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Gender therapy review reveals devastating impacts on teens

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The development is in line with several western European countries that have reportedly reduced access to similar gender identity treatments whose benefits were found to be “remarkably weak”, according to a National Health...
Human Rights

World News in Brief: Dignity and justice key to end evil of racial discrimination, methane emissions update, Mpox latest, peacebuilding boost

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The international day on Thursday highlights that theme, as well as the importance of recognition, justice and development opportunities for those of African descent, said Secretary-General António Guterres.He said the results of entrenched...
Human Rights

Airlines urged not to facilitate UK-Rwanda asylum transfers

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Two years ago, London announced the Migration and Economic Development Partnership (MEDP), now referred to as the UK-Rwanda Asylum Partnership, which stated that asylum seekers in the UK would be sent to Rwanda...
Human Rights

Accountability essential to counter human rights abuse in DPR Korea

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In an oral update to the Human Rights Council – UN’s paramount human rights body – Deputy High Commissioner Nada Al-Nashif said that DPRK (more commonly known as North Korea) was showing no...
Human Rights

UN report details climate of fear in Russian occupied areas of Ukraine

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Russia has instilled a pervasive climat of fear in the occupied areas of Ukraine, perpetrating egregious violations of international humanitarian
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Russia, Jehovah’s Witnesses banned since 20 April 2017

Willy Fautre -
World Headquarters of Jehovah’s Witnesses (20.04.2024) - April 20th marks the seventh anniversary of Russia’s nationwide ban on Jehovah’s Witnesses, which has led to hundreds of peaceful believers jailed and some brutally tortured. International human rights advocates are decrying...
Human Rights

Myanmar: Rohingyas in firing line as Rakhine conflict intensifies

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Rakhine was the site of a brutal crackdown on the Rohingyas by the military in 2017, leading to the killing of some 10,000 men, women and newborns and the exodus of nearly 750,000...
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Holy Orders on Trial, The French Legal System vs The Vatican

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In a growing dispute that reveals the relationship, between governmental institutions the Vatican has officially voiced its worries regarding the decisions made by French officials in the matter of a nuns removal citing violations...
Human Rights

Transform landmark Indigenous rights declaration into reality: UN General Assembly President

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“In these trying times – where peace is under severe threat, and dialogue and diplomacy are in dire need – let us be an example of constructive dialogue to honour our commitments to...
Human Rights

UN leaders call for more action to end racism and discrimination

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UN Secretary-General António Guterres celebrated the achievements and contributions of people of African descent from across the world, while addressing the forum via video message, but also acknowledged existing racial discrimination and inequalities...
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Spectacular simultaneous SWAT raids on Romanian yoga centers in France: Fact checking

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Operation Villiers-sur-Marne: Testimony On 28 November 2023, just after 6 a.m., a SWAT team of around 175 policemen wearing black masks, helmets, and bullet-proof vests, simultaneously descended on eight separate houses and apartments in and...
Human Rights

Let youth lead, urges new advocacy campaign

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As crises continue to unfold, there has been a lack of unity among world leaders in solving challenges for the “collective good”, the Youth Office said in a letter kickstarting the campaign. The office...
Human Rights

‘Currently unsafe to return’ to Belarus, Human Rights Council hears

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Focusing on developments in 2023, the report builds on previous findings in the aftermath of large public protests which erupted in 2020 following a disputed presidential poll. Despite a lack of cooperation from Belarusian...
Human Rights

First Person: ‘I no longer amount to anything’ – Voices of the displaced in Haiti

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He and others spoke to Eline Joseph, who works for the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Port-au-Prince with a team which provides psychosocial support to people who have fled their homes because...
Human Rights

UN leaders galvanize action for reparations for people of African descent

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Experts and UN leaders exchanged views about the best ways forward, centred on this year’s theme, A Decade of Recognition, Justice, and Development: Implementation of the International Decade for People of African Descent. While...
Human Rights

Armed groups continue terror campaign across Burkina Faso

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High Commissioner Volker Türk said, from the capital Ouagadougou, that his local office had been “engaging intensely with the authorities, civil society actors, human rights defenders, UN partners and others on many of...
Human Rights

World News in Brief: Sex trafficking and child recruitment in Sudan, new mass grave in Libya, children at risk in DR Congo

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This is being compounded by an increase in child and forced marriage, and the recruitment of boys by combatants in the continuing war between rival generals that erupted nearly a year ago. All this...
Human Rights

Central African Republic: Said trial opens at International Criminal Court

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Mahamat Said Abdel Kani - a top-ranking leader of the mostly-Muslim Séléka militia - pleaded not guilty to all charges, which relate to atrocities carried out in 2013, in the Central African Republic...
Human Rights

Haitians ‘cannot wait’ for reign of terror by gangs to end: Rights chief

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"The scale of human rights violations is unprecedented in Haiti's modern history," Volker Türk said in a video statement to the UN Human Rights Council, part of an interactive dialogue on his most...
Human Rights

Mother makes 200km emergency trip across rural Madagascar to save baby

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“I thought I was going to lose my baby and die on the journey to hospital.”The chilling words of Samueline Razafindravao, who had to make the harrowing hours-long trip to the nearest specialist...
Human Rights

Unravelling the legacies of slavery

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“You’re speaking about the greatest crime against humanity ever committed,” said renowned historian Sir Hilary Beckles, who also chairs the Caribbean Community’s Reparations Commission, reflecting on the transatlantic trade that enslaved more than...
Human Rights

Stories from the UN Archive: Greatest of All Time fights for peace

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“Here’s a little Black boy from Louisville, Kentucky, sitting in the United Nations talking to presidents of the world, why? Because I’m a good boxer,” he said at a press conference at UN...
Human Rights

Haiti: Gangs have ‘more firepower than the police’

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The consequences have plunged the Caribbean nation into an ongoing political and humanitarian crisis. Currently, there are “unprecedented levels of lawlessness”, UNODC’s regional representative Sylvie Bertrand told UN News.From Russian AK-47s and United...
Human Rights

‘Shocking’ increase in children denied aid in conflicts

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Painting a grim landscape of the world’s war zones, Virginia Gamba, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, briefed ambassadors, citing grave concerns, from war-torn Gaza to gang-ravaged Haiti, where famine...
Human Rights

Ukrainians suffer Russia-imposed ‘violence, intimidation, and coercion’

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UN human rights chief Volker Türk on Tuesday called for the fighting and occupation of Ukraine to end, so the country can begin “healing the deep wounds and painful divisions” caused by Russia’s...
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