LONDON - More than 98,000 people have been infected by the coronavirus globally and over 3,300 people have died, according to a Reuters tally....
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GENEVA - Despite decades of progress in closing the gender equality gap, close to nine out of 10 men and women around the world, hold some sort of...
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GENEVA - School closures in 13 countries linked to the COVID-19 virus epidemic have disrupted the education of more than 290 million students, a...
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GENEVA - Many global programmes aimed at countering violent extremism have negative impacts on human rights and may even ‘foster radicalization’...
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