Following its expulsion from the Council of Europe on 16 March 2022, the Russian Federation will cease to be a High Contracting Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022. This was confirmed today in a Resolution by the Committee of Ministers.
In line with the Resolution of the European Court of Human Rights of 22 March 2022, the Court will deal with applications directed against Russia in relation to alleged violations of the Convention that occurred until 16 September 2022.
The Committee of Ministers (CM) will continue to supervise the execution of judgments and of friendly settlements.
Russia is bound to fulfil its full financial obligations up to 16 March; it also remains liable for all arrears accrued at that date.
As the world focuses its attention on the war in Ukraine, the UN reminded the international community on Thursday to remember Afghanistan as it kicked off a pledging conference to save the lives and livelihoods of those in the landlocked country. As the conference drew to a close, it was announced that a total amount of $2.44 billion had been promised.
Despite persistent humanitarian needs sparked by years of conflict and recurring drought, the current situation in Afghanistan is unparalleled, with more than 24.4 million people requiring humanitarian assistance to survive, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
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Food security levels have plunged at an alarming rate, leaving half the population facing acute hunger, including nine million in a state of emergency food insecurity – the highest number in the world.
Moreover, malnutrition is on the rise, and livelihoods have been destroyed.
To help mitigate the situation, the Secretary-General António Guterres on Thursday, launched a High-level Pledging Event, Supporting the Humanitarian Response in Afghanistan – co-hosted by the United Kingdom, Germany and Qatar.
Last year, as the country faced profound turmoil and international isolation, donors showed remarkable generosity for Afghans.
A $1.8 billion disbursement to aid groups was able to assist 20 million people with life-saving food, clean water, healthcare, shelter and education.
International donors are asked to keep the funds flowing and growing again this year.
The UN-coordinated relief operation – the largest but not the only one in Afghanistan – is appealing for $4.4 billion, three times the amount requested in 2021.
Afghans ‘selling body parts’ to survive
“Without immediate action, we face a starvation and malnutrition crisis in Afghanistan”, said Mr. Guterres, in his address to the conference.
“People are already selling their children and their body parts, in order to feed their families. Afghanistan’s economy has effectively collapsed. There is very little cash.”
He said even international aid agencies, could “barely function” and local partners face even greater challenges.
Humanitarian needs have tripled since last June, the UN chief warned, “and they are growing, day by day”.
He said the international community must find ways to spare the Afghan people from the impact of the decision to halt development support, and freeze nearly $9 billion in Afghan assets overseas.
“It must make cash available, so the Afghan economy can breathe, and the Afghan people can eat”, he declared. “Wealthy, powerful countries cannot ignore the consequences of their decisions on the most vulnerable.
“The first step in any meaningful humanitarian response must be to halt the death spiral of the Afghan economy. Without that, even the best funded and most effective aid operation will not save the people of Afghanistan from an unimaginable future.”
Mr. Guterres reiterated that the UN stands together with the people of Afghanistan.
“I welcome the Security Council’s recent resolution renewing the mandate of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, with a focus on coordinating humanitarian aid and promoting human rights.
“We have the power to stop the downward humanitarian spiral in Afghanistan and it is our moral duty to use this power by pledging generous, flexible and unconditional funding today,” said UN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths.
Speaking from Kabul, the Emergency Relief Coordinator said he had been profoundly disturbed after visiting a hospital where he saw severely acutely malnourished children being fed in intensive care.
“The humanitarian situation here is grim, for tens of millions of people, life hangs just by a thread…six out of every 10 Afghans need humanitarian aid today.”
Mr. Griffiths said that the economy remains “too weak to sustain the lives of ordinary Afghans” who are suffering the most.
Today, half the population faces acute hunger, including nine million who are in a state of “emergency food insecurity”; this is the highest number in the world.
US pledges more than $500 million
The United States led the list of pledges at the end of Thursday’s conference, committing just over $512 million in aid, for 2022. Other leading donors were the United Kingdom with over $374 million, Germany, with just under $220 million and China, which promised a total of $200 million.
There were a total of 41 announcements of aid, including 15 pledges specifically for the Afghanistan Humanitarian Fund. Some nations, including Spain and Iceland, also committed to funding for Afghanistan, for 2023 and beyond.
Making a difference
As fund-raising has so far secured only 13 per cent of the requirements of the 2022 Humanitarian Response Plan, pledges of support – which will continue for the remainder of the year – are urgently needed to ramp up deliveries.
In the first eight weeks of 2022, humanitarian partners reached 12.7 million people with life-saving assistance, prioritizing women, girls and minority groups.
Deliveries have included nutritious food for hundreds of thousands of malnourished children and pregnant and breastfeeding women; healthy meals for schoolchildren; seeds and tools for farmers; and trauma treatment and reproductive healthcare.
Participants are encouraged to pledge generously to send out a strong signal of solidarity that the world stands with the Afghan people.
Negotiating ‘fault lines’
Before the conference, the head of the UN Development Programme (UNDP), Achim Steiner, made a two-day trip to the country, where he underscored the importance of girls’ and women’s rights in Afghanistan.
Recent decisions barring girls from secondary school from Grade 6 onwards is of great concern, he said, upholding that UNDP is committed to working with UN agencies to defend and promote their access to education and work.
“UNDP’s partnerships are often multidimensional, and sometimes we are faced with challenges that, like girls’ education in Afghanistan, can become fault lines,” he said.
“Both boys and girls must be allowed in the classrooms because the future of Afghanistan must be for all Afghans, not just a selected few”.
Soaring poverty
The UNDP chief likewise flagged the urgent need for action to prevent rocketing poverty and economic instability.
“We reported late last year that an estimated 97 per cent of Afghans could be living in poverty by mid-2022, and regrettably, that number is being reached faster than anticipated,” he said.
“And with commodities pricing skyrocketing globally, we know that people here cannot afford to meet their basic human needs like food, healthcare, and education”.
Support women business owners
In Mazar-e-Sharif, Mr. Steiner met with women business owners and members of the Chamber of Commerce who spoke of their struggles to keep businesses afloat.
“The women small business owners I spoke with are tenacious in their determination to continue to earn an income and provide for their families and communities against all odds,” he Mr Steiner, pushing the international community to help prevent further economic hardships for them.
“This year alone, we aim to support more than 50,000 small and medium enterprises, many of which are led by women.”
Swimming in debt
Following the Taliban takeover last August, Afghanistan is facing a potentially non-reversable economic collapse, a frozen banking system and a liquidity shortage that may leave some 80 per cent of people in debt.
“We must get the economy back up and running from the ground up, and that means support to individuals, their families and their businesses,” said the UNDP chief, advocating for generosity at the pledging conference.
“While the world’s attention is turned to Ukraine and the ripple effect from that war, we must also stand in solidarity with the Afghan people”.
A total of 11 individuals suspected of being part of an Armenian organised crime group involved in the large-scale import and distribution of counterfeit cigarettes have been arrested by French Customs (judicial investigation unit of the Ministry of Finance) with the support of Europol’s European Financial and Economic Crime Centre (EFECC).
On 15 March, over 40 judicial customs investigators, with the support of special intervention teams of the French National Police (RAID) and two Europol experts deployed on the ground, simultaneously searched 13 sites, including industrial premises as well as private residences, in and around the city of Lyon.
In addition to the arrests, over 2.5 tonnes of counterfeit cigarettes were seized, worth about EUR 1 250 000 in France, alongside EUR 100 000 in cash and EUR 150 000 in winning lottery tickets bought by the criminals to launder the profits. Four guns and many types of ammunition were seized.
The French investigators have since then been able to uncover that the counterfeit cigarettes were imported from different European countries, before being stored in warehouses located in industrial areas and then sold on the black market in several French cities.
Coordination by Europol
Europol’s EFECC supported the investigation by providing its secure communication platform and facilitating international cooperation between France and a number of other European countries, running cross-checks and providing analytical support and operational expertise. Two of its experts were deployed to Lyon to support the French Customs on the action day.
Excise fraud is currently an EU law enforcement priority. Strategic and operational plans have been developed under the European Multidisciplinary Platform Against Crime Threats (EMPACT) Excise Fraud Project. Under this umbrella, a total of 24 countries led by Belgium are working together on countering the illicit production of cigarettes in the European Union.
Crypto-assets’ transfers would need to be traced and identified to prevent their use in money laundering, terrorist financing, and other crimes.
