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Gang attack in Haiti's Pont Sondé leaves 70 dead
04 October 2024
An attack by a notorious gang in the town of Pont Sondé, Haiti, left at least 70 people dead on Thursday, after gunmen armed with automatic rifles opened fire, a spokesperson for the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said on Friday.
Among the victims at the hands of the so-called Gran Grif gang were 10 women…
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Explainer: The journey of a UN Security Council resolution
04 October 2024
How does a Security Council resolution get adopted?
The 15-member Council is charged with taking action, through resolutions and decisions, on any threats to international peace and security, but sometimes adopting a draft into a legally binding document for the UN’s 193 Member States faces multiple…
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UN rights council examines nuclear legacy consequences in the Marshall Islands
04 October 2024
The UN Human Rights Council held a dialogue on Friday to examine the nuclear testing legacy in the Marshall Islands, which representatives from the Pacific nation said has left their people with some of the highest rates of cancer globally.
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Somalia: UN official reports on electoral progress, ongoing security challenges
03 October 2024
Authorities in Somalia remain focused on national priorities, and the battle against Al-Shabaab terrorists is their chief security concern, senior officials from the UN and the African Union (AU) said on Thursday.
James Swan, acting Special Representative of the Secretary-…
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World News in Brief: Deadly strikes in Ukraine, justice must be served over custody deaths, FIFA urged to challenge law-breaking by Israeli clubs
03 October 2024
Russian shelling has hit another apartment block in Ukraine’s second city of Kharkiv, UN aid teams said on Thursday.
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Lebanon: UN peacekeepers to stay the course amid escalating hostilities
03 October 2024
Peacekeepers positioned along the “Blue Line” of separation between Israel and Lebanon remain committed to their mandate, and will remain in place until conditions allow, the UN’s peacekeeping chief said on Thursday.
Jean-Pierre Lacroix, UN Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations,…
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Chagos Islands: UK’s last African colony returned to Mauritius
03 October 2024
The United Kingdom announced on Thursday that agreement has been reached to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, ending decades of dispute and negotiation over Britain’s last African colony.
The agreement follows 13 rounds of talks that began in 2022 after Mauritian calls for sovereignty…
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Report highlights links between child trafficking and grave violations during conflict
03 October 2024
Armed conflict puts children at an increased risk of grave violations while their risk of being trafficked similarly increases, including in transitional periods, a new UN study has revealed.
The report – the first of its kind – analyses the links between child…
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Victims of deadly Lebanon escalation describe fleeing ‘total destruction’
03 October 2024
People in Lebanon uprooted by Israeli airstrikes including in central Beirut have described being forced to flee “total destruction”, amid fresh reports of Hezbollah projectile attacks into Israel and close-quarter clashes along the UN-patrolled line of separation between the two countries…
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Sudan war: ‘Horror’ grows as reports of summary executions emerge
03 October 2024
The UN-designated human rights expert on Sudan has called for the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), along with their allied militias, to take immediate steps to protect civilians in greater Khartoum amid escalating violence and alarming reports of summary executions…
