Human Rights

Thailand: Don’t Deport Rohingya ‘Boat People’

Give UN Refugee Agency Access to Asylum Seekers

The Thai government should immediately halt its plan to deport 73 ethnic Rohingya back to Burma, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday.

Darfur: two abducted UN peacekeepers freed after 136 days in captivity

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UNAMID police personnel Qasim Al-Sarhan (centre) and Hasan Al-Mazawdeh (right), abducted in North Darfur, were freed after 136 days in captivity.

Protracted conflicts, arms control, trafficking in human beings top agenda as Ukraine takes over OSCE Chair

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Residential buildings rise up across the Dnieper River from the Monastery of the Caves, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv.

OSCE media freedom representative urges investigation into threats to Italian newspaper

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Dunja Mijatović, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, addresses the OSCE Permanent Council at the Hofburg in Vienna, 29 November 2012.

UN peacekeeping mission ends operations as Timor-Leste continues on path to ‘brighter’ future

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A ceremony is held marking the official hand-over of policing responsibilities from the UN Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste (UNMIT) to the Polícia Nacional de Timor-Leste (PNTL) in Ainaro District.

A freedom less level field -2012

Tamils living in the North and East have a complained of the loss of all their rights. Most people in the South ignored these complaints. Some even said that such deprivations are punishments for what the LTTE was. The assumption was that such treatment would not be extended to the South.

Ban to chair high-level donor conference next month for Syria humanitarian effort

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Sisters Tamara and Eilada fled their village in Syria but now have a chance to continue their studies in Turkey.

Amid proposed adoption ban, UNICEF asks Russia to focus on best interests of children

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Executive Director of the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) Anthony Lake.

Gaza: Palestinian Rockets Unlawfully Targeted Israeli Civilians

Residents Describe Deaths, Destruction from Attacks

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EU: Provide Protection for Syrian Refugees

Allow Access to EU Territory, Step Up Assistance in Region

The European Union and its member states should do more to help the thousands of Syrian asylum seekers trying to reach Europe as the Syrian crisis worsens and winter sets in, Human Rights Watch said.