Fight For Peace with Love and Hope
10 Oct 2023 By Rita Elmounayer SAT-7, For the last three days, I have been doing as you all have. Watching the horrific scenes unfold from across the Holy Land. I have felt that sick pit in my stomach, the…
Success! U.K. bans child marriage
May 1, 2022 News Digest From “Miriam Karmali, Freedom United” OUR CAMPAIGN ISSUES IN THE NEWS Forced marriage We did it! 254,000+ Freedom United voices successfully call on U.K. to ban child marriage Success! This week, the U.K. passed the bill to ban…
Domestic workers in Lebanon camping outside embassy
“Miriam Karmali, Freedom United” [email protected] January 23, 2022 News Digest OUR CAMPAIGN ISSUES IN THE NEWS Domestic slavery Kenyan migrant domestic workers stranded in LebanonOver the past few weeks a group of Kenyan migrant domestic workers in Lebanon have been camping…
IMF / Brazil, Inflation, and Lebanon
The IMF has agreed with the Brazilian authorities to close the IMF Representation Office in Brasilia by June 30, 2022, when the term of the current IMF Representative expires a Fund spokesman announced in a press briefing Thursday (December 16)…
IMF/India, Lebanon
IMF / Resilience and Sustainability Trust, India, Lebanon The IMF announced today (Thursday, November 4) that the G20 welcomed the $650 billion Special Drawing Rights allocation from the IMF. This allocation was implemented over the summer and now the Fund…
Call on Lebanon to act now
From Freedom United Migrant domestic workers’ lives in Lebanon are getting harder every day. They need action NOW. Lebanon is reeling from an accumulation of unrelenting disasters. A currency crisis, fuel and food shortages,[1] price hikes, electricity outages,[2] the aftermath of a devastating explosion in…
A Kenyan human rights worker and his journalist shadow
By Adam Muro From CJR I FIRST MET FRANCIS AUMA, a rapid response officer for the Kenyan NGO Muslims for Human Rights (MUHURI), in February in one of Kenya’s ubiquitous Java House cafés in Nyali, a few kilometers up the…
Doomsday seed vault to get fortified with influx of $13 million
BY MARK KAUFMAN From Mashable The Svalbard Global Seed Vault — purposely isolated on a remote island some 800 miles from the North Pole — will be upgraded to make the concrete structure more resilient to the whims of weather…
Greece: Tax authorities to cross-check assets abroad
By PROKOPIS HATZINIKOLAOU From ekathimerini.com The Independent Authority for Public Revenue has received detailed information on all the assets – real estate properties, deposits, investments – held by 100,000 Greek taxpayers in 10 other European Union countries. The initiative concerns…
Lebanese PM Hariri resigns, saying he fears assassination plot
From BBC Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri has resigned, saying in a televised broadcast he feared for his life, while also fiercely criticising Iran. Mr Hariri’s father, former prime minister Rafik al-Hariri, was assassinated in 2005. Mr Hariri accused Iran…