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Discrimination and violence on women
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United Nations: The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women published its Concluding Observations on Italy on 19 February 2024

UN Secretary-General António Guterres briefs the General Assembly on the work of the Organization and his priorities for 2024
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“Peace is the UN's raison d’être”: Guterres’ call for action and his priorities for 2024

Alice Nderitu, UN Special Adviser on Genocide, briefs reporters ahead of International Day of Countering Hate Speech (18 June)
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The UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide’s statement on the war in the Middle East

An activist holds anti-death penalty signs outside the US Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C.
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human rights

United Nations: Volker Türk voices regret over first ever execution by nitrogen suffocation

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child soldiers

UN: Worrying increase in child soldiers recruitment in 2024

Artic ice viewed from aboard the Norwegian Coast Guard vessel, "KV Svalbard", during Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's visit to the Polar ice rim to witness firsthand the impact of climate change on icebergs and glaciers.
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Agrofuels and climate change: a false solution

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Ratification status of the major UN human rights treaties and of the African Charter on Human Rights and the Peoples’ Rights, by the Arab League member States

International conference “Religions and Human Rights”, Padua (Italy), April 14-15, 2016
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Religion and the International Human Rights Standards

National banners of the Member States of the UNO (United Nations Organization) outside the UN Headquarters.
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Religion and the Human Rights Machinery

Interreligious Dialogue
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Interreligious Dialogue

Padova Model UPR

Padova Model UPR

A UN Security Council session. The participants are seated around a circular table, in the center of which is positioned another, rectangular table.
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United Nations: The UN Security Council needs a reform to end its “paralysis”

The Security Council adopts resolution 2712 (2023) calling for urgent and extended humanitarian pauses and corridors throughout the Gaza Strip for a sufficient number of days to enable, consistent with international humanitarian law, the full, rapid, safe
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United Nations: Resolution 2712 (2023) adopted by the Security Council at its 9479th meeting, on 15 November 2023

Families flee their shattered neighbourhood, Tal al-Hawa, to seek refuge in the southern Gaza strip.
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"Gaza is running out of time" UN experts demand ceasefire to avert genocide

A shot of the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) found last week, photographed at the Air Safety Unit of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations. Fred Eckhard, Spokesman for the Secretary-General, held a briefing today showing the CVR, and said that nothing heard so far on the tape links that CVR to the aircraft crash of 6 April 1994 in Rwanda. The Office of Internal Oversight Services took the CVR to the United States National Transportation Safety Board in Washington, D.C., where it was opened in the presence of experts from the International Civil Aviation Organization. Killed in the 1994 plane crash were Juvenal Habyarimana, President of Rwanda, and Cyprian Ntayamira, President of Burundi. Their deaths set off a chain of killings and massacres throughout Rwanda that year, with the death toll from the genocide mounting to more than 800,000 people, mostly minority Tutsis and moderate Hutus.
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Rwanda

The United Nations and the Rwandan genocide