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Health
Choose compassion, reject cruelty to end HIV, says top UN rights official
Global efforts to tackle the HIV/AIDS epidemic continue to remain insufficient, with deadly consequences, the UN Human Rights Council heard…
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Human Rights
Human Rights Council: Significant increase in child victims of trafficking
Children make up almost four in 10 victims of trafficking worldwide, but the true number of youngsters caught up in the…
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Middle East
Rights probe alleges sexual violence against Palestinians by Israeli forces used as ‘method of war’
Senior human rights investigators reporting to the UN Human Rights Council alleged on Thursday that sexual and gender-based violence by…
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Asia Pacific
‘A litany of human suffering’ in Myanmar, warns UN rights chief
Myanmar is mired in one of the world’s worst human rights crises, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk…
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Europe
Belarus: Violations remain ‘widespread and systematic’, says independent expert group
A new report from UN Human Rights Council-mandated experts monitoring Belarus on Friday said that authorities have been committing widespread…
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