GAZA: More than 90 percent of Gaza’s schools have been either destroyed or severely damaged, making them unusable, according to Farida Shaheed, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on cultural rights. She revealed that repeated attacks targeted schools, even when they served as shelters for civilians. Speaking today, Shaheed described the destruction of Gaza’s education sector […]
NEW YORK: The United Nations – UN – has renewed its call for an end to the war in Gaza, emphasising the urgent need for the release of hostages, the cessation of the displacement of Palestinians, and the unhindered delivery of humanitarian aid. In a statement released by the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle […]
Dubai: Two expats are hoping to take their message of love and peace from Dubai to Ukraine where attacks from Russia over the past week have left thousands dead and millions displaced. In a heartwarming two-minute-long video, Russian Aleksandra Vasileva and Ukrainian Yuliia Hnatenko walk hand in hand along Dubai’s Kite Beach wrapped in flags […]
GENEVA, 19th June 2021 – The World Refugee Day, which observed on June 20, should serve as a stark reminder to politicians of the need to do more to prevent and resolve conflict and crises and of the imperative to protect people irrespective of their race, nationality, beliefs or other characteristics, of the need to […]
CHAREKTAR, Azerbaijan – Still wearing the camouflage fatigues in which he had fought against Azeri forces a week earlier, Arsen, an ethnic Armenian, lit a fire on Saturday under his sister’s dining room table in the small village of Charektar. As the flames took hold with the help of strips of cardboard, he used a […]
