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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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‘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...
Human Rights

Explainer: Feeding Haiti in times of crisis

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Gangs reportedly control up to 90 per cent of Port-au-Prince, raising concerns that hunger is being used as a weapon to coerce local populations and hold sway over rival armed groups.They control key...
Human Rights

From Desperation to Determination: Indonesian Trafficking Survivors Demand Justice

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Rokaya needed time to recover after illness forced her to quit as a live-in maid in Malaysia and return home to Indramayu, West Java. However, under pressure from her agent who claimed two...
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Russia: Rights experts condemn continued imprisonment of Evan Gershkovich

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The 32-year-old Wall Street Journal reporter was arrested last March in Yekatarinburg on espionage charges and is being held at the infamous Lefortovo prison in Moscow. Mariana Katzarova, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation...
Asia

Fleeing Persecution, The Plight of Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light members in Azerbaijan

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Namiq and Mammadagha's Story Exposes Systematic Religious Discrimination It has been almost one year since best friends Namiq Bunyadzade (32) and Mammadagha Abdullayev (32) left their home country of Azerbaijan to flee religious discrimination because...
Human Rights

First Person: ‘Courageous’ 12-year-old reports relative after being raped in Madagascar

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UN News spoke to Commissioner Aina Randriambelo, who described what efforts her country is making to promote gender equality and a better understanding of what constitutes sexual exploitation and abuse. ...
Human Rights

UN report: Credible allegations Ukrainian POWs have been tortured by Russian forces

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According to the Monitoring Mission, interviews conducted with 60 recently released Ukrainian POWs painted a harrowing picture of their experiences in Russian captivity.“Almost every single one of the Ukrainian POWs we interviewed described...
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Rights expert finds ‘reasonable grounds’ genocide is being committed in Gaza

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Francesca Albanese was speaking at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, where she presented her latest report, entitled ‘Anatomy of a Genocide’, during an interactive dialogue with Member States.“Following nearly six months...
FORB

Russia, Jehovah’s Witness Tatyana Piskareva, 67, sentenced to 2 years and 6 months of forced labor

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She was just participating in a religious worship online. Earlier, her husband Vladimir received six years in prison on similar charges. Tatyana Piskareva, a pensioner from Oryol, was found guilty of participating in the activities of...
Human Rights

UN pays tribute to victims of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

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Addressing a commemorative meeting to mark the International Day of Remembrance of The Victims of Slavery and The Transatlantic Slave Trade, Assembly President Dennis Francis highlighted the harrowing journeys endured by millions during...
Europe

Calls for Diplomacy and Peace Intensify as Ukraine War Rages On

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Ukraine war remains the most disturbing topic in Europe. French President's recent statement about his country's possible direct involvement in the war was a sign of possible further escalation.
Human Rights

World News in Brief: Rights violations in Iran, Haiti chaos grows, prison reform in face of pandemic threat

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The report to the Human Rights Council said violations and crimes under international law committed in the protests sparked by the death of Jina Mahsa Amini in September 2022 include extra-judicial and unlawful...
Human Rights

World News in Brief: Rights chief appalled at Nigeria mass abductions, ‘pervasive’ hunger in streets of Sudan, Syria child crisis

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“I am appalled by the recurrent mass abductions of men, women and children in northern Nigeria. Children have been abducted from schools and women taken while searching for firewood. Such horrors must not become...
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I lost hope and will to live, in Russian jail, says Ukraine POW

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Latest graphic findings from the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine - created by the Human Rights Council two years ago – highlight the ongoing grave impact of Russia’s full-scale invasion of...
Human Rights

Gaza: Rafah ground assault would increase risk of atrocity crimes

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Spokesperson for Volker Türk in Geneva, Jeremy Laurence, told journalists that an already catastrophic situation could “slide deeper into the abyss” in the coming days if Israeli forces make their move on the...
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