Brazil: Seize Opportunity to Curb Widespread Torture
Brazil should ensure that qualified, independent experts are appointed to a new federal body created to combat and prevent torture, Human Rights Watch said. The body should have sufficient resources and political support to carry out its mandate...
Sixty-eight more children and young people released by Myanmar armed forces
The United Nations Resident Coordinator and UNICEF welcomed the release of a further 68 children and young people from the Myanmar armed forces, or Tatmadaw, bringing the total number of children and young people released by the armed forces to 110 in...
Honouring indigenous groups, UN human rights chief urges respect for existing treaties
Indigenous people in Totonicapán, Guatemala.
International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples is marked at an important time
UNICEF joins partners celebrating the 2013 International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples at an important time when the international community is preparing for the 2014 World Conference on Indigenous Peoples and the review and resetting of the...
FC Barcelona players Lionel Messi and Jose Manuel Pinto share football skills with young athletes with disabilities
Criminal prosecution of journalists in Turkey violates human right to free expression, says OSCE media freedom representative
Convictions and severe sentences handed down to dozens of journalists and writers violate Turkey’s commitments to free speech and independent media, OSCE media freedom representative Dunja Mijatović said.
OSCE/ODIHR delegation visits United States and Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility
U.S. military personnel in the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility
Negative coping strategies among Pakistan’s IDPs
Refugees in camps like Jalozai often go into debt and sell possessions to get by.
Director-General urges Philippine authorities to investigate double journalist murder in Manila
According to media and police reports, the men were shot several times by two assailants on motorcycles as they chatted in front of a convenience store in the Quezon City neighborhood.
UN anti-narcotics panel urges Uruguay to reconsider draft law on cannabis sale
The independent United Nations body tasked with monitoring the production and consumption of narcotics worldwide urged Uruguay to review a draft law that would permit the sale of cannabis for non-medical use.
