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‘Make mental health and well-being for all a global priority’

Wednesday, 12 October 2022, 10:04 Last update: about 5 years ago Gertrude A Buttigieg

Focusing on Children is very relevant on the day chosen by the World Health Organisation to raise awareness on Mental health. The Office of the Commissioner for the Rights of persons with Mental...

The challenges ahead

Sunday, 9 October 2022, 07:31 Last update: about 5 years ago

“When America sneezes, the world catches a cold.” There are different theories and explanations as to when this popular adage was coined and to which crisis it refers to.  What...

How to really protect victims of gender-based violence

Sunday, 9 October 2022, 07:19 Last update: about 5 years ago

Like the rest of the world, I have been watching the events in Iran attentively. When the news broke that Mahsa Amini, a Kurdish-Iranian woman was arrested for wearing a hijab incorrectly and died as...

Drink driving and police misconduct

Sunday, 9 October 2022, 07:17 Last update: about 5 years ago Mark Said

The Malta Insurance Association (MIA) has made a number of serious allegations with regard to police misconduct. If it is true that the police are advising traffic accident victims not to report...

Navigating through the sudden increase in interest rates

Sunday, 9 October 2022, 07:16 Last update: about 5 years ago

The spike in energy and food prices caused by the war in Ukraine led the European Central Bank (ECB) to raise its interest rates by 1.25% over a few weeks. The ECB also stated that “based on its...

Why I keep going back to Ukraine

Sunday, 9 October 2022, 07:10 Last update: about 5 years ago Neil Camilleri

It’s not easy to put all these reasons down in words, but I will try my best. I have now been to Ukraine three times, in April, May and August-September. I started missing Ukraine the...

She is no more

Sunday, 2 October 2022, 06:59 Last update: about 5 years ago Mark Said

They called us the Queen Elizabeth II generation. Teenagers and 20-somethings, we were too young to have known or remembered any monarch but this woman on the British throne. And what a woman! No one...

The future we would rather have

Thursday, 29 September 2022, 09:45 Last update: about 5 years ago

I was recently invited to address a debate on the future of today’s youth organized by Freehour. I confess that I only realised how influential this medium is, when my teenage daughter uttered a...

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