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UN News: A girl plays in Al-Jufaina camp for displaced people in Marib, Yemen.
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Yemen

United Nations: urgent funding appeal for Yemen

Women from the Brazilian delegation attend an indigenous event during the COP28 UN Climate Change Conference in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, in December 2023.
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human rights

UNGA: Transform landmark Indigenous rights declaration into reality

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United Nations: "Anatomy of a genocide", Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Francesca Albanese (2024)

Detail of a class of South American children while they work.
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UNESCO: urgent need for new teachers worldwide

un News: Reem Alsalem, Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, was among the human rights experts who issued the statement
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human rights

United Nations: Rights experts call for probe into alleged violations against Palestinian women and girls

UN News: A mother-of-nine, who is suffering from malnutrition herself, cooks a meal for her children in an IDP camp in Aden, Yemen.
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human rights

Yemen: Recent progress overshadowed by fallout from attacks on Gaza, UN envoy reports

People watch a building on fire following a missile attack in Ukraine.
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human rights

United Nations: escalating toll as third year of war in Ukraine looms

Discrimination and violence on women
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women

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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environment

Agrofuels and climate change: a false solution

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Arab League

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
religions

Religion and the International Human Rights Standards