Tensions rise in Libya as risk of ‘parallel governments’ grows, Security Council hears
Amid a political impasse that threatens to see Libya fractured again by two parallel governments, the priority must be maintaining hard-won gains and fulfilling the electoral aspirations of nearly three million registered voters, the UN political affairs chief told the Security Council on Wednesday. (Source: UN News Centre - Health, Poverty, Food Security)
Source: UN News Centre - Health, Poverty, Food Security - March 16, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Libya: Gunmen attack Dbeibah ’s car ahead of vote to replace him
Sources say Libya’s Abdulhamid Dbeibah escaped unhurt after gunmen fired on his car in the capital, Tripoli. #gunmen #abdulhamiddbeibah #libya #tripoli (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - February 10, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The reclamation master frame: a visual study of the Arab uprisings - Charrad MM, Zarrugh A, Ha HJ, Leitz L.
We examine frames expressed during the Arab Uprisings that toppled authoritarian regimes in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya in 2011. Through a visual analysis of 3,506 photographs taken at protest sites, we identify a new type of master frame, the "reclamation" ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - January 19, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Jurisprudence, Laws, Legislation, Policies, Rules Source Type: news
Free at Last: Trafficked Woman ’ s Story a Warning to Other Vulnerable Job Seekers
Desperate for work Kamikazi put her faith in ‘agents’ to find her a job. Instead, she found herself working without pay as a domestic worker in Kuwait. Photo: Aimable Twahirwa/IPSBy Aimable TwahirwaKIGALI, Rwanda, Jan 5 2022 (IPS) When Kamikazi * from Gisagara, a district in Southern Rwanda, was forced to quit her job due to COVID-19 last year, she desperately sought other employment.
A former co-worker in the food processing firm where Kamikazi once worked introduced her to “agents”. They assured her she would find decent employment in the Middle East, but little did she know her co-worker had delivered her into t...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - January 5, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Aimable Twahirwa Tags: Africa COVID-19 Featured Headlines Human Rights Human Trafficking Humanitarian Emergencies TerraViva United Nations #HumanRights #HumanTrafficking IPS UN Bureau Rwanda Source Type: news
Urological injuries in the civil war of Libya - Onuk, Çilesiz NC, Özkan A, Zarbaliyev E, Dayıoğlu N, Nuhoğlu B.
BACKGROUND: In this article, we aimed to evaluate results of patients who acquired various injuries during Libya civil war who then were transferred to our facility with genitourinary trauma for further assessment and treatment. METHODS: A total of... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - January 3, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
Mobile health units are saving lives in Libya
(Source: UNFPA News)
Source: UNFPA News - December 20, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
WHO strengthens response to attacks on health care in the Eastern Mediterranean Region
Cairo, 8 December 2021 – Nine countries and territories from the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region met last week for a two-day workshop in Istanbul to prevent and advance WHO response to attacks on health care in complex humanitarian emergencies.
The WHO European Centre on Preparedness for Humanitarian and Health Emergencies and the Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean collaborated to bring together Attacks on Health Care (AHC) focal points from Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, the occupied Palestinian territories, Pakistan, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Northwest Syria, and Yemen to review progress made to date, discuss b...
Source: WHO EMRO News - December 8, 2021 Category: Middle East Health Source Type: news
Approved COVID-19 vaccines and countries and territories with approved proof of vaccination, Department for Transport and DHSC (updated 7th December 2021)
Approved vaccines and list of countries and territories with approved COVID-19 proof of vaccination for travel to England.
7 December 2021Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Germany, Latvia and Ukraine can use EU DCC to add proof of vaccination status in the UK passenger locator form.
22 November 2021Belarus, Bolivia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, the Faroe Islands, Laos, Libya, Malawi, Mozambique, Samoa, Senegal, Vanuatu, Zambia and Zimbabwe added to the list of countries and territories with approved proof of vaccination for travel to England. Sinovac-CoronaVac, Sinopharm Beijing and Covaxin ...
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - December 7, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Qaddafi Son to Run for President in Libya
Seif al-Islam el-Qaddafi, the former heir apparent of the deposed Libyan dictator Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, filed his candidacy papers on Sunday for the election expected next month. #candidacypapers #qaddafison #muammarelqaddafi #libyan #seifalislamelqaddafi (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - November 14, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Son of former Libyan ruler Gadhafi runs for president
The son of Libya's late dictator Moammar Gadhafi appeared for nearly the first time in a decade on Sunday to register as a presidential candidate for a December vote planned to help end the years... #moammargadhafi #ruler #dictator #libyan (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - November 14, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Son of former Libyan leader Gaddafi to run for president
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi registered as a presidential candidate for the December 24 poll, the electoral commission says. #saifalislamgaddafi #libyan (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - November 14, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
World powers to push Libya election in Paris meeting
World powers will push for sanctions against anyone who disrupts Libya's electoral process and political transition, according to draft conclusions of a conference they are holding later on Friday... #libya (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - November 12, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Libya: Children Rescued From the Mediterranean Sea Describe Libya As Hell
[MSF] "They are playing now, they smile and befriend each other, they seem like any other young people," says Julie Melichar, humanitarian affairs officer on board MSF's search and rescue vessel Geo Barents. "But they are no longer just children or teenagers - not after what they have been through." (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - November 1, 2021 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Abdul Qadeer Khan obituary
Physicist hailed as the father of Pakistan ’s atomic weapons industry who confessed to smuggling nuclear secretsThe father of Pakistan ’s atomic weapons industry and the greatest proliferator of nuclear weapons in history,Abdul Qadeer Khan, who has died aged 85 after testing positive for Covid-19, was heralded as a hero in his native country, but he left a troubling legacy for the west. Along with Pakistan, the states of Libya, North Korea and Iran all benefited from the nuclear physicist ’s dealings. His story is also deeply connected with the travails of neighbouring Afghanistan.There are two basic paths to make th...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - October 28, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Gareth Price Tags: Pakistan South and Central Asia World news Nuclear weapons Physics Netherlands Afghanistan US news Libya North Korea Source Type: news
Here Are the Goals of the COP26 Climate Change Meetings —and Where the World Stands in Accomplishing Them
Next week, thousands of ministers and diplomats from across the world will descend on an event campus in Glasgow, Scotland for the most important climate conference in recent years—and perhaps the most significant international meeting of our lifetimes.
From Oct. 31 to Nov. 12, they’ll be bringing forward countries’ first updated plans to cut emissions since the Paris accords six years ago, and finalizing the so-called “Paris Rulebook” that will govern how the agreement’s ambitious emissions reductions will actually be implemented around the world. The conference’s organizers have ...
Source: TIME: Science - October 28, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Alejandro de la Garza, Ciara Nugent, Aryn Baker, Jennifer Duggan and Chris Wilson Tags: Uncategorized climate change healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
