UN welcomes Mexican initiative to protect population from earthquakes

4 October 2011 – The United Nations human rights office today voiced deep concern about the anti-Roma demonstrations and accompanying hate speech that have been occurring in Bulgaria, and called on authorities to combat discrimination and protect minority groups. The demonstrations began on 23 September, when an ethnic Bulgarian youth was run over and killed in the village of Katunitsa by a van reportedly belonging to a local Roma, said the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights .... [More]