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    Policy Brief: Benefits, employment, sponsorship, and other issues for Ukrainian parolees one year after...

    Photo Credit: Global Diaspora News (www.GlobalDiasporaNews.com). On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine—with its military launching missile and rocket attacks in...

    Explainer: ILO C88 & C181 Ratification Campaign

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Explainer: ILO C88 & C181 Ratification Campaign Source of original article: International Labour Organization (www.ilo.org). The content of this article does...

    Fight slavery’s ‘racist legacy’ through education: Guterres

    “The history of slavery is a history of suffering and barbarity that shows humanity at its worst,” he said.  “But it is also a history...

    Unidentified men attack brother of exiled Bangladeshi journalist Zulkarnain Saer Khan

    Photo Credit: Global Diaspora News (www.GlobalDiasporaNews.com). New York, March 24, 2023—Bangladesh authorities must conduct an immediate and impartial investigation into the recent attack on Mahinur...

    Ramadan: UN chief calls for solidarity as month of giving begins

    The UN chief drew a parallel between the spirit of “understanding and compassion” which characterizes Ramadan, and the mission of the United Nations, “to...

    Chapter Four Part Two: Special Immigrant Juvenile Status

    Photo Credit: Global Diaspora News (www.GlobalDiasporaNews.com). The U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI) and The Children’s Village present chapter four, part two of Where...

    Turkish authorities arrest employee of Yeni Yaşam newspaper in terrorism investigation

    Photo Credit: Global Diaspora News (www.GlobalDiasporaNews.com). Istanbul, March 23, 2023—Turkish authorities should immediately release Hamdullah Bayram and all journalists, media workers, and others detained in...

    Deadly Syria earthquake provides chance to move forward: UN envoy

    War-torn Syria and neighbouring Türkiye were rocked by twin earthquakes on 6 February, which killed more than 56,000 people and caused widespread destruction, displacing...

    New Ukrainian army regulations limit reporters’ access to frontlines

    Photo Credit: Global Diaspora News (www.GlobalDiasporaNews.com). Paris, March 23, 2023—Ukrainian authorities should ensure that regulations on wartime reporting do not stifle journalists’ ability to do...

    The Unequal Cost of Protesting

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Julianne Malveaux —  The 45th President is in the news again, facing indictments in New York and Georgia for criminal behavior regarding...

    UN and partners spotlight urgency of stepping up response

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Kidnappings and sexual violence against women and girls is also surging. By OCHA — With the humanitarian situation in Haiti deteriorating by the...

    What’s the Path Forward for Haiti?

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). As the international community contemplates another armed intervention, a reckoning with history is long overdue. By Marlene L. Daut, The New Yorker...

    UN Water Conference: More investment crucial to access water, sanitation, hygiene for all

    Some two billion people still have no access to safe drinking water and 3.6 billion, use sanitation services that leave human waste untreated. Access...

    Turkey regulator forces closure of German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle’s office

    Photo Credit: Global Diaspora News (www.GlobalDiasporaNews.com). Istanbul, March 22, 2023 – Turkish authorities should reverse their decision not to extend the operating license of Deutsche...

    Bangladeshi journalist Mamunur Rashid Nomani faces hearing over Digital Security Act charges

    Photo Credit: Global Diaspora News (www.GlobalDiasporaNews.com). New York, March 22, 2023–Police in Bangladesh’s southern city of Barisal should immediately drop all charges against journalist Mamunur...

    Make banks make good on their pledge to end fossil fuel financing

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Ben Jealous — ConocoPhillips needs more than the disastrous approval it won from the Biden administration last week to proceed with...

    Bombs mailed to at least 5 journalists in Ecuador

    Photo Credit: Global Diaspora News (www.GlobalDiasporaNews.com). Bogotá, March 22, 2023 – Ecuadorian authorities must thoroughly investigate letter bombs sent to five TV and radio journalists,...

    Bosnia and Herzegovina journalists attacked after covering LGBTQ event

    Photo Credit: Global Diaspora News (www.GlobalDiasporaNews.com). Berlin, March 22, 2023—Bosnia and Herzegovina authorities should swiftly and thoroughly investigate a recent attack on journalists covering a...

    Bosnia and Herzegovina journalists attacked after covering LGBTQ event

    Photo Credit: Global Diaspora News (www.GlobalDiasporaNews.com). Berlin, March 22, 2023—Bosnia and Herzegovina authorities should swiftly and thoroughly investigate a recent attack on journalists covering a...

    Bombs mailed to at least 5 journalists in Ecuador

    Photo Credit: Global Diaspora News (www.GlobalDiasporaNews.com). Bogotá, March 22, 2023 – Ecuadorian authorities must thoroughly investigate letter bombs sent to five TV and radio journalists,...

    Cambridge University college to examine its slavery legacy

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). BBC News — A Cambridge University college is to appoint an academic to a four-year post to examine its legacies of slavery. Trinity...

    California Reparations Task Force Still Yet to Decide Policy

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). In the two years since its formation, the task force has yet to release any suggestions on policy, despite writing a...

    At least 28 journalists harassed, beaten, denied access while covering Nigerian state elections

    Photo Credit: Global Diaspora News (www.GlobalDiasporaNews.com). Abuja, March 21, 2023 – Nigerian authorities should thoroughly investigate incidents involving at least 28 journalists and media workers...

    California increases proposed reparation payments to $360K per person, report says

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Alec Schemmel, The National Desk — California’s Reparations Task Force has reportedly beefed up the amount it is suggesting Black residents...