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‘Making our home safe again’: meet the women who clear land mines Jessie Williams As a child, Hana Khider dreamed of Sinjar. Born and brought up in Syria, she remembers her mother telling her stories about the district in northern Iraq where her relatives lived. “I always imagined it in my mind,” she says, smiling over our video call. “It was beautiful and peaceful.” Today, Sinjar is her home. She lives with her husband and three children in a village close to Mount Sinjar, which she describes as “very special to our community”. Khider is Yazidi and they believ...

When Germany began its six-month presidency of the European Council, on 1 July 2020, the European Union was reeling from the covid-19 pandemic, the worst economic crisis since the second world war, and a series of preceding challenges such as Brexit, a lack of common ground on migration and asylum policy, and disputes over the bloc’s seven-year budget. With European health systems and economies under intense pressure, the Council presidency was a crucial intermediary in promoting smooth, efficient cooperation between member states. Berlin responded by coming up with an ambitious agenda that...

The Border Security Force (BSF) on Wednesday organised a civic action programme at Makwal village in Jammu, as a part of series of efforts made by the BSF to as

Program/Project Management Job in Lebanon about Coordination, Protection and Human Rights and Safety and Security, requiring 3-4 years of experience, from DCA; closing on 28 Jan 2021

  FAO Director-General QU Dongyu addresses the G20 Leaders' Summit hosted virtually by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. ©FAO. 31 December 2020, Rome – A testing year by any measure, 2020 risked derailing much of the agenda of any organization built on institutional engagement. Instead, it has turbo-charged the collaborative drive of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and increased its global footprint. Probably as never before in its 75-year history, FAO has had to act as driver and convener through a global crisis that threatened to tip the world’s agri-food...