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Young Afghans join hands as they embark upon a demonstration of peace in Bamyan, Afghanistan.
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News in Brief 26 December 2019

26 December 2019
News in Brief
  • Ending war only ‘real hope’ for prosperous Afghanistan: UN mission chief
  • Independent UN rights experts raise alarm over ‘incommunicado detention’ of Chinese scholar
  • Violent attack in Burkina Faso leaves dozens of women dead, draws censure of UN chief
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Independent UN rights experts raise alarm over ‘incommunicado detention’ of Chinese scholar

26 December 2019
Human Rights

Independent United Nations human rights experts expressed apprehension on Thursday over the “incommunicado detention” of a Uyghur Muslim academic who has reportedly been sentenced to death. 

A wall of photos at the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, the site of infamous Security Prison S-21, documents the Khmer Rouge's brutal treatment of detainees.
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“New and alarming patterns” of enforced disappearance emerging: Zeid

17 February 2017
General News

The practice of enforced disappearance is not decreasing, it’s “morphing”, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has said.

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