UN Rights Chief Concerned Over State of Emergency in Turkey
Raising alarm over the use of rhetoric by States that they can “solve problems” and find ways around lawful safeguards, the United Nations rights chief on Monday urged vigilance to…
NATO Jets Start Air Patrols Over Romania
Four Typhoon fighter aircraft from the British Royal Air Force arrived in Romania on Monday as part of NATO’s enhanced Air Policing mission. According to NATO, the air patrols will…
UN Experts Warn Turkey About the Impact of Purge
Turkey’s state of emergency has been used as a justification to undertake massive violations of the right to education and the right to work and to plunge many civil servants…
200,000 Children Need Urgent Support in Eastern Ukraine: UNICEF
More than 200,000 children – or 1 in 4 – in the two regions most severely affected by the ongoing conflict in eastern Ukraine require urgent and sustained psychosocial support…
NATO-Russia Council Discusses Situation in Ukraine
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg previewed the agenda of this week’s meeting of NATO Foreign Ministers in a press conference on Thursday (30 March 2017). On Friday, ministers will address…
Transparency Report Reveals How Corruption Happens in Real Estate Markets
Global anti-corruption organization Transparency International said Wednesday that the governments of Australia, Canada, the UK and the US need to close glaring legal loopholes to prevent the corrupt elite from…