New York, Nov 8 (JEN): A senior United Nations official Thursday appealed to the international community to provide funding to the UN-backed tribunal trying Khmer Rouge leaders accused of m ...
New York, Nov 7 (JEN): The United Nations human rights chief Wednesday expressed alarm at the death sentences handed out in Bangladesh to 152 paramilitary soldiers for their role in a 2009 ...
New York, Nov 6 (JEN): Renowned United States actor, filmmaker and United Nations Goodwill Ambassador for Global Justice Nicolas Cage Tuesday called for greater efforts to assist human traf ...
New York, Nov 2 (JEN): The United Nations refugee agency is concerned that as the rainy season ends in Myanmar and the annual sailing season reopens, people from the Rakhine state are incre ...
New York, Nov 1 (JEN): Two of the surviving former leaders of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge regime charged with mass killings during the 1970’s requested to be acquitted Thursday, as closing a ...
New York, Oct 31 (JEN): The head of the United Nations agency defending press freedom Wednesday denounced the murder of Honduran cameraman Manuel Murillo Varela, who was found shot dead la ...
New York, Oct 30 (JEN): Human rights defenders who oppose large-scale development projects are increasingly being branded as ‘anti-government’ or ‘enemies of the State,’ a United Nat ...
New York, Oct 30 (JEN): The head of the United Nations agency tasked with defending press freedom Tuesday denounced the murder of Somali television journalist Mohamed Mohamud, who was gunne ...
New York, Oct 30 (JEN): Members of the United Nations-appointed inquiry into human rights violations in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) Tuesday reiterated that they are n ...
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