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Rupert Colville, spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). Photo: UN Photo

UN rights office urges Egypt to halt death row executions amid torture allegations

Families wait in the early hours of the morning to be registered prior to a food distribution carried out by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and partner agencies, in Thonyor, Leer county, South Sudan. Photo: © UNICEF/UN0234655/Modola.

South Sudan: ‘Outraged’ UN experts say ongoing widespread human rights violations may amount to war crimes

Diego Garcia-Sayan, UN Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, is warning that judicial independence in Nigeria is at risk.(File) Photo Credits:UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferre

Judicial independence under threat in Nigeria, warns UN rights expert

Martin Ravina Shamdasani, OHCHR spokesperson briefs the press at the Palais des Nations. 7 September 2018. Photo credits: UN Geneva/Violaine

Cameroon violence condemned by UN human rights office in appeal for dialogue to address grievances

Photo credits: UNICEF/Karel Prinsloo. Children walk back to school after competing in an inter-school athletics competition northern Cameroon, 2017.

UN chief condemns student abductions in north-west Cameroon

UN rights chief warns of potential ‘witch-hunt’ as Tanzanian official plans to track and arrest LGBT people

UN rights chief warns of potential ‘witch-hunt’ as Tanzanian official plans to track and arrest LGBT people

Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression David Kaye. UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré

South Sudan: UN human rights expert calls for the release of journalist Alfred Taban

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Protesters calling for justice for the deaths of human rights lawyer Willie Kimani, his client Josphat Mwenda, and their taxi driver, Joseph Muirur. Photo: OHCHR

UN rights office condemns killing of Kenyan human rights lawyer

An exterior view of the Zawiya detention centre near Tripoli, the capital of Libya. Photo: UNICEF/Alessio Romenzi

UN human rights agency: Libyan authorities should conduct impartial investigation on deaths of 12 people linked to the former Qaddafi regime

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addresses the 26th African Union Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, January 2016 UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe

In Addis Ababa, Ban urges leaders to build on progress in human rights and women's empowerment

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Made in Dadaab: Mihiyo and her family. Photo: Moulid Hujale/IRIN

The refugee camp that became a city

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On 29 May, Centia, 12, walks barefoot across dusty ground in Kirundo Province, Burundi. Photo credit: UNICEF/UNI186074/Nijimbere

‘Alarming’ new patterns of violations emerging in Burundi – UN rights chief

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