Shattering the Veil of Silence: Confronting the Global Peril of Suicide Stigma

World Suicide Prevention Day10 September every year is World Suicide Prevention Day. Suicide is a serious public health problem; however, suicides are preventable with timely, evidence-based and often low-cost interventions. For national responses to be effective, a comprehensive multisectoral suicide prevention strategy is needed.

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Religious Leaders from all Faith Institutions and Traditions, Call for A Vaccine for All

Vaccine for All

As we near the end of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic is ravaging families and communities, shuttering nations and impeding livelihoods. While the Pandemic has revealed the deep fissures of inequality and our common human and institutional fragility, it has underlined the indisputable interconnectedness and interdependence of our existence. This Pandemic, emerging from and with the existential threat to our very planet, is challenging humanity to be united in solidarity, to demonstrate global fraternity, and to protect and nurture shared well-being.

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Tibet: Losar Festivities Cancelled in Lhasa amid Coronavirus Alert

Large-scale Losar festivities have been curtailed in Lhasa. The local authorities in Tibet on Monday announced the suspension of “large-scale traditional religious activities” in celebration of Losar, the traditional Tibetan New Year, in Lhasa, citing the need to curtail the spread of the deadly novel coronavirus outbreak, now officially named COVID-19 by the World Health Organization.

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