Iraq: Nearly 115,000 people displaced, 50,000 children affected by Mosul military operation – UN
Dec 29, 2016, at 01:35 pm
New York, Dec 29 (Just Earth News): Since operations began to retake the Iraqi city of Mosul from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) two months ago, some 114,042 people have been displaced and as many as one million are out of reach of humanitarian assistance.
Repealing anti-abortion laws would save the lives of nearly 50,000 women a year – UN experts
Sep 28, 2016, at 01:11 pm
New York, Sept 28 (Just Earth News): Warning that unsafe abortions kill nearly 50,000 women each year, United Nations human rights experts on Tuesday called on States across the world to repeal restrictive abortion laws and policies, and all punitive measures and discriminatory barriers to access safe reproductive health services.