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  • Published on Jun 12, 2018

    Relief in sight from electricity price hikes as ActewAGL offers 25% discount for customers opting to pay by direct debit

    ACT’s main electricity provider, ActewAGL, is offering a 25 per cent discount for customers who sign up for it via their website. Relief is in sight for Canberrans concerned about forecast price hikes in their household power bills with the ACT’s main …

    Source: Riot Act
  • Published on Jun 11, 2018

    ActewAGL asked to cut power prices for ACT consumers

    Mr Rattenbury said the the current price of wholesale energy was falling, and as a result, AGL last week dropped its prices in NSW, Queensland and South Australia, and he said he wanted to know if ActewAGL could do the same in the ACT. "Given that …

    Source: Age
  • Published on Jun 11, 2018

    Electricity price rise to add another $300 to average power bills

    Higher wholesale prices and the cost of green schemes are the main contributors to the 14 percent rise in electricity prices in the ACT. A typical Canberra household’s power bill will rise by about $300 for the year under a 14 percent hike in electricity …

    Source: Riot Act
  • Published on Jun 22, 2018

    World’s First International Centre for Humanitarian Forensics Launched in India

    The world’s first International Centre for Humanitarian Forensics (ICHF) was launched on 20 June 2018 in Gujarat, India by the Gujarat Forensic Sciences University (GFSU) in collaboration with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Regional …

    Source: Relief Web
  • Published on Jun 19, 2018

    Speakers Call for Early Coordinated Action, Financing to Shore Up Strained Global Emergency Response System, as ...

    ECOSOC/6930 ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL 2018 SESSION, 36TH MEETING (PM) At a time when the global humanitarian response system was struggling to meet an unprecedented demand in aid for millions of people displaced by natural disasters and conflict, …

    Source: Relief Web
  • Published on Jun 19, 2018

    World: The Roots of Restraint in War

    Geneva (ICRC) – The number of non-international armed conflicts more than doubled from the beginning of the century, according to data from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Not only are there more conflicts, but there are more sides in …

    Source: Relief Web
  • Published on Jun 19, 2018

    QRCS to attend international conference on migrant workers

     19 Jun 2018 - 10:59 This file picture shows volunteers collecting blood samples from migrant workers as part of a QRCS initiative. DOHA: Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) will take part in the Red Cross and Red Crescent Conference on Labour Migration, to …

    Source: Peninsula Qatar
  • Published on Jun 19, 2018

    The Roots of Restraint in War

    Geneva (ICRC) – The number of non-international armed conflicts more than doubled from the beginning of the century, according to data from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Not only are there more conflicts, but there are more sides in …

    Source: Relief Web
  • Published on Aug 17, 2017

    Half of South Sudan’s Population ‘Severely Hungry,’ ICRC says. Credit – International Committee of the Red Cross via ...

    Half of South Sudan's Population 'Severely Hungry,' ICRC says. Credit - International Committee of the Red Cross via Storyful5:29 Half of South Sudan’s population is ‘severely hungry,’ the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) …

    Source: Cairns Post
  • Published on May 2, 2018

    What you will save on your water bill

    Water bills will fall in 2018-19. Average Canberra households will pay $42 less a year for water as a result of the Independent Competition and Regulatory Commission’s latest five-year price determination. The ICRC said the decision determined the amount …

    Source: Riot Act
  • Published on Mar 15, 2017

    BAGHDAD -- International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) resumes search for remains of Kuwaitis' in Dhi Qar ...

