UN condemns shelling of Sudan base which killed ‘blue helmet,’ injured two others
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned in the strongest terms the shelling on a United Nations logistics base in Sudan’s South Kordofan State which killed at least one UN peacekeeper and wounded two others.
Tunisia: 2 Years in Prison for a Song
The two-year prison sentence for a Tunisian rapper on June 13, 2013, for “insulting the police” in a song violates freedom of speech, Human Rights Watch said. The criminal court sentence is another manifestation of the continuing intolerance for those...
Secretary-General urges protection of older persons from physical, psychological abuse
Two chess players enjoying an outdoor game in New York City’s Central Park.
Greater efforts, co-operation needed to ensure security of Jewish communities, say participants at OSCE conference in Berlin
Rabbi Andrew Baker, the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office on Combating Anti-Semitism, speaking at an expert...
UN agency sounds alarm over exploitation of millions of children in domestic labour
Young girl doing domestic work in Nepal.
Closure of public service broadcaster could endanger media pluralism in Greece, warns OSCE media freedom representative
The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, warned that the closure of Greece’s public service broadcaster, ERT, could deprive citizens of a diversity of views, and it creates economic hardship for the dismissed journalists.
Participants at high-level OSCE conference in Kyiv call for stronger anti- trafficking action
Combating trafficking in human beings all over the OSCE region is in focus of OSCE conference in Kyiv in June 2013. Anti-trafficking...
China: Crackdown on Anticorruption Activists Escalates
More than a dozen anti-corruption activists in Beijing and Jiangxi Province were detained between late March and late May after participating in or organizing demonstrations calling for government officials to publicly disclose their assets, China...
Kyrgyzstan: 3 Years After Violence, a Mockery of Justice
Police and security guards at the trial of Mahamad Bizurukov stand...
Outcome of global hunger summit as major step towards ending 'injustice of malnutrition' – UN officials
A child gets measured for malnutrition in Mali.
