UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

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News In Brief 10 September 2018

10 September 2018
News in Brief
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  • New UN rights chief underscores the importance of multilateralism
  • It’s important to talk about suicide: WHO
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Signing Ceremony for the “Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons”, 20 September. Secretary-General António Guterres (centre right). Beatrice Fihn (first from right), Executive Director, ICAN.
UN Photo/Kim Haughton

News in Brief 06 October 2017 (PM)

6 October 2017
News in Brief

Nobel prize for group opposing nuclear weapons, praised by UN chief

The announcement on Friday that this year’s Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to an international group campaigning to abolish nuclear weapons reminds the world of the “catastrophic risk” they pose.

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Yazidi refugees, including several children, go about their lives in Nawrouz refugee camp, approximately 40 kilometres from the Syrian border with Iraq.
UNICEF/Razan Rashidi

News in Brief 22 August 2017 (AM)

22 August 2017
News in Brief

Appeal for justice for ISIL’s women victims in Iraq

Authorities in Iraq are being urged to ensure that thousands of women and girls who survived rape and other sexual violence committed by ISIL fighters receive care, protection and justice.

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Gro Harlem Brundtland, former Prime Minister of Norway and Deputy Chair of the Elders, addressing journalists. She is flanked by fellow Elders Lakhdar Brahimi (left), former Joint Arab League-UN Special Representative for Syria; and Mary Robinson, former
UN Photo/Mark Garten

News in Brief 9 May 2017 – (PM)

9 May 2017
News in Brief

“The Elders” explain why multilateralism matters

A group of independent global leaders working together for peace and security called the “The Elders” spoke on the importance of multilateralism at the UN on Tuesday.

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High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein.
UN Photo/Pierre Albouy

Rape chants lay bare Burundi terror campaign: UN human rights chief

18 April 2017
General News

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has expressed deep alarm at a widespread pattern of rallies in Burundi where members of the ruling party’s youth wing chant about impregnating and killing their oppo

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An overloaded boat of refugees and migrants trying to reach Europe as seen from the deck of the Italian Coastguard ship, the San Giorgio, during a Mediterranean patrol in 2014.
UNHCR/Alfredo D'Amato

News in Brief 31 March 2017 (PM)

31 March 2017
News in Brief

UNHCR relieved shipwreck victims now safe

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Children look over the wall on the roof of their house at clouds of smoke from oil wells which were set on fire by ISIL when they fled Qayyarah, a town south of Mosul. (file)
UNICEF/Mackenzie

News in Brief 20 February 2016 (PM)

20 February 2017
News in Brief

Aid agencies in Iraq brace for impact of western Mosul military campaign

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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.
UN Photo/Mark Garten

“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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Fires burn in the streets of Kinshasa during demonstrations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on 19 and 20 December 2016.
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Fears that DR Congo violence is spreading

23 December 2016
General News

At least 40 civilians have been killed by security forces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in the past week, the UN said on Friday, a sign of growing instability in the country.

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A general view of the Human Rights Council meeting.
UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré

Aleppo spotlight as UN Human Rights Council holds special session

21 October 2016
General News

Horrific violence in Syria’s Aleppo was the focus of an extraordinary session of the UN Human Rights Council on Friday, which ended with a call for a special inquiry into dramatic recent events in the city.

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