14230 Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material https://news.yahoo.com/united-nations-own-experts-slam-224125377.htmlMore than a dozen United Nations independent rights experts are slamming the world agency on its response to the cholera epidemic in Haiti that has left more than 10,000 dead and over 800,000 infected after being introduced by U.N. peacekeepers shortly after Haiti’s devastating 2010 earthquake. The group, which includes outgoing U.Fri, 01 May 2020 01:03:00 +0200news-yahoo-4f8b4e62c131a9ccec0be973efd225da20200501010300https://foreignaffairs.co.nz/2020/05/01/coronavirus-is-significant-but-is-it-a-true-black-swan-event-136675/– By Glenn McGillivray, Managing Director, Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction, Western University. Since the “black swan” metaphor was coined in the 2007 book of the same name it has become fashionable to label virtually all low probability/high impact events black swans.Thu, 30 Apr 2020 18:51:00 +0200foreignaffairs-nz-1797815e904326d0e6cf550e444a6e8620200430185100https://www.internal-displacement.org/expert-opinion/did-you-know-that-millions-of-people-around-the-world-are-still-uprooted-from-theirLast week, countless homes were destroyed by flash floods in displacement sites across Yemen . With the population already suffering from one of the world’s worst humanitarian crisis following years of war, how long will it be before people can return home and rebuild? For the first time, IDMC has....Wed, 29 Apr 2020 17:05:00 +0200internal-displacement-88e06351a52fbe87946fefb9d3b94edd20200429170500http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-04/29/c_139017866.htmby Yosley Carrero. HAVANA, April 28 (Xinhua) -- Cuban general practitioner Yamilet Castaneda has taken up the challenge to confront COVID-19 outbreak far from home doing what she can best do: saving lives. The 47-year-old doctor said she did not hesitate to say yes when asked about whether she could combat the rampant virus in South Africa.Wed, 29 Apr 2020 08:47:00 +0200xinhuanet_en-33a4ec894badae960efafc5b2bb7ec8420200429084700