Aug 15, 2014
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Ebola outbreak a global health emergency-WHO By La Shawn Pagán The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the recent Ebola outbreak that has claimed an estimated of 1,848 lives to be a global public emergency. As numbers escalate, the organization gave the green light to test the experimental serum on patients who tested positive for the fateful disease. “A coordinated international response is deemed essential to stop and reverse the international spread of Ebola,” said the Director-General of the WHO Margaret Chan in Geneva. “Countries affected to date, simply don’t have the capacity to manage an outbreak of this scale [Read More]
Aug 15, 2014
News, Secretary General, United Nations
al-Sham, Ban Ki-moon, Gaza, Iraq, ISIS, Islamic extremist, Islamic State of Iraq, Mount Sinjar, people of Iraq, Political, Secretary-General, Spokesperson, Stephane Dujarric, UN, united nations, Yazidi religion, Yazidis, yezidi religion
People of Iraq need security, UN Secretary General By La Shawn Pagán As members of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) continue to terrorize Yazidis and trapping non-ISIS sympathizers in Mount Sinjar, reports of escalating violence in the area has caused the Secretary General Ban-Ki Moon to ask the international community to pay more attention to what’s happening in the Middle Eastern country. “The people of Iraq – all Iraqi people – need security,” the Secretary General told members of the press at the daily noon briefing at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. “Yet the poison [Read More]
By Europa Newswire Domestic violence and sexual assault is a great problem in our society. With the numbers of victims increasing by the day much is done to help those women who are abused by their spouses, partners or boyfriends. But what about the men who are being victimized? Why aren’t they being acknowledged? “Our society doesn’t want to accept men as victims of domestic violence and sexual assault,” said journalist and documentary filmmaker La Shawn Pagán during a recent lunch. “Much less does it want to face the fact that they are being victimized by both genders – [Read More]
