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UN committee condemns North Korea’s human rights violations

November 15, 2016 zoshinuk 0
A key U.N. committee has approved a resolution condemning North Korea’s “systematic, widespread and gross violations of human rights.” The General Assembly’s human rights committee approved the measure sponsored by Japan and the European Union […]
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UN Concludes Britain Guilty of Human Rights Abuses

November 8, 2016 zoshinuk 0
On 7th November 2016, a UN report concluded that Britain is guilty of grave and systemic violations of the human rights of disabled people. Its final report concludes, “the Committee considers that there is reliable […]
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Burundi suspends local activities of UN human rights office

October 11, 2016 zoshinuk 0
KIGALI, Rwanda Burundi has been gripped by violence since President Pierre Nkurunziza won a third term last year. In September, the UN released a report implicating the country’s security forces in massive rights violations. The […]
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Experts Appointed to Champion Health and Human Rights

October 6, 2016 WJN Administrator 0
The world’s governing bodies have tasked a group of experts to expand the health and human rights of women, children and adolescents everywhere.    The new working group aims to generate high-level political support and technical […]

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Canadian ‘online poison seller’ Kenneth Law to have ‘murder charges dropped in plea deal’

April 19, 2026 0
A Canadian chef accused of supplying deadly substances to people around the world who have taken their own lives will have murder charges dropped as part of a plea deal, his lawyer has said. Kenneth […]
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Australia’s most-decorated living soldier charged over alleged war crimes

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Australia’s most-decorated living soldier has been charged over allegations he committed war crimes in Afghanistan. Ben Roberts-Smith – who left the defence force in 2013 – was arrested at Sydney airport on Tuesday and will […]
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‘The gravest crime against humanity’: What does the UN vote on slavery mean?

March 28, 2026 0
The United Nations General Assembly this week overwhelmingly backed a resolution declaring the transatlantic slave trade “the gravest crime against humanity”. Welcoming the vote, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that the wealth of many Western […]
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