Stop criminalising homelessness and poverty, say UN rights experts

26 june 2024 - 06:07:57
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Independent UN human rights experts on Tuesday called on governments to scrap “cruel and counterproductive” laws [...] Full text...

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World Refugee Day: UN calls for solidarity and inclusion amid record displacement

20 june 2023 - 16:46:54
New York, US (PANA) - Refugees deserve support and solidarity, not closed borders and pushbacks. That’s a reminder from UN [...] Full text...

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Slavery has left deep, long-lasting legacy on USA, UN experts say

06 may 2023 - 06:36:06
Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The UN International Independent Expert Mechanism to Advance Racial Justice in policing ended a 12-day visit [...] Full text...

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Rwanda arbitrarily rounded up people before the postponed Commonwealth leaders' meeting: HRW

27 september 2021 - 06:15:22
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – Human Rights Watch (HRW) is accusing the Rwandan authorities of rounding up and arbitrarily detaining gay and transgender [...] Full text...

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IOM seeks $87 million to support equitable vaccine access, mitigate effects of COVID-19 in East and Horn of Africa

30 april 2021 - 15:37:01
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The COVID-19 pandemic has severely impacted the lives of thousands of migrants, internally displaced persons (IDPs) [...] Full text...

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UN chief calls for ‘new social contract’ as part of post-pandemic recovery

19 february 2021 - 05:19:49
New York, US (PANA) - With the COVID-19 pandemic exposing social and economic inequalities rooted in racism, discrimination and xenophobia, [...] Full text...

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UN rights expert tells Nigeria to stop housing crisis, forced evictions

24 september 2019 - 21:10:59
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA)  -  In Nigeria, homeless and other vulnerable people are being “rounded up” by police, “persecuted” and evicted, [...] Full text...

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Rights body demands justice for evicted Eswatini families

09 april 2019 - 15:50:27
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Amnesty International is calling for reparation and compensation for families that were forcefully evicted by Eswatini [...] Full text...

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UN Women highlights unique needs of widows

23 june 2018 - 06:20:08
New York, US (PANA) - The loss of a spouse or partner is often devastating, but for many women it [...] Full text...

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Real estate chief advises Kenyan authorities on affordable housing

25 april 2018 - 13:55:18
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Username Investment CEO, Reuben Kimani, has urged the Kenyan Government to consider Inclusionary Zoning as part [...] Full text...

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US: UN forecasts 14 million people made homeless each year by disasters

13 october 2017 - 19:39:00
New York, US (PANA) – Sudden onset disasters, such as earthquakes, tsunamis, floods and tropical cyclones, are likely to displace [...] Full text...

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Switzerland: UN migration agency races to assist in wake of Sierra Leone devastating mudslides

15 august 2017 - 18:35:04
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The United Nations migration agency on Tuesday released US$150,000 in emergency, first-response aid relief for Sierra [...] Full text...

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UN: Financial speculation led to unsustainable global housing crisis - UN expert

02 march 2017 - 16:02:34
New York, US (PANA) - The world's money markets have priced people out of cities, a UN expert on the [...] Full text...

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UN: UN says adequate housing is human right

03 october 2016 - 13:32:37
New York, US (PANA) - The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, on Monday in New York said adequate housing is a [...] Full text...

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UN: UNHCR solicits funds to accommodate 2 million refugees globally

18 may 2016 - 17:17:44
New York, US (PANA) - UN refugee agency (UNHCR) on Wednesday launched a new campaign, tagged: "Nobody Left Outside", calling [...] Full text...

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UN: UN rights expert tasks governments on eliminating homelessness

03 march 2016 - 17:56:36
New York, US (PANA) - Homelessness is found in every country in the world and is spreading with impunity, a [...] Full text...

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Mauritius: Mauritius tackles mental health issues

04 february 2016 - 13:21:23
Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritian Health Minister Anil Gayan on Thursday said that his ministry, as the custodian of [...] Full text...

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Nigeria: UN expert urges Nigeria to halt evictions threatening tens of thousands with homelessness

23 november 2015 - 17:48:51
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) – A United Nations human rights expert Monday called on the Nigerian Government to immediately end unlawful [...] Full text...

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UN: UN housing expert challenges governments to end homelessness

23 october 2015 - 13:14:00
New York, US (PANA) - Ms. Leilani Farha, the UN Special Rapporteur on adequate housing, on Friday said that human [...] Full text...

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Ethiopia: Govt. delivers 300,000 housing units in 10 years under ambitious project (Feature by Kennedy Abwao, PANA Correspondent. Addis Ababa)

31 july 2015 - 10:07:10
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - It has been only three years since Zewde Birshir won a house under an ambitious [...] Full text...

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UN: UN launches "Free & Equal" video campaign spotlighting LGBT community

14 may 2015 - 20:36:50
New York, US (PANA) - A new UN "Free & Equal" campaign video highlighting the diversity of the Lesbian Gay [...] Full text...

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Death toll in SA, Mozambique flood rises to 69

29 january 2013 - 10:53:40
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - The death toll in the flooding that has ravaged South Africa's Limpopo and Mpumalanga [...] Full text...

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Gambia recorded 376 cases on domestic violence from Jan-Oct, 2012

21 november 2012 - 14:33:15
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Officials of Gambia’s Department of Social Welfare, under the Ministry of Health, said it recorded close [...] Full text...

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Zuma hails Africa’s new dawn

30 june 2011 - 08:09:40
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - South Africa's President Jacob Zuma on Wednesday urged African nations to contribute resources to [...] Full text...

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Census, Nigeria's bloody birthday highlighted by Ghanaian media

02 october 2010 - 08:29:00
Accra- Ghana (PANA) â" The Ghanaian media this wee-k highlighted the country's p opulation and housing census which began on [...] Full text...

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Over 50,000 people at risk of forced eviction in Kenya

16 april 2010 - 11:25:00
Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- Kenyaâ?s government should halt the proposed e viction of more than 50,000 people living [...] Full text...

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