December 2011

United Nations, Nov 29 (SPS) UN Assistant Secretary-General Catherine Bragg warned on Tuesday about the worsening of the humanitarian situation unleashed in Yemen and its impact on millions of people, and called for preventing a catastrophe in that country.

  Yemen has one of the highest malnutrition rates worldwide, and is now suffering the collapse of essential services and the threat of a crisis in the health sphere, Bragg stated.

Vitoria (Spain) November30, 2011(SPS) the Saharawi Human rights defender, Aminatu Haidar received Wednesday from the hands of the Minister of Justice and Spokesman of the Basque Government, Idoia Mendia, the  René Cassin Prize for human rights 2011 for  defending human rights in the occupied part of western Sahara  and her peaceful struggle for her people’s right to self-determination.