New York, While health, education, and income levels have improved overall across the globe, “wide inequalities” both among and within countries, are casting a shadow on susta ...
New York, Describing the conviction in Myanmar of two Reuters journalists last week as a “particularly outrageous” example of judicial harassment against the media there, &ldq ...
New York, The UN’s newly appointed High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, intends to push back “centuries of prejudice and discrimination” against ...
Dhaka: A Bangladesh court on Tuesday rejected the bail petition of renowned Bangladeshi photographer and social activist Shahidul Alam.
New York, An Egyptian court’s confirmation of 75 death sentences on Saturday has been condemned by Michelle Bachelet, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, as being the r ...
New York, Virginia Gamba, the United Nations Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, on Friday called for much greater accountability and effort, to prevent grave vi ...
Kuala Lumpur: A Malaysian minister has urged the public to come forward and register complaints against gay clubs, to facilitate raid and searches, reports said.
Unlike other Indian states, LGBTQ community in Jammu and Kashmir did not revel in the joy of the Indian Supreme Court verdict that decriminalised gay sex. Kashmir has its own consti ...
New Delhi: The LGBTQ community in India received a huge shot in the arm after the country's apex court decriminalised gay sex in a landmark verdict on Thursday.
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- Thailand's lower house passes bill to legalise same-sex marriage
- UN says 758 allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse registered last year
- UN migration agency says 60 per cent of migrant deaths were linked to drowning in 2023
- Human traffickers torture immigrants who attempted to reach Europe via Iran
