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New York : Disturbing details have emerged from dozens of countries that a “toxic lockdown culture” against the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted drastically on society’s most vulnerable members, the UN human rights Office (OHCHR) said on Monday. The development follows UN Secretary-General António Guterres’s call last week for States not to use the COVID crisis as a pretext for repressive measures, in which he urged Governments to recognize that the threat was the “virus, not people”. more
Greece: COVID-19 pandemic a further risk to refugee child education

New York : UN agencies in Greece have expressed concern at the effect that the COVID-19 pandemic is having on the education of refugee children in the country, as a charity partner warns ...

Human rights ‘uplift everyone’; must guide COVID-19 recovery response, says UN chief

New York : The coronavirus pandemic is not only a critical public health danger, it is also a human, economic and social emergency that is “fast becoming a human rights crisis&rdquo ...

UN condemns killing of WHO staffer in Myanmar transporting COVID-19 samples

New York : A World Health Organization (WHO) worker has been killed while driving a vehicle carrying COVID-19 samples in Myanmar’s western Rakhine state, the United Nations country ...

UN agencies pledge scaled-up efforts to protect uprooted children as pandemic upends lives

New York : Two UN agency chiefs are pledging to accelerate work to expand refugee children’s access to protection, education, clean water and sanitation, as the COVID-19 pandemic co ...

The disappearing whistle-blowers and the Covid-19 truth of China

If you are a coronavirus whistle-blower in China, you go missing. Sometimes not even too mysteriously.. often after live-streamed chase by the secret police on Weibo or YouTube. 

COVID-19: Rights experts highlight LGBTI discrimination, antisemitism

New York : New guidance from the UN human rights office, issued on Friday, sets out key actions to protect lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex (LGBTI) people against discrimination ...

COVID-19: PoK residents getting no benefits under PM Imran Khan's Ehsaas Programme in Pakistan, facing hardships

Muzaffarabad: In a clear case of alleged discrimination followed by the administration at a time of COVID-19 crisis, people in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) have been denied benefits pr ...

COVID-19: USCIRF feels 'troubled' by reports of Pakistan denying aid to Hindus and Christians

Washington:  The US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) recently expressed its concern over reports that "food aid being denied to the minority Hindus and Chr ...

Online predators put millions of children at risk during COVID-19 pandemic lockdown

New York : Self-isolation has driven more and more children to move online during the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to an unprecedented rise in screen time and raising safety risks for milli ...