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His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of UAE and Ruler of Dubai, said, “We want to send a message to everyone that the UAE continues to build bridges with all peoples ... and continues to weave positive economic and developmental relations with everyone ... and continues to embrace world cultures ... because we are not a state in the world, but a world in a state.”

Since 1998, Kennedy has served as president of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, an organization that works “alongside local activists to ensure lasting positive change in governments and corporations.” She also chairs the Amnesty International Leadership Council and uses her voice to travel the world and bring attention to various human rights violations. Kennedy has raised awareness of countless issues, but she concentrates on women’s rights. She has worked in over 60 countries, inspiring...

Housing and Development Newsletter Eugene-Richard was a middle school teacher at the time of the toxin release. Inspired by the activism of local educator Mary McLeod Bethune, Eugene-Richards was moved to found Concerned Citizens of Norco in 1989. She sought fair and just resettlement costs for her family and her neighbors from Shell. Her activism transformed her own neighborhood and created nonprofits whose work has spread around the world. The effort took 13 years of community organizing, sci...

What is this cyberspace? There are those who think that ‘cyberspace’ is somewhere different from the physical world in which we live.   Some have looked at that idea with pleasure, seeing opportunities to live outside the rules. Others have looked at it with trepidation, fearing a world in which there’d be no rules. The truth is, though, that cyberspace is earthbound. It depends on physical infrastructure (even when it’s wireless), on bits of kit made in earthbound factories, transmi...

George Clooney to be Honored by Sound Mixers Photo by Anette Nantell/Dagens Nyheter/TT/Sipa USA George Clooney He will receive the Cinema Audio Societys Filmmaker Award during a virtual ceremony on April 17. George Clooney will receive the Cinema Audio Societys Filmmaker Award during its 57th CAS Awards for sound mixing, which will be presented during a virtual ceremony on April 17. “The CAS could not be more excited to honor Mr. George Clooney with our Filmmaker Award,”  said CAS preside...

NEW YORK, Feb. 18, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- via BioMedWire -- Lincoln Health Network, a renowned conference production company dedicated to showcasing the latest technologies and trends within the pharmaceutical, medical devices and biotech fields, will be hosting the upcoming Clinical Document World conference in an entirely digital format on February 24-26, 2021. Designed to operate as a one-stop learning experience for life sciences professionals seeking to improve upon their clinical documen...

IAOP Names Canon Business Process Services a Top 100 Global Outsourcing Leader for the Fifteenth Straight Year News provided by Share this article NEW YORK, Feb. 17, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --  Canon Business Process Services  (Canon) has been named to the Leader category of the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP®) 2021 Global Outsourcing 100® list. The list defines the standard of excellence in outsourcing service delivery. This is the fifteenth straight year in which C...

World Social Justice Day to be marked on Feb 20 Islamabad February 15, 2021 ISLAMABAD: Like other parts of the globe, United Nations (UN) World Day of Social Justice will be marked on February 20 (Saturday) to encourage people to look at how social justice affects poverty eradication. It also focuses on the goal of achieving full employment and support for social integration. The World Summit for Social Development, which promoted social justice, was held in Copenhagen (pictured above) in 199...

Toggle open close The Climate Action Report, a periodic report to the United Nations, was issued in early June. A media frenzy claimed that this report somehow contained revelatory new science that changed the debate on global warming. The report has little new science. But since 1992, when America embarked on the Rio Treaty, a great deal of new science has come forward. The United States is a leader in studying the subject. The U.S. has invested some $45 billion in research funding on this qu...

Share this article Share this article IRVINE, Calif., Feb. 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The Migraine World Summit (MWS), an annual online event that offers hope, education, and support to people living with migraine and headache disease, will gather for its sixth year, March 17 th – 25 th, 2021. This free live stream event will feature interviews with 32 top experts, doctors, and specialists, and over 100,000 people are expected to attend from around the world. World-Leading Headache Experts Shar...