Tag: Human Rights Watch

Women’s rights will be raised at UN meeting being attended by Taliban: UN official

June 27, 2024 admin

Under-Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo. File | Photo Credit: Reuters The United Nations (UN) political chief who will chair the first meeting between Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers and envoys from about 25 countries answered sharp criticism that Afghan women have been excluded, saying on June 26 that women’s rights will be raised at every session. Undersecretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo…

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UN envoy defends failure to include Afghan women in upcoming meeting with Taliban in Qatar

June 22, 2024 admin

The United Nations’ (UN) top official in Afghanistan defended the failure to include Afghan women in the upcoming first meeting between the Taliban and envoys from 22 countries, insisting that demands for women’s rights are certain to be raised. UN special envoy Roza Otunbayeva was pummelled with questions on June 21 from journalists about criticism…

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Attacks by Sudanese paramilitary forces in Darfur raise possibility of ‘genocide’ against non-Arab ethnic communities: Human Rights Watch

May 9, 2024 admin

Sudanese refugees who fled the violence in Sudan’s Darfur region and newly arrived ride their donkeys looking for space to temporarily settle, near the border between Sudan and Chad in Goungour, Chad. File | Photo Credit: Reuters “A series of attacks by Sudanese paramilitary forces in the western region of Darfur raise the possibility of…

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Burkina Faso Suspends BBC and Voice of America after covering report on mass killings

April 26, 2024 admin

File picture of mural in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. | Photo Credit: AP Burkina Faso suspended the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and Voice of America (VOA) radio stations for their coverage of a report by Human Rights Watch on a mass killing of civilians carried out by the country’s armed forces. Burkina Faso’s communication spokesperson, Tonssira…

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Iran’s persecution of Bahai minority constitutes ‘crime against humanity’, says HRW

April 2, 2024 admin

Baha’i cemeteries have been desecrated or destroyed in several cities and towns. Photo: X/@hrw The Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on April 1 that the Iranian authorities’ persecution of the Bahai minority since the Islamic revolution of 1979 constitutes a crime against humanity. The New York-based group said that the Bahai, Iran’s largest non-Muslim minority,…

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Russia is defeated in its bid to regain a seat on the U.N.’s top human rights body

October 11, 2023 admin

UNITED NATIONS Russia was defeated in its bid to regain a seat in the U.N.’s premier human rights body by a significant majority in October 10th’s election in the General Assembly, which voted last year to suspend Moscow after its invasion of Ukraine. Russia was competing against Albania and Bulgaria for two seats on the…

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Thousands protest over Bangladesh’s ‘enforced disappearances’

August 30, 2023 admin

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) activists form a human chain to mark the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, along a street in Dhaka on August 30, 2023. | Photo Credit: AFP Thousands of Bangladeshi protesters marched on August 30 demanding information on hundreds of people they say security forces have abducted during Prime…

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