Virus enters world's largest refugee camps
Officials sounded the alarm after the first COVID-19 infections were detected at the world's largest refugee settlement for Rohingyas in Bangladesh.
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Officials sounded the alarm after the first COVID-19 infections were detected at the world's largest refugee settlement for Rohingyas in Bangladesh.
A U.N. human rights investigator urged the world body to "step up its efforts" to protect ethnic and religious minorities from the Myanmar military.
The International Court of Justice ordered Myanmar's government to do everything it can to prevent more atrocities and genocide against the Rohingyas.
Once an icon of democracy, Aung San Suu Kyi went to the International Court of Justice to deny Myanmar's military committed genocide against Rohingyas.
Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi will head to the U.N.'s top court next month to challenge its prosecution of an alleged military-led genocide of Rohingyas.
A special U.N. fact-finding mission urged the world to hold Myanmar's military responsible for "genocidal acts" against the Muslim Rohingya minority.
Prodded by China and Pakistan, the U.N. Security Council held a closed-door discussion on the Indian-controlled region.
The moves are a furious reaction to India revoking the protected status Jammu and Kashmir held for six decades.
The non-binding U.N. resolution called for returning the Chagos Islands, home to a military facility, within six months.
Japan will leave the International Whaling Commission, which will drop to 88 members, and resume whaling in April.
Judges ruled that sanctions reinstated by the Trump administration breached a 1955 treaty between Iran and the United States that predates Iran's Islamic Revolution.
With the U.S. reversal, Iran's planned economic opening to the West in exchange for curbs on its nuclear ambitions depends on its European, Russian and Chinese trading partners.
U.N. human rights investigators said the world's permanent war crimes tribunal should prosecute Venezuelan security forces for hundreds of arbitrary killings and other abuses.
The Hague-based institution, an independent tribunal that's not part of the United Nations system, is meant to step in only when nations won't or can't dispense justice themselves.