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    Lebanon: Vital UN refugee health centre reopens

    Services at the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)’s Health Centre II were suspended last week following...

    Bangladeshi student journalist suspended from university over graft report

    Photo Credit: Global Diaspora News (www.GlobalDiasporaNews.com). On August 2, 2023, Bangladeshi student journalist Mohammad Iqbal Monowar was suspendedfrom the state-run Comilla University for reporting on...

    Rev. Freddie Haynes, Pres. Rainbow/PUSH Coalition and Tribute to Rev. Jesse L. Jackson

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). August 7, 2023 Edition of Vantage Point The Professor Dr. Ron Daniels is joined by special guest Rev. Dr. Freddie Haynes, President,...

    Policy brief: Has youth employment recovered?

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    My Cuban Educational Tour During the Summer 2023

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Bashir Muhammad Ptah Akinyele — *** “From its earliest days, the Cuban Revolution has also been a source of inspiration to all...

    UN refugee agency concerned about situation at Mexico-US border

    At a press conference in Geneva, agency spokesman William Spindler pointed out that "the capacity to receive and provide assistance to refugees and migrants...

    Senegalese journalist Pape Alé Niang released after hunger strike, Maty Sarr Niang remains jailed

    Photo Credit: Global Diaspora News (www.GlobalDiasporaNews.com). Dakar, August 08, 2023 – The Committee to Protect Journalists on Tuesday welcomed the release of journalist Pape Alé...

    Charles J. Ogletree, a courtroom wizard, and profound legal theorist, dead at 70

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Herb Boyd — Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., who distinguished himself in the courtroom and the classroom at Harvard University Law School,...

    There cannot be decent work for all without decent work for youth

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). © ILO Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 8 aims to “Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive...

    Turkey suspends critical outlet TELE1 for a week

    Photo Credit: Global Diaspora News (www.GlobalDiasporaNews.com). Istanbul, August 8, 2023—The Committee to Protect Journalists has condemned a court’s implementation of a seven-day suspension of critical...

    UNICEF laments deaths of pregnant mother and toddler in Mediterranean Sea shipwreck

    A pregnant woman and a young child died when two boats carrying scores of migrants sank in rough seas off the Italian island of...

    Boston’s Reparations Task Force is setting a precedent for other states to follow

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Local, state, and federal public policies have undoubtedly robbed Black Americans of opportunities to build wealth. By Andre M. Perry and Jordan...

    Racism at heart of US failure to tackle deadly heatwaves, expert warns

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Jeff Goodell, author of The Heat Will Kill You First, found ‘engine of planetary chaos’ in travels from Antarctica to California. By...

    Former Jamaica Prime Minister calls for a more civil public discourse in Independence Day...

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Teach us true respect for all. My fellow Jamaicans, I feel obliged, as Jamaica’s sixth prime minister, to send this message during...

    Guterres concerned over continued detention of Niger’s President

    ECOWAS is scheduled to hold another meeting on the crisis on Thursday in Abuja, Nigeria, according to media reports. This follows an extraordinary summit last...

    Bangladesh to replace draconian Digital Security Act with new law

    Photo Credit: Global Diaspora News (www.GlobalDiasporaNews.com). Kuala Lumpur, August 7, 2023 – In response to news reports that the Bangladesh government on Monday announced its...

    Haiti: ‘Unimaginable violence’ against women, children, reports UNICEF

    According to UNICEF, nearly 300 confirmed cases were reported in the first six months of 2023, almost matching the total number documented over 2022...

    Violence against Netherlands’ journalists dims a beacon of press freedom

    Photo Credit: Global Diaspora News (www.GlobalDiasporaNews.com). On a small street off Amsterdam’s bustling museum district, there is no indication of the 2021 event seared into...

    CPJ joins letter of concern about Kosovo’s banning of Serbian reporter Svetlana Vukmirovic

    Photo Credit: Global Diaspora News (www.GlobalDiasporaNews.com). The Committee to Protect Journalists and 10 civil society organizations wrote to Kosovo authorities on Tuesday, August 1, to...

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    Land and basic services are ‘your rights, not favours’, UN deputy-chief tells indigenous tribe...

    Ms. Mohammed on Friday wrapped up a week of development-focused meetings with Government officials in the vast South American country with a stop in...

    UN pushes disarmament talks amid fears that drums of nuclear war are beating again

    In a message to mark the 78th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Mr. Guterres urged the international community to learn from the...

    Nearly 14 million children in Sudan need humanitarian support: UNICEF

    Ted Chaiban of the UN children’s agency, UNICEF, and Edem Wosornu with the UN humanitarian affairs office, OCHA, briefed journalists on their recent mission...

    Careful Thought About Things That Matter

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Dr. Maulana Karenga — The emerging age of the centrality of artificial intelligence in our lives unavoidably raises the question of...