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UN rights chief ‘shocked and appalled’ by Israeli minister’s comment on starving Gazans to death
09 August 2024
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Volker Türk, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, addresses the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action +30 Symposium.
The UN human rights office, OHCHR, called on Friday for the Israeli authorities to monitor senior officials whose public statements on…
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Experts of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination Commend Pakistan on “A” Status for National Human Rights Commission, Raise Questions on Blasphemy Laws and the Illegal Foreigners Repatriation Plan
09 August 2024
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The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its consideration of the combined twenty-fourth to twenty-sixth periodic report of Pakistan. …
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Experts of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination Commend Iran for Hosting High Numbers of Refugees, Raise Questions on Combatting Hate Speech in the Media and the Treatment of Ethnic Minorities in the Context of the 2022 Protests
08 August 2024
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The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its consideration of the combined twentieth to twenty-…
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UN counter-terrorism chief highlights Da’esh surge, calling for global action
08 August 2024
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The skyline beyond the northern suburbs of Mogadishu is seen through a bullet hole in the window of a hotel in Somalia.
Islamic State (ISIL/Da’esh) and its affiliates have expanded their activities and finances in several parts of Africa, Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, resulting…
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UN rights chief ‘deeply troubled’ by dissolution of Thailand’s Move Forward Party
08 August 2024
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Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, in an interview with UN News.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said on Thursday that a decision of the Constitutional Court in Thailand to dissolve the country’s largest political party was deeply troubling…
