Human Rights
A year after Myanmar’s coup, families of detainees search for answers
By Thu Thu Aung (Reuters) - Nearly a year after his son was last seen being hauled away by Myanmar junta troops, 66-year-old Win Hlaing says he just wants to…
Biden administration set to deny $130 million in military aid to Egypt, U.S. officials say
By Humeyra Pamuk, Simon Lewis and Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Biden administration is set to deny $130 million of military aid to Egypt over human rights concerns, U.S. State…
Pope says fake news, disinformation on COVID, is human rights violation
By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis said on Friday that spreading fake news and disinformation on COVID-19 and vaccines, including by Catholic media, is a violation of…
Bachelet visit must guarantee full access to China’s Xinjiang – spokesperson
GENEVA (Reuters) - U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet is in talks with China for a possible visit in the first half of 2022, but it must be "meaningful, with…
UN urged to open query into Iran’s 1988 killings and Raisi role
By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - Prominent former U.N. judges and investigators have called on U.N. human rights boss Michelle Bachelet to investigate the 1988 "massacre" of political prisoners in…
U.S. lawmakers call for U.N. Uyghur rights report before China’s Olympics
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday urged the United Nations' human rights office to release its assessment of China's policies in Xinjiang before next month's Beijing Winter Olympics, which…
Poland’s president to attend Beijing Olympics amidst U.S. boycott
WARSAW (Reuters) -Poland's President Andrzej Duda will attend the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and meet Chinese President Xi Jinping, a top aide confirmed to Reuters on Tuesday, as a number…
UN rights office decries Ethiopia air strikes, says 108 killed this month
By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) -The U.N. human rights office (OHCHR) on Friday expressed alarm at "multiple, deeply disturbing reports" of air strikes in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, saying…
Head of outlawed Russian rights group says “nobody plans to give up”
By Anton Zverev MOSCOW (Reuters) - The head of the Russian human rights group Memorial said on Wednesday that he and his colleagues would find a way to carry on…
U.N. bodies urge Yemen’s Houthis to release two staff members
(Reuters) - Yemen's Houthi movement has detained two staff members of UNESCO and U.N. Human Rights since early November, the UN bodies said in a joint statement on Tuesday, calling…
U.N. urges Belarus, Poland to address refugees’ ‘dire conditions’
By Paul Carrel GENEVA (Reuters) - Belarus and Poland are pushing refugees back and forth across their border and leaving them with little if any food, clean water or shelter,…
Under scrutiny, North Korea tries to restrict news about executions – group
By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has changed the way it carries out capital punishment in response to greater international scrutiny of its human rights, holding executions away…
