The latest restrictions are being viewed as an extension of the Taliban’s December 2022 directive banning women from working in NGOs. The UN said it is being forced to make an appalling choice between staying and delivering in support of the Afghan people and standing by the norms and principles we are duty-bound to uphold
The report also notes that delays by countries in launching Search and Rescue (SAR) operations and hindrances caused by them to private rescue operations were responsible for the deaths of over 200 people
In addition to reducing working hours per week, the bill also establishes increased overtime wages or compensation with holidays, provides the possibility of reducing working days to four in a week, among other benefits
Amnesty called the charges against journalist Hanane Bakour “absurd” and urged the government to immediately drop the case against her
According to reports, at least 80 people were killed when a fighter jet dropped two bombs on the village where around 150 people were gathered for the opening ceremony of a People’s Administration Team office. These offices are being set up anti-junta forces
The Syrian economy—destroyed by over a decade of war, unilateral sanctions imposed by the US and its allies, and the recent devastating earthquake—is suffering from the loss of revenues from oil, which it alleges is being looted from the country by the occupation forces
The countries have fought two wars and engaged in scores of violent clashes over the status of the region of Nagorno Karabakh since 1988, leading to the deaths of thousands of people
The Serbian government is pushing the long pending plan to introduce Državna matura, a new state-wide qualifying exam for high school students to get admission into higher educational institutes
The labor struggle has been intensifying in US higher education, as more and more graduate workers and faculty are fighting and winning key demands
During Easter week in April 1916, Irish militant republican forces started an uprising against the British colonialists in Dublin, marking a new era in the Irish freedom struggle against British imperialism
Workers of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) have been staging regular protests, including strike action, over the last year demanding including better wages, permanent contracts, and additional recruitment
Two bomb explosions hit the city of Quetta just days after Pakistan’s top National Security Committee (NSC) agreed to launch an all-out comprehensive counter-terrorism operation against armed groups.
