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U.N. Human Rights Chief to Leave, Citing ‘Appalling’ Climate for Advocacy
By Colum Lynch - Foreign PolicyZeid Ra’ad Hussein worries the global retreat from human rights makes his job untenable.The United Nations’ top human rights advocate...
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Coptic Activist Mina Thabet: Speech at 10th UN Forum on Minority Issues
UN 10th session of the Forum on Minority IssuesResearcher and rights activist, Mina Thabet, is the director for minorities and marginalized groups at the Egyptian...
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Failure to bring IS to justice shows UN genocide conventions ‘obsolete’
By Gabrielle Desarzens - World Watch MonitorThe UN must urgently put in place measures to hold to account jihadists who have committed atrocities against minorities...
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ISIS Trying to Exterminate Yazidis in Syria and Iraq, U.N. Panel Says
ISIS Trying to Exterminate Yazidis in Syria and Iraq, U.N. Panel SaysBy Nick Cumming-Bruce, The New York TimesJune 16, 2016GENEVA — Islamic State forces...
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