Derechos Humanos

BAIDOA, 12 June 2014 (IRIN) - Anwar Ahmed*, 50, an Al-Shabab defector, was drawn to Somalia's Salafist armed group both by the promise of...

GENEVA (13 June 2014) – Available information on trafficking in persons for the removal of organs is inadequate and often unverified, the outgoing United...

GENEVA (13 June 2014) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Friday expressed extreme alarm at the dramatic deterioration of the...

La crisis en República Centroafricana es la emergencia regional en la que UNICEF ha recibido menos fondos     GINEBRA/BANGUI, República Centroafricana, 13 de...

1) Iraq  UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay will later today issue a press release expressing extreme alarm at the dramatic deterioration...

GENEVA (13 June 2014) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions Christof Heyns, stressed that laws regulating the use...

BANGKOK, 12 June 2014 (IRIN) - Schools are targeted in conflicts around the world - they might represent ideas viewed as controversial, the destruction...

DUBAI, 12 June 2014 (IRIN) - Cash-strapped aid agencies are scrambling to respond to an escalating humanitarian crisis after Islamist militants seized control of...

GENEVA (13 June 2014) – A group of United Nations independent experts* on slavery, migrants, trafficking, sale and sexual exploitation of children, and internally...

GENEVA (13 June 2014) – “Stability and reconciliation can hardly be achieved in Thailand if human rights guarantees are neglected,” a group of United...

GENEVA (12 June 2014) – UN Human Rights Chief Navi Pillay and the Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights...

GENEVA (12 June 2014) – Persons with disabilities, youth, women, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people, members of minority groups, indigenous people, internally...

MOGADISHU, 11 June 2014 (IRIN) - Inter-clan clashes over the last week in Somalia’s southern Lower Shabelle region have killed approximately 30 and have...

INDIA | Más de 12 millones de niños de entre 5 y 14 años siguen trabajando en la India El 74% tiene entre 12...

  NUEVA YORK/AMMAN/BAGDAD, 11 de junio 2014 - Alrededor de 500.000 personas, la mitad de ellos niños, se han visto obligados a huir de sus...

Rape and sexual assault have persisted in the post-conflict era in Liberia; the country has one of the highest incidences of sexual violence against women in the...

(Madrid, 12/6/2014) Estos días Brasil está más de moda que nunca con la celebración allí de la Copa del Mundo de Fútbol 2014. Pero desde...

- Hoy el Campus María Zambrano de la Universidad de Valladolid en Segovia ha sido testigo de la inauguración y pasará por ciudades...

GENEVA (12 June 2014) – A group of United Nations human rights experts today  expressed serious concerns at the arrest, detention and prosecution of...

GENEVA (11 June 2014) – The UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health, Anand Grover, on Wednesday blamed ‘junk food’ for the global...

Un nuevo informe revela que las trabajadoras de Europa del Este y Turquía cobran salarios de pobreza.   11 de junio del 2014.-  La...

New report busts myth of 'better' fashion as it finds workers in Europe and Turkey are paid poverty wages. Clean Clothes Campaign has released a...

Geneva, 10 June, 2014 Human Rights Council 26th Session  I have the honour to address the 26th session of the Human Rights Council – my last...

LONDON, 9 June 2014 (IRIN) - Humanitarian needs in Yemen are huge, but it is also recognised as one of the most difficult places...

GBITI, 6 June 2014 (IRIN) - More than 80,000 Central Africans have fled the worsening conflict into neighbouring Cameroon since the start of the...

BANNU, 6 June 2014 (IRIN) - The ancient Pakistani town of Bannu, lying just outside the North Waziristan Agency– a stronghold for insurgents operating...

  Bagdad/Erbil, 8 de junio 2014 – UNICEF está horrorizado por los informes de la ciudad del norte de Irak, Mosul, en la que se...

NAIROBI/KISUMU, 5 June 2014 (IRIN) - Accurate diagnosis of tuberculosis among children is notoriously difficult because the bacteria causing the disease tend to be...

TUNIS (6 juin 2014) – L’esprit de réforme et de droits de l’homme insufflé par la Révolution tunisienne de 2011 « est toujours présent...

1)        Libya We are deeply concerned by the violence in Libya that has led to a number of people being...