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Jokowi Should Take Up Al-Aqsa Violation Case At UN: Senator

The Indonesian Regional Representative Councils (DPDs) Deputy Chairman Farouk Muhammad strongly condemned Israeli ...

Morocco Symposium Tackles Issue of Stigma and Discrimination Associated with Leprosy

-A recent symposium in Morocco on leprosy and human rights was an opportunity for Naima Azzouzi to speak publicly for ...

Sasakawa Wins IBA Rule of Law Award for Efforts to End Leprosy Discrimination

-The International Bar Association, the world's leading body of legal professionals, bar associations and law ...

Jokowi and Kalla will encounter unity-related issues: experts

President-elect Joko Widodo (Jokowi) and Vice President Jusuf Kalla (JK) will face some grave issues related to unity ...

Half South Asia`s girls marry before 18: UN

Nearly half of all girls in South Asia marry before they turn 18, according to a United Nations report that lays bare ...

UNAOC And BMW Group Announce Intercultural Innovation Winners

- The United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) and the BMW Group announced the ranking of the 11 finalists of ...

Riau`s two million hectares of oil palm plantation illegal: Minister

Minister of Forestry Zulkifli Hasan has urged the Riau Province Administration not to issue additional permit for oil ...

ILC lauds Indonesia for eliminating discrimination against employment and occupation

The International Labor Conference (ILC) has lauded Indonesia and 36 other countries for applying ILO Convention No. ...

Nobel-winning U.S. economist Gary Becker dies at 83

Gary Becker, whose work applying the principles of economics to a wide range of human behavior won the Nobel Prize in ...

Condemning Discrimination, Dalai Lama Tells People Affected by Leprosy Never to Lose Hope

-   It would be hard to overstate the rapturous welcome given to the Dalai Lama when he visited a community ...

Elephants can judge threat from human languages: Study

Elephants are able to identify humans that pose a threat to them by distinguishing between the language and voices of ...

Rise in number of lepers in Ternate

There has been a marked increase in the number of people lately diagnosed with leprosy in Ternate, North Maluku, ...

Corby parole according to the law: minister

The parole granted to Schapelle Leigh Corby, the Australian citizen who was convicted for drug smuggling, was in ...

Syrian-Iranian-Swiss meeting in Tehran discusses humanitarian needs in Syria

Upon an invitation from the Iranian Foreign Ministry, a Syrian-Iranian-Swiss meeting was held in Tehran on Tuesday to ...

Human Rights Institutions Pledge Support for Efforts to End Leprosy-related Discrimination

-   Global Appeal 2014 to End Stigma and Discrimination against People Affected by Leprosy was launched in ...