“As we enter the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, and as cases continue to soar around the world, no effort should be spared to keep schools open or prioritize them in reopening plans.
“Despite overwhelming evidence of the impact of school closures on children, and despite increasing evidence that schools are not drivers of the pandemic, too many countries have opted to keep schools closed, some for nearly a year.
The Secretary General of the United Nations welcomed the announcement by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday 15 January of the holding of the first full legislative and presidential elections in 15 years, due to start in May.
"The holding of elections in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and Gaza will ba a crucial step towards Palestinian unity", said a statement issued on behalf of António Guterres on Saturday which would give "renewed legitimacy to national institutions, including a democratically elected Parliament and Government in Palestine.
The recent campaigns of stigmatization, harassment, and repression against the media in Venezuela constitute a clear attack against the freedoms of expression and of access to information and infringe upon the important contributions by these organizations to expose human rights violations commited by the Venezuela authorities.
These attacks follow incidents of harassment of other organizations and may be part of a broader campaign against civil society in Venezuela, through which the authorities undermine the work that these groups carry out in defense of human rights.
Bosnia and Herzegovina: Long-term solutions needed to end recurring humanitarian crisis
Approximately 2500 people, including 900 residents of temporary camp Lipa, remain without basic shelter in perilously cold conditions in Bosnia and Herzegovina as authorities fail to provide adequate accomodation to migrants and asylum-seekeers, and EU agencies continue to support short-term solutions.
Car-choked streets. Overfilled, delayed or even cancelled buses and trains. Farcical cycling infrastructure. Transport doesn't have to be like this. Here are 11 places arount the world that got it sorted.
Green transport isn’t just about closing roads to cars or putting in bike lanes – leaders need to be much more strategic than that. And when local councils don’t think equally about everyone that uses the roads, even the most well-meaning schemes can fall flat.
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