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Hungary: Decision to strip trans people of the right to legal gender recognition is “step back into the dark ages”
Following today’s vote in parliament on a new legislation that bans the legal recognition of transgender and intersex people in Hungary. Amnesty International’s Researcher, Krisztina…
New Zealand provides $7m for global humanitarian response to COVID-19
The New Zealand Government is contributing $7 million to help some of the world’s most vulnerable people who are at severe risk of COVID-19. The…
More European adolescents reporting mental health issues: WHO
More European adolescents are reporting poor mental health, a major new survey has found, warning that how authorities respond to this growing problem will ”echo…
U.S. solar industry sheds five years of job growth amid the coronavirus
The United States has shed more than 65,000 solar energy jobs in the coronavirus pandemic, industry leaders said on Monday, reversing five years of job…
US Covid-19 vaccine trial shows promising early results
Moderna Inc’s experimental COVID-19 vaccine, the first to be tested in the United States, produced protective antibodies in a small group of healthy volunteers, according…
Coronavirus impact on world’s indigenous, goes well beyond health threat
The COVID-19 pandemic is having a devastating impact on the world’s indigenous peoples that stretches well beyond the immediate threat to their health, the new…
US facing severe crisis, but not a depression: Fed’s Powell
The US is facing a severe economic downturn amid the global pandemic, but will not suffer another Great Depression and will see a recovery begin…
Prepare for corruption spike over coronavirus aid: OSCE
Emergency funding issued to help the economic fallout of the pandemic is likely to fuel corruption across Europe, warns the OSCE security bloc. It said…
African countries get new tool to predict climate-related disasters
A new weather forecasting system in Africa allows meteorologists to track approaching storms in real time, potentially saving lives from climate-related disasters, scientists said on…
China sees post-lockdown rise in air pollution: study
China’s levels of some air pollutants have risen back to above last year’s levels after dropping when the government imposed strict lockdown measures to contain…
Australia plans pop-up carparks to prevent rush hour virus crush
Australian officials planned to open pop-up parking lots and extra bicycle lanes in Sydney and other cities as the country’s most populous state began its…
Fears mount over migrants dying ’out of sight’ in Mediterranean
More and more migrants are crossing, Europe is closing its ports and no humanitarian ships are carrying out rescues. As the coronavirus pandemic dominates headlines,…
Hundreds of child weddings thwarted in Ethiopia as coronavirus locks girls out of schools
More than 500 girls have been rescued from child marriage in northern Ethiopia since schools were shut due to the new coronavirus, a regional official…
Virus could infect more than 200 mn in Africa: WHO modelling
The new coronavirus could kill 150,000 people in Africa in a year unless urgent action is taken, according to a WHO modelling study that says…
EU to halve pesticides by 2030 to protect bees, biodiversity: draft
The Commission, the EU executive, wants to commit the European Union to a halving of the use of chemical and “high-risk” pesticides by 2030, a…
Presidents and prime ministers lead call for ‘people’s vaccine’, free to all
UNAIDS, the UN agency fighting against the deadly HIV/AIDS virus, has initiated a petition from global leaders requesting that when a successful COVID-19 vaccine is…
Euro-MPs give green light to increased water reuse
With a view to preventing water shortages in the EU, Euro-MPs approved Wednesday the Water Reuse Regulation, which defines for the first time minimum requirements…
Merkel says Germany has ‘hard evidence’ of Russian hacking
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said there is ”hard evidence” that she was targeted by Russian hackers in what she called ”outrageous” spying attempts. The…
Coronavirus ‘grim reality’: World economy to shrink by 3.2 per cent, new UN report projects
Against the backdrop of the raging COVID-19 pandemic, the world economy in 2020 is projected to shrink by 3.2 per cent, racking up some $8.5…
France passes bill forcing Web giants to delete hate speech
Social networks and other online content providers will have to remove paedophile and terrorism-related content from their platforms within the hour or face a fine…
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