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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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Cambodia: UN rights chief regrets ‘severely restricted’ poll and opposition clampdown
In a news release issued by his Office, Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, denounced “constant shrinkage” in Cambodia’s democratic space in...
Heatwave threat impacts half of all children in Europe and Central Asia
Regina De Dominicis, UNICEF Regional Director Europe and Central Asia, said countries in these parts of the world are feeling the heat of the...
Ukraine: UN rights chief upholds need for justice one year after POW killings
The “tragic killing” at the penal colony at Olenivka in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, under temporary Russian military control, occurred overnight on 28...
Sudan: Child deaths rise, concern intensifies for refugees after 100 days of battle
The UN agency added that there have been more than 2,500 severe violations of children’s rights - an average of more than one an...
Children forcibly separated from mothers at Syria’s Al Hol, warns top rights expert
Fionnuala Ni Aolain, UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, is the first independent...
Human Trafficking in South Africa
Human trafficking, a heinous crime that exploits vulnerable individuals for various purposes, is a pressing issue in South Africa. This article delves into the...
Libya: Rights experts denounce discriminatory travel policy
Under the policy, all women and girls are mandated to fill out a detailed form providing personal information, reasons and previous history of traveling...
Winners of 2023 UN Human Rights Prize Announced
Established by the General Assembly in 1966, the Prize was awarded for the first time in 1968 on what is now Human Rights Day, 10 December,...
Unitaid: Close to a million deaths by 2035 if TB prevention is not acted on
The UN agency insisted that implementing a combined strategy of identifying household contacts and providing TB preventive treatment is cost-effective.Unitaid said it could cut...
Tunisia: UN experts urge swift action to uphold migrants’ rights
“Collective expulsions are prohibited under international law,” the UN experts warned in a statement.They emphasized that it is prohibition under international human rights law...
Health risks on the rise as heatwave intensifies across Europe: WMO
In an alert, the agency emphasized that heatwaves are amongst the deadliest natural hazards and WMO Senior Heat Advisor, John Nairn, told reporters that...
UK Bill ‘significantly erodes’ human rights and refugee protections, UN agencies warn
Concerns over legislationThe Illegal Immigration Bill eliminates access to asylum for anyone who arrives “irregularly” in the UK, meaning they passed through a country...


