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UN expert urges immediate review of discredited UK sentencing scheme
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UN expert urges immediate review of discredited UK sentencing scheme

As of the end of 2022, close to 2,900 people were still being held under the scheme.Unresolved legacyBetween 2005 and 2012, English and Welsh courts used the IPP legislation to…

8 September 2023 · 3 min read

UN rights chief calls for immediate restoration of constitutional order in Niger
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UN rights chief calls for immediate restoration of constitutional order in Niger

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, called on Friday for Niger’s democratically elected officials to be released “at once”, following their detention in the attempted coup last…

8 September 2023 · 1 min read

DR Congo: Few worse places to be a child warns UNICEF as twins found boobytrapped
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DR Congo: Few worse places to be a child warns UNICEF as twins found boobytrapped

DR Congo has the highest tally of UN-verified grave violations against children in places experiencing armed conflict

8 September 2023 · 3 min read

Lebanon: School occupations condemned as violence grips Palestine refugee camp
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Lebanon: School occupations condemned as violence grips Palestine refugee camp

Thousands of children have been put at risk amid a resurgence of violence at a Palestine refugee camp in Lebanon, the UN’s top humanitarian official in the country said on…

8 September 2023 · 1 min read

Eastern DRC: UN food aid hangs in the balance amid severe funding crunch
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Eastern DRC: UN food aid hangs in the balance amid severe funding crunch

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is grappling with a dire humanitarian crisis fuelled by ongoing political instability and armed conflicts, severely impacting the entire food supply, the UN…

8 September 2023 · 1 min read

Rights experts call for second UN Decade for People of African Descent
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Rights experts call for second UN Decade for People of African Descent

They stressed that more than ever, the world urgently needs humanity to unite and collaborate in a spirit of equality and non-discrimination. “This demands political will to eliminate all forms of…

8 September 2023 · 4 min read

Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh need urgent support as crises multiply: UNHCR
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Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh need urgent support as crises multiply: UNHCR

The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, is calling on the international community to renew its commitment to the nearly one million Rohingya refugees who have fled persecution in Myanmar for neighbouring…

8 September 2023 · 1 min read

Guterres calls for end to ‘atrocious crime’ of enforced disappearances
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Guterres calls for end to ‘atrocious crime’ of enforced disappearances

Enforced disappearance has regularly been used as a tool for instilling fear and exert control over a population. The feeling of insecurity it generates is not limited to close relatives…

8 September 2023 · 3 min read

Top UN aid official in Ukraine deplores latest wave of ‘massive Russian attacks’
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Top UN aid official in Ukraine deplores latest wave of ‘massive Russian attacks’

Russian strikes on at least 10 regions in Ukraine have left a path of death and destruction over the past 24 hours, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in the country said…

8 September 2023 · 1 min read

Syrians suffer as political stalemate persists: UN Special Envoy
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Syrians suffer as political stalemate persists: UN Special Envoy

The only path out of the war in Syria is a political process, which would also help to address the many crises affecting the country, UN Special Envoy Geir Pedersen…

8 September 2023 · 1 min read