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Human rights breaches in Afghanistan, Chechnya and Egypt
The European Parliament adopted three resolutions on the human rights breaches in Afghanistan, Chechnya and Egypt.
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Experiment: A project in Denver gave away $1,000 to vulnerable people, what were the results?
Six months later, most of the beneficiaries of the project were higher off It would not essentially purchase happiness, however each private expertise and scientific analysis present that when individuals…
Human Rights
Protect children at all times and at all places, UN envoys tell nations
In 2022, the UN verified 27,180 instances of grave violations targeting children – use in conflict, killing and maiming, rape and sexual violence, abduction, attacks on schools, and denial of…
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Ukraine: Report documents mounting deaths, rights violations
It reveals the lethal toll of Russia’s full-scale invasion on Ukrainian civilians, with nearly six individuals killed and 20 wounded on common each single day between February and July of…
Europe
ODIHR will address, together with experts, Anti-Religious Hate Crimes in a side event
The OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) will be organizing a side event called "Addressing Anti-Religious Hate Crime in the OSCE Area." This event is scheduled to…
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Women and girls continue to be killed, based on gender alone
“Women and girls continue to be killed on the basis of their sex and gender, rendered more vulnerable to femicide when being women and girls intersect with other grounds or…
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Atrocity crimes still being committed in Ethiopia, UN experts warn
The International Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia said it was vital independent investigators continue to review the country’s dire human rights situation.”“We are gravely concerned about the situation…
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World News in Brief: ‘Competing’ efforts to rebuild Derna, Myanmar mines threat, schools shut in Burkina Faso
Abdoulaye Bathily, who is also UN Special Representative, said that plans floated by different institutions and leaders for reconstruction, run the risk of deepening the existing rift between the internationally…
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We’re better off thanks to migrants, says new IOM chief
Speaking to reporters in Geneva on her first official day as head of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), Amy Pope said that migrants were “people first” who should not…
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Arbitrary detention still widespread in Mexico, rights expert warns
In a statement concluding a 12-day visit there, the UN expert group said that reforms including the transition to an accusatory criminal procedure, adherence to international human rights laws and…