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  New UN rights chief decries abuses of minorities, migrants

  Agence France-Presse . Geneva | Updated at 12:05am on September 11, 2018

  The new UN rights chief decried Monday crackdowns on minorities in countries like Myanmar and China and urged Western countries to respect migrant rights, warning...

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  Bangladeshi protesters ill-treated: UN rights chief

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:05am on September 11, 2018

  New United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on Monday said that student protesters and media professionals in Bangladesh were recently attacked, arrested...

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  Global climate protests peak in US as UN talks falter

  Agence France-Presse . San Francisco | Updated at 11:02am on September 09, 2018

  Tens of thousands of people across the globe took to the streets Saturday to demand that governments step up action on global warming, even as...

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  Nations round on US, allies as UN climate talks wrap up

  Agence France-Presse . Bangkok | Updated at 12:05am on September 10, 2018

  Developing countries rounded on the United States and its allies at emergency climate talks Sunday, accusing the world’s richest nations of stalling a deal aimed...

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  Substantial progress in key areas must to resolve crisis: UN

  United News of Bangladesh . Dhaka | Updated at 12:56am on September 09, 2018

  The United Nations has said a substantial progress remains urgently needed in three key areas including addressing the root causes of the Rohingya crisis and...

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  US accused of blocking UN climate talks amid protests

  Agence France-Presse . Bangkok | Updated at 12:22am on September 09, 2018

  The United States, despite withdrawing from a landmark accord aimed at curbing climate change, is stonewalling vital UN talks over how to fund poorer nations...

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  Myanmar civil society groups condemn conviction of Reuters reporters

  Reuters . Yangon | Updated at 12:10am on September 05, 2018

  Seventy-six Myanmar civil society groups called on Tuesday for the release of two jailed Reuters reporters, denouncing their conviction as unfair and an assault on...

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  US ends funding for UN Palestinian refugee agency

  Agence France-Presse . Washington | Updated at 12:05am on September 02, 2018

  The United States announced it was halting funding for the United Nations’ agency for Palestinian refugees Friday after declaring the organization was ‘irredeemably flawed’....

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  Myanmar struggles to digest global anger over Rohingya crisis

  Agence France-Presse . Yangon | Updated at 12:05am on September 01, 2018

  Baffled, hurt or indignant, many inside Myanmar are struggling to digest a week of opprobrium heaped on their country by the UN and even Facebook...

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  Rohingyas keep fleeing as UN finds genocidal intent

  M Serajul Islam | Updated at 12:00am on August 31, 2018

  AYEAR has passed and leaving aside all the proof of ethnic cleansing and genocide, nearly a lakh Rohingya babies have been born in the refugee...