Avainsana: Violence
UN meeting upholds need to remember and support victims of terrorism
Advancing the rights and needs of people whose lives have been upended by terrorism is the goal of a two-day meeting that opened at United…
UN meeting upholds need to remember and support victims of terrorism
Advancing the rights and needs of people whose lives have been upended by terrorism is the goal of a two-day meeting that opened at United…
COVID-19: Education replaced by shuttered schools, violence, teenage pregnancy
A culture of “safety, friends and food” at school has been replaced by “anxiety, violence, and teenage pregnancy”, with remote learning out of reach for…
Violence against elderly has risen during COVID, UN expert warns
UNDP provides care services and improves living conditions for elderly Georgians in need. With “entrenched ageist attitudes” already undermining the autonomy of elder persons in…
UN chief and senior officials express deep concern over East Jerusalem violence
The UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, and senior UN officials have expressed their deep concern over confrontations between Palestinians and Israeli security forces in East Jerusalem,…
Violence and harassment across Europe much higher than official records
More than one in four Europeans were victims of harassment and 22 million were physically attacked in one year. But crime victims typically do not…
Top UN officials saddened by violent scenes at US Capitol building
Top UN officials, including the Secretary-General and the President of the General Assembly have expressed sadness over the violence that erupted on Wednesday when supporters…
Thousands protest in Turkey against domestic violence
Thousands of women in Turkey took to the streets on Wednesday to demand that the government does not withdraw from a landmark treaty on preventing…
U.N. agency to pay hotel stays to stem domestic violence in Mexico
The United Nation’s Children’s Fund will fund hotel rooms for Mexican women and kids threatened by domestic violence beginning in September, a representative of the…
Law enforcement behind half of all violence against African migrants, UN says
Nearly half of all the violence visited on African migrants during their journey to the Mediterranean coast is perpetrated by law enforcers, the United Nations…
Germany and France: Cities shocked as youths riot and attack police
Germany’s cities have seen outbursts of pent-up rage and violence in recent weeks. First Stuttgart, then Frankfurt. On both occasions, police were targeted by an…
First Person: Ending violence against women – ‘men and boys — I am talking to you’, says UN Deputy Secretary-General, Amina Mohammed
Men and boys who “turn a blind eye” to violence against women, must accept that they are “accomplices to violence” according to the UN Deputy…
Human Rights Council calls on top UN rights official to take action on racist violence
The UN’s top rights official, Michelle Bachelet, is to spearhead efforts to address systemic racism against people of African descent by law enforcement agencies, the…
Black EU lawmaker says victim of police violence in Brussels
A black European Union lawmaker said on Wednesday she was a victim of “extremely traumatic” police violence outside a Brussels railway station, and lodged a…
Rising violence against women in Latin America confirms fears of abuses in lockdowns
Violence against women has soared in Latin America during the coronavirus pandemic, with a 50% increase in domestic abuse reports in Colombia alone, a top…
Human Rights First: Black Lives Matter, Police Violence is a Human Rights Abuse
Americans of all colors, creeds, and political persuasions are justifiably outraged by the senseless killings by police of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Sean Reed, and…
Biden says ’we must not allow this pain to destroy us’ of violence in U.S. cities
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Sunday called for protesters against police brutality not to turn to violence as unrest flared in U.S. cities…
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