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Middle East
UNRWA condemns demolition of Palestinian home in East Jerusalem
The UN agency that supports Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, on Thursday urged Israeli to immediately halt all evictions and demolitions in…
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Middle East
Iraq: Put torture prevention laws into practice, urges UN human rights chief
Although laws in Iraq criminalize torture and set out procedural safeguards to prevent it, a new report released on Tuesday by the UN…
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Middle East
Fate still unclear of ‘tens of thousands’ of civilian detainees in Syria
The fate of tens of thousands of civilians being held in Syria’s “notorious” prisons or detention centres is still unclear, 10 years after the country’s civil war began, UN investigators said on…
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Law and Crime Prevention
DPR Korea: Impunity prevails in prisons, amid potential ‘crimes against humanity’ – Bachelet
The UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR) is gravely concerned by “credible accounts of forced labour” in the Democratic People’s Republic…
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Asia Pacific
DPR Korea: Impunity prevails in prisons, amid potential ‘crimes against humanity’ – Bachelet
The UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR) is gravely concerned by “credible accounts of forced labour” in the Democratic People’s Republic…
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