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Public prosecutors on Monday called for British budget airline easyJet to be fined 70,000 euros ($96,000) for having forced a disabled woman off a flight. In one of two cases before French courts this week involving claims against easyJet from wheelchair…
GENEVA, Switzerland, December 10, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — IOM today joins the global community in paying tribute to global…
Nigeria’s Vice President, Mohammed Namadi Sambo has said that the late Kaduna State Governor, Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa has left behind…
The three tiers of government in Nigeria – Federal, States and Local governments have shared a total of N675.650 billion…
Attacks by Islamist group Boko Haram in Nigeria’s restive northeast have killed more than 1,200 people since May, when a state of emergency was declared in the region, the United Nations said Monday. Nigeria placed the states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe…
16 December 2013 – Just over a month since Typhoon Haiyan devastated the Philippines, the United Nations and its partners…
13 December 2013 – Humanitarian and early recovery needs remain great in typhoon-hit Philippines, a senior United Nations official said…
12 December 2013 – The United Nations human rights chief today voiced her disappointment at the re-criminalization of consensual same-sex…
11 December 2013 – An independent United Nations human rights expert today welcomed the release of 44 prisoners of conscience…
11 December 2013 – Voicing strong concern over widespread violence in Bangladesh that has left dozens of people dead since…
10 December 2013 – United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay today called for an eleventh-hour stay of…
10 December 2013 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed seasoned economist Shamshad Akhtar of Pakistan as the new head of…
9 December 2013 – Two independent United Nations human rights experts today urged the Bangladeshi Government to halt the execution…
8 December 2013 – Afghan authorities registered an increased number of reported acts of violence against women and girls in…
8 December 2013 – One month since Typhoon Haiyan slammed the Philippines, the top United Nations humanitarian official in the…
12 December 2013 – The head of the United Nations agency tasked with defending press freedom today condemned the killing…
11 December 2013 – Amid growing debate over international drug control policy in Latin America, the United Nations drug and…
10 December 2013 – Two independent United Nations human rights experts have voiced concern about the fate of Djamel Ameziane,…
6 December 2013 – Voicing deep concern over a ruling that renders countless Dominicans of Haitian descent stateless, the United…