On Thursday, MEPs from the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) and the Committee on Civil Liberties (LIBE) adopted, with 93 votes to 14 and 14 abstentions, their position on draft legislation strengthening EU rules against money laundering and terrorist financing.
Under the new requirements agreed by MEPs, all transfers of crypto-assets will have to include information on the source of the asset and its beneficiary, information that is to be made available to the competent authorities. The rules would also cover transactions from so-called unhosted wallets (a crypto-asset wallet address that is in the custody of a private user). Technological solutions should ensure that these asset transfers can be individually identified.
The aim is to ensure that crypto transfers can be traced and suspicious transactions blocked. The rules would not apply to person-to-person transfers conducted without a provider, such as bitcoins trading platforms, or among providers acting on their own behalf.
No minimum thresholds
Due to their speed and virtual nature, crypto-asset transactions easily circumvent existing rules based on transaction thresholds. MEPs decided therefore to remove minimum thresholds and exemptions for low-value transfers.
Public register of high-risk entities
MEPs want the European Banking Authority (EBA) to create a public register of businesses and services involved in crypto-assets that may have a high risk of money-laundering, terrorist financing and other criminal activities, including a non-exhaustive list of non-compliant providers.
Before making the crypto-assets available to beneficiaries, providers would have to verify that the source of the asset is not subject to restrictive measures and that there are no risks of money laundering or terrorism financing.
Quotes
Ernest Urtasun (Greens/EFA, ES), co-rapporteur for ECON said: “Illicit flows in crypto-assets move largely undetected across Europe and the world, which makes them an ideal instrument for ensuring anonymity. As illustrated by all the recent money-laundering scandals, from the Panama Papers to the Pandora Papers, criminals thrive where rules allowing for confidentiality allow for secrecy and anonymity. With this proposal for a regulation, the EU will close this loophole.”
Co-rapporteur for LIBE Assita Kanko (ECR, BE) said: “Our report has two goals: to protect and to normalise. We should be facilitating the use of crypto-assets by people of good will safely and correctly, as well as protecting against the use of crypto-assets for terrorist financing, extortion, child sexual abuse material or money laundering. But we also seek to normalise the crypto world as it grows, implementing rules that create trust. More than a decade after the creation of Bitcoin, it is high time we took these important steps for our citizens.”
Next steps
The adopted text represents the draft mandate for MEPs to negotiate the final shape of the legislation with EU governments. The EP as a whole should vote on it during the plenary session in April.
Background
The new rules are part of a new Anti-money laundering package, which sets out measures to strengthen the EU rules on combating money laundering and terrorist financing. It addresses the shortcomings of the existing framework, which include ineffective implementation, weak oversight and insufficient detection of suspicious transactions.
Currently there are no rules in the EU allowing crypto-asset transfers to be traced and providing information on the originator/beneficiary of such crypto-asset transfers.
Find out about the economic inequalities that continue to persist between women and men in the EU.
It has been more than 25 years since the adoption of the UN’s Beijing Declaration, which aims to promote equality between men and women. The same goal lies behind the creation of UN Women – dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women – and the inclusion of gender equality in the Sustainable Development Goals.
So where do we stand? Progress has been made, but inequality between men and women persists, including on the labour market. On average, women in the EU are paid less than men.
The gender pay gap is the difference in average wages between men and women
The unadjusted gender pay gap is the difference between the average gross hourly earnings of men and women expressed as a percentage of male earnings. It does not take into account education, age, hours worked or type of job.
The data only includes companies with 10 or more employees
Women in the EU earn on average almost 13% less per hour than men. There are large differences between member states: in 2020, the biggest gender pay gap was recorded in Latvia (22.3%), while the EU country with the lowest gender pay gap was Luxembourg (0.7%). Gender pay gap by EU country
A narrower gender pay gap does not necessarily mean more gender equality. It often occurs in countries with lower female employment. A high pay gap may indicate that women are more concentrated in low-paid sectors or that a significant proportion of them work part-time.
The reasons behind the gender pay gap are not simple – many factors need to be taken into account. It’s connected to much more than the issue of equal pay for equal work.
Statistics about women and men on the labour market
Although more women than men finish higher education in the EU, they are represented less on the labour market. Almost 30% of women in the EU work part-time compared to 8.4% of men and they are much more likely to stop work to take care of children and relatives.
An important reason for the gender pay gap is the overrepresentation of women in relatively low paying sectors and underrepresentation in higher-paid sectors. For example, on average in 2020, women held 34% of managerial positions in the EU and 41% of positions in the science and engineering sectors
The gender pay gap means women are at higher risk of poverty in old age. In 2020, women in the EU aged over 65 received pensions that were on average 28.3% lower than male pensions. The situation between member states differs here as well: from a 41.5% pension gap in Malta to 0.1% in Estonia.
Nataliia Vladimirova fled her home in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on the first day of the Russian invasion, on 24 February, with her four-year-old daughter Oleksandra and mother-in-law. They are amongst the thousands of Ukrainian refugees with temporary protection status in Portugal. She shares her heart-wrenching story of family separation and loss, with UN News.
Ms. Vladimirova is an accountant and former teacher in Kharkiv University. Along with her daughter and mother-in-law, she arrived in Lisbon on a humanitarian flight organized by the Portuguese government on March 14th.
With the help of volunteers, they found a local family willing to share their apartment whilst they seek official refugee status. More than 22,700 other Ukrainians, and third country citizens formerly living in Ukraine, have been given temporary protection status in Portugal.
Ms. Vladimirova spoke to UN News on March 24, one month into the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
“I’m from Kharkiv, which is now a very dangerous city. It’s the epicentre of this war. Today is an emotional day for me, because it’s been a month since I left home. I can still picture our apartment, and all of the belongings that we had to leave behind.
Before the war started, I suggested that we should leave the country, but my husband said “no, it’s ok, this is the 21st century, how is war possible?”. But, just in case, I prepared our documents. Then, on the 24th of February, my husband woke me up and said “it’s beginning!”.
When we left the city, we didn’t leave Ukraine right away, because we thought that we would be able to return home after a few days.
We ended up moving between many Ukrainian cities, where many people helped us. Our first stop was Dnipro, where one of my husband’s co-workers let us stay in his apartment. But we heard sirens after the first day, and decided to move on.
My husband was told that he was not allowed to leave the country, and he asked me to leave without him. I said that I loved him, and couldn’t leave him. This was in Kryvyi Rih, and he’s still there.
Relying on the comfort of strangers
But I had to leave. I told him that he should get his mother to leave Kharkiv and join us in Kryvyi Rih, and then we planned to get out of the country, Oleksandra, my mother-in-law and me.
Before arriving in Portugal, we drove to the Ukrainian border and crossed into Romania. We didn’t know anyone there, and we asked the Red Cross for help. They found us a place to stay for the night.
Then we drove to Bucharest, where a humanitarian flight was arranged, to take us, and the other Ukrainian refugees, to Portugal.
We have been helped by so many volunteers along the way. In Romania, they would make breakfast for us, without asking for anything in return. In Portugal, volunteers met us at the airport and helped us to find an apartment.
Our host in Lisbon, Maria, is so beautiful and kind. She has explained all about Portugal, and what I should do to find a school for my daughter, and how to go about getting a job. Her friends have also helped, by giving us clothes.
Although she is only four, my daughter knows that there is a terrible war happening back home, that there is shooting. She asks her grandmother why her grandfather is not here. She says that he should come to Portugal because Kharkiv is too dangerous.
My biggest fear is that I will never see my husband again.”
This interview has been edited for clarity and length
Briefing journalists in New York, UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric, noted that the first convoy had arrived in Sumy nearly two weeks ago, with another inter-agency relief mission reaching nearby Kharkiv, earlier this week.
“In today’s convoy, which included seven trucks delivered food, medicines and hygiene products that will be distributed by the Ukrainian Red Cross Society and its local partners, and that will take place in the days ahead.”
This included food for nearly 6,000 people provided by the World Food Programme (WFP) and the NGO “People in Need”; hygiene products for around 6,000; blankets, sleeping bags and solar lamps for more than 1,500 from the UN refugee agency, UNHCR.
Critical medical supplies for more than10,000 people for the next three months were also supplied, care of the World Health Organization (WHO).
In a statement issued by the Humanitarian Coordinator for Ukraine, Osnat Lubrani, she said the humanitarian notification system with Ukraine and Russia, facilitated by the UN humanitarian coordination wing OCHA, had enabled safe passage for the convoy into Sumy.
