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A group of independent UN rights experts released a statement on Monday condemning the violent storming of the United States Capitol building in...

Print this page EC-RRG is a group representing all elements of communications services in order to promote resilience across the sector. This includes providers of fixed line services, mobile telephone networks, internet broadband and broadcasting together with government departments, Devolved Administrations and Ofcom. The policy context Now more than ever providing communications services is vital to ensure communities are connected and for a vibrant economy. The Department for Digital, Cult...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Neil Adger, winner of the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Climate Change. view more  Credit: BBVA FOUNDATION The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Climate Change has gone in this thirteenth edition to Neil Adger, Ian Burton and Karen OBrien for changing the paradigm of climate change action, previously confined to mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions, by folding in the concept of adaptation to unavoidable impacts. While earlier editions ...

Ireland takes up seat on UN Security Council for 2021-2022 term

Daily Monitor Wednesday December 30 2020 One of the victims of the September 4 election violence in Mawogola North Constituency, Sembabule District. PHOTO | AMBROSE MUSASIZI Summary In a joint statement, the UN human rights experts urged Uganda government to put an end to arrest, detention and judicial harassment of political opponents. Advertisement Eleven United Nations human rights experts have commended the arrests and judicial harassment of political opponents and civil society in Uganda f...

UNICEF/Cristofolett A sewage canal flows through the impoverished neighbourhood of Stung Meachey, in the south of Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia. 16 November 2020 Voicing concerns over increasing restrictions on civil society in Cambodia, a group of independent UN human rights experts have called for an immediate end to the systematic detention and criminalization of activists.  In a statement on Monday, Mary Lawlor, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, said she ...

Uganda: UN experts gravely concerned by election clampdown Format GENEVA (29 December 2020) – UN human rights experts* today expressed serious concerns about the violence ahead of Ugandas presidential election, and urged authorities to put an end to the arrest, detention and judicial harassment of political opponents, civil society leaders and human rights defenders. Media outlets have reported that three journalists were hurt on Sunday after being hit by tear gas canisters in Masaka. Opposit...

Public Blame Game Detrimental to Afghan Peace: Pakistan Pakistan on Sunday reiterated its “firm commitment” for lasting peace and stability in Afghanistan and said it is concerned about “some negative comments, which continue to emanate from certain official as well as unofficial Afghan circles.” “We would continue to emphasize the mutually agreed fundamental principle that all bilateral issues including security and intelligence matters should be addressed through relevant bilatera...

[co-author: Tawanna Lee] On December 17, 2020, the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM) Task Force (“the Task Force”)—a public-private partnership whose membership includes industry representatives from the IT and Communications sectors, as well as federal government representatives—released its Year Two Report (“Report”). This work takes on increased importance as the federal government and private sector grapple with software supply c...

“We are pleased to share news of a new phase for Ireland’s National Open Research Forum (NORF), marked by a revised structure and the beginning of a process to develop a National Action Plan that supports the National Framework on the Transition to an Open Research Environment. On 20 October 2020, NORF held a kick-off meeting for five newly created Working Groups that address strategic areas set out in the National Framework …” (more) [