More forest fires have been recorded in the Brazilian Amazon so far this year than in all of 2021, data Adriano Machado/Reuters] Brazil’s sprawling Amazon region has seen more forest fires so far this year than Satellite monitoring detected 75,592 fires from January 1 to September 18 this year, already higher than Bolsonaro has rejected the criticism, insisting that Brazil “protects its forests much better than Europe

February 7, citing a constitutional provision that starts the clock once a president is elected, rather than Jovenel Moise must leave the national palace for a peaceful transition that can lead us to the elections people " seeking to destabilize the state and seize power, and has refused to contemplate calls for a transitional

Benishangul-Gumuz has been hit by a surge of ethnic violence including an attack in December that killed more than It is one of the several flashpoints across the country of more than 100 million people where ethnic Earlier this month, more than 100 people were killed in border clashes between the Afar and Somali regions

The Israeli government has said that about 25 hostages and the remains of more than 30 others are still The Palestinian authorities say more than 45,000 Gazans have been killed in the conflict. More than 100 hostages were released during a truce in late 2023, and 30 others — along with the bodies

poverty, unemployment, inequality, insecurity and climate change required greater cooperation rather than people should be given the skills and opportunities needed to contribute to economic development rather than

The writing on the mask, Vivas nos queremos, translates as: ‘We want ourselves to be alive.’Photograph Less than a day after her fourth – and final – visit to beg the police to protect her, Saldaño stabbed

A suicide bomber's explosives were detonated outside a Turkish military training base in Somalia's capital Turkey has a significant presence in Somalia and operates one of a number of foreign military training

the restructuring and dismantling of rural economies through mass relocation, labour mobilization and transfer Rather than merely reacting to events once they have taken place, Chinese officials are now seeking to give the impression of meeting quotas – over the past five years 2.8 million rural Tibetans have been ‘transferred This transfer of rural Tibetans into the urban wage economy emerges from the devastating impacts of relocation They are now described by officials as ‘surplus’ rural labour drafted into ‘training’ programmes and

More than 6,000 women were enslaved, and men were lined up and shot outside their towns. preventing Yezidis from marrying outside the religion, or even marrying Yezidis from a caste other than But, as in the case of other faiths, it could also galvanize them to creatively transform their religion

Human rights violations increased more than 25 percent in 2021, with increased targeting by all sides The U.N. says that cases of sexual violence are five times higher in 2021 than in 2020. Médecins Sans Frontiéres (MSF) says that more than one-third of the population in CAR, 1.3 million organizations, including Médecins Sans Frontières, to halt their activities despite the fact that more than

It was also 13 percent higher than last Chuseok’s daily average of 1,145.3, according to the National

The government in Addis Ababa has sought to set up its own transitional justice system, which the commission Citing consolidated estimates from seven health centers in Tigray alone, the commission said more than