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UN panel flags ‘human rights violations’ in India, urges Delhi to suspend, review NRC
August 26, 2026 3:59 am
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) criticised the implementation of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam, and raised concerns about the subjecting of Bengali-speaking Muslims to “systematic and structural racial discrimination”.
Bangladesh army was warned against violence in student protests: UN Human Rights Chief
March 07, 2025 11:06 pm
The Anti-Discrimination Student Movement, also known as Students Against Discrimination (SAD), led mass protests for weeks, ultimately leading to the ouster of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on August 5 last year.
UN human rights office says Israeli forces, Palestinian armed groups may have committed war crimes
June 11, 2024 5:35 pm
Palestinian health officials say at least 274 Palestinians, including dozens of women and children, were killed in the operation.
Israeli settlements in Palestinian areas amount to 'war crime', says UN rights office
March 08, 2024 9:59 pm
The report covers the one-year period from November 1, 2022, to October 31, 2023, when it says roughly 24,300 housing units in existing settlements in the West Bank were “advanced.
Suu Kyi's trial set to start in Myanmar, junta rejects UN rights chief's statement
June 14, 2021 10:18 am
Aung San Suu Kyi, 75, is due to face trial on Monday on charges of breaching coronavirus regulations while campaigning for the election she won last November and also for possession of unlicensed walkie-talkies.
UN Human Rights Office says 18 dead in Myanmar crackdown
February 28, 2021 8:43 pm
It would be the highest single-day death toll among protesters who are demanding that the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi be restored to power after being ousted by a Feb. 1 coup.
UN rights body to "raise" missing Dubai princess with UAE
February 17, 2021 9:06 pm
In the videos, which appear to have been recorded covertly, the 35-year-old princess says she is "worried about my safety and my life." "I don't really know if I'm going to survive this situation," she says in one of the videos.
UN human rights office calls authorities, protesting farmers to exercise maximum restraint
February 06, 2021 8:34 am
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), in a tweet said the rights to peaceful assembly and expression should be protected both offline and online.
UN rights office seeks probe of reported Navalny poisoning
September 08, 2020 4:47 pm
Michelle Bachelet, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, in a statement, decried a "profoundly disturbing" number of cases of poisoning or targeted assassination in Russia over the past two decades and noted that Navalny had been harassed, arrested and assaulted repeatedly in the past.
UN experts raise concerns over Hong Kong security law
September 04, 2020 5:32 pm
In a letter released Friday, seven human rights experts affiliated with the UN said that the national security law raised a "serious risk" that fundamental freedoms, such as the freedom of expression and peaceful assembly, may be infringed upon.
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