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New York : United Nations independent experts demanded on Wednesday that the Venezuelan Government take concrete actions to tackle the devastating impact on basic human rights of the country’s economic crisis. more
COVID-19 crisis putting human trafficking victims at risk of further exploitation, experts warn

New York : Lockdowns, travel restrictions, resource cutbacks and other measures to curb the spread of the new coronavirus are putting victims of human trafficking at risk of further explo ...

Senior UN official calls for universal basic income to tackle

New York : The COVID-19 pandemic is not only a health crisis, but it is also proving to be an economic disaster for huge numbers of people worldwide. A senior UN official with the UN Deve ...

Coronavirus and human rights: New UN report calls for disability-inclusive recovery

New York : The COVID-19 pandemic is intensifying inequalities experienced by the world’s one billion people with disabilities, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said in l ...

Pakistan: Missing Persons Commission receives 33 fresh complaints in April

Islamabad: It seems that Pakistan is seeing more missing persons in recent times as the country's commission on missing people received 33 new cases in April, media reports said.

COVID-19 makes universal digital access and cooperation essential: UN tech agency

New York : As the COVID-19 pandemic reshapes the way in which we work, keep in touch, go to school and shop for essentials – across the world – it has never been more importan ...

Attacks on civilians, arbitrary arrests, top list of abuses in Libya: ICC Prosecutor

New York : Unabated violence, particularly in and around the Libyan capital, has now been raging for more than a year, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) told the Se ...

Food insecurity in West Africa could leave 43 million at risk as coronavirus hits

New York : Well over 40 million people across West Africa face desperate food shortages in coming months, with COVID-19 restrictions a new factor adding to people’s vulnerability, t ...

UN rights expert urges States to step-up anti-slavery efforts to protect most vulnerable during COVID-19

New York : A UN human rights expert urged governments on Tuesday to increase protection for those millions of workers, who due to the COVID-19 pandemic, risk being pushed into exploitativ ...

Pakistani forces killed four pro-freedom Baloch activists in Panjgur: FBM

Quetta: The Free Balochistan Movement (FBM) recently alleged that Pakistani forces killed four pro-freedom Baloch activists and tied one of the dead bodies to the back of a vehicle and dr ...