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DR Congo: Fighting threatens stability of entire region, envoy warns

1 year 2 months ago Breadcrumb Home DR Congo: Fighting threatens stability of entire region, envoy warns 20 February 2024 UN Photo/Loey Felipe Bintou Keita (on screen), Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the UN Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, briefs the Security Council meeting on the situation concerning the country. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo (…

US vetoes Algerian resolution demanding immediate ceasefire in Gaza

1 year 2 months ago Breadcrumb Home US vetoes Algerian resolution demanding immediate ceasefire in Gaza 20 February 2024 UN Photo/Manuel Elías Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield of the United States votes against the draft resolution in the UN Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question. The UN Security Council met again in emergency session in New York on Gaza Tuesday,…

Note to correspondents on coverage of the fifty-fifth session of the Human Rights Council

1 year 2 months ago Breadcrumb Home Note to correspondents on coverage of the fifty-fifth session of the Human Rights Council 19 February 2024 Press Release  FIFTY-FIFTH SESSION OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Geneva, Switzerland, 26 February-5 April 2024 The fifty-fifth session of the Human Rights Council will begin on Monday 26 February 2024 at the United Nations’ Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. Journalists who have received media…

World News in Brief: Millions battle hunger due to Sudan war, human rights essential to peace, surge in fighting along Ukraine frontline

1 year 2 months ago Breadcrumb Home World News in Brief: Millions battle hunger due to Sudan war, human rights essential to peace, surge in fighting along Ukraine frontline 19 February 2024 © WFP/Hugh Rutherford Families arrive in South Sudan after fleeing conflict in Sudan. At least 25 million people are struggling with soaring rates of hunger and malnutrition as the crisis arising from the war in Sudan sends shockwaves…

UN committed to help Somalia deliver ‘for its people’

1 year 2 months ago Breadcrumb Home UN committed to help Somalia deliver ‘for its people’ 19 February 2024 © UNICEF/Mark Condren A mother and her children shelter at a camp for internally displaced people in Mogadishu, Somalia. (file) Somalia remains resilient and strongly committed to state-building but more is needed to sustain the gains made in the fight against terrorist insurgency, the UN Special Representative in the…

Gaza: Israeli advance on Rafah would have ‘dire humanitarian consequences’

1 year 2 months ago Breadcrumb Home Gaza: Israeli advance on Rafah would have ‘dire humanitarian consequences’ 19 February 2024 © UNICEF/Eyad El Baba Over one million internally displaced Palestinians are sheltering in Rafah in southern Gaza Strip. An extension of Israel’s military operation in Rafah, where over a million internally displaced Palestinians have been forced to shelter, will have “dire humanitarian consequences…

We all want an Afghanistan at peace, UN chief says in Doha

1 year 2 months ago Breadcrumb Home We all want an Afghanistan at peace, UN chief says in Doha 19 February 2024 United Nations/Khava Mukhieva UN Secretary-General António Guterres addresses the media in Doha, Qatar. The UN Secretary-General on Monday highlighted the urgent need for an end to restrictions imposed by the Taliban de facto authorities on women and girls in Afghanistan…

Rights experts call for probe into alleged violations against Palestinian women and girls

1 year 2 months ago Breadcrumb Home Rights experts call for probe into alleged violations against Palestinian women and girls 19 February 2024 UN Photo/Rick Bajornas Reem Alsalem, Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, its causes and consequences. Alleged rights violations against Palestinian women and girls in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank must be investigated, a group of experts appointed by the UN Human…

UK bill to send asylum seekers to Rwanda ‘undercuts human rights’: UN rights chief

1 year 2 months ago Breadcrumb Home UK bill to send asylum seekers to Rwanda ‘undercuts human rights’: UN rights chief 19 February 2024 © UNICEF/Laurence Geai Migrants wait to reach England from a migrant settlement in Calais, northern France. (file) The United Kingdom’s legislative moves to facilitate the prompt removal of asylum seekers to Rwanda run contrary to the basic principles of the rule of law and risk delivering a “…

Committee on Enforced Disappearances Opens Twenty-Sixth Session

1 year 2 months ago Breadcrumb Home Committee on Enforced Disappearances Opens Twenty-Sixth Session 19 February 2024 Meeting Summaries The Committee on Enforced Disappearances this morning opened its twenty-sixth session, during which it will examine the reports of Cambodia, Burkina Faso and Honduras on their implementation of the provisions of the International Convention on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. Simon Walker, Chief…