But this is clearly not enough, she stressed. She added the UN needed to reach the most vulnerable people affected by the grave humanitarian crisis across the whole country.
Mariupol, Chernihiv, out of reach
“We and our partners have still not been able to reach areas where people are in desperate need of support, including Mariupol, Kherson and Chernihiv, despite extensive efforts and ongoing engagement with the parties to the conflict”, ssaid Mr. Dujarric.
“We are continuing our dialogue with both parties to the conflict with the aim of urgently, immediately and consistently negotiating and facilitating the delivery of critical humanitarian assistance to the people who have been hardest-hit by this ongoing war.”
More aid
Sexual and reproductive health agency UNFPA, said it has transported 3,000 ‘dignity kits’, containing soap, underwear and other basic items, but essential hygiene items to social service centres, shelters and crisis rooms for gender-based violence survivors, in Dnipro, Poltava and Zaporizhzhia.
The UN migration agency IOM, received a shipment of 20,000 high energy biscuits at its warehouse in Lviv, Mr. Dujarric said. The mission will send the stock to eastern Ukraine and distribute to those most in need, targeting children and pregnant and lactating mothers in particular.
Bread distribution inside a subway station in Kharkiv, Ukraine.
Russians ‘transfer control’ of Chernobyl site: IAEA
The Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Mariano Grossi, arrived in the Russian region of Kaliningrad on Thursday, for talks with senior Russian officials on nuclear safety and the protection of plants in Ukraine.
This followed “detailed discussions” on Wednesday, he said, with senior Ukrainian government officials at South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) to review the concrete steps that need to be taken to immediately deliver urgent technical assistance for nuclear safety and security to Ukraine.
Ukraine told the IAEA on Thursday that “the Russian forces that have been in control of Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant since 24 February had, in writing, transferred control of the NPP to Ukrainian personnel and moved two convoys of troops towards Belarus.”
A third convoy had also left the city of Slavutych, where many of the power plant’s staff live.
“In addition, Ukraine reported that there are still some Russian forces” at the NPP site, “but presumed that those forces are preparing to leave.”
The IAEA is in close consultations with Ukrainian authorities on sending the Agency’s first assistance and support mission to Chernobyl, in the next few days, Director General Grossi said.
‘Unable to confirm’ reports of radiation poisoning
In his statement, Mr. Grossi said the IAEA “has not been able to confirm reports of Russian forces receiving high doses of radiation”, while inside the Chernobyl exclusion zone.
Multiple news outlets on Thursday, reported that Russian troops had begun leaving the site of the 1986 nuclear disaster, after suffering significant doses of potentially deadly radiation, digging trenches on the forest floor, inside the exclusion zone.
The staff at the site, oversee the safe storage of defunct fuel rods, and the remnants of the exploded reactor at Chernobyl, which is encased in concrete below ground level.
Reactor 3 of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, in Ukraine.
UNHCR chief calls for end to war
Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi, appealed on Thursday “in the strongest terms” for an end to the Russian offensive, calling on the international community to provide sustained support to the millions of civilians impacted by the fighting.
“The speed of the displacement, coupled with the huge numbers of people affected, is unprecedented in Europe in recent memory,” he said, at the end of a visit to Lviv, in western Ukraine.
“I have spoken with women, with children, who have been gravely affected by this war,” he said, in a statement. “Forced to flee extraordinary levels of violence, they have left behind their homes and often their families, leaving them shocked and traumatized.
A young boy recovers at a hospital in Lviv, Ukraine, after being injured in the car he was travelling ran over a landmine.
Women and girls facing multiple threats
The head of gender agency UN Women, Sima Bahous, issued a strong statement on Ukraine on behalf of women and girls, warning that as they represent 90 per cent of all those fleeing their homes, “they are uniquely exposed to gender-based specific risks such as trafficking, sexual and gender-based violence and denial of access to essential services and goods.”
She said that reports of some of these risks, “already becoming reality have begun to surface. This demands an urgent gender-intentional response to ensure the specific rights and needs of women and girls are prioritized.”
She reiterated the UN Secretary-General’s urgent call for peace: “The war must stop now.”
She added that women’s civil society organizations inside Ukraine, and in neighbouring countries, were “uniquely qualified” to help meet the needs of women and girls on the run.
