Rights
New York, Jun 12 (JEN): The world’s parliaments play a “fundamental” role in ensuring human rights protections for the global citizenry and, as a result, must reflect international human rights standards in their legislation, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon affirmed today as he continued on his Central Asian trip with a visit to Kyrgyzstan. more
Kyrgyzstan: UN rights experts urge Parliament to withdraw anti-gay bill
New York, Nov 27 (JEN): A group of United Nations human rights experts have urged the Parliament of Kyrgyzstan to reject a bill that would introduce criminal and administrative sanctions fo ...
Kyrgyzstan: UN urges country to scrap draft law violating rights of LGBT people
New York, Oct 25 (JEN) The United Nations human rights office on Friday called on the Kyrgyz Parliament to refrain from passing draft legislation that would discriminate against people who ...
