Human Rights

OSCE human rights office calls for greater efforts to ensure security for Roma and Sinti communities

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"Hard Life". Roma neighbours in my hometown, Novi Travnik, Bosnia and Herzegovina 2010. Finalist of OSCE photo contest on tolerance and non...

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Aid access still limited for displaced in Myanmar’s Kachin State

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No international aid here.

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On anniversary, Ban honours victims and survivors of Rwanda genocide

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Racial or ethnic discrimination has been used to instill fear or hatred of others, often leading to conflict and war, as...

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UAE: Don’t Deport Tamil Refugees to Sri Lanka
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Assistance to Syrian refugees in Jordan threatened by lack of funding – UN

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Syrian children outside their UNHCR tent at Jordan’s Za’atri refugee camp.

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Russia: Woman in Dire Health Is Freed
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UN reaffirms commitment to world free of mines and remnants of war

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Ten-year-old Suleiman, from Dar Al Salam, North Darfur, suffered burns to more than 90 per cent of his body when his brother...

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Cristiano Ronaldo Gears Up to Fight Child Hunger in Guatemala with the Help of Some Goats

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In rural mountainous Guatemala, Save the Children is helping undernourished preschoolers like Isabella grow and gain weight.

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UN agency shuts relief and distribution centres after protesters storm Gaza compound

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An old man sits outside his UNRWA-supplied tent in the Ezbet Abed Rabbo area of northern Gaza.

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Food aid reaches Sudan’s Blue Nile state for first time in over a year, UN agency reports

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Refugee mothers from Sudan's Blue Nile State wait at a clinic in South Sudan to have their children measured...

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