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UN Independent Human Rights Experts to Biden: End Outsourcing of All US Detention Centres
A group of UN independent human rights experts are urging the Biden administration to end the outsourcing of all detention centres, including those holding...
With Global Online Event, UN Launches Initiative to Protect Oceans
January 2021 has marked the beginning of what many within the United Nations and beyond are viewing as “the most critical decade of our...
UN Agency Makes Shocking Discovery on Human-trafficking Scourge
Fresh evidence from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), is showing the complexity of many human-trafficking-related cases, in which defendants are...
UN Rights Experts Blast Israel for Showing Disdain for its International Obligations
Israel is showing disdain for the country’s international obligations, so say United Nations independent rights experts. They are reacting to Israel’s conviction of human rights defender, Issa Amro, earlier this January.
Their...
Palestinian Elections Crucial for Unity in Middle-East, UN Envoy Says
UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Tor Wennesland, has joined global organisation’s Secretary-General, António Guterres, in welcoming the plan for elections in Palestine later this...
