Emergency Relief Coordinator (ERC) Mark Lowcock has allocated US$3 million from the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to help people affected by storms and floods in Viet Nam.
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On November 8, 1895, German-Dutch physicist Wilhelm Röntgen made a discovery that would transform medical diagnosis and later earn him the first ever Nobel prize in physics.
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“Attacks directed against humanitarians are … an obscene act against people working hard, often in extraordinarily difficult circumstances, to help vulnerable people,” UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Mark Lowcock said in a statement on Thursday.
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Pornhub, the premier online destination for adult entertainment, today launched "Pornhub Sex Ed," a new video series providing key sexual education information and advice for viewers through the instruction of sexual health and wellness experts.
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Professor Rubin will be appointed to a new role for the Home Office, bringing together the Office of the Chief Scientific Adviser (CSA) with the new Director General position, and will consolidate four directorates into the new group.
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It is possible for countries to both protect public health and “ensure access” for vulnerable people forced to flee their homes, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Wednesday.
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On Wednesday, the US formally withdrew from the 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change, a decision originally announced three years ago. “We note with regret that the US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement has formally come into effect today”, the UN body said in a joint statement issued alongside Chile, France, Italy and the United Kingdom. Under the Paris
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Seventy-three people, including 41 children have been displaced after Israeli authorities demolished their homes and other structures, and destroyed belongings in the Palestinian community of Humsa Al Bqai’a in the West Bank, the UN humanitarian wing has reported.
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“Belarus has effectively criminalized human rights work at a time when the work of human rights defenders is more essential than ever”, said Mary Lawlor, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders. ‘Special courage’ As the Government continues to crack down on demonstrators protesting the election, Ms. Lawlor said that “women human rights defenders are being particularly targeted”. At least three of them have come under
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In the race for Kentucky's 6th Congressional District, Democrat Josh Hicks and Republican Incumbent Andy Barr are making their final pitches to voters on Monday night in Lexington
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