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The Honduran Congress should conduct a transparent, impartial, and participatory process for electing the country’s next human rights ombudsman, Human Rights Watch said.

Four children – two girls and two boys – were reunited with their father by officials from UNICEF and the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN-OCHA), after being abducted by a militia, during which time they were threatened to be killed.

High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay addresses the opening of the twenty-fifth regular session of the Human Rights Council.

The trial of the blogger Truong Duy Nhat scheduled for March 4, 2014 in Da Nang demonstrates that there is no slackening of the Vietnamese authorities’ determination to target people for peaceful criticism, Human Rights Watch said.

A high level regional workshop on the World Bank Group's Women, Business and the Law project which began on February 27 here in Togo, concluded with renewed commitment to gender parity. Eleven African economies participated in this event: Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, the Republic of Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, Mali, Niger, Senegal, and Togo.

Zannah Bassar: "I want to go somewhere else."

OSCE Chairperson in Office and Swiss Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter has expressed his deep concerns about the volatile and further aggravated situation regarding Crimea. He welcomed the UN Security Council members’ commitment to Ukrainian unity, territorial integrity and sovereignty as expressed during its meeting on Friday, February 28.

A hearing on ‘Tackling intolerance and discrimination in Europe with a special focus on Christianity’ will be one of the highlights of the meeting of the Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) which will be held in Vienna (Austrian Parliament) on 4 and 5 March 2014.