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Sudan: Massive protection crisis continues warns UNHCR
“This is one of the largest protection crises that we are faced with today,” said Mamadou Dian Balde, UNHCR’s Regional Director for the East and Horn of Africa and Great…
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Iran: Rights experts ‘dismayed’ over continued imprisonment of Nobel Laureate Mohammadi
Ms. Mohammadi has been arrested multiple times, the first arrest being in 2011 for her advocacy for incarcerated human rights activists and their families. In 2015, she was rearrested and…
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UN warns of heightened risk of genocide and atrocity crimes in Ethiopia
“The incident reports that we see coming out of Ethiopia are deeply disturbing and constitute a call for action,” said Alice Wairimu Nderitu. “I want to particularly draw the attention…
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UN General Assembly elects 15 new members to Human Rights Council
After the ballots were cast and counted, Assembly President Dennis Francis announced Albania, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burundi, China, Côte d’Ivoire, Cuba, Dominican Republic, France, Ghana, Indonesia, Japan, Kuwait, Malawi, and the…
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UN rights expert urges key reforms in Cambodia
Vitit Muntarbhorn, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia, also said that the hereditary succession to power raised serious concerns with respect to human rights, democratic…
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OHCHR and WHO launched guidelines to end mistreatment in mental health services
In anticipation of World Mental Health Day, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights (OHCHR) have jointly introduced today a guidance titled…
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Mental health care ‘barriers’ must end, urges Guterres
Three in four people suffering from a mental health condition receive inadequate treatment – or none at all – UN Secretary-General said on Monday
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Why do we treat people as property of their tyrants?
By Hasanboy Burhanov - Founder of the political opposition movement Erkin O'zbekiston (Free Uzbekistan) On 2 October 2018, Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi dissident journalist, was killed by agents of the…
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Germany: Bavaria and the return of religious cleansing in the EU
You may be surprised that a “democratic” country like Germany, with the past we know, would engage in a religious cleansing today. Who wouldn’t be? Nevertheless, as hard as it…
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Nobel Peace Prize choice of Narges Mohammadi highlights ‘courage and determination’ of Iranian women
The Nobel Committee’s decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize to imprisoned Iranian human rights activist Narges Mohammadi underscores the “courage and determination” of the women of Iran, the UN…