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New York: A UN expert on Wednesday hailed an historic judgement issued by the United States Supreme Court on 15 June that firing a person on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity is unlawful. more
China fumes, Uighurs rejoice after Trump passes law to punish Chinese crackdown on Uighur Muslims

Beijing/Washington: Cornered worldwide over the Covid-19 fiasco, China is now fuming after yet another setback as the United States passed a legislation to punish the Chinese crackdown on ...

US Congress passes bill to sanction China over treatment of Uyghurs

Washington/Sputnik: The House of Representatives has passed Senate-approved legislation to hold China accountable for alleged human rights violations against the Uyghurs and other Muslim ...

Pakistan: Punjab Assembly resolution seeks most stringent anti-blasphemy laws, USCIRF condemns

Washington:  The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) on Friday condemned the resolution passed by the Punjab Assembly in Pakistan which asked the fed ...

US House passes several measures in support of Hong Kong protesters

Moscow (Sputnik/UNI) The US House of Representatives has passed the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act that stipulates annual State Department reviews of the autonomy of Hong Kong, ...

US needs to launch probe after latest migrant child death in custody: Advocacy Group

Washington (Sputnik): The Trump administration should allow an independent investigation of its immigration detention centers after the most recent death of a migrant child in US custody ...

UN gender agency hails record-breaking number of women in new US Congress as ‘historic victory’

New York, The record number of women who stood as candidates in the United States Congressional elections this week marks an “unprecedented” advance “critical for the ac ...

US to deny G-4 visas to same-sex partners of foreign diplomats and UN workers

Washington: The United States of America has declared that it will not provide diplomatic visas to same-sex partners of foreign diplomats and United Nations (UN) workers.

US migrant children policy reversal, still ‘fails’ thousands of detained youngsters: UN rights experts

New York: The United States government decision to end its border policy of forcibly separating migrant children from their parents, does not help thousands of youngsters already in deten ...

Children ‘as young as one’ involved in US separation of migrant families – UN rights office

New York: The current policy in the United States of separating “extremely young children” from their asylum-seeker or migrant parents along the country’s southern borde ...