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Millions in the Streets: South Statehood Is No Longer a Proposal — It’s a Reality

Yesterday’s mass demonstrations in Aden and Hadramout were not a routine rally, nor a symbolic show of numbers. What unfolded was a full political...

World News in Brief: Türk condemns ‘abhorrent’ attack in Sydney, UNHCR chief calls for solidarity with refugees, Ukraine latest

Volker Türk said the “heinous” shootings targeting a Hannukah celebration on Bondi Beach exposed again that “antisemitism is real, and it is abhorrent.”Australia’s Prime...

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Millions in the Streets: South Statehood Is No Longer a Proposal — It’s a Reality

Yesterday’s mass demonstrations in Aden and Hadramout were not a routine rally, nor a symbolic show of numbers. What unfolded was a full political...

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Millions in the Streets: South Statehood Is No Longer a Proposal — It’s a Reality

Yesterday’s mass demonstrations in Aden and Hadramout were not a routine rally, nor a symbolic show of numbers. What unfolded was a full political...

UN rights chief warns of deepening repression in Venezuela, rising toll in Ukraine

Presenting oral updates to the Geneva-based Human Rights Council, High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said the situation in Venezuela has not improved...

World News in Brief: Türk condemns ‘abhorrent’ attack in Sydney, UNHCR chief calls for solidarity with refugees, Ukraine latest

Volker Türk said the “heinous” shootings targeting a Hannukah celebration on Bondi Beach exposed again that “antisemitism is real, and it is abhorrent.”Australia’s Prime...
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UN opposes death penalty but pushes for justice in Bangladesh

In its response to the verdict, the UN human rights office (OHCHR) reiterated its opposition to the death penalty in all circumstances.Last July, student protests...

Trapped behind bars: Reforming Haiti’s broken detention system

Most of those people died “as a result of lack of medical care, unsanitary cells, insufficient food, and limited access to drinking water,” according...

‘Worrying reports’ continue of abductions and disappearances in Syria

“Eleven months after the fall of the former government in Syria, we continue to receive worrying reports about dozens of abductions and enforced disappearances,” Spokesperson Thameen...

World News in Brief: Russian rights abuses in Ukraine, US a no-show for rights review, Orlando Bloom highlights Rohingya plight

During their mission from 2 to 6 November, the three members of the Human Rights Council-mandated Commission of Inquiry met survivors, families of victims...

Rights chief warns ‘abominable atrocities’ likely continue in Sudan’s El Fasher

“Today, traumatised civilians are still trapped inside El Fasher and are being prevented from leaving,” said UN human rights chief Volker Türk in a statement released on Friday. “I fear that the abominable...

UN rights office worried over escalation in Gaza City, annexation plans for West Bank

Ajith Sunghay, Head of OHCHR’s Office in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), told UN News that the escalation has caused extensive destruction to residential...

‘Reparatory justice’ key to ending racism against Africans and their descendants

Doing so is key to dismantling systemic racism that is rooted in legacies of slavery and colonialism, it said.Actions include formal apologies, truth-seeking, memorialisation...

Aid effort underway after Afghanistan quake ‘wipes out’ villages

“I stand in full solidarity with the people of Afghanistan after the devastating earthquake that hit the country earlier today,” the Secretary-General said in...

UN chief calls for justice and ‘real change’ for people of African descent

In a message released ahead of the Day, Mr. Guterres honoured the “extraordinary” contributions of people of African descent across every sphere of human...

‘Our livelihoods have been cut off’, say West Bank farmers ahead of olive harvest

Like thousands of Palestinian farmers, he faces growing restrictions from Israeli forces and settlers, who have made the olive harvest season – running from...

Despite Taliban ban, over 90 per cent of Afghans support girls’ right to learn

Four years after the Taliban takeover in August 2021, the scale and severity of the women’s rights crisis continues to intensify. Afghanistan is the...

World News in Brief: Executions surge in Iran, nuclear test threat, Burkina Faso declares top official unwelcome

At least 841 people have been put to death by the Government of Iran since the beginning of the year, with ethnic minorities and...