HOUSTON, US (AA) – Modern slavery continues to increase significantly across the globe, and the United Nations urged everyone to focus on this disturbing trend on Friday when the world marked the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery. “Thinking about people in terrible circumstances and recognizing their plight is of great...
ANKARA (AA) – Around 50 million people were living in modern-day slavery in 2021, according to recent data compiled by Anadolu Agency on the occasion of the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery. “Of these people, 28 million were in forced labour and 22 million were trapped in forced marriage,” according to a joint [...
ISTANBUL (AA) – A resolution adopted at the meeting of the Standing Committee for Economic and Commercial Cooperation (COMCEC) on Tuesday encouraged the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) member states to devise strategies to strengthen their economic resilience to future shocks” like that of COVID-19 pandemic. Fuat Oktay, Türkiye...
UNITED NATIONS (AA) – The United Nations Children’s agency, UNICEF, said Monday that around 110,000 children and adolescents aged 0 and 19 died from AIDS-related causes last year. Ahead of World AIDS Day on Dec. 1, UNICEF released its latest global snapshot on children and HIV/AIDS. Another 310,000 were newly infected, bringing the...
WASHINGTON (AA) – Russia has “unilaterally postponed” nuclear disarmament talks that were slated to be held this week in Cairo, Egypt, the State Department said on Monday. The meeting of the New START Treaty’s Bilateral Consultative Commission was to begin on Tuesday in Egypt, but the Kremlin informed the Biden administration...
YEREVAN, Armenia (AA) – Russian President Vladimir Putin met Wednesday with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on the sidelines of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) summit in Yerevan. The meeting between the two leaders came after Pashinyan refused to sign a draft declaration of the CSTO summit. During his meeting w...
ANKARA (AA) – The UN climate change conference COP27 “marks a small step towards climate justice,” said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Sunday. At the conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, nearly 200 countries made a historic deal to establish a “loss and damage” fund to help vulnerable countries hit hard by climate...
BERLIN/ANKARA (AA) – Child labor has increased in the supply chains of developed countries and blocs such as the European Union, the US, Canada, Japan, Norway and Switzerland, especially due to cruel and illegal business models of corporations, an expert said on World Children’s Day. Speaking to Anadolu Agency, human rights activis...
Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt (AFP): A fraught UN COP27 summit wrapped up Sunday with a landmark deal on funding to help vulnerable countries cope with devastating climate impacts — and deep disappointment over a failure to push further ambition on cutting emissions. The two-week talks, which at times appeared to teeter on the brink of [&hellip...
MOSCOW (AA) – Russia said on Friday that it and China had switched to national currencies in their trade for natural gas, implementing a deal they signed in early September. Noting that Beijing already paid for Russian gas on the basis of the ruble-yuan parity, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said in a televised interview […...
