Bring more traffickers to justice, UK anti-slavery chief urges
London, UK Thomson Reuters Foundation Police and prosecutors in Britain are not bringing enough human traffickers to justice, the country’s anti-slavery commissioner said on Thursday amid concerns that the coronavirus pandemic is preventing many victims from being identified or seeking help. Modern slavery prosecutions have fallen during the last year despite a rise in police […]
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Women’s rights seen taking a backseat under Japan’s new government
Thomson Reuters Foundation Women’s rights campaigners in Japan have expressed disappointment about the appointment of only two women in the new government’s 21-member cabinet, saying they expect little progress to tackle wide gender disparities. Yoshihide Suga, who took office as Prime Minister on Wednesday following the resignation of Shinzo Abe, has made no reference to […]
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Singapore, Helsinki and Zurich top index of world’s smartest cities
London, UK Thomson Reuters Foundation Singapore, Helsinki and Zurich are the world’s smartest cities, according to an index published on Thursday amid a growing debate on the future of urban design for a post-COVID era. From smart traffic cameras and car sharing apps to pollution monitoring and free wi-fi for all, cities around the world […]
UN food chief urges Bezos, other billionaires to step up to help world’s starving
United Nations Reuters UN food chief David Beasley called on the world’s billionaires on Thursday to step up to help save some 30 million people he said are at risk of dying if they don’t receive help from the World Food Programme. Globally some 270 million people were headed toward the brink of starvation and […]
More children wed, risk trafficking in Rohingya camps in pandemic – UN
Dhaka, Bangladesh Thomson Reuters Foundation Child marriage is on the rise in Bangladesh’s Rohingya refugee camps and the risk of human trafficking grows with every day the pandemic shuts youth services, according to a UN-led study that was released on Thursday. Bangladesh scaled back activities in the refugee camps in April and mainly focused on […]
Tea under threat: Climate change and COVID land Nepal’s production in hot water
AADESH SUBEDI, writing for Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how labour and fertiliser shortages due to the coronavirus pandemic, combined with heavy rains and diseases, have damaged tea yields and quality – and cut incomes for small-scale farmers…
Head of US Federal Election Commission calls separation of church and state a “fallacy” and 2020 election a “spiritual war”
Washington DC, US RNS The head of the Federal Election Commission chastised Catholic bishops during a pair of interviews this week, accusing church hierarchy of “hiding behind” their non-profit status and declaring that this year’s US election amounts to a “spiritual war” that threatens the country’s “Christian moral principles”. FEC Chairman James E “Trey” Trainor […]
Essay: In war-torn Syria, the coronavirus pandemic has brought its people to the brink of starvation
In an article first published on The Conversation, MEHMET OZALP, of Australia’s Charles Sturt University, on what’s been happening in Syria during the coronavirus pandemic…