British Labour lawmaker Jo Cox stabbed to death in Yorkshire

Birstall, Jun 16 (IBNS): British MP Jo Cox has died after being attacked in her constituency in Yorkshire in England on Thursday, reports said.

EU has largely ‘abandoned’ Greece to deal with migrant crisis on its own, UN expert warns

New York, May 18 (Just Earth News): The suffering of migrants in Greece is the result of a complete absence of long-term vision and the clear lack of political will of the European Union (EU), a United Nations human rights expert said on Tuesday, warning that Greece, already struggling to cope with fiscal challenges, has been abandoned by the EU to deal with a crisis that requires a response from all countries in the region.

EU: UK to vote on June 23

London, Feb 20 (IBNS): UK Prime Minister David Cameron on Saturday said his country will vote on whether to remain in the European Union on June 23.

EU migration policy 'will fail' without human rights focus: UN rights chief

New York, Oct 7 (IBNS): Warning that Europe's "narrow, exclusion-focused [migration] policies have clearly failed," the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on Tuesday urged the European Union to make certain that upcoming policy discussions undertaken in light of the region's refugee crisis are grounded firmly on the need to protect the human rights for all migrants.