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Human Rights Violations Faced by Tibetans and Uyghurs Raised at UN Side-Event

By HRDI March 15, 2023Latest NewsNo Comments

Geneva: On the sidelines of the ongoing 52nd UN Human Rights Council session, a side event was jointly organised at the UN by the Society for Threatened Peoples, Tibet Bureau-…

Human Rights Council: Russia responsible for ‘widespread death and destruction’ in Ukraine

By HRDI February 28, 2023Latest NewsNo Comments

Speaking only days since a large majority of the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution calling for the immediate withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukraine, the UN chief stressed that Russia’s decision to go…

Care and support systems: A matter of Human Rights

By HRDI February 25, 2023Articles

“We need to radically reshape our understanding of support and care systems,” said UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk in his statement to Member States on transforming support and care systems. “The…