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US Pressures Myanmar To Accept UN Rights Probe
US Ambassador Nikki Haley on Monday ramped up pressure on the Myanmar government to accept a UN fact-finding mission...
Eight DR Congo Soldiers Get Stiff Jail Terms For Kasai Killings
A military court in DR Congo on Thursday handed stiff jail terms, including life imprisonment, to eight soldiers for...
DR Congo To Probe Ex-Minister’s Suspected Role In Kasai Violence
Parliament in the Democratic Republic of Congo has authorised the state prosecutor to probe alleged involvement by a...
UN To Send Experts To Probe DR Congo Violence
The UN Human Rights Council on Friday decided to send a group of experts to the Democratic Republic of Congo to help...
US Balks At ‘abortion’ Mention In UN Call To Fight Abuse of Women
The UN Human Rights Council unanimously adopted a resolution Thursday condemning abuse and discrimination of women, but...
‘Thousands Dead’ In Violence
More than 3,300 people have been killed in the violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Kasai region since last...
UN Decries ‘staggering Loss of Civilian Life’ In Raqa
United Nations war crimes investigators expressed alarm Wednesday at the "staggering" number of civilian deaths as...
UN Decries ‘staggering Loss of Civilian Life’ In Raqa
United Nations war crimes investigators expressed alarm Wednesday at the "staggering" number of civilian deaths as...
UN Experts’ Murder Trial Resumes In DR Congo
A Democratic Republic of Congo military court held a second day of hearings Monday in the trial of a man and a teenager...
Murdered Maldives Blogger’s Father Demands International Probe At UN
The father of murdered blogger Yameen Rasheed in the Maldives accused police Friday of trying to cover up the case, and...
UN Rights Chief Demands International DR Congo Probe
The UN human rights chief on Friday slammed Kinshasa for not seriously investigating spiralling violence in the...
Maldives Arrests Key Dissident After UN Censure
The Maldives arrested one of the few vocal dissidents still in the country on Thursday, a day after facing censure at...
UN Threatens DR Congo With International Probe
The UN rights chief on Tuesday gave Kinshasa a two-day deadline to show it is seriously investigating violence in the...
UN Accuses IS of Executing 163 Civilians In Mosul On June 1
The United Nations human rights chief on Tuesday accused the Islamic State group of murdering 163 civilians to prevent...
US Urges UN To Investigate DRCongo Murders
The United States on Monday urged the United Nations to establish a special investigation into the murder of two UN...
Two Men Go On Trial In DR Congo For UN Experts’ Murders
A man and a teenager went on trial in a military court in Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday, accused of killing...
Rights Groups Urge Probe Into Bloodshed In DR Congo’s Kasai
International and local rights groups called on the UN on Thursday to open an urgent inquiry into the months-long...
US Ambassador Haley To Travel To Israel, UN Rights Council Meeting
US Ambassador Nikki Haley, who has accused the United Nations of anti-Israel bias, will travel to Israel next week and...
Alarm Over Worsening Press Freedom In Tunisia
Tunisian and international non-governmental organisations warned Tuesday of deteriorating freedom of the press in a...