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Royal Paw Safaris

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Royal Paw Safaris is registered to carry out tours and travel business. Royal Paw safaris is a company founded on a passion for exclusive travel and a passion to bring magnificent experiences while travelling to Africa closer to you with a wide array of encounters with our outstanding wildlife and cultural experiences. We tailor-make itineraries to suit your exact requirements… Read More

Splendor Holidays Kenya Ltd

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Splendor Holidays Kenya Ltd is a Kenyan registered independent Tours and Travel Service Management Company established in 2014 with a goal of providing extensive and competent leisure and business travel service to both corporate and individual clients inbound and outbound.Our blazing passion for tours and travels has been the driving force of realizing our dream of establishing a tour and… Read More
Human Rights 

Thursday’s Daily Brief: impact of bad working conditions, Syria and Libya humanitarian news, human rights in Bahrain, families reunified in South Sudan

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Stress, overtime, disease, contribute to 2.8 million workers’ deaths per year, reports UN labour agency Stress, excessively-long working hours and disease, contribute to the deaths of nearly 2.8 million workers every year, while an additional 374 million people get injured or fall ill because of their jobs, the UN labour agency, ILO, said on Thursday. In a new report underlining… Read More
Development Health Advice 

‘Vaccines are safe’ and save lives, UNICEF declares, launching new #VaccinesWork campaign

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To inspire confidence in the power and safety of vaccines, UNICEF is using the hashtag #VaccinesWork for the global campaign, centred around World Immunization Week, which runs from 24 to 30 April. “We want the awareness that #VaccinesWork, to go viral,” said Robin Nandy, UNICEF’s Chief of Immunization. “This campaign is an opportunity to show the world that social media can… Read More
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Stress, overtime, disease, contribute to 2.8 million workers’ deaths per year, reports UN labour agency

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In a new report underlining ILO’s message that no paid work should threaten your wellbeing, your safety or your life, the agency identifies several new or existing occupational risks of growing concern, that affect women more than men. These include modern working practices overall, world population growth, increased digital connectivity and climate change, which are believed to account for losses… Read More
Human Rights 

Progress against torture in Afghan detention centres, but Government needs to do more, says UN report

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Based on interviews with more than 600 detainees and published jointly by the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) and the UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR), their latest report on the treatment of prisoners in 77 facilities in 28 out of 34 provinces indicates that an average of nearly one in three, provided “credible and reliable” accounts of suffering.  In… Read More
Human Rights 

Nicaragua crisis: One year in, more than 60,000 have fled, seeking refuge

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Echoing concerns from the UN’s human rights office, OHCHR, and others about the deteriorating situation in the Central American country, UNHCR said that families with young children are now taking extreme measures to cross the border. “The kinds of reasons that people have been giving for fleeing are the fear of losing their lives, being attacked or kidnapped by paramilitary… Read More
Development Health Advice 

‘A global measles crisis’ is well underway, UN agency chiefs warn

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“Cases have soared across the world, including in places where measles had previously been eliminated, like the United States”, asserted Henrietta Fore, Executive Director of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO). Measles is almost entirely preventable through two doses of a safe and effective vaccine, despite being highly contagious. The UN… Read More
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Greater transparency, fairer prices for medicines ‘a global human rights issue’, says UN health agency 

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“This is a global human rights issue”, said WHO Assistant Director-General for Medicines and Health Products Mariângela Simão on Saturday at the WHO Forum on Medicines in Johannesburg. “Everyone has a right to access quality healthcare”. The forum on fair pricing and access to medicines provided a discussion platform for governments, civil society organizations and the pharmaceutical industry to identify strategies to reduce… Read More
Human Rights 

Friday’s Daily Brief: human rights in Sudan, sombre anniversaries for Rwanda and Nigeria, and fears of ‘chaos’ in Libya

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Sudan military committed to ‘ensuring stability’ and ‘peaceful transition’ says senior diplomat, as UN rights chief appeals for protesters’ rights to be upheld Sudan’s military has an “overarching duty” to refrain from using violence against protesters and ensure that their human rights are protected amid concerns of a further escalation, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said on… Read More
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