Many reports of the United Nations and International Human Rights organisations such as Human Rights Watch have documented human rights violations by LTTE for...
Image: Every leader commencing from Anagarika Dharmapala up to Gotabhaya who had led the country along this path have disrupted the country and carried...
Statement by Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Madam President,
This is a key juncture for the Council’s engagement with Sri Lanka. As my...
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Sarah Dadouch and Kareem Fahim
BEIRUT — One of Saudi Arabia's most...
GENEVA, (15 January 2021) - The Human Rights Council today elected Ambassador Nazhat Shameem Khan, Permanent Representative of Fiji to the United Nations Office...
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Twitter...
Image:Journalist Bismillah Adil Aimaq. Credit: The Bharat Express.
Bismillah Adil Aimaq, an Afghan journalist and human rights activist was killed by unidentified gunmen in Dara-e-Taimoor...
In the Congo rainforest, the doctor who discovered Ebola warns of deadly viruses yet to come.
Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo — Showing early...
Rahmatullah Nikzad, a reporter, photographer and chief of the Ghazni Journalists’ Union, was assassinated in the first district of Ghazni province by unknown assailants...
Image: MSP Monica Lennon (second left) with campaigners against period poverty outside Scotland's Parliament in February.
By Rob Picheta and Ivana Kottasová, CNN.
London (CNN). Scotland has become...
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This infographic highlights progress and remaining challenges for women in a range of areas, from politics, to literacy, to wages and...
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair
BY PATRICK COCKBURN.
President Trump may be losing the election, but he is not the aberration in the history of America...
(Dubai: Image courtesy of KARIM SAHIB / AFP / Getty Images)
By ISABEL DEBRE.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United Arab Emirates announced on...
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SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chileans poured into the country’s main squares on Sunday night after voters gave a ringing endorsement to a plan...
Image: Pham Doan Trang, a Vietnamese dissident, was arrested on charges of making and disseminating propaganda against the Vietnamese state.(Credit-Thinh Nguyen)
By Richard C. Paddock.
BANGKOK...
Image: South Korean Trade Minister Yoo Myung-hee and Nigeria's former foreign and finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala are the finalists to lead the WTO.
The World...
(HRW) A cross-regional group of 39 United Nations member countries issued a stinging public rebuke today of the Chinese government’s widespread human rights violations...
The undersigned civil society organisations congratulate and welcome Irene Khan to her new role as Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the...
GENEVA (26 June 2020) – UN independent experts have repeatedly communicated with the Government of the People’s Republic of China their alarm regarding the...
Image: In March 2017 Ai Weiwei launched a massive sculpture featuring 70 metre long boat with 258 refugees (www.creativeboom.com)
An overview of the definition of refugee...
Image: A group of Muslim women from Hambantota: "We have lived here for generations".
The much anticipated, debated, and controversial presidential election is now just...
Image: Nada Al-Nashif, Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights making concluding remarks at the ID on Sri Lanka report.
Making interventions at the interactive dialogue at...
Many reports of the United Nations and International Human Rights organisations such as Human Rights Watch have documented human rights violations by LTTE for...
Image: Every leader commencing from Anagarika Dharmapala up to Gotabhaya who had led the country along this path have disrupted the country and carried...
