Human Rights

France: Renewed Crackdown on Roma

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A Roma family prepares to leave a camp in Villeneuve d'Ascq, northern France, to go to Lille Airport for their flight to Romania on a voluntary repatriation scheme on September 16, 2010.

Turkey: Additional Humanitarian Assistance for Those Fleeing the Violence in Syria

The United States is pursuing every available avenue, including focused diplomatic efforts, to secure full and unfettered access for humanitarian organizations to reach, and provide humanitarian assistance to the innocent children, women, and men caught in the middle of the ongoing Syrian conflict. Today in Istanbul, Secretary Clinton announced the United States is providing an additional $5.5 million in humanitarian assistance bringing the total U.S. contribution for this crisis to nearly $82 million. This latest tranche of U.S. assistance is targeted toward communities who have sought refuge in Turkey.

UN refugee agency reports increase in number of people fleeing violence in Syria

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UNHCR’s Representative in Jordan, Andrew Harper shows UK Secretary of State for International Development the system set up to ensure that Syrian refugees are provided with the proper assistance.

UN highlights vital role of media in empowering world’s indigenous people

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A Cakchiquel family in the hamlet of Patzutzun, Guatemala.

OSCE media freedom representative calls for ‘teddy bear’ charges against Belarusian journalist to be dropped

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The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, asked Belarusian authorities to drop charges against Anton Suryapin, who faces up to seven years in prison for uploading photos of teddy bears that had been released by plane into Belarus.

UNICEF warns of impact of high prevalence of child abuse in East Asia and the Pacific

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The high prevalence of physical abuse is causing long-term damage to the lives of far too many children in East Asia and the Pacific, warns a new report by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).

Liberia: UN speaks out against draft law that would criminalize homosexual behaviour

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The United Nations human rights office today voiced concern about draft legislation currently being considered by Liberian lawmakers that would broadly criminalize homosexual behaviour, adding that it will negatively impact vulnerable populations in the country.

UN agency deplores killing of staffer in Sudan's South Kordofan state

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WFP food assistance being offloaded from a truck at a distribution site in the South Kordofan capital Kadugli.

Serious human rights challenges remain in Myanmar, says UN expert

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Two men sit under the the remnants of their homes in Sittwe, the provincial capital of Myanmar's western Rakhine State.

UN and partners boost efforts to tackle ‘alarming’ health situation in South Sudan camps

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A new arrival in South Sudan's Yida camp gets her arm measured as part of malnutrition screening.