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Guterres warns against Red Sea escalation

1 year 3 months ago Breadcrumb Home Guterres warns against Red Sea escalation 12 January 2024 © Unsplash/Angus Gray Attacks on commercial vessels in the Red Sea have severely disrupted international shipping. (file) UN Secretary-General António Guterres has urged countries to avoid an escalation in the situation in the Red Sea, where Houthi rebels in Yemen have been attacking commercial vessels amid the ongoing war in Gaza.…

Gaza ceasefire ‘more urgent than ever’ as conflict approaches 100-day mark

1 year 3 months ago Breadcrumb Home Gaza ceasefire ‘more urgent than ever’ as conflict approaches 100-day mark 12 January 2024 © UNICEF/Omar Al-Qattaa People pass by their destroyed homes and in the northern the Gaza Strip. As the Gaza conflict approaches the 100-day mark, an immediate ceasefire is “more urgent than ever”, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said on Friday.…

Security Council meets over widening Middle East crisis

1 year 3 months ago Breadcrumb Home Security Council meets over widening Middle East crisis 12 January 2024 UN Photo/Manuel Elías The UN Security Council meets on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question. The UN Security Council met on Friday for briefings on the worsening situation across the Middle East, looking first at threats of forced displacement from Gaza and then the escalating conflict in…

New Permanent Representative of Turkmenistan Presents Credentials to the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva

1 year 3 months ago Breadcrumb Home New Permanent Representative of Turkmenistan Presents Credentials to the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva 11 January 2024 Presentation of Credentials Vepa Hajiyev, the new Permanent Representative of Turkmenistan to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Tatiana Valovaya, the Director-General of the United Nations…

Recurring denials hamper aid delivery to north Gaza

1 year 3 months ago Breadcrumb Home Recurring denials hamper aid delivery to north Gaza 11 January 2024 © UNICEF/Omar Al-Qattaa A 5-year-old, plays in front of his destroyed house in Sheikh Zayed City, in the north of the Gaza Strip. Recurring denials and severe access constraints continue to paralyze aid teams trying to respond to the immense needs in northern Gaza, the UN humanitarian affairs office, OCHA, has warned.…

Stories from the UN Archive: Did Khrushchev really bang his shoe?

1 year 3 months ago Breadcrumb Home Stories from the UN Archive: Did Khrushchev really bang his shoe? 11 January 2024 UN Photo/Yutaka Nagata Nikita Khrushchev, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, is seen rising to his feet during the address of UK Prime Minister Harold Macmillan during the UN General Assembly's general debate in 1960. (file) One of the legends of UN history is a tale that spread across the…

World News in Brief: Deep concern over Afghan arrests, UN commits to stay and deliver in Mali, new migrant support plan

1 year 3 months ago Breadcrumb Home World News in Brief: Deep concern over Afghan arrests, UN commits to stay and deliver in Mali, new migrant support plan 11 January 2024 © WFP/Mohammad Hasib Hazinyar A mothers brings her malnourished daughter to a nutrition clinic in Kabul, Afghanistan. The UN mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said on Thursday that it is “deeply concerned” over a recent spate of arbitrary arrests and detentions…

Challenges to democracy compound instability in West Africa: Top envoy

1 year 3 months ago Breadcrumb Home Challenges to democracy compound instability in West Africa: Top envoy 11 January 2024 © UN Liberia A voter registration programme in Liberia (file). West Africa has seen shifting political sands throw up contrasting challenges over the past six months, revealing a stark contrast in the region’s journey towards democracy, the UN envoy for the region said on Thursday…

Gaza: South Africa levels accusations of ‘genocidal conduct’ against Israel at world court

1 year 3 months ago Breadcrumb Home Gaza: South Africa levels accusations of ‘genocidal conduct’ against Israel at world court 11 January 2024 UN Photo/ICJ-CIJ/ Frank van Beek The International Court of Justice begins hearing the case of South Africa v. Israel in The Hague. South Africa addressed the UN's highest court on Thursday in a bid to end the mass killing of civilians in Gaza, accusing Israel of carrying out genocide…

Explainer: What is the Genocide Convention?

1 year 3 months ago Breadcrumb Home Explainer: What is the Genocide Convention? 11 January 2024 UN Photo/Violaine Martin Marking the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda (2019). South Africa has set out its case accusing Israel of violating the Genocide Convention, pointing to the current situation in the bombarded, besieged Gaza Strip, home to 2.3 million Palestinians.…