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Human rights experts outraged at Myanmar's crackdown on press
Newly installed U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet took on Myanmar's government, defending the right to press freedom and calling for the release of two journalists.
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Newly installed U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet took on Myanmar's government, defending the right to press freedom and calling for the release of two journalists.
A panel of U.N. human rights investigators identified six Myanmar military leaders that it said should be prosecuted at The Hague for genocide against Rohingya Muslims.
A U.N. panel of human rights experts returned from Bangladesh after gathering evidence of a military-planned campaign of genocide against Myanmar's Rohingya people.
A third of the world’s fish stocks are overfished, FAO said, and 35% of what's caught never makes it one someone's plate.
U.S. President Donald Trump's administration, complaining of bias against Israel, said it will reduce U.S. participation to observer status at the world's foremost human rights body.
In a world of 7.6 billion people, 44,500 people a day — one person every two seconds — are displaced, the U.N. said.
Humanitarian and human rights groups say conditions must change to ensure that some of the 700,000 Rohingya Muslims who fled to Bangladesh can safely return to Myanmar.