The chief human rights officer for the UN Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), has welcomed recent changes to the country’s Penal Code which remove the “discretionary authority” of judges over so-called honour killings.
Extending basic human rights across the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea must be part of any deal on denuclearizing the peninsula, according to the UN’s independent rights’ expert on the country.
Tomas Ojea Quintana welcomed recent “rapid progress on the political and security front”, with the Trump Administration suggesting that a summit could be held with DPRK before the end of May.
The Special Rapporteur spoke to Bronwen Cowley.
The outflow of Venezuelans into neighbouring countries such as Colombia, constitutes a “humanitarian disaster”, said the head of the World Food Programme (WFP) on Tuesday.
Speaking in Colombia, David Beasley also called on international donors to step up support funding — while the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) issued new protection guidance for Governments to address the crisis.
Mr. Beasley spoke to Wolfgang Friedl, in the Colombian capital, Bogota.
Reported rights violations committed by government forces in Myanmar against Rohingyas will likely constitute “crimes under international law”, according to the Chairperson of the UN Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar, Marzuki Darusman.
Speaking to Bronwen Cowley in Geneva, following the release of the Mission’s report, Mr. Darusman called on authorities to stop dismissing the seriousness of rights abuse allegations.
Born and raised in the forests of Suriname on South America’s northern coast, Fidelia Graand-Galon is a unique voice among rural indigenous women.
President of the Maroon Women’s Network - founded to promote the development of women descended from escaped African slaves - she was at the UN in Geneva on Thursday to speak as part of a International Women’s Day panel, and spoke to Bronwen Cowley.
Thousands of residents in the West Darfur town of Kereinek are celebrating their area being declared free of unexploded ordnance and explosive remnants of war.
Louis Visagie, ordnance disposal officer at the joint AU-UN operation in Darfur, UNAMID, told Matilda Moyo how this was accomplished.
Pakistani filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, a two time Academy award winner and women’s rights activist says that she is on a mission to force “difficult conversations” that her own society needs to have.
Ms. Obaid-Chinoy is due to take part in the International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights (FIFDH), in Geneva, which starts on Friday. She spoke to Michele Zaccheo, before celebrations for International Women’s Day got underway.
Rural women in Afghanistan are feeling increasingly isolated and deprived of their rights compared with women living in towns and cities.
That’s one of the conclusions to emerge from a nationwide outreach programme led by the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), aimed at highlighting local issues, as Fraidoon Poya reports from Herat province in western Afghanistan.
The global spotlight needs to remain on Somalia as it recovers from protracted drought followed by successive failed rains, according to the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in the country, Peter de Clercq.
Dianne Penn spoke to the senior UN official who was in London this Tuesday for an international conference aimed at supporting Somalia.
Helping communities to improve resilience is critical in Somalia, which suffered a drought in 2015 that has displaced some two million people.
Justin Brady of the UN humanitarian affairs office, OCHA, talks to Dianne Penn about an international conference taking place in London to support the country.
