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US Criticises Israel’s Approval of New Housing Units in West Bank
A view shows a construction site in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Givat Zeev, near Jerusalem, December 19, 2011. Credit: Reuters/Baz Ratner/File Photo Jerusalem/Washington: Israel approved on...
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Portugal’s Antonio Guterres Inching Closer Towards Becoming Next UN Chief
The discouragement of the women candidates has drawn a lot of flak from the campaign to elect a woman as the next UN secretary general, which has questioned the council’s ability to ‘bring the UN into...
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Phillipine President Refuses Meeting with UN Chief After Being Criticised for...
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte speaks before Filipino workers who were repatriated by the Philippine government from Saudi Arabia, upon arrival at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport in...
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North Korea Fires Three Ballistic Missiles
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un gives a speech at the 9th Congress of the Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League in Pyongyang on August 29, 2016. Credit: Korean Central News Agency/ via Reuters Seoul:...
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In Bid to Avoid Arms Embargo, South Sudan Agrees to More UN Troops
South Sudan President Salva Kiir (C) explains to US ambassador, Samantha Power (R), the effects of recent fighting during a visit by the UNSecurity Council, delegation at the presidential palace in the...
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Bodies Pile Up in Philippines, But Many Fear Talking About Duterte’s War
Relatives and friends carry the coffin of Eric Quintinita Sison during the burial rites in Pasay city, metro Manila, