RIGHTS:   Xenophobia Rising Worldwide - U.N.
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UNITED NATIONS, Nov 8 (IPS) - The right-wing government of Italian Prime Minister  Silvio Berlusconi has angrily denied charges of racism against  its coalition partners, accusations made in a U.N. report on  xenophobia, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia released here.
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Muslims across Europe are confronting a rise in "Islamophobia" ranging from violent attacks to discrimination in job and housing markets, a wide-ranging European Union report indicated Monday.
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The rapid growth of slums in the  world's towns and cities is increasing urban poverty and  creating a breeding ground for terrorism, fanaticism, pollution  and disease, the United Nations said on Friday.
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A rise in the number of Muslims in Western Europe has intensified longstanding anti-Jewish sentiment in the region and acts such as desecrating synagogues are likely to increase, the State Department said.
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Official condemnation of the racist barracking suffered by England footballers in Spain this week cannot hide the fact that xenophobia is on the rise in a country now Europe&#39;s biggest magnet for immigrants, Spanish anti-racism campaigners warned yesterday
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HIV infection is rising in every region of the world and most worryingly in countries like Uganda and Thailand, which had been heralded as success stories in the fight against AIDS, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
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The U.N. sounds the alarm over Syria's new visa rules for Iraqis.
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It has been striking how many speakers at the United Nations General Assembly this week have raised the three issues of achieving Palestinian statehood, fighting terrorism and promoting democracy around the world.
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2 November 2004 - Security breaches have been increasing in the camps housing Sudan&#39;s Darfur refugees and internally displaced people on both sides of the Sudanese-Chadian border, the United Nations said today.
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BUDAPEST, Nov 29 (IPS) - In an embarrassing development for Hungary, Sweden  has for the past weeks received a growing number of asylum  applications from mostly ethnic Roma citizens who complain of  discrimination in the fellow European Union (EU) member state.
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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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DAKAR, Senegal, Sep 13, 2004 (PANA) -- New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) has in a letter to the UN Security Council urged an immediate increase in international presence in Darfur and an extension of arms embargo to stop continuing atrocities in the
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Western countries on Thursday voiced concern at the rising number of executions in Iran as well as the "treatment of women as second class citizens" there.
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HELSINKI, Jul 16 (IPS) - Human rights campaigners in Russia and Finland fear  that denial of rights will continue beyond the term of President  Vladimir Putin, who is expected to step down in March next year.
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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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The vision of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is under strain, the UN's human rights chief warns.
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UNITED NATIONS, Aug 10 (IPS) - Two leading human rights groups have criticised the  U.N. Security Council's Counter-Terrorism Committee for  refusing to castigate governments that crack down on human rights  in the name of fighting terrorism.