Last week, the world media was flooded with the news of the faceoff between Facebook and the Australian parliament. Australia passed a landmark media law that compels Google and Facebook to pay news publishers and broadcasters for displaying their content. The media companies have long argued that Google and Facebook make money from news and analysis provided by them.
On Monday, February 8th, 2021, the United Nations called on 57 countries to repatriate their citizens in northeast Syrian camps. These camps are the home of the Islamic State fighters, a terrorist organization known as ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria). Over nine thousand women and children are among the 65 thousand individuals detained at Syrian-Kurdish (Syrian democratic) authority-run al-Hol and Roj camps. Of this, nearly ten thousand detainees are citizens from member states of the U.N.
According to international law, member states of the U.N. have a responsibility to repatriate their respective citizens. If there is evidence of adults being responsible for war crimes and other offences, they must be given a fair trial in domestic courts. These women and children are associated with these fighters and are currently living in “subhuman” conditions. “The conditions in these camps may reach the threshold of torture, inhuman and degrading treatment under international
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6-day Digital Summit Unites Leading Happiness and Well-being Experts Across 80 Cities for The World’s Most Uplifting Free Event!
We are going to explore suffering and flourishing at World Happiness Fest. It is neither necessary nor desirable to eliminate human struggles and frailties to pursue a flourishing human life. ” Luis Gallardo, Founder & President - World Happiness Foundation
NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES, March 2, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ Presented by the World Happiness Fest.
Keynote Speakers Include HRH Kesang Choden Wangchuk (Bhutan), Sir Anthony Seldon (International Positive Education Network), Dr. James Doty (Center for Compassion and Altruism, Stanford), Myron Belfer (Harvard), Nichol Bradford (Transformative Technology Lab), Aneel Chima (Stanford University Flourishing Project), John Helliwell (World Happiness Report) meditation pioneer Sharon Salzburg and Luis Gallardo (World Happiness Foundation)
With the turmoil in Myanmar showing no signs of abating a month after the coup, some Myanmar people living in Japan are urging their host country to suspend aid to the Southeast Asian nation as part of international pressure on the military to restore the democratically elected government.