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Kyrgyzstan: Draft Law Violating Rights of LGBT People
Monday, 27 October 2014, 3:10 pm | UN News
24 October 2014 – The United Nations human rights office today called on the Kyrgyz Parliament to refrain from passing draft legislation that would discriminate against people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT) people. More >>
Right to Online Privacy at Risk
Friday, 24 October 2014, 3:51 pm | UN News
23 October 2014 – States must be transparent about the nature of their electronic mass surveillance programmes, an independent United Nations counter-terrorism expert said today as he warned about the impact such measures might have on individuals’ ... More >>
Greater Effort Needed to Eradicate Extreme Poverty
Friday, 24 October 2014, 3:44 pm | UN News
Far Greater Effort Needed to Eradicate Extreme Poverty in World’s Poorest Nations – UN Report More >>
UN Launches Humanitarian Appeal for Iraqis in Need
Friday, 24 October 2014, 3:42 pm | UN News
Displaced persons queue up to receive food supplies at a WFP distribution site in the Kasnazan area of Erbil Governorate, in northern Iraq. Photo: OCHA/Iason Athanasiadis More >>
UN-Backed Tsunami Warning System Test
Friday, 24 October 2014, 3:17 pm | UN News
A view of the destruction caused by the Indian Ocean tsunami of 26 December 2004 in Point Pedro, a small fishing village in northern Sri Lanka. UN Photo/Evan Schneider More >>
$1 Billion in Reparations for Iraq's Invasion of Kuwait
Friday, 24 October 2014, 3:13 pm | UN News
UN Panel Pays Out Over $1 Billion in Reparations for Iraq's Invasion of Kuwait More >>
Forensic Services Must Be Independent From Law Enforcement
Thursday, 23 October 2014, 2:52 pm | UN News
Mr. Juan Mendez, Special Rapporteur on Torture, Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. UN Photo/Rick Bajornas More >>
Use of Drones in Law Enforcement May Violate Human Rights
Thursday, 23 October 2014, 2:50 pm | UN News
22 October 2014 – The increasing use of armed drones within domestic law enforcement risks depersonalizing the use of force and infringing upon the rights of individual citizens, a United Nations independent human rights expert warned today. More >>
DR Congo: UN Mission Comes under Attack, Steps up Security
Thursday, 23 October 2014, 2:48 pm | UN News
Head of MONUSCO, Martin Kobler, comforting a Beni, North Kivu, resident who had several family members killed during recent attacks attributed to ADF rebels, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Photo: MONUSCO More >>
Somalia Piracy Requires Effective State Governance
Thursday, 23 October 2014, 2:45 pm | UN News
22 October 2014 – While noting the progress made to combat piracy off the coast of Somalia, the United Nations political chief today said that a sustained long-term solution must include the presence of effective Government and State institutions ... More >>
Despite Gains Against Tuberculosis, Better Research Funding
Thursday, 23 October 2014, 2:40 pm | UN News
Patients wait to take their daily tuberculosis treatment at the Jigme Dorji Wangchuck National Referral Hospital in Bhutan. Photo: The Global Fund/John Rae More >>
South Sudan: ‘No Alternative to Silencing the Guns,’
Thursday, 23 October 2014, 2:38 pm | UN News
Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), Ellen Margrethe Løj, briefs the Security Council. UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe More >>
Cambodia: Report Reveals Scope of Violence Against Children
Thursday, 23 October 2014, 2:33 pm | UN News
22 October 2014 – Over half of Cambodian children have experienced at least one form of violence before the age of 18 while roughly a quarter have been emotionally abused, a new United Nations-backed survey has revealed, exploring the magnitude ... More >>
Support Needed for Olive Farmers in Palestinian Territory
Thursday, 23 October 2014, 1:57 pm | UN News
Olive trees in the Palestinian town of Ni'lin in 2008 were very close to expanding Israeli settlements. Photo: IRIN/Shabtai Gold More >>
UN Launches Initiative Targeting Threat of Desertification
Thursday, 23 October 2014, 1:55 pm | UN News
Recent successes show that problems related to desertification and land degradation are not insurmountable. Photo: FAO/Giulio Napolitano More >>
DR Congo: Ban Deplores Expulsion of UN Rights Officer
Wednesday, 22 October 2014, 2:44 pm | UN News
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Director in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Scott Campbell. UN Photo/Sylvain Liechti More >>
Ebola: UN Prepares for Arrival of Trial Vaccines
Wednesday, 22 October 2014, 2:23 pm | UN News
In early October 2014, with the help of the US Navy, a new mobile laboratory opened at Island Clinic, one of the WHO-supported Ebola Treatment Units (ETU) in Monrovia, Liberia. Photo: WHO/R. Sørenson More >>
Gaza: Pledges for Aid, Reconstruction Must Be Honoured
Wednesday, 22 October 2014, 2:18 pm | UN News
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (left) addresses the Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question. Security Council President for the month of October, María Cristina Perceval of Argentina, is at ... More >>
General Assembly Elect 15 Members to UN Human Rights Council
Wednesday, 22 October 2014, 2:09 pm | UN News
A delegate casts his country's ballot in the election of members for the Human Rights Council. UN Photo/Evan Schneider More >>
Syria: UN Convoy Crosses Lines to Reach Children
Wednesday, 22 October 2014, 2:04 pm | UN News
A UN truck with humanitarian supplies at the Turkish side of the border awaiting green light to cross to the Syrian side, in March 2014. Photo: OCHA More >>
