Amid surging conflict in Yemen, UNICEF mobile teams respond to children’s urgent health needs
With health services across Yemen disintegrating under the impact of a brutal conflict, UNICEF and its partners are stepping up nutrition screening, vaccinations and other life-saving interventions for millions of children caught up in the ongoing...
t Srebrenica memorial, UN Deputy Secretary-General urges action against future atrocities
In 1995, a government soldier reads out the names of soldiers who are confirmed survivors or escapees from the fallen city of...
t Srebrenica memorial, UN Deputy Secretary-General urges action against future atrocities
In 1995, a government soldier reads out the names of soldiers who are confirmed survivors or escapees from the fallen city of...
Tunisia: Arbitrary Travel Restrictions
Tunisian authorities have been arbitrarily preventing citizens from traveling outside the country since at least March 2015. The policy has affected mainly men and women under 35.
Marking World Day, UN spotlights plight of vulnerable populations in emergencies
Syrian refugees fleeing the fighting near the Syrian city of Kobani wait in a holding area before boarding buses in...
Thailand: 100 Ethnic Turks Forcibly Sent to China
The government of Thailand should stop forcibly sending people of Turkic ethnicity to China, where they face persecution, Human Rights Watch said on July 9. The Thai government announced that on July 9, 2015, it had returned about 100 “Uighur...
Burma: Reject Discriminatory Marriage Bill
Burma’s President Thein Sein should refuse to sign into law the discriminatory interfaith marriage bill passed by parliament on July 7, 2015, Human Rights Watch said on July 9. The bill targets Buddhist women who marry – or seek to marry – non-...
UN envoy welcomes indictment of former Guinean leader over 2009 stadium deaths
Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Zainab Bangura, briefs journalists.
Senegal: Hissène Habré Trial To Begin on July 20
The former Chadian dictator Hissène Habré goes on trial on July 20, 2015, almost 25 years after being toppled in a coup, charged with crimes against humanity, war crimes, and torture before a specially commissioned court in Senegal.
Tunisia: Emergency Shouldn’t Trump Rights
Imposing a state of emergency does not give the Tunisian government the right to gut basic rights and freedoms. President Beji Caid Essebsi declared a state of emergency on July 4, 2015. The measure comes one week after an extremist gunned down 38...
