today.* "The inconsistencies in the official explanations seem designed to create a maximum of confusion and a minimum of clarity. They seem contrived to mislead and bewilder," Agnes Callamard, the Special Rappor...

Attack on PS752: Iran violated multiple human rights obligations - UN experts GENEVA (23 February 2021) – Iran committed multiple human rights violations in shooting down Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 and in the aftermath of the deadly attack, two UN experts said today.* "The inconsistencies in the official explanations seem designed to create a maximum of confusion and a minimum of clarity. They seem contrived to mislead and bewilder," Agnes Callamard, the Special Rapporteu...

Ramesh Pokhriyal discusses implementation of NEP in 54th meeting of IIT Council ANI | Updated: Feb 22, 2021 20:20 IST New Delhi [India], February 22 (ANI): Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank on Monday chaired the 54th meeting of the Council of Institutes of Technology (IITs) to discuss the implementation of New Education Policy(NEP) 2020. During the virtual meeting, Pokhriyal asked IITs to develop Institute Development Plan as envisioned in N...

Press Statement of Special Representative Grau after the regular Meeting of Trilateral Contact Group on 17 February 2021 Format KYIV, 17 February 2021 — The Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office in Ukraine and in the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG), Ambassador Heidi Grau, made the following statement to the press after the regular meetings of the TCG ‎and its Working Groups held through video conferencing: "A few days ago, on February 12, six years elapsed from the signing...

Pakistan: UN experts welcome death penalty ban for individuals with mental health conditions GENEVA (18 February 2021) – UN human rights experts* have welcomed a decision by the Supreme Court of Pakistan to ban the execution of defendants with mental health conditions.  “We applaud the Supreme Court for recognising that executing such individuals ‘does not meet the ends of justice’,” said the experts.    On 10 February 2020, the Supreme Court held that where a medical b...

Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office in Ukraine and in the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG) Heidi Grau believes that the implementation of the Minsk agreements requires additional efforts and the political will of the parties.

Digital Twin Consortium and FIWARE Foundation Join Forces to Accelerate Digital Twin Technology Adoption Share Article https://www.digitaltwinconsortium.org/ BOSTON, Mass. and BERLIN, Germany (PRWEB) February 17, 2021 Digital Twin Consortium® and FIWARE Foundation have entered into a collaborative agreement to accelerate the development, deployment, and wide-scale adoption of open digital twin technologies. Digital twins are growi...

Ehingbeti: Expediting the transformation of Lagos On By Babajide Komolafe Since 2000, Nigeria’s commercial capital and Africa’s sixth largest economy, Lagos State, has been going through landmark policy and infrastructural transformation   to a modern city. Driving this transformation is the Lagos Economic Summit, a   private sector-led participatory forum, also known as ‘Ehingbeti’. Notwithstanding the absence of Ehingbeti between 2015 and 2019, the significance of the Lagos Econo...