- The billionaire space race
- Racial biases in the healthcare system
- Cop26: time to act
- Fibromyalgia: new understanding could lead to treatments for chronic pain
- A boom in precise protein-structure prediction by AI
- Extreme weather becomes more extreme
- Record numbers of children living with obesity
- The Winchcombe meteorite: a gift from space
- Fatty RNA particles to the rescue, for some at least
- The role of nature in tackling global heating is finally recognized
Year: 2021 (Page 1 of 61)
Daria Navalnaya, daughter of imprisoned anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny was presented with the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought on Wednesday at a ceremony in Strasbourg.
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Media freedom continued to be under attack across much of the world in 2021, with nine journalists killed in the line of duty in Afghanistan alone and 102 imprisoned in China, according to a new report released Thursday.
The International Federation of Journalists said in a bleak assessment that imprisonments were especially on the rise, with 365 journalists behind bars compared to 235 last year.
“The world needs to wake up to the growing violations of journalists’ rights and media freedoms across the globe,” IFJ General Secretary Anthony Bellanger said. The report was released on the eve of the United Nations’ Human Rights Day.
Apart from China, Turkey had 34 journalists in prison, Belarus and Eritrea 29, Egypt 27 and Vietnam 21.
There are a record 293 journalists jailed worldwide for their work, according to CPJ’s 2021 prison census.
Worst jailers:
#China 50#Myanmar 26#Egypt 25#Vietnam 23#Belarus 19#Turkey 18#Eritrea 16#Saudi Arabia 14#Russia 14#Iran 11#Ethiopia 9https://t.co/A0gsLKqXgV pic.twitter.com/6IL2sF06nx— Committee to Protect Journalists (@pressfreedom) December 9, 2021
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Ken Jensen, entitled “Ouch!”
A golden silk monkey in Yunnan China – this is actually a show of aggression however in the position that the monkey is in it looks quite painful!
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