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Sania Ahmed found her photograph uploaded on ‘Suli Deal’ auctioning app. Credit: Handout NEW DELHI, Jul 16 2021 (IPS) - Ongoing online sexual harassment of Muslim women through ‘Sulli Deals’, an auctioning app hosted by GitHub, has been reported to the authorities – but not before it called untold trauma to the targeted women. Cyber Cell registered the case in Delhi, India, despite GitHub having shut the open-source app Sulli Deals down. Sulli is a derogatory term that often used by abusive right-wing trolls for Muslim women in India. Previously similar profiles and handles were fo...

Search  None  20th Apr 2021 Only 26 hours of global military spending is enough to cover the $5.5 billion needed to help most at risk. A year on since the UN warned of “famines of biblical proportions”, rich donors have funded just 5 percent of the UN’s $7.8bn food security appeal for 2021. More than 200 NGOs published an open letter today calling upon all governments to urgently increase aid to stop over 34 million people, from being pushed to the brink of starvation this year. The $5.5bn additional funding recently called for by the UN WFP and FAO is equivalent to less than 26 hours...

Six global NGOs join forces with the EU to protect children in Africa from pandemic-related violence Format 718,000 children to be protected from violence in the next three years Hamburg, 20 January 2021 – Joint action for children’s rights in the Covid-19 pandemic: Joining Forces, an alliance of the six largest international NGOs working with and for children, is receiving ten million euros from the European Union to protect girls and boys in five African countries from violence during the Covid crisis. “Children are the ones who suffer the most from the negative effects of the Covid p...