Rights experts’ appeal to countries in Americas — Global Issues

Rights experts’ appeal to countries in Americas — Global Issues

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The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) sounded the alarm after 36,000 people of Haitian origin were deported during the first three months of the year, according to figures from the International Organization for Migration (IOM). Some 90 per cent were deported from the Dominican Republic. Violations…

Transitional justice hinges on ‘equal footing’, say UN peacebuilders — Global Issues

Transitional justice hinges on ‘equal footing’, say UN peacebuilders — Global Issues

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“A society can only succeed on its path towards sustainable peace and development when all its constituencies can participate on an equal footing,” Ilze Brands Kehris, Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights, said ahead of progress reports delivered by high-level representatives of Colombia, The Gambia, and Timor-Leste. The preventive potential of…

UN condemns ‘inexcusable’ deadly airstrikes in Ukraine — Global Issues

UN condemns ‘inexcusable’ deadly airstrikes in Ukraine — Global Issues

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Dozens of civilians across the country were killed and injured, and homes and other vital infrastructure, destroyed. More than 20 people were killed in the small central city of Uman alone, when their apartment building collapsed after it was hit, according to international media reports. ‘Inexcusable’ attacks “It is just…

Tens of thousands on the move; spectre of ethnic clashes, hunger draws closer — Global Issues

Tens of thousands on the move; spectre of ethnic clashes, hunger draws closer — Global Issues

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The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said that tens of thousands of refugees from South Sudan, Ethiopia and Eritrea living in the country have fled the fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in the Khartoum area. The newly displaced have found shelter in existing…

Tens of thousands on the move; spectre of ethnic clashes, hunger draws closer — Global Issues

Rights experts call for moratorium on the death penalty — Global Issues

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They strongly condemned the execution this week of Tangaraju s/o Suppiah, who was convicted of conspiring to traffic cannabis from Malaysia to the country in 2013. Fair trial concerns Mr. Suppiah, a 46-year-old Tamil from Singapore, was hanged on Tuesday despite claims that he had not been provided with adequate…

Tens of thousands on the move; spectre of ethnic clashes, hunger draws closer — Global Issues

UN expert urges Japan to ‘step up pressure’ on Myanmar junta — Global Issues

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“The international community’s response to the crisis in Myanmar is failing, and that failure has contributed to a lethal downward spiral that is devastating the lives of millions of people,” Tom Andrews, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, said at the end of a 10-day official…

Tens of thousands on the move; spectre of ethnic clashes, hunger draws closer — Global Issues

UN envoy points to ‘important juncture’ in efforts towards peace — Global Issues

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“We are at a potentially important juncture, with renewed attention on Syria – particularly from the region – that could assist our efforts in advancing a political solution to this conflict”, he said. “But for this renewed attention to help unlock progress, many actors will need to take concrete steps…

Tens of thousands on the move; spectre of ethnic clashes, hunger draws closer — Global Issues

Security Council condemns Taliban’s ban on women working for UN — Global Issues

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The resolution passed unanimously by the 15-member body in New York, calls for the “full, equal, meaningful and safe participation of women and girls in Afghanistan”, and urges all countries and organisations with influence on the fundamentalist rulers of the country, “to promote an urgent reversal” of policies which have…