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‘Massive’ violations in Ukraine a focus as UN human rights body meets

‘Massive’ violations in Ukraine a focus as UN human rights body meets

GABRIELLE TÉTRAULT-FARBER and EMMA FARGE THE U.N. rights chief condemned Russia's "senseless" invasion of Ukraine at the start of a Human Rights Council session at which countries want to strengthen scrutiny of Moscow's alleged war crimes and raise China's treatment of Muslim Uyghurs. Volker Turk, the United Nations high commissioner, in one of his first speeches to the 47-member council, warned that human rights gains were being reined back and even reversed, citing Russia's invasion of Ukraine as an example of oppression. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a separate speech that the war had triggered "massive violations" of rights.…
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Taliban breaking promises including over women, says U.N.

Taliban breaking promises including over women, says U.N.

EMMA FARGE  AFGHANISTAN’S Taliban rulers have contradicted public promises on rights including by ordering women to stay at home, blocking teenage girls from school and holding house-to-house searches for former foes, according to a senior United Nations official. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said Afghanistan was in a "new and perilous phase" since the militant Islamist group seized power last month, with many women and members of ethnic and religious communities deeply worried. "In contradiction to assurances that the Taliban would uphold women's rights, over the past three weeks, women have instead been progressively excluded from the public…
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Former UN rights boss to head probe into Israel, Hamas alleged crimes

Former UN rights boss to head probe into Israel, Hamas alleged crimes

FORMER United Nations human rights chief Navi Pillay will head an international commission of inquiry into alleged crimes committed during the latest conflict between Israel and the Islamist group Hamas in Gaza, the U.N.'s Human Rights Council has announced. The council agreed in late May to launch the investigation with a broad mandate to probe all alleged violations, not just in Gaza and the Israeli-occupied West Bank, but also in Israel during hostilities that were halted by a May 21 ceasefire. Outgoing U.N. Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay talks during an interview to Reuters in her office in Geneva August…
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