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Article content Seniors’ Week is coming up in Strathcona County and this year the county is inviting seniors to take a staycation. This year the annual event runs from Monday, June 7 through Sunday, June 13 and the county said it is celebrated because seniors are an important part of our community because of all their contributions. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. County celebrates Seniors’ Week Back to video “This year, it is especially important to reach out and celebrate seniors,” said Mayor Rod Frank. “Seniors have b...

An official of the US Senate is quoted as saying: “We urge national leaders in Ghana to uphold constitutional human rights protections and to adhere to international human rights obligations and commitments for all individuals. This includes members of the LGBTQI+ community.” “We call on all Ghanaians to respect the provisions under Ghana’s Constitution that guarantee freedom of speech, expression, and peaceful assembly.” undefined Valery Sharifulin/Getty Images A World Bank spokesperson is also quoted to have said that the institution is k...

Image Children in the camp for internally displaced persons located at M'poko Airport in Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic, in 2014. UN Photo/Catianne Tijerina Children and tents along the runway and livestock running across it: that was what passengers first saw when flying into Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic, during the 2013-2017 period. At its peak, as many as 100,000 internally displaced people (IDPs) were living in scrapped planes and squalid conditions in M’poko International Airport, where they had sought refuge from fighting. They couldn’t go ho...

3 Min Read NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Major foreign aid donors called on Ghana on Tuesday to respect LGBT+ rights following a crackdown including arrests of people from sexual minorities and an increase in homophobic persecution. In the latest incident, police in the West African country arrested 21 people last week for promoting LGBT+ rights during a training workshop at a hotel in Ghana’s southeastern city of Ho. The United States and the World Bank told the Thomson Reuters Foundation they were closely watching the situation in the country, where gay sex is punishable with up ...

Global outrage over arrest of 21 people for ‘advocating LGBTQI activities’ in Ghana Muri Assunção The U.S. State Department and the World Bank are among foreign aid donors urging Ghana to protect the rights of the country’s LGBTQI community, days after 21 people were arrested for “advocating LGBTQI activities,” according to a police spokesman. On Thursday, 16 women and five men attending a conference at a hotel in the southeastern city of Ho were arrested by local police. The group was participating in training for paralegals on documenting and reporting human righ...