UN Officials Warn of Escalating Human Rights Violations Across Middle East

by Gary Kopycinski on May 13, 2011

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NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–13 May 2011. Â United Nations human rights officials today voiced deep concern about the situation in Syria, Bahrain and Yemen, where rights violations have escalated as governments respond to ongoing protests for greater democracy and reform with deadly crackdowns.