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Indonesian islanders file climate complaint against Swiss cement company

“For the first time, a Swiss company must legally answer for its role in climate change“. In a press release, the NGO Entraide Protestante Suisse (EPER), one of the organizations that supports the inhabitants, details the case. The plaintiffs – three men and a woman – ask the cement manufacturer to compensate them for the …

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UN experts demand investigations into crimes committed by FAMa and Wagner

AA / Bamako / Amarana Maiga United Nations experts on Tuesday called for an immediate independent investigation into gross human rights violations and possible war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Mali by government forces and the military and military society. Russian private security company “Wagner”, since 2021. According to these experts “since 2021, …

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The UN is alarmed by the trafficking of fake drugs in Sahelian countries

Up to 50% of medicines in countries of the sahel are of substandard or falsified quality, alarms the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in a report, published Tuesday, January 31, on the trafficking of medical products. This UNODC report highlights five countries in this region of Africa: Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger …

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Hungary slips to bottom of EU countries in Transparency International’s ranking

Budapest finds itself in the red lantern. “After a decade of democratic backsliding and general deterioration of the rule of law” under the Nationalist Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, Hungary slipped to the bottom of the ranking, published Tuesday, January 31, of the NGO Transparency International among the twenty-seven countries of the European Union (EU). In …

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WHO calls for action to defeat neglected tropical diseases

Dengue fever, chikungunya, leprosy… the WHO called on Monday January 30 for more investment in the fight against neglected tropical diseases, from which more than 1.6 billion people suffer, pathologies neglected because they only affect the most vulnerable countries. poor of the world. >> WHO releases new 10-year plan to fight diseases >> Mosquitoes super-resistant …

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