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New York, July 29(Just Earth News): The United Nations rights office expressed concern on Friday over the intensifying crackdown in Viet Nam against human rights defenders who have questioned or criticized the Government and its policies. more
Venezuela: UN rights wing urges calm ahead of controversial weekend polls

New York, July 28(Just Earth News): The United Nations human rights office expressed deep concern on Friday at the risk of further violence in Venezuela, where elections for a Constituent As ...

In Honduras, senior UN official urges protection of human rights defenders

New York, July 28(Just Earth News): Visiting a newly established United Nations human rights office in Honduras, a senior official on Fridaystressed the need to protect human rights defender ...

Migrant workers in south-east Asia lack access to fair, responsive legal remedies – UN report

New York, July 27(Just Earth News): Access to justice is often out of reach for migrant workers in South-east Asia, the United Nations labour agency reported on Thursday in a study that show ...

UN expert urges two Koreas to discuss human rights

New York, July 27(Just Earth News): The proposed resumption of dialogue between the two Koreas is an opportunity to discuss and improve the human rights situation in the North, a United Nati ...

DR Congo: UN rights chief names international investigators in Kasai abuses

New York, July 27(Just Earth News): The United Nations human rights chief on Wednesday named three international experts to investigate reports of killings, mutilations, rapes and other abus ...

Latest round of UN-led global consultations spotlights migrants’ contributions to development

New York, July 25 (Just Earth News): Although the net benefits of migration far outweigh its costs, the public perception is often the opposite, a senior United Nations official pointed ou ...

Stop harassing Liu Xia supporters, release his wife: Human Rights Watch to China

New York, July 25 (JEN) The Chinese authorities should immediately and unconditionally release Liu Xia, the wife of deceased Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo, Human Rights Watch said recently ...

Turkey jails scribes branding them terrorists; data shows nation as most hostile towards journalists

Ankara, Jul 24 (JEN): "Without debate, without criticism no administration and no country can succeed and no republic can survive," once said late US President John F Kennedy. Turkey now rel ...

Uyghurs: An unacknowledged saga of Chinese oppression

Beijing/Cairo, Jul 22 (JEN): Battered by Chinese oppression, many Uyghurs have fled the nation and have settled (read sneaked into) in Egypt, where they face another dilemma.