Southern Neighbourhood: EU proposes new Agenda for the Mediterranean
To relaunch and strengthen the strategic partnership between the European Union and its Southern Neighbourhood partners, the European Commission and the High Representative today...
Nigeria to Improve Electricity Access and Services to Citizens
The World Bank approved $500 million to support the government of Nigeria in improving its electricity distribution sector. The project will help boost electricity...
COVID-19 Pandemic Pushes Rwanda into Recession, Severely Impacts Human Capital
The Rwandan economy has fallen into its first recession due to the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic and could potentially compromise years of gains in poverty...
New ICC ruling ‘opens the door’ for justice in occupied Palestine
The ruling of the International Criminal Court (ICC) that is does have jurisdiction over grave crimes committed in occupied Palestinian territory is a “significant...
Migration statistics update: The impact of COVID-19
Newly available EU data on asylum and irregular border crossings in the first 10 months of 2020 shows the impact of the pandemic on...
Systemic forced labour and child labour has come to an end in Uzbek cotton
The systematic and systemic use of child labour and forced labour in Uzbekistan’s cotton industry has come to an end, although some local vestiges...
COVID-19 impact exposes millions to the risk of trafficking
Although almost 50,000 victims of human trafficking were detected and reported in 2018 by 148 countries, the “hidden nature” of the crime means that...
COVID-19: Prioritize school meals in plans to reopen classrooms, UN report says
Although school feeding programmes are a lifeline for millions of boys and girls, nearly 40 billion in-school meals have been missed during the COVID-19...
EU must place social justice ‘at its core’ to lift people out of poverty
The European Union’s failure to lift 20 million people out of poverty by 2020, is “a defeat for social rights”, an independent UN human...
Central African Republic: 200,000 displaced in less than two months
Violence and insecurity related to the recent elections in the Central African Republic (CAR) has forced more than 200,000 people to flee their homes...