Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 07:07:35 +0000
Four women held a topless protest in Sydney on Thursday to support runaway Saudi woman Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun.
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Read moreCredit to Author: jvicente| Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 03:31:41 +0000
Opposition Senator Leila de Lima on Thursday urged the Philippine government to heed a United Nations special rapporteur’s call to end the attacks against human-rights defenders in the country, notably those critical of the Duterte administration.
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Credit to Author: lalos| Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2018 06:57:41 +0000
North Korea on Tuesday hit back at a latest UN resolution that condemned Pyongyang’s rights abuses, calling it a “serious… provocation” that would undermine peace efforts on the Korean peninsula.
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Read moreCredit to Author: cbibe| Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 22:42:44 +0000
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres seeks to rescue deeply troubled climate talks in Poland, warning it is a “matter of life and death.”
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Credit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 03:54:54 +0000
MANILA, Philippines — A working group of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has formally asked the Philippine government to release detained opposition Senator Leila de Lima.
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A complaint has been filed at the Hague-based International Criminal Court against France for alleged crimes against humanity over nuclear tests conducted in the South Pacific, a French Polynesian opposition leader said on Tuesday.
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Kofi Annan left the United Nations far more committed than it had been to combating poverty, promoting equality and fighting for human rights — and until his death Saturday he was warning that the rise of nationalism could prevent countries from working together to solve problems.
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Every three minutes, a girl between the ages of 15 and 19 is infected with the virus that causes AIDS, said a UN report Wednesday that warned of a “crisis” fuelled by gender inequality.
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Read morePRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte’s alleged threats and cursing against human rights investigators have offended most Filipinos, according to a recent Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey. The June 27 to 30 survey on 1,200 repondents said that 64 percent found his statement that he would “feed them to the crocodiles” as “vulgar,” 31 percent said it wasn’t […]
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Outgoing United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, has commended Sri Lanka for increasing cooperation with the Council. This was his last global update to the Human Rights Council in a regular session.
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