A surge in violence fuelled by heavily armed gangs in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, prompted the UN rights chief on Tuesday to express her deep concern over its severe impact on human rights across the Caribbean nation. “Armed violence has reached unimaginable...
Read more“I have never had any greed for power. Like Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela, who fought for guaranteeing equal rights for everyone without any desire for personal gain, I have always believed in humanity and in equal rights, opportunities,...
Read moreRussia’s military attack on Ukraine has “opened a new and dangerous chapter in world history,” UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet told an urgent debate on Thursday, leading calls for a ceasefire. Convened at the request of Ukraine, the Human Rights...
Read moreAuthorities in Bangladesh have yet to conduct an investigation into the murder of prominent journalists Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi 10 years after they were killed, UN human rights experts said on Friday. “A decade after the killing of the...
Read moreHuman Rights More than 100 laws that remain in place around the world which discriminate against people affected by leprosy, should be abolished, an independent UN human rights expert said on Friday, calling it “shameful” that governments continued to legislate...
Read moreFollowing is the full speech delivered by President Joe Biden at the UNGA 76: Mr. President, Mr. Secretary-General, my fellow delegates, to all those who dedicate themselves to this noble mission of this institution: It’s my honor to speak...
Read moreFollowing is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ address to the General Assembly today: I am here to sound the alarm: the world must wake up. We are on the edge of an abyss — and moving in the wrong direction. Our...
Read moreAt the beginning of the pandemic, some policy analysts assumed that democracies would have performed better than autocracies in coping with the crisis. It has soon become apparent that state capacities and the quality of leadership played a more important...
Read moreWith the right of free speech comes the duty of taking responsibility for what is said. The fact that we are free to express our own opinions doesn’t make these automatically right and true. In fact, what is an opinion?...
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