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Northern Ireland: UK ‘immunity’ legislation could hamper victims’ rights, warns Türk

·January 19, 2023·1 min read

The High Commissioner for Human Rights acknowledged on Thursday that addressing the violent legacy of intercommunal relations in Northern Ireland from the 1960s to the 1990s was “hugely complex and sensitive”. ‘Conditional immunity’ But he warned against plans to give conditional immunity from investigation and prosecution to those accused of serious human...

Rights experts urge UK to redraft controversial Northern Ireland bill

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·December 19, 2022·2 min read

The Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Bill was introduced in Parliament in May and passed a second reading in the House of Lords last month. Further review is set to take place in January. Little access to remedy The UN experts are concerned that the Bill bans, and...

Northern Ethiopia facing devastating spike in preventable disease: WHO |

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·October 29, 2022·3 min read

“There are 5.2 million people in need of humanitarian assistance in Tigray; that number includes 3.8 million people who are in need of health assistance and we need to reach these people,” said Ilham Abdelhai Nour, World Health Organization Team Lead for Ethiopia, Incident Management System and Emergencies Operations. ‘No...

First Person: The honey business owner creating a buzz in northern Uganda |

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·August 6, 2022·4 min read

“I used to work in an office, and people would come to my place of work to sell ‘West Nile honey’, named after the region I come from. I was interested to see that my region was being used as a brand, and discovered that West Nile is one of...