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Outspoken columnist Eamon Dunphy has cast barbs at author Roddy Doyle and former President Mary Robinson.

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THE number of internally displaced people in Haiti has tripled over the last year and now exceeds one million, a record in the Caribbean nation, the United Nations migration agency has said.

The UN rights chief calls for sanctions relief as he visits Syria for the first time::::Damascus, Syria ::Volker Turk, United ...

U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said the extent of atrocities committed in Syria is hard to believe and ...

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The United Nations human rights chief has called for the lifting of Western sanctions imposed on Syria over its yearslong ...

President Emmanuel Macron and key members of the government will meet in the coming days to decide how to respond to what ...

U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk called on Wednesday for a Syrian national reconciliation process to ...