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UN calls for urgent action against human trafficking
The UN chief highlights the alarming rise of human trafficking, with women and children being the majority of victims, and calls for action and awareness to end this heinous crime.
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Heatwave threat impacts half of all children in Europe and Central Asia
This is expected to rise to all children in 2050, according to Regina De Dominicis, UNICEF Regional Director Europe and Central Asia. She said countries there are feeling the heat...
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Cambodia: UN rights chief regrets ‘severely restricted’ poll and opposition clampdown
In a news release issued by his Office, Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, denounced “constant shrinkage” in Cambodia’s democratic space in recent years, which he said is...
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Türk calls on Israeli Government to ‘heed the calls of the people’ over judicial reform
Volker Türk said he had been “following developments closely” in Israel, where parliamentarians supporting the hard-line nationalist Government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu passed a bill on Monday which in...
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During visit to Greece, UN official calls for enhanced refugee protection
During the visit, Ms. Triggs mentioned that one of the worst shipwrecks in the Mediterranean happened just over a month ago. Protecting refugee rights “The Pylos tragedy and the other...
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Russia urged to free opposition leader Kara-Murza amid failing health
Mr. Kara-Murza, 41, an outspoken critic of the Kremlin and the war in Ukraine, was arbitrarily arrested in Moscow on 11 April 2022. He was sentenced to 25 years in...
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Sound of Freedom, Liberating Innocence: A Heroic Journey Against Sex Trafficking
"Sound of Freedom" is a 2023 movie based on the true story of Tim Ballard, a former US government agent who quits his job to rescue children from global sex...
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Children forcibly separated from mothers at Syria’s Al Hol, warns top rights expert
Fionnuala Ni Aolain, UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, is the first independent rights expert to gain access to...
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Libya: Rights experts denounce discriminatory travel policy
Under the policy, all women and girls are mandated to fill out a detailed form providing personal information, reasons and previous history of traveling without a male guardian. Those who...
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Winners of 2023 UN Human Rights Prize Announced
Established by the General Assembly in 1966, the Prize was awarded for the first time in 1968 on what is now Human Rights Day, 10 December, and it is awarded every five...