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19th Mar 2024

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Discrimination in Germany remains high, new figures show

Germany's anti-discrimination agency on Tuesday said it had received the second-highest number of discrimination cases over a 12-month period in 2021. The agency started recording cases in 2006. The agency's chief Ferda Atama said a total of 5,617 cases were reported of discrimination, noting that 37-percent were related to racial discrimination, 32-percent to disability and chronic diseases, followed by 20-percent on gender and 10-percent on age.

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Borrell: 'Israel provoking famine', urges more aid access

70 percent of northern Gaza is facing famine, new data shows. There is one shower per 5,500 people, and 888 people per toilet. 'How can you live in these conditions?" asked Natalie Boucly of UNRWA at the European Humanitarian Forum.

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Potential legal avenues to prosecute Navalny's killers

The UN could launch an independent international investigation into Navalny's killing, akin to investigation I conducted on Jamal Khashoggi's assassination, or on Navalny's Novichok poisoning, in my role as special rapporteur on extrajudicial executions, writes the secretary-general of Amnesty International.

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