UN high commissioner for human rights
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • April 18, 2017
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Nikki Haley, the United States ambassador to the United Nations, presided over what she was determined to sell as “an historic meeting exclusively on human rights” in the UN Security Council. But her brief speech in the April 18…
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- Svetlana Shkolnikova
- • October 15, 2016
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For every girl born in Russia today, so are 1.06 boys. The gender ratio at birth is consistent with the international average of 1.07 boys for every girl, but the similarities end there. By the time Russian women reach…
- Categories: Health and Population, Women
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- Alexander Brotman
- • August 11, 2014
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An international mission of forensic experts and unarmed police led by the Netherlands, with Australian and Malaysian participation, has temporarily suspended its investigation and recovery work at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine. The…
- Categories: Security Council, UN Agencies
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • June 6, 2014
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The United Nations secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon, has told the UN General Assembly that he intends to appoint Prince Zeid Ra’ad Zeid al-Hussein of Jordan as the next UN high commissioner for human rights, replacing Navi Pillay, whose term, her…
- Categories: GOINGS-ON
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • March 13, 2013
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Mary Robinson, a former president of Ireland, United Nations high commissioner for human rights and philanthropist, is said to be the main candidate for the new United Nations special envoy post for the Great Lakes region in central Africa….
- Categories: Africa, GOINGS-ON, Peace and Security
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