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Laos: Marginalizing the Religious Minorities
Vientiane :: Laos | 2 days ago
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The test of freedom of religion or belief lies with the level of tolerance extended to religious minorities,” she said in a statement issued in Vientiane, the capital. She voiced concern that religious minorities appear to have little or no access to...
Tags: allnews, Special Rapporteur, religious minorities, Ms. Jahangir, Laos, Vientiane, United Nations Human Rights Council, Human rights, Freedom of religion, Politics, Social Issues, Religion Belief, Asma Jahangir, Jahangir
Child labor rises as Palestinian children lose faith in learning
Beirut :: Lebanon | 13 days ago
Credibility Twenty years ago this Friday, the UN adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon. The results of this most recent survey made it clear that the organization’s work was far from done. The data, collected...
Tags: Lebanon, palestinian refugees, Beirut, Ain al-Hilweh, Refugee, Sidon, Palestinian people, Forced migration, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Social Issues, Labor, Fertile Crescent, Mediterranean, Education, War Conflict, Human rights, Children's rights movement, US ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, UNICEF, Children's rights, Convention on the Rights of the Child, Child labour, Special Rapporteur
Prisoner Access To Sanitation Is A Human Right
New York City :: NY :: USA | 13 days ago
Credibility States must ensure that everyone, including people in detention, have access to safe sanitation. Without it, detention conditions are inhumane, and contrary to the basic human dignity which underpins all human rights,” they added. The Special Rapporteur...
Tags: New York City, Manfred Nowak, Torture, Sanitation, Guantanamo Bay detention camp, Mandatory detention in Australia, Human rights abuses, Violence, Special Rapporteur, Social Issues
UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women concludes visit to Kyrgyzstan
The UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, Rashida Manjoo, at the end of a mission to the Kyrgyz Republic, said that despite the Government's encouraging commitments to address the many challenges relating to violence against women, much still...
Tags: UN, Violence against Women, Domestic violence, Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, Special Rapporteur, Womens rights, human rights
U.N. rights experts call for proper toilets in prisons
Geneva :: NY :: USA | 14 days ago
Credibility People held in jails and other detention centres around the world frequently have no access to clean toilets; a violation of their basic human rights, three United Nations investigators said Wednesday. In statements marking World Toilet Day, marked on...
Tags: U.N. Human Rights Council, world toilets, Geneva, Public health, Sanitation, Waste management, Special Rapporteur, World Toilet Organization, Hygiene, Sewerage, Human rights, Social Issues
Letter to Trinidad and Tobago PM on Gambia
Serre Kunda :: Gambia | 17 days ago
Credibility With so many new regional and international alliances the Commonwealth must think about the value it adds to the international community. Our view is of course that the Commonwealth is not just about the Heads and governments but about the approximately...
Tags: Gambia, special rapporteurs, African Human Rights Commission, Commonwealth, CHOGM, Trinidad, Serre Kunda, African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, The Gambia, Rapporteur, Politics, Human rights, Special Rapporteur, Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting
Restrictions on NLD obstacle to General Assembly
Yangon :: Myanmar | about 1 month ago
Credibility Leaders of Burma’s National League for Democracy responding to requests on Thursday by party members to call a General Assembly said they are not in a position to call a nation-wide meeting due to the current political restrictions imposed on the party.
Tags: Myanmar, Aung San Suu Kyi, North Korea, Southeast Asian, Burma, Thailand, special rapporteur, Washington
Australia defends Aborigines policy
Sydney :: Australia | 3 months ago
Credibility Australia has defended a controversial policy that allows for official intervention in remote aboriginal communities, which a UN expert says is discriminatory. James Anaya, a UN Special Rapporteur on Indigenous Rights, has criticised the policy, saying...
Tags: Australia, human rights, special rapporteur, Northern Territory, James Anaya, United Nations, Kevin Rudd, aborigine communities, international obligations, rights violated
UN human rights council prolongs monitoring of Sudan
Khartoum :: Sudan | 5 months ago
Credibility 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
Gloria Arroyo Appoints Raul Gonzales As Presidential Legal Adviser
Manila – Justice Secretary Raul Gonzales is set to assume the post of presidential legal counsel, according to Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita. The controversial actions and decisions of Gonzales, 75, at the DOJ have...
Tags: justice, secretary, raul gonzales, philippine, politics, human rights, extrajudicial killings, summmary executions, United Nations, special rapporteur, philip alston, gloria arroyo, agnes devanadera, jesus dureza, dacer-corbito double murder case
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