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October 30, 2016
Scrutiny of homophobia in football has drawn renewed attention of late. According to a recent BBC Radio 5 Live survey, 82% of fans in England, Wales and Scotland are comfortable with their club signing an openly gay player.
Rainbow laces have become a symbol of football’s struggle against anti-gay prejudice. EPA/Tal Cohen
But more concerning, the survey also found that 8% of football...
October 29, 2016
Co-sponsored by 57 nations, L41 calls for a 2017 conference 'to negotiate a legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons, leading towards their total elimination'
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As long as nuclear weapons exist, the risk of accidental or deliberate use will be present," Jen Maman, peace adviser for Greenpeace International. (Photo: International Campaign to...
October 29, 2016
Syria: UN chief condemns reported school attack in western Aleppo
A child standing in front of his ground-flattened school after a bombardment in Ainjara village in rural Aleppo, Syria. Photo: UNICEF/Khalil Alshawi
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has condemned the reported attack today on a school in the western part of Syria's Aleppo city that killed a...
October 28, 2016
While Myanmar prepares for internationally backed national election next both, a new study has claimed that Rohingya Muslim community is facing state-sponsored genocide. While on one hand, US’ decision to rollback economic sanctions brings good news to the country; on the other hand, more than a million Burmese people are on the verge of being completely exterminated, according to a TIME...
October 27, 2016
A worrisome figure that has emerged from World Economic Forum’s (WEF) report estimates that the global gap between the earnings of men and women will not be closed for another 170 years, providing current trends continue to exist.
Representational picture. Image credit: Behind the Door of 104
The Swiss forum based out of Geneva has published its Global Gender Gap report for the year...
October 26, 2016
The inspirational founder of the Centre for Investigative Journalism died on Saturday 22 October, 2016.
Gavin MacFadyen founded and ran the Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ), helping to train thousands of journalists in the pursuit of factual inquiry and in defence of the public interest. In tribute, we republish this MacFadyen piece, first published as “In-depth Charger...
October 25, 2016
Monday was a cold, windy, autumnal day in North Dakota. We arrived outside the Morton County Courthouse in Mandan to produce a live broadcast of the “Democracy Now!” news hour. Originally, the location was dictated by the schedule imposed upon us by the local authorities; one of us (Amy) had been charged with criminal trespass for Democracy Now!’s reporting on the Dakota Access...
October 24, 2016
The cause of the death of the 76-year-old, who was known as the founder of Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ) and as a mentor of the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange remains ambiguous.
Image: Exaro
Renowned investigative journalist and director of WikiLeaks Gavin MacFadyen passed away, as per the tweet posted from the WikiLeaks official Twitter account on October 22. The cause of the...
October 24, 2016
The structure dates back some 1,400 years to the first era of the Umayyad Caliphate, and talks about the history of the Palestinian people.
Tourists visit the historical Umayyad Palace which is the largest ancient mosaic in Middle East. 20th October 2016 [Issam Rimawi/Anadolu]
Tourists visit the historical Umayyad Palace which is the largest ancient mosaic in Middle East. 20th...
October 24, 2016
As India and Pakistan blame one another for the violence in Kashmir, the situation remains at an impasse. The only way forward is reform, dialogue, and level-headed policy.
Image: Kashmir Global/Flickr
As violence escalates between Indian police and Kashmir’s pro-independence protestors, the international community remains silent. Soon this silence threatens to become as...