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Myanmar court keeps journalists locked up in Rohingya case
The U.N. and other organizations urged the nation to immediately release the two Reuters journalists.
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The U.N. and other organizations urged the nation to immediately release the two Reuters journalists.
Hundreds of millions of youth are at risk of contracting water-borne diseases because more countries suffer from conflicts.
These are turbulent times for the International Criminal Court, created 17 years ago as a court of "last resort."
The Human Rights Council began with warnings of broken norms despite some powerful movements for social justice.
U.N. special rapporteur Agnès Callamard requested and authorized the probe and her team now plans to visit Turkey.
The poll's findings ran counter to the well-publicized sound and fury of dozens of populist leaders or political parties in North America, Europe, South America and Asia.
António Guterres called for greater diplomacy, more climate ambition, better use of technology, more focus on the U.N.'s 17 major goals for 2030 and a renewal of foundational values.
The Trump administration's broadsides against international cooperation embolden nations with poor human rights records and encourage attacks on journalists, experts said.
Huge security threats loom from the crisis in Yemen to Afghanistan's fighting to the U.S.-China trade war.
In the past year at least 80 journalists were killed, 348 were detained in prison and 60 were taken as hostages.
After eight years in the minority, Democrats vowed to redirect, block or investigate Republican U.S. President Donald Trump's domestic and foreign programs and priorities.
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.
The murder of Jamal Khashoggi overshadowed the U.N. examination of Saudi Arabia's troubled human rights record, with nations calling for a proper investigation into his killing.
Protesters urged more attention to global weapons sales in the wake of a journalist's murder in a Saudi consulate at Istanbul.
The U.N. chief faces calls to order an independent investigation into Jamal Khashoggi's murder.
At the U.N. General Assembly, U.S. President Donald Trump unleashed a vicious attack on the U.S.-hosted world body that he described as a largely usesless "global bureaucracy."