This comes just two months after UN humanitarians declared Zimbabwe as one of the hunger hotspots where acute food insecurity was likely to deteriorate. The storm destroyed more than half of the country’s harvest, leaving about 7.6 million people at risk of acute hunger. El Niño is a regular and naturally occurring weather event which affects the air temperatures around the sea and coastal landmasses. The climate crisis in recent years has led to more frequent and intense patterns. Officials from the UN and the World Food Programme (WFP) recently visited Zimbabwe to determine the drought’s impact on the nation…
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U.S. Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa (SEHOA) Ambassador Mike Hammer will travel to Belgium, Kenya, and Ethiopia from September 3 to 13, 2024. In Brussels, SEHOA Hammer will consult with European Union and bilateral counterparts on recent developments in the Horn of Africa. In Nairobi, he will discuss regional and security issues with Kenyan officials. In Addis Ababa, SEHOA Hammer intends to follow-up with African Union and the Intergovernmental Authority on Development officials on recent Aligned for Advancing Lifesaving and Peace in Sudan (ALPS) Group’s efforts in Switzerland. He will also review implementation of the Pretoria Cessation of…
J.P. Above & Beyond Landscaping denied workers overtime payDALLAS – The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered $103,665 in back wages for 38 workers employed by a Southlake landscaping company that misclassified them as independent contractors and, by doing so, denied them overtime pay.The department’s Wage and Hour Division determined J.P. Above & Beyond Landscaping’s violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act included failing to pay overtime at time and one-half an employee’s rate of pay for hours over 40 in a workweek and not keeping accurate records.“Misclassifying employees as independent contractors is a serious problem that deprives workers of their hard-earned wages, benefits…
“It is a climate of fear in the country at the moment. We are urging the government to ensure that all steps are taken in line with international human rights law with transparency and that steps are taken to resolve this dispute peacefully,” OHCHR spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani told journalists in Geneva. The alert is just the latest of many warnings from the UN, top independent rights experts and independent investigators appointed by the Human Rights Council over the violent repression of dissenting voices in the South American country. “People are being detained for expressing their right to political participation, for their…
Geneva, 2 September – The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, today praised Ecuador’s new presidential decree introducing an extraordinary regularization process for Venezuelans and their families who currently lack regular status in the country. This initiative is expected to benefit some 100,000 people, according to Government estimates. Ecuador hosts the fifth largest number of Venezuelan refugees and migrants in the Americas. The regularization will assist thousands who registered for a previous process in 2022 but were unable to complete the necessary steps to finally obtain their visas. They could not obtain regular status because…
MANCHESTER, NH – The U.S. Department of Labor’s investigation of a Bristol restaurant identified 20 child labor violations, including allowing a 15-year-old to use a blowtorch for food preparation and another 15-year-old to clean a meat slicer.In addition to permitting two children to perform dangerous work, the department’s Wage and Hour Division found Homestead Restaurant Inc., operating as Homestead Restaurant & Tavern, employed 16 minors outside of the hour and time limitations permitted under federal law, and employed two 13-year-old children as bussers. The Fair Labor Standards Act forbids employers from hiring children under the age of 14 in covered non-agricultural…
Wael al-Haj Mohammed’s daughter is a child of war. Born the day after the outbreak of the conflict in Gaza between Hamas and Israel forces that began last October, Mr. Mohammed has struggled to get medical care. She is one of the thousands of children benefiting from the mass polio vaccination campaign, which began on the first of September in the central area of Gaza. Mr. Mohammed’s daughter is receiving oral vaccinations against type II polio at an UNRWA clinic in Nuseirat camp in central Gaza as part of the first phase of the campaign. Nourhan Shamalakh, a young mother…
The MOU was signed on Monday between the Institute and Hilton Seychelles. (Seychelles News Agency) Photo license Students from the Seychelles Institute of Technology (SIT) will have the opportunity to pursue career opportunities and able to earn work-based experience within hotels under the Hilton brand, through a newly signed memorandum of understanding (MOU) The MOU was signed on Monday between the Institute and Hilton Seychelles by Vinesh Hurrychurn, senior director of engineering operations from Hilton and the Institute’s director, Ferdinand Desnousse. Through the agreement, Hilton-managed hotels in Seychelles and the SIT will collaborate in the Technical and Vocational Education &…
More than 80 people, including at least 13 police personnel, are said to have been killed in clashes between security forces and protesters, according to media reports. Authorities have imposed a curfew and restricted internet access. A police station in Sirajganj district, about 100 kilometres (62.5 miles) northwest of the capital, Dhaka, was also attacked. The renewed violence follows massive protests in July by students against the Government, demanding an end to a “quota system” for government jobs amid rising unemployment, in which more than 200 people were reportedly killed. At least 32 children were among those killed last month.…
Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State HomeOffice of the SpokespersonPress Releases…San Marino National Day hide if(window.jQuery) { jQuery( document ).ready(function() { if (jQuery(“.bc_middle”).hasClass(“collapse”)) { jQuery(“.bc_ellipse”).click(function(){ jQuery(“.bc_hide”).toggleClass(“visible”); jQuery(“.bc_middle”).toggle(); jQuery(“.bc_ellipse”).toggle(); jQuery(“.bc_content”).toggleClass(“noflex”); jQuery(“.block_breadcrumbs_content”).toggleClass(“noflex”); }); jQuery(“.bc_hide”).click(function(){ jQuery(“.bc_hide”).toggleClass(“visible”); jQuery(“.bc_middle”).toggle(); jQuery(“.bc_ellipse”).toggle(); jQuery(“.bc_content”).toggleClass(“noflex”); jQuery(“.block_breadcrumbs_content”).toggleClass(“noflex”); }); } else { jQuery(“.bc_ellipse”).hide(); } }); } San Marino National Day Press Statement September 3, 2024 On behalf of the United States of America, I extend my warmest wishes to the people of San Marino as they celebrate the Feast of Saint Marinus, commemorating the founding of the world’s oldest republic. Our nations share a long-standing relationship dating back to 1861, built…