United Nations Human Rights Council

The Gaza war between Israel and Hamas is a "powder keg" with the potential to spark broader conflict in the Middle East, U.N. human rights chief Volker Turk said on Monday.

Turk said it was imperative to do everything possible to avoid a wider conflagration.

The Ilyushin-62M, operated by the Belorussian private air carrier Rada Airlines, took off from Belgrade's international airport a few minutes after midnight on February 9, 2021, loaded with hundreds of Serbian-made 80mm rockets.

The news story looked even more bizarre than the one in 2010 which announced that (then-prime minister) President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an had won the Al-Gaddafi International Prize for Human Rights. 

Human Rights Watch condemned as an "apparent war crime" on July 28 a Saudi-led air raid in Yemen last week that it said killed at least 65 civilians in residential compounds.

A Chinese court has sentenced a journalist accused of leaking an internal Communist Party document to a foreign website to seven years in prison, her lawyer said on April 17, a ruling that reflects the sensitivity surrounding the party's inner workings.
   

Greece, Mexico, Indonesia, Romania and Egypt have tabled a resolution, titled "Right to Work", that marks the start of a serises of initiatives in the employment sector.