S. Korea Protests N. Korea’s Missile Test

South Korea has sent a letter to a United Nations sanctions committee to protest North Korea’s recent test-firing of a ballistic missile, a South Korean official said Tuesday. The official, who asked to remain anonymous, told the VOA Korean Service the government sent the letter to the U. N. Security Council’s sanctions committee on North Korea. The letter calls for the committee to look into whether the test violated U.N. Security Council resolutions. The sanctions committee was...

Read complete article

~	UN rights experts warn new EU policy on boat rescues will cause more people to drown

~	'Racism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism or Islamophobia are poisoning our societies' – UN chief

~	UN rights chief urges Kenyan leaders to act responsibly, avoid further violence

~	UN rights office 'deeply concerned' about deteriorating humanitarian conditions in Gaza

~	UN rights expert urges restraint in security operation in Myanmar's Rakhine state

~	Protecting indigenous peoples' rights 'is protecting everyone's rights' – UN

~	Protecting rights and dignity of indigenous peoples 'is protecting everyone's rights' – UN

~	New UN human rights office to open in Liberia in early 2018

~	DR Congo: UN report indicates Government participation in ethnic massacres in Kasai

~	ISIL's 'genocide' against Yazidis is ongoing, UN rights panel says, calling for international action