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The UN’s proposed plans for restructuring the world body, currently under discussion at the highest echelons of the ...

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The world's largest international policing organisation Interpol is being used by governments to track down political opponents and human rights campaigners, an IPS investigation reveals.

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A UN groundbreaking report published in 1982 laid the legal ground for defining the inalienable rights of Indigenous Peoples.