Sep 30, 2015

Ahwazi: Secretary General Advocates for Protection of Arab Minority

Photo courtesy of Thomas Hawk @Flickr The United Nations General Assembly convened for its Seventieth Session. While presenting his report Mr Ban Ki-Moon, UN Secretary General, addressed the treatment and human rights situation of the Ahwazi Arabs in Iran.  The Secretary General has called on the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran to undertake changes in its human rights...

Sep 30, 2015

Ahwazi: Secretary General Advocates for Protection...

Photo courtesy of Thomas Hawk @Flickr The United Nations General Assembly convened for its Seventieth Session. While presenting his report Mr Ban Ki-Moon, UN Secretary General, addressed...

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Sep 30, 2015

Cordillera: Freedom of Assembly Restricted

The Cordillera Peoples Alliance is deeply alarmed over the labeling of the Martial Law protest action on September 21, 2015 as a crime. Nonetheless, the Cordillera Human Rights Alliance and Tongtongan...

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Sep 30, 2015

Balochistan: Balochi Activist Found Dead

On Sunday, 27 September 2015, the dead body of Mr Najeeb Baloch was found in Turbat Balochistan, days after he was abducted and detained in prison by Pakistani forces.  While the Pakistani government...

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Sep 30, 2015

Ogoni: Suffering and Damage Continue

The Ogoni people face continued loss and degradation of land due to oil spills started in the 1990s and to the presence of business activity. Recommendations by the UN have not been implemented by neither...

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Sep 30, 2015

Spain’s Reaction to Catalonia’s Vote: Right...

Sunday, 27 September 2015 marked the 11th Catalonian parliamentary election, held to decide the new members of the regional legislature of the Spanish autonomous community of Catalonia.

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Sep 29, 2015

Beyond the Nuclear Deal: Side-Event at UN Discusses...

Geneva, 21 September 2015 – On the occasion of the 30th Session of the UN Human Rights Council, the first after the nuclear deal reached with the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Unrepresented Nations...

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Sep 29, 2015

Assyria: Assyrian Church of the East Elects 111th...

Mr Gewargis Silwa took up the mantle of the new patriarch on Sunday [27 September 2015] at St John the Baptist Church in Ainkawa. The appointment should do well in uniting Assyrians around the world at...

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Sep 29, 2015

Khmer Krom: New UN Envoy Concludes First Mission...

In March, Ms Rhona Smith was appointed UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia. Following her first mission to the country, which lasted nine days, Ms Smith recommended improving...

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