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World Refugee Day: End conflict that drives ‘appalling’ displacement numbers
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has reminded countries of their fundamental obligation to protect the nearly 80 million people worldwide forced to flee their homes due…
Accelerating end-to-end supply chain digitization
Digitized plants have the data to pivot faster while ensuring the consistent quality customers expect and love. That translates into stronger sales and better margins,…
Online news wins subscribers around world but trust low: survey
Increasing numbers of readers are paying for online news around the world even if the level of trust in the media in general remains very…
U.S. Justice Department proposes rolling back protections for big tech
The U.S. Justice Department proposed on Wednesday that Congress take up legislation to curb protections that big tech platforms like Alphabet’s Google and Facebook have…
Worn Again Technologies raises €8 million investment with help from H&M and Sulzer
Technology licensing company Worn Again Technologies has secured up to €8 million in new equity capital from investors, including follow-on commitments from two of its…
Arctic Ocean Acidification Worse Than Previously Expected
The Arctic Ocean will take up more CO2 over the 21st century than predicted by most climate models. This additional CO2 causes a distinctly stronger…
Black EU lawmaker says victim of police violence in Brussels
A black European Union lawmaker said on Wednesday she was a victim of “extremely traumatic” police violence outside a Brussels railway station, and lodged a…
Facebook unveils plans to boost voter turnout in US elections
Facebook will launch “the largest voting information effort in US history” in the run-up to November’s general election, the company has said, aiming to help…
Belgium had the worst response to the coronavirus crisis among OECD countries, EIU says
Belgium had the worst response to the coronavirus crisis out of OECD countries, while New Zealand’s response was the strongest, according to a new ranking….
Social media platforms are profiting from COVID-19 misinformation: Nancy Pelosi
Social media platforms have exploited the health of their users by profiting from insidious COVID-19 misinformation, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Tuesday. Pelosi said there…
Trump signs order on U.S. police reform but doesn’t mention racism
Following weeks of national protests since the death of George Floyd, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday that he said would encourage…
Norwegian salmon was not source of coronavirus at Beijing food market, says Norway
Chinese and Norwegian authorities have concluded that Norwegian salmon was likely not the source of the novel coronavirus that was found on cutting boards in…
U.S. emergency trafficking hotline says calls spiked under lockdown
The number of people seeking emergency shelter to escape human trafficking surged in the month following U.S. lockdown orders implemented to slow the spread of…
Fashion companies including Burberry and H&M sign circular economy pact
A number of leading fashion companies including Burberry, Stella McCartney, H&M and Inditex have signed a pact committing to working towards a circular economy in…
Doctors Without Borders pulls out of Afghan attack hospital
Doctors Without Borders has pulled out of a hospital in the Afghan capital where gunmen last month killed 25 people, including mothers, in a horrific…
Circular economy: the projects leading the way in mining waste recovery
Mining is big business, but also one of the world’s biggest polluters. A 2019 report estimated that the world’s 3,500 large-scale mining operations produce over…
US Supreme Court rules Civil Rights Act protects LGBT workers from discrimination
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that a landmark civil rights law protects LGBT people from discrimination in employment, a resounding victory for LGBT rights from…
UK’s Johnson announces body to probe inequality amid race protests
Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he was setting up a commission to look at ”all aspects of inequality” following race protests across Britain. Writing in…
School Closures Particularly Hard on Children with Disabilities
On May 28, 2020, Human Rights Watch launched a survey to learn more about the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on students, parents and caregivers….
Citing ‘weight of history’, senior UN officials of African descent issue call to ‘go beyond and do more’ to end racism
A group of more than twenty senior leaders in the UN, who report directly to Secretary-General António Guterres, and who are African or of African…
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