Human Rights

OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities visits Georgia, discusses integration, expresses concern over developments along the administrative boundary line

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L-r: OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities Knut Vollebaek, speaking with an interpreter and a local resident at Khurvaleti...

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Victories for Gay Marriage at US Supreme Court

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OSCE media freedom representative calls recent legislative initiatives in Russia potentially harmful to freedom of expression and freedom of the media

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The OSCE's Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatovic, opens a session on media freedom at the OSCE's Review Conference in...

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Africa: Obama Visit Should Stress Media Freedoms

United States president Barack Obama should use his visit to Senegal, South Africa, and Tanzania, beginning June 26, 2013, to support besieged media outlets and independent groups across the African continent, Human Rights Watch said.

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Indonesia: Children Seeking Refuge Find Abuse, Neglect

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Two asylum-seeking boys stand on a staircase while detained at Belawan Immigration Detention...

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OSCE Special Representative, at conference in Vienna, links inequality, globalization and trafficking

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OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, Ambassador Ihor...

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Security Council strengthens efforts to end impunity for conflict-related sexual violence

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Wide view of the Security Council meeting on women and peace and security.

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Albania’s elections active and competitive, but mistrust between political forces tainted the environment, international observers say

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A man scanning the voters list for his name outside a polling station in Elbasan during the Albanian presidential elections, 23 June 2013...

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UNICEF: Children are both the makers and the markers of healthy, sustainable societies

One year after the Rio+20 Sustainable Development Conference building “The future we want” – Rio’s outcome – will be dependent on children being at the heart of the post-2015 agenda, says UNICEF.

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Discrimination against widows must end, urges senior UN official on International Day

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Ivorian widows run a small restaurant in Yopougon, Côte d'Ivoire

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