People are fed up with corruption, says Human Rights Council debate
Corruption kills, UN Human Rights Chief Navi Pillay told a panel discussion at a meeting of the Human Rights Council on Wednesday.
Corruption kills, UN Human Rights Chief Navi Pillay told a panel discussion at a meeting of the Human Rights Council on Wednesday.
The number of deaths in detention centres in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) almost doubled from 56 in 2011 compared to 101 deaths recorded in 2012, according to a UN report.
Things are moving ahead in Haiti, but slowly, says Michel Forst, A United Nations independent expert on the human rights situation in the Caribbean country.
The Commissioner General of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) is concerned about Palestinians trapped in the ongoing conflict in Syria.
The Syrian crisis is a double tragedy for children both inside and outside of Syria, says the United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF.
Gerry Adams reports.
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It was a cold, cloudy day in New York with snow/sleet and rain on this Friday, the 8th of March. But neither snow, nor sleet, or rain could discourage these women from marching on the occasion of International Women’s Day.
The question of how to criminalize, through penal law, those who have perpetrated violence against women is an important part of the Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence, says the deputy Secreary-General of the Council of Europe.
Anne Lasimbang is a member of the Dusun ethnic group in the Malaysian state of Sabah, Borneo. She has been an advocate in the fight for indigenous peoples’ rights in Malaysia, and in Asia as a whole. She has also been involved in the local women’s activities in Sabah, Malaysia since 1983.
As part of its ongoing efforts to prevent measles and rubella, Rwanda is starting a dual vaccine campaign against the diseases on Tuesday.
This is the first time that the combined Measles-Rubella vaccine is being used in a developing country.
The unrest in the Syrian Arab Republic has reached new heights of destruction, says Paulo Pinheiro, Chair of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria.
Gerry Adams reports.
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