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News headlines for “Human Rights Issues”, page 371
UN Report Details Taliban Abuses in Afghanistan
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Sep 08 (IPS) - This week, the United Nations special rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan, Richard Bennett, released his first report. It is a catalog of abuses under Taliban rule since August 2021 and their devastating impact on Afghans.
Without investment, gender equality will take nearly 300 years: UN report
- UN News
Achieving full gender equality, one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), could take close to 300 years if the current rate of progress continues, according to a report published on Wednesday by UN Women and the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA).
Rights experts urge China to address grave violations in Xinjiang province
- UN News
China must address grave human rights violations in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), and the international community must not turn a blind eye, more than 40 UN independent experts said on Wednesday.
Afghanistan: The Year of Illusions
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Sep 07 (IPS) - Afghanistan is where history has taken it! The Trump-Taliban "Agreement for Bringing Peace to Afghanistan," signed on 29 February 2020, is deemed by many as the submission of a superpower to a group that had perpetrated acts of extreme ferocity and terror.
South Sudan: Human rights violations in Unity state committed with ‘impunity’
- UN News
As fighting continues in South Sudan, a new UN report released on Tuesday documents 173 civilian deaths over a four-month period along with widespread human rights violations committed without repercussion.
Sri Lanka: New Government urged to make progress on accountability, institutional reforms
- UN News
Sri Lanka is at a critical juncture and the new Government must make progress on accountability as well as institutional and security sector reforms, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said in a report published on Tuesday.
Afghanistan: A Treasure Worth More than a Trillion Dollars
- Inter Press Service
MADRID, Sep 06 (IPS) - Both mainstream media, international bodies and human rights defenders continue to rightly denounce the Taliban's inhuman abuses against the Afghan people’s basic rights, in particular those of women and girls.
Make Art, Not War: Ukrainian Artists Tell the Ukraine Story Through their Art
- Inter Press Service
New Delhi, Sep 06 (IPS) - “I must say that I had a premonition of a war with Russia in 2014 when Russian troops had started to occupy Crimea,” said Mykola Zhuravel, a contemporary painter and sculptor, in an interview with IPS. Zhuravel, with his partner, Daria Tishchenko-Zhuravel, have used art to communicate and express the horrors of the war since 2014.
Papua New Guinea: Conflict and election-related violence trigger wave of displacement
- UN News
Following conflict and election-related violence in Papua New Guinea, more than 15,000 people have been internally displaced in Hela, Southern Highlands and Enga provinces, the International Organization for Migration´s (IOM) said on Tuesday.
Execution of Gaza prisoners condemned by UN rights office
- UN News
The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has condemned the execution of five prisoners by Hamas, the de facto authorities in Gaza, in a statement released on Monday.
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