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Global community's growing chorus against Israel's annexation plan

Israel did not proceed with its planned July-1 annexation of parts of West Bank and Jordan Valley, Palestine, amid ...

Legal aid office under Molotov cocktail attack by unidentified person

An unidentified person flung a Molotov cocktail at the Legal Aid Foundation (LBH) office in the North Sumatra ...

Unicef concerned over repatriation of Rohingya

UNICEF voiced concern on Friday over reports on forcible repatriation of Rohingya Muslims in Bangladesh to ...

UN high commissioner to visit Indonesia

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra`ad Al Hussein is scheduled to visit Indonesia next week to ...

Indonesia Provides Temporary Shelters To Rohingya Refugees, Invites Int'l Cooperation

More than 1.5 thousand asylum seekers, mostly Rohingyas from Myanmar and some Bangladeshis, were stranded in ...

Jordanian prince becomes UN`s next rights chief

The UN General Assembly Monday approved the nomination of Jordans Prince Zeid al-Hussein as the next human rights ...

EU ends arms embargo against Syrian rebels

The European Union agreed Monday to lift its embargo against arming Syrian rebels, but no member state intends to send ...

UN Rights chief urges probe into Kadhafi's death

The circumstances surrounding the death of Libya's ousted despot Moamer Kadhafi are unclear and an investigation is ...

Syria draft constitution to be ready in 4 months: SANA

President Bashar al-Assad on Saturday announced the creation of an ad hoc committee tasked with preparing a new ...

UN rights chief warns of action in absence of S.Lanka probe

The UN`s human rights chief Thursday warned Sri Lanka not to take too long in probing war crimes allegations, saying ...

UN rights chief starts trip to Israel, Palestinians

United Nations human rights chief Navi Pillay arrived in Israel on Sunday for talks with Israeli and Palestinian ...

UN rights chief urges Egypt to end violence, free those detained

The United Nations human rights chief called for an end to the "shocking" violence in Egypt and the immediate release ...

UN rights chief urges Egypt to probe clashes

UN human rights chief Navi Pillay said on Friday that Egypt must carry out a "transparent and impartial" investigation ...