Human Rights
Britain to help 6.5 million girls in poor countries go to school
Speaking at the Global Citizen Festival, a major festival in Central Park featuring world leaders, activists and celebrities, UK International Development Secretary Justine Greening said:
“For me the big step forward in the global goals is goal five, women and girls and gender equality.
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Lebanon: Woman Detained After Alleging Rape
Lebanon’s army should immediately reveal the whereabouts of Layal al-Kayaje who was detained by Military Intelligence on September 21, 2015, after she alleged to local media that members of Military Intelligence had raped and tortured her during a previous detention in 2013, Human Rights Watch said on September 26.
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Lebanon: Woman Detained After Alleging Rape
Lebanon’s army should immediately reveal the whereabouts of Layal al-Kayaje who was detained by Military Intelligence on September 21, 2015, after she alleged to local media that members of Military Intelligence had raped and tortured her during a previous detention in 2013, Human Rights Watch said on September 26.
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Lebanon: Woman Detained After Alleging Rape
Lebanon’s army should immediately reveal the whereabouts of Layal al-Kayaje who was detained by Military Intelligence on September 21, 2015, after she alleged to local media that members of Military Intelligence had raped and tortured her during a previous detention in 2013, Human Rights Watch said on September 25.
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Greening: UK to ‘break chains of dependency’ for women around the world
At a major UN Summit in New York, International Development Secretary Justine Greening announced new funding to help women in Nepal get jobs and combat violence against teenage girls in Ghana, as well as new work to help rip up laws that discriminate against women across the developing world.
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UNICEF: Sustainable Development Goals beginning of the 'drive to turn commitments into action’
UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake speaks at the UN General Assembly High-Level Meeting on the 25th anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, November 2014
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No ‘Paradise on Earth’: Why Japan Should Right a Historic Wrong
Kawasaki Eiko, a second-generation ethnic Korean, grew up in economically devastated post-World War II Japan, hearing stories spun by the government in Pyongyang about the possibility of a bright future in North Korea. At age 17, she made the biggest mistake of her life.
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Armenia: Activist Brutally Beaten
A member of an independent political group critical of the Armenian government was savagely beaten after a protest in Yerevan, the capital, on September 21, 2015, Human Rights Watch said on September 22. The authorities should immediately investigate the beating of Smbat Hakobian, a member of the Alliance of Freedom Fighters, and bring those responsible to account.
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UN: Press Thai Premier on Abuses
World leaders gathered for the United Nations General Assembly should urge Thailand’s prime minister, Gen. Prayut Chan-ocha, to end repression of human rights and quickly restore democratic civilian rule, Human Rights Watch said on September 23.
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Philippines: UN experts calls for probe into killings of indigenous rights defenders
Philippine army troops on combat patrol in Maguindanao Province, Mindanao.
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