Human Rights
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World News in Brief: Women’s health in Sudan, childhood wasting, Belarus trade unions, Guatemala child rights violation
As hostilities rage in Sudan, access constraints and devastating funding cuts are isolating rape survivors and pregnant women from essential…
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‘Our worst held fears are being confirmed’: Dozens of bodies discovered in Libya mass graves
Dozens of bodies have been discovered at official and unofficial detention sites in Libya. The grim findings confirm deep concerns…
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‘Justice is long overdue’: Guterres calls for reparations for enslavement and colonialism
Secretary-General António Guterres renewed his calls for Member States and the United Nations to work towards justice and reparations for…
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UN aid teams plead for access amid reports Gazans shot collecting food
In Gaza, dozens of Palestinians have been reportedly injured and shot trying to collect aid from the new US and…
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UN rights chief calls on South Sudan’s warring parties to end renewed fighting
The UN on Friday warned of further deterioration in the human rights situation in South Sudan amid an uptick in…
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Aid teams highlight growing anxiety in Gaza after food is looted
Long-awaited food supplies have been looted in Gaza overnight while being transported to desperate communities in the war-torn enclave, UN…
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‘Silence is complicity,’ warns activist who fled DPR Korea
When human rights activist Eunju Kim was 11, her mother and older sister left, telling her they were going in…
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‘We are still waiting for our loved ones’: Families of the abducted speak out
Two families – one still waiting for answers 75 years after a father was taken during the Korean War, the…
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World News in Brief: Sudan refugees, aid for Syrian returnees, MERS alert in Saudi Arabia, Venezuela urged to end secret detentions
More than 40,000 Sudanese have fled to eastern Chad in the past month to escape intensifying violence in Darfur. The…
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US deportations raise serious human rights concerns
The UN Human Rights High Commissioner Volker Türk has voiced concern over the recent deportation of large numbers of non-nationals…
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