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Human rights are moral principles or norms that describe certain standards of human behaviour and are regularly protected in municipal and international law.

 

The African human rights system is composed of several human rights treaties—or agreements between the African Union member states—and the mechanisms that monitor compliance with these treaties. … It also recognizes people’s rights, such as the right to development and self-determination.

Human Rights 

We are ‘burning up our future’, UN’s Bachelet tells Human Rights Council

Village Reporter
In a direct appeal to the forum’s 47 Member States to unite to tackle climate change, Michelle Bachelet insisted that every region of the world stands to be affected. In the short-term, however, the worst effects of the fires and “drastic acceleration of deforestation” in Bolivia, Paraguay and Brazil were on the families living in these areas, she explained. “Climate… Read More
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UNICEF backpacks used as a haunting symbol to call for greater protection of children living in conflict

Village Reporter
The UNICEF installation was unveiled in the garden at UN Headquarters in New York as a message to world leaders, who will convene for the annual General Assembly. It features rows of backpacks reminiscent of a graveyard, each one representing a senseless loss of a young life to conflict.  “UNICEF backpacks have always been a symbol of hope and childhood… Read More
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Human rights are everyone’s business, amid relentless crises around world: UN’s Bachelet

Village Reporter
Briefing journalists one year since she took office, High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, appealed for greater international cooperation. In our increasingly interconnected world, human rights violations in one part of the planet can have serious repercussions on another, she maintained. “We have seen this with large numbers of people fleeing their countries due to armed conflicts, insecurity, political… Read More
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Nowhere is safe to hide in war-torn Yemen, say UN-appointed rights experts

Village Reporter
At the launch of its second report into alleged violations committed in the Arabian Peninsula State, where the internationally recognized Government of President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi is fighting chiefly Houthi opposition forces, the Group of Eminent International and Regional Experts on Yemen insisted that there had been “a pervasive lack of accountability”. The parties to the conflict in Yemen… Read More
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Friday’s Daily Brief: Refugee children missing out on school, Ebola in Uganda, Fresh violence in Yemen, 20 years of Timor-Leste independence, Enforced disappearances

Village Reporter
More than half of world’s refugee children ‘do not get an education’, warns UNHCR Millions of refugee children are missing out on an education, the UN said on Friday, in an appeal to host countries to prevent them from “languishing” in camps for years where they lose hope. According to a UN refugee agency (UNHCR) report, out of 7.1 million… Read More
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‘Perseverance is key’ to Iraq’s future, UN envoy tells Security Council

Village Reporter
Briefing the Council via videoconference, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, the Special Representative and Head of the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), told the Council that while “not to sugar-coat the current circumstances, we can all agree on Iraq’s great potential”, adding “but perseverance is key” to make the most of it. The Special Representative stressed that Government cannot “recreate overnight miracles”… Read More
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‘There has never been a more urgent time,’ to safeguard children’s right to safe water and sanitation, says UNICEF

Village Reporter
In the first volume of a new report, Water under Fire, the agency outlines how water, sanitation and hygiene services can be planned, financed and executed to safeguard healthy livelihoods for children in fragile and conflict-affected areas. From Cox’s Bazar to Ukraine to Yemen and similar places of extreme vulnerability, as seen, “the situation is dire for children,” UNICEF Associate Director… Read More
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Marginalized groups hit hardest by inequality and stigma in cities

Village Reporter
According to Ms, Otieno, policies to tackle these problems include the provision of decent, affordable housing, quality education, and equal job opportunities for all, irrespective of race, religious belief, tribe or political affiliation.  Ms. Otieno travelled to Salt Lake City, Utah, to speak at the UN Civil Society Conference – an annual event which brings together representatives of NGOs and… Read More
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World must stamp out persecution of religious groups, Guterres declares on new UN Day

Village Reporter
The Day was created in response to an increasing number of attacks against individuals and groups, targeted simply because of their religion or belief, around the world. Examples, said the Secretary-General, include “Jews have been murdered in synagogues, their gravestones defaced with swastikas; Muslims gunned down in mosques, their religious sites vandalized; Christians killed at prayer, their churches torched.” We… Read More
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Terrorism survivor in Cameroon takes road to recovery: UN News special report

Village Reporter
The words of 29-year Wala Matari from Cameroon may be uncompromising, but they are a heartfelt and honest window into the suffering she has experienced, and the enduring torment of the unspeakable atrocities perpetrated by ruthless terrorists against this mother of six. Twenty-nine-year-old Wala Matari, a former terrorist hostage, attends church with her children in the village of Zamai in the… Read More
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