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UN Launches New Plan to End Libya’s Post-Revolution Turmoil
Rebel fighters return fire during shelling by soldiers loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in an altercation. Credit: Reuters Tunis: The UN began a new push on Tuesday to stabilise Libya by getting...
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Myanmar Mission Extended Until September 2018 by UN Human Rights Council
New Rohingya refugees sit near the Kutupalang makeshift refugee camp, in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, August 29, 2017. Credit: Reuters Geneva: The UN Human Rights Council decided on Friday to extend the...
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Palmyra Statue Damaged by ISIS Goes on Display in Damascus
A view shows the damaged Lion of Al-Lat statue at the entrance of the museum of the historic city of Palmyra, after forces loyal to Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad recaptured the city, in Homs...
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World Food Programme Seeks $75 Million for Rohingya Crisis
A Rohingya refugee boy looks on as he stands in a queue to receive relief supplies given by local people in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh September 16, 2017. Credit: Reuters Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh: The...
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Successfully Engaging North Korea on Human Rights
Despite a generally abysmal human rights record, North Korea has shown improvement in one specific area: disability rights. UN Special Rapporteur Catalina Devandas Aguilar on a site visit in the DPRK...
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Aid Groups Seek $434 Million for Rohingya Crisis for Next Six Months
Rohingya refugees look on as they hold a fence near the Kutupalang makeshift refugee camp, in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, August 29, 2017. Credit: Reuters Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh: Humanitarian...
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US Call for Suspending Arms Sales to Myanmar Faces Roadblock
Any resolution imposing economic or military sanctions on Myanmar is likely to be vetoed either by China or Russia – or both. Member of Border Guard Bangladesh stops Rohingya people who are trying to...
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Chemical Weapons Watchdog Found Sarin Used in March Syria Attack: Sources
A man carries the body of a dead child, after what rescue workers described as a suspected gas attack in the town of Khan Sheikhoun. Credit: Reuters (File photo) Amsterdam/UN: An inquiry by the global...
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Something in the Water: Life After Minamata’s Mercury Poisoning
From 1932 to 1968, hundreds of tonnes of mercury seeped into the Minamata Bay in Japan, causing health and environmental problems still felt today. As the first global treaty on mercury comes into...
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Current UN Structures Designed for a Bygone Era, Says India at UN
India emphasised that effective multilateralism and international rule of law require that global governance structures reflect contemporary realities. India reiterated the need for UN reforms and...
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Syria Caught in Worst Fighting Since Aleppo, Say Aid Agencies
Pupils walk on debris of a damaged school in al-Saflaniyeh in eastern Aleppo’s countryside, Syria September 17, 2017. Credit: Reuters/Khalil Ashawi Geneva: Syria is in the throes of its worst fighting...
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South Sudan Needs Inclusive, Collective Peace Efforts
With lengthy, arduous peace efforts failing, South Sudan is facing its gravest humanitarian crisis in years. An Oxfam staffer helps a woman at UN House in Juba carry home some of the emergency supplies...
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ICAN Win, Can Disarmament Too?
ICAN cannot become a serious step towards disarmament unless nuclear possessors accept to eliminate their arsenals. Beatrice Fihn, executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear...
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West Edges Towards Punishing Myanmar Army Leaders Over Rohingya Crisis
A Rohingya refugee woman with a child talks over phone as she takes shelter in No Man’s Land between Bangladesh-Myanmar border, in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, August 27, 2017. Credit: Reuters...
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India Slams Pakistan at UN for Repeatedly Raising Kashmir Issue
Policemen stand next to a burning handcart set on fire by demonstrators during a protest in Srinagar. Credit: Reuters UN: India today slammed Pakistan at the UN for repeatedly raising the Kashmir issue...
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Brutal Myanmar Army Operation Aimed at Preventing Rohingya Return, Says UN
Rohingya refugees walk on the muddy path after crossing the Bangladesh-Myanmar border in Teknaf, Bangladesh, September 3, 2017. Credit: Reuters Geneva: Myanmar security forces have brutally driven out...
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Departing UN Troops in Haiti Leave a Damaged Nation in Their Wake
The international organisation has admitted that its peacekeepers introduced cholera to the island and sexually abused women who lived near UN camps. Victims of violence by UN peacekeepers in Haiti say...
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Rex Tillerson Plays Down Tensions With Trump
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson pauses in his remarks welcoming Organisation of American States (OAS) Secretary General Luis Almagro (not pictured), prior to a bilateral meeting, at the State...
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Bangladesh Urged by UN to Move Rohingya Refugees Stranded at Border
Rohingya refugees who crossed the border from Myanmar a day before, wait to receive permission from the Bangladeshi army to continue their way to the refugee camps, in Palang Khali, Bangladesh October...
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Press Freedom Groups Condemn US Withdrawal From UNESCO
Among UNESCO’s objectives is to promote free, independent, and pluralistic media in order to enhance freedom of expression and information around the world. France’s Audrey Azoulay, the newly-elected...
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