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The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar Yanghee Lee on Tuesday call...

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The UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) will meet in Geneva from March...

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The United Nations is drastically curtailing a conference that had been expected to bring up to 1...

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet has urged the Myanmar governm...

The United Nations Higher Commission of Refugees (UNHCR) on Tuesday said it will increase resettl...

A United Nations report says Afghanistan passed a grim milestone with more than 100,000 civilians...