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OPINION: What if a shooting happens here?

Kira Christianne D. Azucena
Posted at Jun 12 03:25 AM

This is now the main question of faith-based communities in the wake of the horrifying attacks on worshippers and religious gathering places immemorially regarded by all religions as sanctuaries. They have turned into slaughter houses.  Read more »

CHR urges government to heed UN call for probe on PH drug-related killings

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 10 10:57 PM

The Commission on Human Rights urged the Duterte government to heed the call of the United Nations human rights experts for an international probe on drug-related killings in the Philippines. Read more »

Palasyo inayawan ang hiling ng UN experts na human rights investigation

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 10 08:46 PM

Tumanggi ang Palasyo sa independent investigation sa lumalala umanong mga kaso ng human rights violation sa bansa. Read more »

Palace: UN experts' call for drug deaths probe 'outrageous interference' on PH sovereignty

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jun 08 10:41 PM

MANILA - The fresh call of several United Nations human rights experts for an investigation into alleged unlawful killings in the Philippines is an "outrageous interference" on the country's sovereignty, Malacañang said Saturday. Read more »

UN experts seek inquiry into 'unlawful' killings in the Philippines

Reuters
Updated as of Jun 07 05:02 PM

United Nations human rights experts called on Friday for an international investigation into a "staggering number of unlawful deaths and police killings in the context of the so-called war on drugs" in the Philippines. Read more »

PH ahead in involving women in peacekeeping missions: UN official

Cathy Yang, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 05 07:54 PM

The Philippines is ahead of other countries in terms of involving women in peacekeeping missions, according to an official of the UN agency that monitors ceasefires and oversees armistice agreements.    Read more »

US says all North Korea's weapons of mass destruction violate UN resolutions

David Brunnstrom, Reuters
Posted at May 29 12:36 PM

WASHINGTON - North Korea's entire weapons of mass destruction program violates UN Security Council resolutions, the US State Department spokeswoman said on Tuesday, when asked about recent missile launches by Pyongyang. Read more »

North Koreans survive by paying bribes - UN report

Stephanie Nebehay, Reuters
Posted at May 28 03:02 PM

GENEVA - North Koreans are forced to pay bribes to officials to survive in their isolated country, where corruption is "endemic" and repression rife, the United Nations human rights office said on Tuesday. Read more »

Rights body, Catholic church urge new senators to reject death penalty

Michael Joe Delizo, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of May 18 08:58 PM

The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) and the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) are expressing fears that the new composition of the Senate would just become a rubber stamp for President Rodrigo Duterte’s legislative priorities, including their much-criticized death penalty. Read more »

70 countries urge North Korea to scrap nuclear, ballistic weapons

Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 11 10:53 AM

UNITED NATIONS - Seventy countries urged North Korea Friday to scrap its nuclear weapons, ballistic missiles and related programs, decrying the "undiminished threat" posed to world peace. Read more »

UNICEF: PH immunization coverage dropping at alarming rate

ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 08 05:10 AM

MANILA - The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has raised concerns over the Philippines' declining immunization coverage, saying some 2.9 million Filipino children are at risk of contracting life-threatening diseases. Read more »

Nature under siege as a million species face extinction, UN warns

Marlowe Hood, Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 07 06:49 AM

PARIS, France - Humanity is squandering the natural capital that has allowed society to thrive, driving a million species to the brink of extinction in the process, a landmark UN report on the state of Nature warned Monday. Read more »

Millions of children miss measles shots, creating outbreaks - UNICEF

Kate Kelland, Health and Science Correspondent, Reuters
Posted at Apr 25 08:26 AM

More than 20 million children a year missed out on measles vaccines across the world in the past eight years, laying a path of exposure to a virus that is now causing disease outbreaks globally, a United Nations report said on Thursday.  Read more »

Join forces to win land battles, UN expert tells global indigenous leaders

Ellen Wulfhorst, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Posted at Apr 25 07:19 AM

Indigenous people fighting to protect their rights must band together and build a global campaign to fend off unwelcome development and encroachment that forces them off their land, a UN expert has said.   Read more »

UN rights chief condemns Saudi Arabia's beheading of 37 men

Reuters
Posted at Apr 25 12:10 AM

GENEVA/DUBAI - The United Nations human rights chief on Wednesday condemned the beheadings of 37 Saudi nationals across the kingdom this week, saying most were minority Shi'ite Muslims who may not have had fair trials and at least three were minors when sentenced. Read more »

Heavy clashes in southern suburbs of Libyan capital, say residents

Ulf Laessing and Ahmed Elumami, Reuters
Posted at Apr 20 11:26 PM

Western powers and the Gulf have been divided over a push by Haftar's forces to seize Tripoli, undermining calls by the United Nations for a ceasefire. Read more »

Death toll tops 200 in battle for Libya's Tripoli: WHO

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Apr 18 08:33 PM

At least 205 people have been killed and more than 900 wounded in the battle for control of the Libyan capital Tripoli, the World Health Organization said Thursday. Read more »

'Worse than jail': Former street kids recall horrors in youth shelters

Michael Joe Delizo, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Apr 18 10:13 AM

MANILA – In anguish, one boy cried out: “’Yung tingin sa mga batang lansangan ay isang putik na kailangan walisin!”  Read more »

Amid South China Sea tensions, Duterte urged to ‘unshelve’ arbitration win

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Apr 14 01:26 AM

Former foreign affairs secretary Albert Del Rosario and former ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales want the President to "sit down with China" and discuss reinforcing the arbitral outcome. Read more »

More than 8,000 flee Libya fighting: UN

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Apr 12 08:13 PM

GENEVA - More than 8,000 people have fled fighting around Libya's capital, half of whom have been displaced over the last two days, the United Nations said Friday.    Read more »