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Rwanda urged to lift restrictions on peaceful dissent as UN rights expert concludes visit

UN News — Wed, 29 Jan 2014 06:35:44 +0000

28 January 2014 – An independent United Nations human rights expert has urged the Rwandan Government to lift undue restrictions on the freedoms of peaceful assembly and association so that the country can expand its economic achievements since the 1994 genocide to the fields of multiparty democracy and human rights. “I commend Rwanda for its [...]

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UN envoy reports child soldiers in South Sudan

Ade Adewale — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 14:50:00 +0000

A top UN rights envoy in South Sudan said child soldiers are fighting in the more than month-long conflict, with mass killings reported to have taken place. "The reports that we have come across involve mass killings, extrajudicial killings, widespread…

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Mass grave found as South Sudan slides towards civil war

Adewale A. — Tue, 24 Dec 2013 18:28:45 +0000

A mass grave has been found in South Sudan, the United Nations said Tuesday, amid fresh reports of brutal ethnic killings and ongoing battles that threaten to tip the young nation into civil war. UN rights chief Navi Pillay said a mass grave had been…

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