Human Rights
Empowering rural women key to boosting welfare of societies, UN officials stress
From right: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, broadcaster Femi Oke and Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro at Women's Day event.
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Images of alleged torture in Syrian hospitals ‘shocking’ – UN rights office
Rupert Colville, spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).
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DR Congo: UN concerned over fresh attacks by Ugandan rebel group
Civilians displaced by increasing LRA attacks.
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Central African Republic relief efforts facing severe funding shortfall, UN warns
OCHA Director of Operations John Ging in Central African Republic.
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Tibetan School Girl Dies in Self-Immolation Protest
Nineteen-year old Tibetan student Tsering Kyi died after setting fire to herself, March 5, 2012
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Owner of Crippled Japanese Nuclear Plant Fights for Survival
The company at the center of the nuclear meltdown disaster in Japan has been subject to enormous public, government and international criticism over the past year.
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Singapore: Domestic Workers to Get Weekly Day of Rest
The decision by Singapore’s Manpower Ministry to grant foreign domestic workers a weekly rest day is an important reform but falls short of international standards, Human Rights Watch said today.
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UNESCO launches World Atlas of Gender Equality in Education
The World Atlas of Gender Equality in Education includes more than 120 maps, charts and tables featuring a wide range of sex-disaggregated indicators produced by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
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THAILAND: Threats to political freedom intensify with assault on HRD and law professor
Professor Worachet Pakeerut, a law professor at Thammasat University, leader of the Khana Nitirat, and human rights defender (HRD), was assaulted by two men outside the Faculty of Law at Thammasat University.
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Egypt court rejects cases against Christian media mogul
An Egyptian court has rejected the second of two lawsuits filed by ultra-conservative Islamists that had accused a Christian media mogul of insulting Islam when he relayed a cartoon of Mickey Mouse with a beard and Minnie in a face veil.
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