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Bachelet condemns U.S. treatment of migrant families held at border
The U.N. human rights chief said children should never be held in immigration detention or separated from families.
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The U.N. human rights chief said children should never be held in immigration detention or separated from families.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport's ruling reflects the gulf between competitive sports and modern gender approaches.
The U.N. fears more air raids and heavy shelling in residential areas could cause more deaths and destroyed neighborhoods.
Sudan's defense minister announced Omar al-Bashir was arrested and declared a state of emergency for three months.
Venezuelans who cannot flee are in the grips of a humanitarian crisis from lack of food and basic services.
The European Union and eight other nations condemned Saudi Arabia, demanding that it cooperate with a U.N.-led investigation into Jamal Khashoggi's brazen murder.
The Human Rights Council began with warnings of broken norms despite some powerful movements for social justice.
The four-member U.N. team went to Ankara and Istanbul and their report to the U.N. Human Rights Council is due in June.
U.N. special rapporteur Agnès Callamard requested and authorized the probe and her team now plans to visit Turkey.
The U.N.'s new human rights chief and UNICEF are generating thousands of engagements on Twitter, another sign of how indispensable social media has become for organizations.
With demands growing for the U.N. chief to appoint an investigation into Jamal Khashoggi's murder, a review by Arete News found just eight previous instances of such an order.
Turkey's president said a treaty prevents the investigation of Jamal Khashoggi's murder inside the Saudi consulate from being 'concealed behind the armor of immunity.'
The U.N. chief faces calls to order an independent investigation into Jamal Khashoggi's murder.
The U.N. human rights chief said the likely murder of Jamal Khashoggi would be a serious crime that should make Saudi Arabia and Turkey cooperate fully with investigators.
A new review of U.N. whistleblowing policies and practices by the U.N.'s Joint Inspection Unit showed little improvement from retaliation cases reported more than a decade earlier.
The special gathering at U.N. headquarters in New York highlighted the many challenges to press freedoms globally.