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INTERVIEW: Policing one of the world’s ‘biggest drug trafficking corridors’
29 June 2023
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Police officers staff a checkpoint on Highway 1 in the north of Thailand.
A cross-border collaboration between law enforcement agencies in countries in Southeast Asia supported by the UN in Thailand is helping to tackle organized crime along one of the world’s “biggest drug…
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UN agencies head up new $115 million push for cleaner, healthier oceans
29 June 2023
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Marine debris, including plastics, paper, wood, metal and other manufactured material is found on beaches worldwide and at all depths of the ocean.
The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and four partner agencies have been tasked with leading a new push to help…
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AFTERNOON - Human Rights Council Hears of Urgent Need for International Solidarity in Responding to Humanitarian Crises, Conflicts and Forced Displacement, and of the Climate of Impunity for Abuses of the Rights to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association Around the World
28 June 2023
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Council Concludes its Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on Trafficking…
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In Dialogue with Uganda, Experts of the Human Rights Committee Commend Improvement of Prison Conditions, Raise Issues Concerning the Anti-Homosexuality Law and Free Elections
28 June 2023
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The Human Rights Committee this morning concluded its consideration of the second periodic report of Uganda, on how it implements the provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. During the dialogue, Committee Experts commended…
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MORNING - Human Rights Council Discusses Report on Trafficking in Persons and the Intersections with Refugee Protection, Internal Displacement and Statelessness
28 June 2023
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Concludes Interactive Dialogue with Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights in the Context of Climate Change…