    BAGHDAD, March 15 -- The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) resumed efforts to look for the human remains of Kuwaitis' in Dhi Qar Governorate, southern Iraq. A security source in the Iraqi police told KUNA Wednesday that a team from ICRC …

    Source: Kuna.net.kw
  • Published on Mar 1, 2018

    How an Australian saves lives and influences people in South Sudan

    ''Machiavellian" is probably not a word many humanitarians would embrace, but Dorsa Nazemi-Salman says she's learnt valuable lessons from the Renaissance diplomat, whose name is a byword for treachery and cunning. They're lessons she …

    Source: WA Today
  • Published on Feb 22, 2018

    Air strikes hammer Syria's Ghouta

    Warplanes have pounded the last rebel enclave near Syria's capital for a fifth day running as the UN Security Council considered demanding a 30-day ceasefire. The UN envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, pleaded for a truce to prevent a "massacre…

    Source: Sunday Times
  • Published on Feb 9, 2018

    With IS down but not out, Syria’s war escalates on multiple fronts

    Beirut: Half a dozen newborns, blinking and arching their backs, were carried from a burning hospital hit by airstrikes. A bombed apartment house collapsed, burying families. Medics doused patients with water after a suspected chlorine attack, one of five …

    Source: WA Today
  • Published on Mar 8, 2018

    Baby girl rescued from a pile of rubble in bombed building in Syria

    INCREDIBLE footage shows a baby girl being pulled from a pile of rubble in a bomb-battered Syrian building. A rescue worker in war-torn enclave of Ghouta, near Damascus, heroically retrieves the infant from the thick debris before rushing her to safety, …

    Source: Sunday Times
  • Published on Dec 17, 2017

    Red Cross workers deserve protection in every conflict zone

    All of a sudden, we came to a screeching halt. The security guard who was stationed outside my front door ran towards me, flung open the car door and hastily ushered me inside the house. I was completely unaware that we had been followed. Ruth Jebb, a …

    Source: WA Today
  • Published on Dec 4, 2017

    Yemen Houthis blow up ex-president’s house

    Yemen's Houthi rebels have blown up the house of former president Ali Abdullah Saleh in the capital Sana'a shortly after storming it, witnesses say. The Houthis stormed the house in the south-western neighbourhood of Haddah in Sana'a and …

    Source: Leader Local News
  • Published on Dec 4, 2017

    Help Assad or leave Syria in ruins? The dilemma facing the west

    Homs, Syria: As the war to recapture Syria from Islamic State moves inexorably closer towards completion, the scars left behind in Syria's cities are prompting serious questions about who will rebuild. Jets believed to be Syrian and Russian have …

    Source: Age
  • Published on Dec 1, 2017

    Falkland/Malvinas: ICRC presents results of humanitarian forensic identification project

    Friday, December 1st 2017 - 20:36 UTC The forensic team identified 88 soldiers, out of 123 graves, with a cross saying, “Argentine soldier, only known to God”, at the Darwin cemetery in Falklands The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on …

    Source: MercoPress
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The International Conference on Gender Studies, 2018 (Gender Studies'18)

Date: 04-Oct-18 to 05-Oct-18
Location: Bangkok / Thailand
The International Conference on Gender Studies, 2018 (Gender Studies'18) will be held on 04th and 05th October, 2018 in Bangkok, Thailand, under the theme, "Gender Studies from a Global Perspective" with the participation of researchers, policy makers, scholars and stake holders from all around the globe. This conference will bring together the local experiences and insights of diverse individuals in relation to gender, while creating a discussion on the issues on gender. Furthermore, this will be a platform for policy makers to come up with reasonable policies and decisions that benefit everyone irrespective of their socio-cultural and economic differences.

2nd International Interdisciplinary Conference on Gende Studies and the Status of Women (WomenBeing Conference)

Date: 09-Oct-18 to 12-Oct-18
This conference offers a platform for: >>Discussion relating to the current status of women, with a special focus on the following categories that constitute potential challenges to gender equality and women’s rights: the UK’s decision to leave the EU, the refugee crisis, rising levels of (and political legitimisation of) sexual violence and misogyny, cuts in child-care and services for disabled people, lack of access to paid parental leave, tax and welfare reforms, the gender pay gap, sexual harassment and the rise of zero-contract hours. >>International researchers and scientists from academia, industry and government to present their studies to a multi-disciplinary audience, exchange experiences, discuss proposals, and disseminate results on women’s and gender studies. ...
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