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UN rights chief denounces ‘glorification of violence’ and attack on rule of law
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“No one is safe when human rights are under attack,” Mr. Türk told the Human Rights Council, warning that the rules of war “are being shredded”.“Some States are becoming an…
Human Rights
Amid reports of intensifying bombardment in Gaza City overnight, the Middle East crisis took centre stage at the UN on Tuesday, starting at the global body's Geneva headquarters, where Israel…
Human Rights
In a new report published against the backdrop of intensifying Israeli military operations in Gaza City, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East…
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The rights office, OHCHR, interviewed 314 witnesses who left the DPRK – more commonly known as North Korea – and consulted with several organizations and experts to evaluate the human…
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By Eric Roux Eric Roux is the Chair of the Global Council of the United Religions Initiative (URI), the world’s largest grassroots interfaith network, active in over 110 countries, and…
Human Rights
Shortly after presenting a mandated report to the Human Rights Council in Geneva on Tuesday, chair of the Fact-Finding Mission on Sudan, Mohamed Chande Othman, insisted that both the Sudanese…
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“They burned everything,” said one witness of a shelling attack in the Zamzam displacement camp in war-torn Darfur. “They claimed they only wanted to fight soldiers, but they punished the…
Human Rights
Doing so is key to dismantling systemic racism that is rooted in legacies of slavery and colonialism, it said.Actions include formal apologies, truth-seeking, memorialisation and education measures, medical and psychosocial…
Africa
In a conflict as long and devastating as Sudan’s, optics are important, perhaps especially so when the conflict has its roots in a split between forces who once fought alongside each other.…
Human Rights
US authorities deported between 30 and 60 Russian citizens in one day in the middle of this week, Dmitry Valuev, president of the non-governmental organization Russian America for Democracy in…
