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Let the court decide: Vanuatu's climate push raises hopes
AFP, Published on 13/11/2022
» SHARM EL SHEIKH (EGYPT) - Seeking to speed up global efforts against climate change, Vanuatu is leading efforts to get the International Court of Justice involved, a move praised by activists at UN talks.
Women fight for a place at the table as sushi chefs in Japan
AFP, Published on 08/04/2020
» TOKYO - Women have warm hands, their periods alter their sense of taste and they can't work long hours -- just some of the claims from those in Japan who believe women can't be sushi chefs.
2,000 Kachin trapped by Myanmar fighting lack food, medicine
Associated Press, Published on 19/04/2018
» Community leaders from the Christian ethnic Kachin community have called for urgent medical attention for about 2,000 civilians, including pregnant women and the elderly, trapped in the jungle where they fled to escape clashes between the Myanmar's army and the Kachin guerrillas in the country's north.
Govt attacks kill civilians in northern Myanmar: activists
Associated Press, Published on 30/01/2018
» Activists and a lawmaker in northern Myanmar say government air strikes and shelling of ethnic Kachin rebels have killed five civilians and wounded more than a dozen others since Saturday. The government offensive has also trapped more than 3,000 other civilians, miners of amber and their families, in mineral-rich Kachin state.