Canned soup, canned tuna, and pasta, among other things — everything you’ll find in an average American pantry, yet these little pantries are not in someone’s home but in the streets, open and accessible to anyone who needs them. Free Little Pantry is behind this initiative, a grassroots organization that was founded in Arkansas two years ago, but has spread across the country
Every year, Americans adopt more than 3 million cats and dogs. Most of those pets are adopted from animal shelters, where they were taken after being picked up as stray animals, or given up by owners who could no longer take care of them
Adrian Zenz, a lecturer in social research methods at the Germany-based European School of Culture and Theology, has said that some 1.1 million people are or have been detained in the camps—which would equate to 10 to 11 percent of the adult Muslim population of the XUAR
The WHO study finds hepatitis could be eliminated as a public health threat in 67 low-and middle-income countries by 2030 for a cost of $6 billion a year or a total of nearly $60 billion. These countries account for 75 percent of the world’s population. The WHO says new hepatitis infections would be reduced by 90 percent and deaths by 65 percent
A survey found 36 countries have introduced one or more measures aimed at helping people quit smoking. Only Turkey and Brazil have implemented all of WHO’s recommended anti-tobacco measures.
Ciwan Husen lost his left hand and eye at age 21 in Kurdish fight against Islamic State in northwest Syria
At least 7,000 of the children are under 12. During three visits to the section of al-Hol camp holding foreign women and children in June 2019, Human Rights Watch found overflowing latrines, sewage trickling into tattered tents, and residents drinking wash water from tanks containing worms
Addressing a Security Council meeting on Afghanistan, Mohammed said, “in the first five months of this year, more than 100,000 people were displaced by conflict, and we know displacement increases the risk of gender-based violence in all areas.”
Look at various faiths and how religion plays out in the lives of ordinary Americans, from cowboy Christians, to a “freelance” Muslim, to the effect a Thai monk on a cross-country trek has on people’s attitudes toward peace~VOA NEWS
Rosemary DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, United Nations, briefs the Security Council on the situation in Afghanistan and her recent visit to the country together with the Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed