Torontonians support bike lanes in city poll
Oct 06, 2016, at 04:44 am
Toronto, Oct 5 (IBNS): According to a new poll released this week, Torontonians have aided their overwhelming support for bike lanes in the city.
Canada violates international law as migratory children gets jailed: Advocacy groups
Oct 06, 2016, at 04:41 am
Toronto, Oct 5 (IBNS): According to 46 medical and legal advocacy groups who are pressing the government to stop imprisoning hundreds of migrant children in Canada, believes it violates the Canadian and International laws.
Fishing Industry of Canada at a major risk of stock collapse
Oct 06, 2016, at 04:24 am
Ottawa, Oct 5(IBNS): Canada's Environment and Sustainable Development Commissioner on Tuesday warned about the risk of suffering a major stock collapse that the $6billion fishing industry is to face soon.
Trade deficit in Canada shrinks to eight-month low as exports rise
Oct 06, 2016, at 04:02 am
Ottawa, Oct 5 (IBNS): Statistics Canada on Wednesday released a report stating Canada's trade deficit in August shrank to $1.94 billion, the lowest for eight months, as exports posted a third consecutive gain and imports stayed flat.
Gas shortage can affect Southern Ontario and parts of GTA: Experts
Oct 06, 2016, at 02:20 am
Toronto, Oct 5 (IBNS): Drivers in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) would soon start coming across gas stations where there would be a shortage in fuel due to restrictions that have been placed on a major pipeline.
Truck loaded with pigs for slaughtering crashes at Burlington
Oct 06, 2016, at 02:14 am
Toronto, Oct 5 (IBNS): A transport truck carrying pigs to a slaughterhouse overturned in Burlington, setting free a few animals on the road.
Belgium: Two cops stabbed by attacker
Oct 06, 2016, at 02:07 am
Brussels, Oct 5 (IBNS): At least two policemen were stabbed in Belgian city Brussels on Wednesday, media reports said.
Afghanistan: 4 injured in Kabul explosion
Oct 06, 2016, at 12:24 am
Kabul, Oct 5 (IBNS): At least four people were injured as an explosion rocked Afghanistan capital Kabul on Wednesday, media reports said.
Afghanistan: US soldier dies in a fight against ISIS
Oct 05, 2016, at 04:16 pm
Kabul, Oct 5 (IBNS): A US soldier posted in Afghanistan succumbed to his wounds on Wednesday, adding to the number of deaths in the hands of ISIS.
UN deputy chief urges increased participation of young people in peace and security decision-making
Oct 05, 2016, at 02:16 pm
New York, Oct 5(Just Earth News): With more young people around the world than ever before, it is necessary to include them when discussing global solutions related to peace, development and security, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General said on Tuesday.
As Hurricane Matthew makes landfall in Haiti, UN relief agencies on standby to provide assistance
Oct 05, 2016, at 02:14 pm
New York, Oct 5(Just Earth News): Hurricane Matthew has made landfall in Haiti, bringing strong winds and torrential rains to the tiny island, the United Nations weather agency reported on Tuesday, while UN relief agencies announced that they are mobilizing to assist, if requested, countries that are in the path of the dangerous Category 4 storm that is pummelling the Caribbean region.
Jailing teen blogger in Singapore sends wrong message on free expression–UN expert
Oct 05, 2016, at 02:13 pm
New York, Oct 5(Just Earth News): After a Singaporean teenage blogger was sentenced to jail for his social media posts, a United Nations human rights expert on Tuesday warned that it is “exactly the wrong kind of message that any government should be sending to anybody, but especially to young people.â€
Oct 05, 2016, at 02:09 pm
New York, Oct 5(Just Earth News): The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, is seriously concerned about the human rights situation in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir, as well as the rising tensions between India and Pakistan, a spokesperson from the High Commissioner’s Office (OHCHR) said on Tuesday.
UN peacekeeping chief urges follow-up action to consolidate peace in Darfur
Oct 05, 2016, at 02:07 pm
New York, Oct 5(Just Earth News): The security situation in Darfur, Sudan, remains volatile and the humanitarian impact of the conflict significant, the top United Nations peacekeeping official said on Tuesday, calling on the Government of Sudan and the international community at large to address the current challenges in the country.
‘The best humanitarian relief is to end the conflict,’ UN aid chief says in war-torn Yemen
Oct 05, 2016, at 02:06 pm
New York, Oct 5 (Just Earth News): Concluding a three-day mission to Yemen, the United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator on Tuesday called on all warring parties to grant humanitarian access and uphold their responsibilities to protect civilians in a conflict that has injured and killed thousands of innocent civilians, and displaced some three million people.
Oct 05, 2016, at 02:05 pm
New York, Oct 5(Just Earth News): Welcoming on Tuesday’s decision to postpone Palestinian municipal elections, the United Nations senior official coordinating efforts towards the peaceful resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict called on all Palestinians to work together to resolve differences.
