Human Rights
PAKISTAN/INDIA: Demilitarisation, not divine providence, is the way forward to peace!
A President of one of the two counties almost perennially at war with each other visiting the other, what on the face of mother earth makes news that gets bigger than this? The fact that this is a President on Pilgrimage, and not on another diplomatic mission infused with dry details of that elusive thaw in the relations merely adds to the importance and makes it a stuff of legend.
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UN rights office calls for halt on use of military courts to try civilians in Gaza
UN-funded housing project site for Palestinians at Khan Younis, Gaza.
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Response plan to help Syrian refugees only 20 per cent funded – UN agency
Members of a Syrian family register as refugees in northern Lebanon.
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New York Bombing Plot 'Mastermind' Testifies Against Friend
A Bosnian-born immigrant in New York accused on nine terrorism counts heard a second friend testify that he was a willing participant in a suicide bombing plot in New York City.
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Meeting with LRA victims, UN and African envoys pledge continued support
A Congolese woman, displaced by LRA attacks, carries a bag of non-food items distributed by UNHCR in Dungu, DR of Congo.
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Commending UAE efforts against human trafficking, UN expert urges more to help victims
Special Rapporteur Joy Ngozi Ezeilo.
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Karzai blames NATO intelligence failure for terror attacks in Afghanistan
A wave of fierce suicide attacks and fighting unleashed by heavily-armed Taliban in Kabul and three other Afghan cities ended Monday morning, after about 18 hours, leaving 51 people dead, including 36 terrorists, officials said.
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UN chief renews call for immediate end to Sudan-South Sudan hostilities
Almost half of Sudan’s oil is pumped out of Heglig.
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SUDAN-SOUTH SUDAN: A whiff of war
War damage: the South Kordofan town of Talodi has been the scene of recent fighting
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UN expert hails Indian court decision to uphold right of every child to education
Kishore Singh, Special Rapporteur on the right to education.
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