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Tragedy in English Channel Should Be Turning Point in Border Standoff November 25, 2021
Click to expand Image A group of people thought to be migrants crossing the Channel in a small boat headed in the direction of Dover, Kent, United Kingdom, August 10, 2020. © 2020 Gareth Fuller/Press Association via AP Images At least 27 people, including a young girl, died in the frigid waters off France this […]
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India: Kashmiri Activist Held Under Abusive Law November 25, 2021
Click to expand Image Khurram Parvez, a prominent human rights activist, left, in the office of the Jammu and Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society in Srinagar, India, August 25, 2020. © AP Photo/Dar Yasin, File, 2020. (New York) – Indian authorities have detained the prominent Kashmiri human rights activist Khurram Parvez under an abusive counterterrorism […]
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EU Waste Shipment Proposal Takes Steps to Address Plastic Crisis November 25, 2021
Click to expand Image Plastic waste among other items at an illegal garbage dump near Alibeykoy Dam on the outskirts of Istanbul, Wednesday, May 19, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/Mucahit Yapici Last week, the European Commission proposed new rules governing waste shipments from EU countries. The regulation could be good news for communities around the […]
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UN expert welcomes India plan to repeal farm laws that sparked deadly protests November 26, 2021
A UN human rights expert welcomed India's decision to repeal three contentious farm laws that sparked a year of nationwide protests which left 600 people dead.
193 countries adopt first-ever global agreement on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence November 25, 2021
All the Member states of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) adopted on Thursday a historic agreement that defines the common values and principles needed to ensure the healthy development of AI.
Iran: Execution of juvenile offender ‘deeply alarming and shocking’ November 24, 2021
The UN human rights office, OHCHR, on Thursday condemned Iran's execution of a young man who was a minor at the time he was charged with committing a crime.