The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has written President Muhammed Buhari on the need to enshrine water as a human right in the Nigerian Constitution.
The preparatory workshop for the January 2018 WHO Watch commenced on Tuesday 16 January, at the PSI Head Office in Geneva. Fourteen young health activists and academics from across the world are participating in the 4-day workshop, which will equip them to observe and make interventions at the 142nd session of the World Health Organization Executive Board on 22-27 January.
In only three days, from January 8 to 11, the president of the United States eliminated the Temporary Protected Status for Salvadoran immigrants and said that El Salvador, Haiti and African nations are "shithole countries". His words were rejected by many people around the world. The president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) issued two strong statements.