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Empowering women in political, diplomatic fields  10 Mar 2021 - 8:28 The Human Rights Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in cooperation with the United Kingdom Embassy to the State of Qatar, in the framework of celebrating International Women’s Day, organized a seminar on “Empowering women in the political and diplomatic field,” to increase awareness of the important roles that women can play during their work in the political and diplomatic fields. The virtual seminar was chaired by Acting Director of the UN Human Rights Training and Documentation Centre for South-West A...

The majority of global COVID-19 deaths have been in countries where many people are obese, with coronavirus fatality rates ten times higher in nations where at least 50% of adults are overweight, a global study found on Thursday. Emer McCarthy reports.

Any carbon pricing coming from the corporate world is likely to be a massive problem. In Massachusetts, the first carbon tax bill proposed was a massive transfer of wealth from house holds to business based on their rebate formulas. Written by a conservative economy consultant shop for a clueless neoliberal state senator, it took significant effort from labor and progressive tax organization for him to see the problem – but he’s still championing carbon tax, but it’s better now, better believe it. BlakeFelix I’m not saying that it’s going to be handled well, or that rebates are a go...

WASHINGTON – A new report, Are Whistleblowing Laws Working? A Global Study of Whistleblower Protection Litigation, tracks the records of whistleblower laws in 37 countries and provides an unprecedented effort to understand the successes and shortcomings of whistleblower protection legislation worldwide, following a proliferation of laws in recent decades. Co-published by Government Accountability Project and the International Bar Association (IBA)Legal Policy & Research Unit (LPRU), the report aims to contribute to supporting legislators, policy-makers and regulators to design and develop ...

Nairobi Turning Into Murderous Capital Gang members pictured while committing a crime in Nairobi's Central Business District. File The recent mystery surrounding the killing of three people at a house in Government Quarters along Jogoo Road in Nairobi marked yet another gruesome murder in the Kenyan capital. Over the last year, the country has witnessed a spike in similar murder cases, with some eventually linked to inheritance wars, business deals, and family members confessing to hiring hit-men to murder their own kin. At the turn of the year, Lawrence Simon Warunge, stunned the entire coun...