Yemen: UN says shelling in Taiz leaves dozens of civilian casualties
Oct 05, 2016, at 02:04 pm
New York, Oct 5 (Just Earth News): The United Nations Human Rights Office (OHCHR) is reporting that casualties continue to mount in war-torn Yemen, including after an incident yesterday evening in the central city of Taiz, where artillery fire on a busy street next to a market in Bir Basha, Al Mudhaffar district, left six children dead, six wounded and more than a dozen other casualties.
Hijab wearing student barred from taking exam
Oct 05, 2016, at 05:18 am
Montreal, Oct 4 (IBNS): A female Muslim student who denied taking off her hijab at the time of her examination, now gets accommodated in a Montreal Junior college to take her exam.
Oct 05, 2016, at 04:59 am
New York, Oct 4(Just Earth News): The human rights calamity unfolding in Syria’s eastern Aleppo city demands bold new initiatives, including proposals to “limit the use of the veto†by the permanent members of the Security Council, the top United Nations human rights official declared on Tuesday.
FEATURE: Political differences, a dozen peacekeepers and two new wells in northern Haiti
Oct 05, 2016, at 04:58 am
New York, Oct 4(Just Earth News): Residents in Pilate, a remote town of some 40,000 inhabitants located on a mountain in northern Haiti, were treated to an unusual site recently: uniformed, foreign men hard at work laying concrete foundations for a well near the local hospital and school.
UN chief urges European Parliament to approve process on Paris Agreement ratification
Oct 05, 2016, at 04:55 am
New York, Oct 4(Just Earth News): Addressing the plenary of the European Parliament, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday called its members to approve a speedy ratification by the European Union (EU) of the Paris Agreement on climate change and to help lead the world to a better future.
Funeral Home Ad in Canada hospital troubles patients and families
Oct 05, 2016, at 04:55 am
Toronto, Oct. 4 (IBNS): Cancer patients and their families who received treatment at a Barrie hospital in Canada's Ontario were outraged after they saw an ad for a funeral home on the gates of the hospital parking lot in Sept 2016, reports said.
Some 385 million children live in extreme poverty, World Bank-UNICEF study reveals
Oct 05, 2016, at 04:54 am
New York, Oct 4(Just Earth News): Children are more than twice as likely as adults to live in extreme poverty, with nearly 385 million children worldwide experiencing that condition, according to a new analysis from the World Bank Group and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
Ban condemns attacks against UN mission in Mali
Oct 05, 2016, at 04:53 am
New York, Oct 4(Just Earth News): United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has condemned yesterday's series of attacks against the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA).
Two former Birmingham scientists awarded Nobel Prize for Physics
Oct 05, 2016, at 01:30 am
London, Oct 4 (IBNS): Two former University of Birmingham academics, Professor David Thouless and Professor Mike Kosterlitz, have been recognised by the award of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work into the discoveries of the properties of matter.
Afghan police claims Taliban pushed back from Kunduz city
Oct 04, 2016, at 04:53 pm
Kabul, Oct 4 (IBNS): A day after the Taliban captured the strategic city of Kunduz in Afghanistan, the city police claimed that they have taken back control by pushing out the militants, media reports said.
In Geneva, Ban reiterates call to end Syrian conflict; reflects on tenure as UN chief
Oct 04, 2016, at 01:49 pm
New York, Oct 4(Just Earth News): Speaking at a press conference in the United Nations Office in Geneva on Monday, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon once again called for the political will to end the Syrian conflict, while also sharing his reflections on the nearly 10 years he spent as the top UN official.
Inequalities exacerbate climate impacts on poor and vulnerable people – new UN report
Oct 04, 2016, at 01:47 pm
New York, Oct 4(Just Earth News): Evidence is increasing that climate change is taking the largest toll on poor and vulnerable people, and these impacts are largely caused by inequalities that increase the risks from climate hazards, according to a new report launched by the United Nations on Monday.
‘Bunker-buster’ bombs in eastern Aleppo mean children not even safe underground, UN experts warn
Oct 04, 2016, at 01:45 pm
New York, Oct 4(Just Earth News): The killing and maiming of children in eastern Aleppo by the Syrian Government and its allies is not only a brutal abdication of international human rights obligations, it will have a long-lasting impact on the young victims for generations to come, United Nations child rights experts warned on Monday.
Selecting the next UN Secretary-General: Informal briefings reopen
Oct 04, 2016, at 01:44 pm
New York, Oct 4(Just Earth News): The latest candidate for the position of the next United Nations Secretary-General was heard by UN Member States on Monday, answering questions on how she would promote sustainable development, improve efforts to create peace, protect human rights, and deal with huge humanitarian catastrophes should they be selected to lead the 193-member Organization.