Abortion in Kenya and Benin: medical safety isn’t enough – women and girls need to feel safe socially too: Social safety is only attained when the abortion is achieved discreetly. Author supplied Safe abortion and post abortion care are essential health services. But until the publication of the 2022 World Health Organization (WHO) abortion care …
Women refugees fleeing violence seek safety in South Africa: but they don’t find it: Ongoing conflicts in many countries mean that women will continue to seek protection in South Africa. Ihsaan Haffejee/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images When I ran away from home there was no safety, and when I came to South Africa there is …
On Ghana’s roads in 2022: safety has improved but private vehicles are still a menace: Private car accidents dominate crash numbers in Ghana Lewis Clark/Wikimedia Commons Africa is the globe’s least motorised region, accounting for just 2% of the world’s vehicles. Yet it records the highest rate of road deaths. The World Health Organization (WHO) …
Workers’ rights: how a landmark UN decision on safety and health will actually affect employees: The ILO decided a safe and healthy work environment should be a fundamental right at its June 2022 conference. Millenius/Shutterstock In what has been called the “biggest moment for workers’ rights in a quarter of a century”, the International Labour …
Ukraine: abduction of UK aid workers raises safety questions over humanitarian organisations: Recent video footage showing British aid worker Paul Urey wearing handcuffs has sparked outrage in the UK. The 45-year-old from Warrington in Cheshire made several comments critical of the UK media’s reporting of the invasion, which his mother dismissed as her son “not …
Online safety bill: ambiguous definitions of harm could threaten freedom of speech – instead of protecting it: tommaso79/Shutterstock The UK government’s much anticipated online safety bill has now been released. The bill seeks to impose a duty of care on companies, such as social media platforms, to remove illegal content, and in some cases, “legal …
Molnupiravir: why are there potential safety issues around this COVID antiviral?: StanislavSukhin/Shutterstock If you’re worried about COVID, there’s a simple way to boost protection: get vaccinated. But this doesn’t work for everyone. People with weak immune systems – perhaps because of age or a medical condition – don’t respond well to vaccines. For them, COVID …
The ‘new’ offences added to the online safety bill are not really new – and could continue to fail victims of online abuse: fizkes/Shutterstock The UK government has recently revealed more detail about its ambitious plans to become the “safest place in the world to go online” by way of the online safety bill. The …
South Africa in the news: UK taking ‘safety first approach’ with travel ban over new COVID variant, says Shapps: Flights from South Africa, Namibia, Lesotho, Botswana, Eswatini and Zimbabwe will be suspended from 12pm on Friday until 4am on Sunday. From Sunday onwards, new arrivals in the UK will be required to …: “South Africa” …
The best Halloween scares you can watch from the safety of your sofa – recommended by a horror expert: Shutterstock Halloween is back and, with it, a whole host of horrors and ghastly treats to haunt our screens. The horror movie has been around since the earliest days of cinema – with silent classics such …
South Africa in the news: COVID-19 Vaccine | SAHPRA satisfied with vaccine safety for teens: JOHANNESBURG – Children aged between 12 and 17 can get vaccinated against COVID-19 from Wednesday. The health department says there is no need to register online. Instead, teenagers can simply walk …: “South Africa” – BingNews Nigeria: Nollywood Actor, Jim …
Instagram Kids: tech development must move from usability to safety: Facebook has announced that it is halting development on its Instagram Kids project. This follows reports that the social media giant had commissioned – and kept secret – internal research that found Instagram was detrimental to young people’s mental health. The study’s findings, not to …
Safety measures for kids in poor communities are often ignored: some reasons why: Children play on a trampoline in Alexandra, Johannesburg. EFE-EPA/Kim Ludbrook South Africans in impoverished communities are exposed to a greater risk of falling victim to violence. Children are not spared. Research shows that preventing harmful environments and situations reduces the burden of …
Code memory safety and efficiency by example: C is a high-level language with close-to-the-metal features that make it seem, at times, more like a portable assembly language than a sibling of Java or Python. Among these features is memory management, which covers an executing program’s safe and efficient use of memory. This article goes into …
How COVID-19 measures have affected food safety in East Africa: Traders leave their cabbages after the County Governor ordered the closure of the main open air market to curb the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus in Kisumu, Kenya. CASMIR ODUOR/AFP via Getty Images Foodborne diseases are thought to impose a health burden on society comparable …
South Africa in the news: Fire Safety Auditing Process: Read all the latest news, breaking stories, top headlines, opinion, pictures and videos about Fire Safety Auditing Process from Nigeria and the world on today.ng …: “South Africa” – BingNews Alun Wyn Jones ruled out of South Africa tour as shine taken off Lions victory: Captain …
South Africa in the news: India-Dubai travel: Frontliners keen to return home to the UAE amid new Covid safety rules: Many Indian healthcare professionals who are desperate to return to the Gulf told Khaleej Times of their eagerness to return, ever since the country announced a suspension in flights on April 24. >> …: “South …
Fifty-nine labs around world handle the deadliest pathogens – only a quarter score high on safety: A virologist stands between rows of cages for laboratory animals in the new high security laboratory (biosafety level 4) at the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine in Hamburg, Germany. dpa picture alliance/Alamy Stock Photo Did the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 …