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Strasbourg, 22/11/2011
Strong measures have been taken by the Macedonian authorities to prevent citizens from travelling to EU countries - and seeking asylum there. The numbers doing so have gone up considerably since the EU agreed that people in Balkan countries would no longer require visas to enter EU territory. Governments within the EU have reacted and warned that the entire process of visa liberalisation might now be in jeopardy, says Thomas Hammarberg, Council of Europe...
United Nations Press release
23 November 2011
In August 2011, men and boys aged 18 to 25 were invited by the UNiTE campaign to use their creativity and imagination to create designs that Say NO to violence against women and girls and embody equality and respect.
The T-shirt design competition reached out to young men throughout the world to help end violence against women and girl. Thirty-four regional and global judges have selected the five top designs, one each from...
Overview
This year’s Report focuses on the challenge of sustainable and equitable progress. A joint lens shows how environmental degradation intensifies inequality through adverse impacts on already disadvantaged people and how inequalities in human development amplify environmental degradation.
Human development, which is about expanding people’s choices, builds on shared natural resources. Promoting human development requires addressing sustainability—...
To appear in The Tax Journal, Chartered Institute of Taxation, GhanaVirtually all countries of the world, especially developing countries, give tax incentives to foreign firms and individuals in order to attract investment, generate employment, and boost economic growth. An example of these tax incentives is a Double Taxation Agreement (DTA) between countries.Double taxation is the imposition of taxes in two or more States on the same tax payer in respect of the same income or the imposition...
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I'm Calvin Nelson 17 years born in Liberia raise in the refugee camp.........My dad got killed during the civil war in my home country Liberia I was brought to Ghana by my auntie along with my small brother, we've been living in the refugee camp since 1998. The refugee camp used to be sponsor by UNHCR and some NGO's but support haven't been coming since 2005. My auntie left my...
The joy of all parents in educating their wards is to see there investments in their children translate into good performance upon completion of their course of study. Similarly, teachers openly express their joy and satisfaction with their performance when their pupils perform well in examinations.
In years past teachers and schools boost of the number of their pupils that passed examinations and have moved on to the next educational level. However, the same cannot be said of current...
(Johannesburg) August 8, 2011 – A lack of oversight and accountability for recurrent problems in the health system and abuses committed by health personnel contributes to South Africa’s substandard maternity care and undermines one of its top health goals: to reduce its high maternal death rate, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. South Africa’s maternal mortality ratio has more than quadrupled over the past decade, making accountability structures to improve oversight and...
5 August 2011 - A UN report on the effects of oil pollution in Nigeria’s Delta region urges the oil company Shell to totally overhaul their procedures for cleaning up spills in the region.
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report, unveiled in London today, says Shell’s current oil spill clean-up procedures in the Ogoniland area of the Niger Delta are inadequate, confirming what Amnesty International has repeatedly pointed out.
“The findings of the UN report add...
3 August 2011 - A judge in Guatemala City yesterday sentenced four former soldiers from an elite army unit to more than 6,000 years in prison for their role in a 1982 massacre in Dos Erres village in the north of the country.
“This landmark sentence sends a message that Guatemala might finally be moving closer to delivering justice to the hundreds of thousands of victims of grave human rights violations during the civil war,” said Sebastian Elgueta, Central America Researcher at...
