UN urges world to tackle abuse of migrant women
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The United Nations has appealed to world leaders to wake up to the widespread mistreatment of migrant women, a silent human army abused as everything from sex workers to domestic slaves.
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UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 30 -- Nearly 180 soldiers, civilians and police officers in U.N. peacekeeping missions have been targeted for disciplinary action for sexual abuse since the beginning of 2004, the chief U.N. spokesman said Thursday.
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The UN has photos and video footage of sexual abuses committed by UN staff in DR Congo, says an official.
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The UN calls for an independent investigation into reports of human rights abuses in Ethiopia's Ogaden region.
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A delegation sent by the U.N.'s top human rights official began a mission Wednesday to look into reports of brutality and serious abuses in the weeks of deadly violence since the country's disputed presidential election.
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A UN report says women and girls now make up half of all world migrants, totalling 95 million.
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GENEVA, Aug 18  - United Nations human rights investigators on Wednesday called on Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo to identify and hold accountable those behind the massacre of at least 160 Congolese Tutsi refugees.
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The United Nations human rights chief Saturday urged Afghanistan and the international community to do more to prosecute war criminals from more than two decades of devastating conflict that ravaged the country.
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The U.N. secretary-general warned that violence against women has reached "hideous" levels in some countries trying to recover from conflict, and the U.N. Security Council demanded an end to impunity for rape and other sexual abuse.
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A senior U.N. official on Friday   called sexual abuse a "cancer" in the Democratic Republic of   the Congo and told military and civilian leaders they had to   condemn it publicly and prosecute offenders.
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Nigeria should urgently overhaul its  legal system to curb widespread sexual violence against women,  including rape by security forces and police, Amnesty  International said on Tuesday.
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A senior U.N. official on Friday  called sexual abuse a "cancer" in the Democratic Republic of  the Congo and told military and civilian leaders they had to  condemn it publicly and prosecute offenders.
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International and Sri Lankan human rights campaigners called for a United Nations inquiry into abuses against civilians by Tamil Tiger rebels and government forces on the strife-torn island.
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Human trafficking is a modern form of slavery that must not be tolerated, a senior U.N. official and celebrities said Wednesday.
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The UN is leading a day of global events to mark the abolition of slavery and to highlight continuing abuses.
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UNAIDS and the Global Coalition for Women and AIDS to mark world Human Rights Day on Friday concluded their gender violence activism campaign, which aimed to raise awareness of the &quot;links between gender-based violence and the spread of HIV infection
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The United Nations Security Council has been urged to act to end ethnic cleansing in Sudan&#39;s Darfur region. Human Rights Watch is calling for an arms embargo and travel sanctions on Sudan&#39;s officials for failing