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Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
has been dispatched to Chile, where members
visited prisons and a hospital at which
indigenous Mapuche prisoners are engaging in a
hunger strike. Mapuche leader Celestino Cordova
says he is protesting a court decision to keep
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class=name-100>Increasingly strict sentencing
for low-level drug crimes is driving up the
number of women incarcerated after being tricked
or coerced into trafficking drugs, the United
Nations Office of the High Commissioner for
Human Rights warns. A significant number of the
female prisoners in Asia are poor women with low
levels of education, who were drawn into
trafficking by men promising money or
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class=name-100>United Nations Secretary-General
Antonio Guterres has warned against politicizing
access to an ailing oil tanker off the Yemen
coast, urging Houthi rebel leaders to allow UN
officials aboard to assess the situation and
arrange for the ship to be moved. "A spill would
have catastrophic environmental and humanitarian
consequences, including destroying livelihoods
and shutting down Hodeida port, a vital lifeline
for millions of Yemenis who depend on commercial
imports and humanitarian aid," says UN
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