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This week Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan praised the role of the Turkish National Intelligence Organization (MİT) highlighting. “We are going through a period in which the world is being restructured. The threats we face increase. Intelligence data are indispensable for a nation’s prosperity, not only in wartimes but also during times of peace.” Erdoğan went on to describe most significant threat Turkey faces is terrorism and the primary focus of MIT was … Read more →

The UK has been warned it may face losing its permanent seat on the UN Security Council if it continues to defy the International Court of Justice (ICJ) – the UN’s highest court ruling on the future of the Chagos Islands. The claim has been made by David Snoxell, the former British high commissioner to Mauritius from whom Britain purchased the islands in 1965. The Chagos Islands are an archipelago … Read more →

According to current estimates, nearly 300,000 people have been displaced from southern Idlib since 12 December, with children and women being the most affected. Speaking to reporters in New York, UN Deputy Spokesperson Farhan Haq said “over half of the displaced, at least 175,000, are children”. The United Nations Security Council were briefed on the current situation in Syria by the heads of the UN’s political and humanitarian offices – … Read more →

The World Economic Forum’s annual Global Gender Gap Report for 2020, which was released on Monday 16 December, says that at the current rate of change, men and women will have pay equality in 257 years. That is 55 more years than the estimate in the previous edition. Worldwide, the average woman’s annual income is $11,500, versus $21,500 for a man. The report found a 2% increase in the number … Read more →

Negotiations at Madrid’s UN COP25 Climate Change summit ended on 15 December amidst a sentiment of disappointment. The talks commenced on 2 December and ended with a compromise deal, that saw an agreement reached on increasing the global response to cutting carbon. All participating countries have been requested to prepare a new pledge for next year’s summit, that is due to take place in Glasgow. The conference was scheduled to … Read more →

An Amnesty report published on 16 December revealed the extent of crackdowns in Iran in the wake of protests that took place from 15-18 November. The organisation carried out interviews with dozens of people inside Iran who gave details of detainees being held incommunicado, subjected to enforced disappearance, torture and other ill-treatment, before, during and after the protests. Thousands of protestors, journalists and human rights defenders were arrested by security … Read more →