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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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An electoral worker checks names against the voters' list at a polling station during elections in Burundi. Photo: MENUB

Burundi: UN condemns assassination attempt on leading human rights defender

Focus on human rights: Mr. Annan with President Kabila (far left) and OAU Secretary-General Salim Salim

Annan asserts primacy of human rights

'Human rights are African rights, not an imposition or plot by the industrialized West'

UN human rights office condemns latest deadly attacks in north-eastern Nigeria

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