“The majority of these organizations remain operational, committed to supporting Ukraine’s women and girls, increasingly at the risk of their own lives.
“Women’s organizations lie at the heart of UN Women’s response in Ukraine. We have directly allocated immediate funds to women’s civil society organisations, with more to follow, alongside additional funds coming through the United Nations Women, Peace and Humanitarian Fund for which UN Women is the Secretariat.”
On Thursday, the Russian president said he had signed a decree requiring foreign buyers to pay in rubles for Russian gas deliveries from Friday 1 April, and providing for the suspension of current contracts if they do not comply.
Last week, Vladimir Putin announced that Gazprom’s European customers would have to pay their bills in rubles instead of euros or dollars. He presented this measure as a way to strengthen Russia’s “sovereignty” in the face of Western sanctions, including the freezing of part of the assets of its central bank.
“To buy Russian natural gas, they [companies importing Russian gas] must open ruble accounts in Russian banks. It is from these accounts that payments for gas delivered from tomorrow will be made,” the Russian president said in a televised address.
“If such payments are not made, we will consider this a default by the buyers, with all the consequences that follow. No one sells us anything for free, and we are not going to do charity either – that is, the existing contracts will be cancelled,” he said.
Europeans refuse, Olaf Scholz, the German chancellor announced that Europe will continue to pay for Russian gas in euros or dollars. at a press conference with his Austrian counterpart, Karl Nehammer.
“It is written in the contracts that payments are made in euros and sometimes in dollars,” “I told the Russian president clearly that it would remain so” and “companies want to be able to pay in euros and will do so,” he added.
French Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire, at a press conference with German Economy Minister Robert Habeck, said, “There may be a situation where tomorrow, in very special circumstances, there will be no more Russian gas (…) it is up to us to prepare for these scenarios, and we are preparing for them.”
TORINO, ITALY, March 31, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ — We inform you that Filippo Di Nardo is no longer associated with the sportswear department, in fact he has never been, clothing and equipment have always been two things completely different from each other and managed by two different companies.
The Di Nardo branded sportswear line enters the market in 2020.
In the first period, this line, seemed destined to be a success, but less than a year after its launch, customers began to complain about the after-sales service, inexistent contacts, email addresses to which no one answers, and here it is, the perfect storm
Filippo Di Nardo therefore, being repeatedly contacted by dissatisfied customers and fed up with being ignored by the English company responsible for the management of sportswear, and after helping them to solve their problems, from Italy, he firmly decided to distance himself by this company, as a matter of fact, there is already a damage of image towards the Godfather of boxinggloves.
We therefore invite you, in case of problems with the UK-based sportswear department, not to contact Filippo Di Nardo as he will not accept any complaint addressed to him, and will not intervene in any way to resolve it.
Filippo Di Nardo deals solely and exclusively with the creation of the equipment in Italy, in the country where he currently resides and responds only in the name of the product he produces. Anyone who has purchased one of his creations knows perfectly well the excellence and professionalism of his service.
For now there are no further updates on this story, in fact, however, by taking a tour on the net to find more information, we could see that the public Estimates and Admires the Godfather of boxing gloves (Filippo Di Nardo) excellent is his reputation as a craftsman, as his gloves are considered authentic works of art.
Certainly the same cannot be said of clothing, of which, without detracting from the quality of the garments that seem to have been appreciated, in fact, some of the reviews seen on the net are certainly not the most flattering.
NEW YORK — A picture-book edition of a bestseller co-authored by the Nobel Peace Prize winners the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu will be published this fall.
Random House Children’s Books announced Tuesday that “The Little Book of Joy” will come out Sept. 27, with Rachel Neumann and Douglas Abrams collaborating on the text, and illustrations provided by artist Rafael López. In 2016, Archbishop Tutu and the Dalai Lama worked together on “The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World,” which has sold more than 1 million copies and has been translated into more than 40 languages.
Tutu died last year at age 91.
“We are thrilled and honored that His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu created this book with us that brings their important message of joy directly to children,” Mallory Loher, executive vice president and publisher of “The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World,” said in a statement.
“Particularly in light of the Archbishop’s passing, we are lucky to have this uplifting book that can inspire future generations of children to look at the world through his unique lens of wonder, generosity, and celebration,” Loher said.
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