Laws that have driven smoking out of offices, restaurants, public transport and other public spaces have reduced exposure to second-hand smoke, but a global study suggests the problem remains far from resolved.
“ It is better to be a misfit than be a spare part in society”… Muriel Gray April 2nd is World Autism Awareness Day, and the month of April is dedicated to Autism
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Members of the World Health Organization (WHO) failed to reach an agreement on the text of the Pandemic Treaty during the recently concluded ninth round of negotiations of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body
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Faced with a continued cash flow crisis, the United Nations in Geneva (UNOG) will partially close down – for the second time since December last year— as it scales back its operations,
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POVERTY AND ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA Poverty, as defined by Encyclopedia Britannica, refers to the state of lacking a usual or socially acceptable amount of money or material possessions. It is said to exist
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Legislators in Thailand’s lower house of Parliament have decisively endorsed a marriage equality bill, marking a historic step towards becoming the first Southeast Asian nation to legalize equal marriage rights for all
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Political ethics requires leaders to meet higher standards than would be necessary for private life. They may have less of a right to privacy than ordinary citizens do, or no right to
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Flush with my newly minted university degree, I sat down for breakfast with my entrepreneurial grandfather who met me with the question, “So you want to study to be an archaeologist, go
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On Friday, March 22, Kamala Harris marked her first visit to Puerto Rico since becoming Vice President of the United States to attend a Democratic Party fundraiser and was met with mass
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Palestinian trade unions issued a call at the end of March 2024 to unions and labor organizations in the United States to intensify their efforts to put an end to Israel’s genocide
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by Dana Halawi “It’s not easy to rely on the support from others, but sometimes we barely have food to feed our hunger,” said Nahida Ajam, a Palestinian refugee living in Lebanon’s
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