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Human rights for all, still ‘work in progress’ warns Türk

The UN human rights office, OHCHR, and its mandate has become a powerful vehicle for change, progress, dignity, and justice, yet “this is far from enough to meet today’s challenges”, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said in his keynote address at the +30 Symposium, Vienna World Conference: 30 Years On: Our Rights […]

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First Person: ‘Born fighting’ for rights of Black Brazilians

Organized under the theme, Realizing the dream: A UN declaration on the promotion, protection and full respect of the human rights of people of African descent, the Permanent Forum heard from experts and leaders from around the world, including Ms. Nascimento, explaining the challenges they have faced, and the dreams they have for the future. […]

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Critical humanitarian situation in Central African Republic

Of this number, 2.4 million “have needs so severe and complex that their survival and dignity is at risk,” Mohamed Ag Ayoya, UN Humanitarian Coordinator in the CAR, told journalists in Geneva.  The conflict in neighbouring Sudan has further exacerbated needs, and a $465 million humanitarian plan for the country was amended to include support […]

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Omar Harfouch denounces state anti-Semitism in Lebanon

Omar Harfouch, leader of the initiative ‘Third Lebanese Republic’ and anti-corruption fighter, has denounced the anti-Semitic decision of the Lebanese Prime Minister, Najib Mikati, to cancel the Lebanese State’s contract with French lawyers seeking to recover the Lebanese funds looted by the political class, passed illegally and hidden in European banks, recently frozen, because one of the lawyers belonged to the Jewish religion.

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Turkey, Physical and sexual violence by police against 100+ Ahmadi asylum-seekers

On 24 May, over 100 members of the Ahmadi Religion – women, children and elderly people – from seven Muslim-majority countries, where they are considered heretics, presented themselves at the Turkish-Bulgarian border to lodge a claim for asylum with the Bulgarian Border Police but they were denied access to it by the Turkish authorities. A […]

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Remains of an ancient Roman watchtower have been discovered in Switzerland

Swiss archaeologists conducting exploratory excavations in the Schaarenwald am Rhein nature reserve earlier this year discovered the location of an ancient Roman watchtower. It was a site surrounded by a moat (possibly additionally reinforced with a palisade or other wooden structure), almost square, measuring seven by seven meters, the walls of which were about one […]

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315,000 grave violations against children in conflict over 18 years: UNICEF

The UN-verified figures were reported by the agency as States, donors and the humanitarian community meet in Norway, for the Oslo Conference on Protecting Children in Armed Conflict. The 315,000 incidents were recorded in more than 30 conflict situations across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. They include more than 120,000 children killed or maimed; […]

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MEP Maxette Pirbakas deciphers EU agricultural policy

French MEP Maxette Pirbakas, a member of the Committee on Regional Development and national president of the Rassemblement pour les français d’Outre-mer (RPFOM), was invited to take part in the monthly programme and discuss the problems facing agriculture in Europe. Hosted by journalist Radouan Bachiri, the programme aims to discuss current affairs within the European […]

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New EEA Executive Director Leena Ylä-Mononen takes up post

Leena Ylä-Mononen takes up her position as Executive Director of the European Environment Agency (EEA) in Copenhagen today, following Hans Bruyninckx, who ended his second five-year term at the end of May. The European Union and the EEA’s broader network are working to put in place important policy measures to shift Europe to a carbon […]

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In Moscow, a miraculous icon, which previously belonged to a Ukrainian temple, was stolen under the nose of the FSB

The icon of the Virgin Bogolyubskaya was stolen from the Church of St. John the Evangelist in the center of Moscow, just 350 meters from the building of the Federal Security Service (FSB) on Lyubyanka Street, Russian media reported. However, an interesting clarification is that until about two weeks ago, the icon was located in […]

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