Global Issues
News headlines for “Human Rights Issues”, page 399
‘We must not turn our backs’ on migrants stranded in Yemen
- UN News
With some 27,800 migrants having crossed from the Horn of Africa into war-torn Yemen this year, the UN migration agency, IOM, expressed concern on Tuesday over the safety and well-being of those on the move.
Over a billion methamphetamine tabs seized in East and Southeast Asia
- UN News
More than one billion methamphetamine tablets were seized in East and Southeast Asia last year, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has warned.
Xenophobia-hit Zimbabweans Saving Countrys Dead Economy
- Inter Press Service
Harare, May 31 (IPS) - Two decades ago, Trynos Mahamba left Zimbabwe for the United Kingdom, but back home, he has changed the lives of his relatives.
Rivers Have no Borders: The Motto of Their Defenders in Peru
- Inter Press Service
LIMA, May 30 (IPS) - "Water is part of our culture, it is intrinsic to the Amazon," said José Manuyama, a member of a river defense committee in his native Requena, a town located in the department of Loreto, the largest in Peru, covering 28 percent of the national territory.
Upset with the Opulence of the Rich? But the World's Children Are Paying the Bill
- Inter Press Service
MADRID, May 30 (IPS) - The excesses committed by rich people can be deadly–and in fact they are. Be it about food, energy or overall waste, such excesses have been depleting the world's natural resources and pushing both current and future generations towards the edge of a predictable abyss.
Do more for environment or risk planet becoming ‘human sacrifice zone’: UN experts
- UN News
It’s been five decades since Sweden hosted the world’s first conference to make the environment a major issue, in recognition of the “human sacrifice zone” it could become if we fail to look after it, according to rights experts. On Monday, ahead of fresh discussions in Stockholm this week to discuss further action, the experts warned that much greater efforts are needed which could save millions of lives every year.
UN rights chief concludes China trip with promise of improved relations
- UN News
At the end of her official visit to China, the first such trip in 17 years, UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet announced new areas of engagement between her office and the Chinese Government on rights issues, and summarized the many rights issues raised during her six-day May mission.
Sahel should be seen as region of ‘opportunity’ despite ‘multiple crises’
- UN News
The Sahel region of Africa should be considered a region of opportunity. despite the “multiple crises” that people there are enduring; that’s according to Annadif Khatir Mahamat Saleh, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for West Africa and the Sahel.
Chile: Apology for sterilizing HIV-positive women in moment of ‘reproductive justice’
- UN News
The head of the UN agency leading the fight against HIV/AIDS, welcomed on Friday a public apology from Chile on a landmark case of involuntary sterilization of women living with HIV.
Rights office welcomes Zambia’s pledge to abolish the death penalty
- UN News
Zambia’s plan to abolish the death penalty adds to the growing global chorus against the practice, the UN Human Rights Office, OHCHR, said on Friday in welcoming the decision.
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