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GENEVA (Reuters) -The U.N. human rights chief appealed on Thursday for $500 million in funding for 2025 to support its work such as investigating human rights abuses around the world from Syria to ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States found five units of Israel's security forces responsible for gross violations of human rights, the first time Washington has reached such a conclusion about ...
In December Alston and 27 other U.N. human rights officials wrote World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim to complain that the bank’s proposed revisions to its “social safeguards” policies for protecting people in the path of development “avoid any meaningful references to human rights.” A spokesman for the World Bank said the bank ...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has stated that stay-at-home responses for slowing the pandemic, such as the quarantine mandates, should not be implemented at the expense of human rights. [4] Broader concerns have been expressed about the effect of COVID-19 containment measures on human rights, democracy, and governance.
Human Rights Watch has also sent a public letter to US president George W. Bush requesting information about the fate and whereabouts of the missing detainees. [ 43 ] "President Bush told us that the last 14 CIA prisoners were sent to Guantanamo, but there are many other prisoners 'disappeared' by the CIA whose fate is still unknown," said ...
Human rights abuses in the United Arab Emirates (6 C, 8 P) Human rights abuses in the United Kingdom (19 C, 14 P) Human rights abuses in the United States (26 C, 32 P)
Nicaragua has increased human rights violations and persecution of the opposition as it ratchets up its efforts to stifle dissent, a United Nations group of experts monitoring the country said ...
There have been several criticisms and controversies of perceived human rights violations related to the organisation and hosting of the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. [1] [2] [3] There have long been concerns for the state of human rights in Qatar, with the state accused of sportswashing in hosting the World Cup. [1] [2] [3] [4]