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Cambodia: UN Review Should Insist on Respect for Rights

Posted by: chnarendra  | 

Geneva :: Switzerland | 7 days ago

Credibility Credibility of 3

United Nations member states should express concerns about the dramatic deterioration of freedom of expression, assembly, and association in Cambodia at today's review of the nation's human rights record, Human Rights Watch said today. Cambodia is...

Tags: UN, HRW, UPR, United Nations Human Rights Council, Human Rights Watch, Human Rights Council, force evictions, Alliance for Freedom of Expression in Cambodia, Cambodian

Violence Against Kyrgyz Woman Rising

Bişkek :: Kyrgyzstan | 20 days ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

State and non-State actors.” During the 8 to 17 November visit, Ms. Manjoo met with government officials, human rights and women’s organizations and victims of violence. She said the most prevalent forms of violence against women – two-thirds of whom...

Tags: Human Rights Council, Kyrgyzstan, Bişkek, Violence against women, Human rights, Women's rights, Domestic violence, Family therapy, Violence, Social Issues

Ban supports Abbas on Goldstone report

Jerusalem :: Israel | about 1 month ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas received a supportive nod from UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who on Sunday praised the Palestinian leader's engagement with UN member states regarding the Goldstone report on Operation Cast Lead, and told...

Tags: Israeli, Gaza, U.N. Human Rights Council, Mahmoud Abbas   Photo, war crimes, UN Human Rights Council, Palestinian Child Parliament, Human Rights council, Palestinian Authority, Obama

Ongoing detention of Myanmar’s Suu Kyi a ‘blow’ to democratic efforts – UN expert

Yangon :: Myanmar | 2 months ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

Myanmar’s Government has missed an opportunity to prove its commitment to holding inclusive elections by extending the house arrest of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, effectively barring her from participating in next year’s polls, says an independent...

Tags: Myanmar&rsquo, Human Rights Council, Afghanistan, United Nations Security Council, civilian deaths, Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar, Yangon

Human Rights defers on Gaza conflict probe

Jerusalem :: Israel | 2 months ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

That investigation, headed by Justice Richard Goldstone, found evidence that both Israeli forces and Palestinian militants committed serious war crimes and breaches of humanitarian law, which may amount to crimes against humanity, during the conflict...

Tags: Human Rights Council, Palestinian, Israel, Jerusalem

Qatar lauds human rights report on Palestine territories

Gaza :: Palestine | 2 months ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

QNA Geneva: Qatar has welcomed the report of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on the Implementation of the Human Rights Council resolution adopted on the extraordinary session on the gross violations of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories,...

Tags: Human Rights Council, Gaza Strip, Palestine, Gaza

Experiment with the United Nations Human Rights Council

Posted by: RossErdmann  | 

Geneva :: Switzerland | 2 months ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

The Obama Administration is conducting an experiment by joining the Human Rights Council. A senior official of the State Department said that the administration hopes to engage the other nations in a dialogue on universal values.  ...

Tags: UN, Human Rights Council, Obama, Bush

Amnesty urges govt to respect Indigenous Rights

Auckland :: New Zealand | 2 months ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

The organisation calls on the government to announce its clear and unambiguous support of the Declaration and to reflect its provisions in domestic legislation. This will send an important signal to the Maori, iwi and hapu communities in New Zealand,...

Tags: Human Rights Commission, Human Rights Council, New Zealand, Auckland

UN human rights council prolongs monitoring of Sudan

Khartoum :: Sudan | 5 months ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

The 47 member states on the Council voted by 20 to 18, with nine abstaining, to designate an independent expert to monitor the human rights situation in the country, especially in strife-torn Darfur, for a year. The move came as the mandate of the UN...

Tags: Sudan, Human Rights Council, UN human rights council, special rapporteur, Darfur

No gourmets in Gaza

Geneva :: Switzerland | 5 months ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

Is hunger a legitimate way of defeating an enemy? Two years after the Israeli blockade began, times remain extremely hard in Gaza ...Not cherries, kiwi fruit, green almonds, pomegranates and chocolate – they are expressly prohibited, according to an...

Tags: Gaza, Human Rights Council, Israeli

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