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Bangladesh using enforced disappearances, extrajudicial killings to silence rights defenders: Experts

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Bangladesh using enforced disappearances, extrajudicial killings to silence rights defenders: Experts

‘Chilling effect’Odhikar has “documented enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings and cooperated with UN human rights mechanisms in this context,” the three experts said.“Such reprisals also have a chilling effect and…

11 July 2023 · 2 min read

Türk calls for respect of religious symbols as rights council urgently debates Quran burnings

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Türk calls for respect of religious symbols as rights council urgently debates Quran burnings

Addressing the Human Rights Council, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk noted that the tome was the “core of faith” for well over one billion Muslims. Those who…

11 July 2023 · 3 min read

Security Council fails to reach consensus on Syria aid lifeline

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Security Council fails to reach consensus on Syria aid lifeline

The disruption comes as humanitarian needs are at an all-time high after more than 12 years of war and in the wake of the devastating double earthquakes that struck the…

11 July 2023 · 4 min read

Mothers of Srebrenica: ‘Sadly, the killing continues in the world…’

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Mothers of Srebrenica: ‘Sadly, the killing continues in the world…’

Among the exhibit’s visitors were members of the Mothers of Srebrenica, an association that united thousands of people – mothers, sisters, and wives – who have lost loved ones in…

11 July 2023 · 5 min read

Sudan crisis: You don’t dare ask refugees where the men have gone, say UN aid teams

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Sudan crisis: You don’t dare ask refugees where the men have gone, say UN aid teams

From the World Food Programme (WFP), Chad Country Director Pierre Honnorat said that 20,000 people crossed into Chad just last week.Speaking to journalists via Zoom from the Zabout refugee camp…

11 July 2023 · 3 min read

One year of the Black Sea Initiative: Key facts and figures

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One year of the Black Sea Initiative: Key facts and figures

Discover the achievements of the Black Sea Grain Initiative, which has exported over 32 million tonnes of food commodities to 45 countries globally. This initiative has helped lower food prices,…

10 July 2023 · 6 min read

Yemen: Transfer of oil from decaying ship expected to start next week

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Yemen: Transfer of oil from decaying ship expected to start next week

Carrying over 1.1 million barrels of oil, the supertanker FSO Safer was abandoned off Yemen’s Red Sea port of Hudaydah after the civil war broke out in the country in…

10 July 2023 · 3 min read

OHCHR ‘very concerned’ over militarization of public security in Honduras

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OHCHR ‘very concerned’ over militarization of public security in Honduras

OHCHR Spokesperson Marta Hurtado told journalists in Geneva that the Government had issued a 45-day extension on Wednesday. “The state of emergency, in force in 17 of the 18 departments in…

7 July 2023 · 2 min read

UN relief chief calls for continued support for Syria and other crisis regions

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UN relief chief calls for continued support for Syria and other crisis regions

The “relief chief” was speaking to journalists at UN Headquarters in New York just as these two separate lifesaving initiatives are set to expire in the coming days.He also voiced…

7 July 2023 · 4 min read

UN rights experts ‘appalled’ by attack on Russian journalist and lawyer in Chechnya

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UN rights experts ‘appalled’ by attack on Russian journalist and lawyer in Chechnya

Yelena Milashina, who works for the independent investigative news service Novaya Gazeta, was travelling with Alexander Nemov when they were attacked on Monday morning on their way to covering the…

7 July 2023 · 4 min read