“All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights”
(Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)
Today marks the 61st anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) by the General Assembly of the United Nations. This year, Human Rights Day is devoted to non discrimination and the [...]

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Darfuri refugee women and girls face high levels of rape and other violence on a daily basis both inside and outside refugee camps in eastern Chad, despite the presence of UN security forces, a new Amnesty International report reveals.
In No place for us here: Violence against refugee women in eastern Chad, Amnesty International documents rape [...]

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Israel, Hamas, and relevant United Nations bodies should promptly implement the recommendations of the UN fact-finding mission led by Justice Richard Goldstone on the recent Gaza war and bring to justice those responsible for serious violations of the laws of war.
Link to HRW

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The UN Security Council should establish an International Criminal tribunal with jurisdiction over all grave human rights violations surrounding Timor-Leste’s 1999 independence referendum and in the previous 24 years of Indonesian occupation, said Amnesty International in a report published today to mark the 10th anniversary of independence vote.
A decade after Timor-Leste voted for independence, a [...]

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Only two days after the UN Security Council reaffirmed “its commitment to the full and effective implementation of its resolutions on the protection of civilians in armed conflict”, the Security Council adopted today a new resolution on Somalia, giving more support to the African Union in Somalia (AMISOM) and stating its intention to establish a [...]

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Amnesty International is calling for an immediate and independent investigation into the Israeli army’s shelling this morning of a United Nations compound in Gaza City, disrupting the distribution of humanitarian aid to Gaza’s beleaguered civilians and injuring three UN workers.
The United Nations Relief and Work Agency (UNRWA) has reported that shells – apparently containing white [...]

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Gaza’s 1.5 million people are enduring a serious humanitarian crisis brought on by more than two weeks of major military operations that have magnified the impact of 19 months of a highly restrictive Israeli blockade, reinforced by Egypt.
The Israeli government has repeatedly denied that a humanitarian crisis exists. Information from international humanitarian organizations, United Nations [...]

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The United Nations Security Council, meeting on January 7, 2009 in a high-level emergency session, should establish a commission of inquiry to investigate alleged laws-of-war violations in Gaza. Human Rights Watch said the investigation should include Israel’s January 6 attack just outside a UN school housing displaced persons in the Jabaliya refugee camp, as well [...]

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Little has been done by the UN and UN member states since the UNGA President release his strongly worded statement (below this) against the Israeli bombardment hitting the civilian population of Gaza.
By the time the UN applies any effective pressure on Israel to cease and desist, the civilian population of Gaza will have endured [...]

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Amnesty International today urged the UN Security Council to take firm and decisive action to address the increasingly grave situation in the Gaza Strip and southern Israel.
“Civilian casualties and destruction in Gaza are on an unprecedented scale. The UN Security Council must not remain silent. The Council can and must act and it should do [...]

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