MIL-OSI NGOs: ILO and All Chinese Federations of Trade Unions join forces to implement decent work in Asia Pacific
Source: International Labour Organization – Geneva (ACTRAV INFO)-On 15 June, the Director of the ILO’s Bureau for Workers’ Activities (ACTRAV) Maria Helena ANDRE and Guangping JIANG, Vice-Chairman of All-China Federations of Trade Unions (ACFTU), signed a South-South Cooperation Agreement to assist trade unions development in the Asia and the Pacific region. The project will run […]
Read More →MIL-OSI NGOs: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s hunger strike is ‘heartbreaking situation’
Source: Amnesty International – Amnesty supporters to visit Richard Ratcliffe at his parallel hunger strike protest outside Iranian Embassy in London ‘It’s shocking that it’s come to this’ – Kate Allen Responding to news that the jailed UK charity Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has started a hunger strike in protest at her continued imprisonment in Iran – […]
Read More →MIL-OSI NGOs: Israel: Palestinian journalist sentenced, five others pending trial
Source: Reporters Without Borders – Lama Khater, who was interrogated for 34 days after her arrest in the West Bank on 24 July 2018 and was subjected to indefinite administrative detention thereafter, was sentenced by an Israeli court on 10 June to 13 months in prison and a fine of 4,000 shekels (1,000 euros) on […]
Read More →MIL-OSI NGOs: Domestic Abuse: MPs urge Government to introduce measures so migrant women can access adequate protection
Source: Amnesty International – A group of cross-party MPs – including Diane Abbot, Jess Phillips, Nicky Morgan, Anna Soubry, Caroline Lucas, Dawn Butler and Harriet Harman – have written a letter to the Home Secretary Sajid Javid raising concerns that the current draft of the Domestic Abuse Bill “will fail to protect migrant women”. In […]
Read More →MIL-OSI NGOs: Another journalist murdered in Mexico, sixth in 2019
Source: Reporters Without Borders – Crime reporter Norma Sarabia Garduza, 46, was gunned down in cold blood outside her home in the town of Huimangillo, Tabasco state, on the evening of 12 June. She was talking with a relative on the veranda when two masked men pulled up in a car, opened fire and then […]
Read More →MIL-OSI NGOs: Video: “Open My Eyes” Qusay Hussein landed in Austin, Texas, with absolutely no idea where he was going. Blinded by a suicide bombing in Iraq in 2006, he was eager to try somehow to make a new life in the United States. “I … Story : Jun 14, 2019
Source: Doctors Without Borders – Qusay Hussein landed in Austin, Texas, with absolutely no idea where he was going. Blinded by a suicide bombing in Iraq in 2006, he was eager to try somehow to make a new life in the United States. “I needed to go to a country that believes in me,” he says. […]
Read More →MIL-OSI NGOs: Liberian reporter arrested at football official’s behest
Source: Reporters Without Borders – Police went to a stadium on 10 June to arrest D. Webster Cassell, a sports reporter for The Inquirer newspaper, in response to a complaint by LFA vice-president Wilmot Smith. RSF has learned that Smith’s complaint was prompted by an article by Cassell accusing him of attacking a referee. “This […]
Read More →MIL-OSI NGOs: Record number of people facing critical lack of food in South Sudan
Source: UNICEF – JUBA, South Sudan, 14 June 2019 – The number of people facing a critical lack of food in South Sudan is the highest ever, three United Nations agencies warned today. According to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) update released today by the Government of South Sudan in collaboration with the Food […]
Read More →MIL-OSI NGOs: One woman and six newborns die every two hours from complications during pregnancy or childbirth in Yemen – UNICEF
Source: UNICEF – NEW YORK/AMMAN/SANA’A, 14 June 2019 – One woman and six newborns die every two hours in Yemen from complications during pregnancy or childbirth, UNICEF said today in the first of a series of short snapshots on maternal and newborn health Yemen. “Bringing life into the world in Yemen can all too often […]
Read More →MIL-OSI NGOs: Sudan: Urgent UN and AU investigation needed after military admits deadly decision on protestor crackdown
Source: Amnesty International – Following an admission by Sudan’s Transitional Military Council (TMC) that they all met the country’s security chiefs on 2 June, and after receiving undisclosed advice from the Attorney General and the Head of the Judiciary, ordered the dispersal of peaceful protestors on 3 June, which “by mistake” killed more than 100 […]
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