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Right to strike protected under key labour treaty, says UN World Court

By 10 votes to four, the UN World Court ruled “the right to strike of workers and their organizations is protected” under the Freedom...

Women and girls caught up in Yemen’s ‘forgotten crisis’ bear the heaviest toll as funding falls

The UN agency supporting women and girls in the field (UNFPA) is working across the country to meet urgent reproductive needs. It warns that...

Security Council weighs future of UN war crimes mechanism as closure nears

The discussion focused on the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, established by the Council in 2010 to carry forward essential functions after the...

Haiti: UN rights office welcomes new judicial units to tackle gang violence and impunity

Launched by the Haitian government at the end of May, they are expected to address complex corruption cases, including the illicit trade of arms and money laundering.   The development comes after courts have...

Right to strike protected under key labour treaty, says UN World Court

By 10 votes to four, the UN World Court ruled “the right to strike of workers and their organizations is protected” under the Freedom...

Haitian children ‘paying the highest price’ amid surge in gang recruitment

Children now constitute around half of the gang members who have taken de facto control of large swathes of the country, Vanessa Frazier told journalists...

‘Perilous moment’ threatens to reverse years of gains in HIV/AIDS response

“There’s no question that this is the most serious disruption in the HIV response since the world came together to fight this disease,” said...

WHO report shows progress in blood safety, but there are worrying gaps

Released on Friday ahead of World Blood Donor Day on 14 June, the WHO study offers the most comprehensive assessment to date of blood...

DR Congo: Ebola spreads as agencies brace for child victims

“Every day, cases are being identified in new health zones. And that reflects really the scale of this outbreak, a scale that is much...

World News in Brief: Turk condemns Northern Ireland riots, jobs at risk over animal disease spread, heatwaves spark public health crisis in Europe

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk expressed alarm on Thursday over the rioting and destruction in Northern Ireland resulting from the attack which...

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