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Human rights begin at home

Once, human rights were understood as the simple principle that one person’s rights should never extend beyond the tip of another’s noseunless invited.

UN and Myanmar

The prevarication, that was palpable notably in Libya and Syria, seems set to resonate in the echo chambers of Kabul and further afield in the tormented land now headed by Taliban hardliners, just as it does in Myanmar

UN: In war, 16 million Yemenis ‘marching’ toward starvation

Henrietta Fore, head of the U.N. children’s agency UNICEF, said 11.3 million Yemeni children need humanitarian assistance to survive, “2.3 million children under five are acutely malnourished and nearly 400,000 of them suffering from severe acute malnutrition are at imminent risk of death.”