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  A long-awaited report by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) into what China refers to as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) has concluded that “serious human rights violations” against the Uyghur and “other predominantly Muslim communities” have been committed. The Uyghurs are the …

Yasmine Sherif, Director of Education Cannot Wait and Jan Egeland, Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council meet students at the Souza Gare school in the Littoral region, Cameroon. The school hosts displaced children who have fled the violence in the North-West and South-West regions. Credit: ECW/Daniel Beloumou by Joyce …

A video of a little boy whose hands were tied as he was being interrogated over claims that he is a wizard in Rumuokoro in Port Harcourt, Rivers state has been shared online. Twitter user @BrotgerTucky who shared the video of the little boy being interrogated said the boy ”turned from a …

Michelle Bachelet Opinion by Michelle Bachelet (geneva) Friday, August 26, 2022 Inter Press Service GENEVA, Aug 26 (IPS) – As you know, after four years as the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, my mandate ends next week, on 31 August. The world has changed fundamentally over the course of my …

With less than 90 days to go before the midterm elections, most predictions by political pundits are that Democrats will take a pounding. But there may be one Democrat who finally gets it. But has his epiphany come too late to help his fellow Democrats in November? Rep. Sean Patrick …

Michelle Bachelet, the outgoing High Commissioner for Human Rights. Credit: OHCHR Opinion by Andrew Firmin (london) Friday, July 22, 2022 Inter Press Service LONDON, Jul 22 (IPS) – The writer is Editor-in-Chief at CIVICUS, the global civil society alliance. He is one of the lead authors for CIVICUS Lens and the …

Ana Maria Hernandez Salgar, IPBES Chair, speaking at the IPBES Sustainable Use of Wild Species report in Bonn Germany. The report offers insights, analysis and tools to establish more sustainable use of wild species of plants, animals, fungi and algae around the world. Credit: Joyce Chimbi/IPS by Joyce Chimbi (nairobi) Friday, …

Since the middle of the 20th century, the world has experienced unprecedented population growth. The world’s population more than tripled in size between 1950 and 2020.. Credit: Fahim Siddiqi/IPS by Baher Kamal (madrid) Thursday, July 07, 2022 Inter Press Service MADRID, Jul 07 (IPS) – Far-right Brazilian president, Jair Messias Bolsonaro, …

The Osun State Police Police Command has confirmed the arrest of eight suspected ritualists over alleged possession of human head in Iwo.    One of the supects identified as Afolabi Jacob was caught with the human head by members of religious vigilante group, Taawun Security, Al-Jayshu Islam, in the early hour of Wednesday, 6th …

Openly gay British-Nigerian pastor, Jide Macaulay, has taken to social media to register his disapproval over the death sentence handed to three men found guilty of homosexuality in Bauchi.    The three men including a 70-year-old, were sentenced to death by stoning by an Islamic Sharia Court in Ningi, Ningi Local Government Area …