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‘Behind each crisis, people are suffering,’ Türk tells Human Rights Council

June 17, 2025 Village Reporterhuman rights0 comment
Eighty years after the United Nations was established to end war, uphold fundamental human rights and promote justice and international law, those founding principles are increasingly under threat, the UN’s human rights chief warned on Monday.  Source UN News Read More
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DR Congo: Human rights violations could amount to war crimes, UN experts say

June 16, 2025 Village Reporterhuman rights0 comment
In the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Rwandan-backed rebels, Congolese troops, and allied militias have all committed human rights abuses, some possibly amounting to war crimes, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said in Geneva on Monday. Source UN News Read More
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World News in Brief: Rights abuses in Haiti, Sudan war sees exodus to Chad, food trade optimism

June 14, 2025 Village Reporterhuman rights0 comment
Escalating gang violence in Haiti has displaced a record 1.3 million people, UN human rights chief Volker Türk said on Friday.  Source UN News Read More
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Societies grappling with a ‘silent but growing’ prison crisis

June 13, 2025 Village Reporterhuman rights0 comment
Prisons have become a fragile link in many criminal justice systems, weakened by over-incarceration, overcrowding, poor conditions and chronic neglect – fuelling calls for urgent reform.  Source UN News Read More
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Decades of memories and loss – searching for the missing in Syria

June 13, 2025 Village Reporterhuman rights0 comment
Tens of thousands of people went missing in Syria over the past 50 years including during 14 years of civil war. Now, some families are able to live in hope as the Middle Eastern country emerges from the traumatic period of dictatorship and conflict. Source UN News Read More
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World News in Brief: ‘Indifference and impunity’ in Sudan, ICC judges speak out against sanctions, respiratory diseases overlooked in Europe

June 12, 2025 Village Reporterhuman rights0 comment
With over half of the Sudanese population in need of aid and lean season rapidly approaching, the UN Chief for Humanitarian Affairs once again sounded the alarm about the crisis unfolding in Sudan on Thursday.  Source UN News Read More
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The world pledged to end child labour by 2025: So why are 138 million kids still working?

June 11, 2025 Village Reporterhuman rights0 comment
Twelve-year-old Tenasoa crawls to work every day at a mine in eastern Madagascar where she collects two kilos of the shiny mineral mica each day. She cannot walk because of a physical disability. Source UN News Read More
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Israeli attacks on Gaza schools could be crimes against humanity: UN probe

June 11, 2025 Village Reporterhuman rights0 comment
The Israeli military’s destruction of Gaza’s education and cultural infrastructure amount to war crimes and the crime against humanity of extermination, a UN investigative body said on Tuesday, as humanitarian agencies warned of continued mass suffering across the Strip. Source UN News Read More
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Global action needed as progress stalls on disability-inclusive development goals

June 10, 2025 Village Reporterhuman rights0 comment
Nearly all the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicators for persons with disabilities are off track the UN deputy chief said on Tuesday, as people from around the world gathered for the largest annual meeting on disability-related issues.  Source UN News Read More
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World News in Brief: Women’s health in Sudan, childhood wasting, Belarus trade unions, Guatemala child rights violation

June 6, 2025 Village Reporterhuman rights0 comment
As hostilities rage in Sudan, access constraints and devastating funding cuts are isolating rape survivors and pregnant women from essential health services, the UN sexual and reproductive health agency UNFPA said on Thursday.  Source UN News Read More

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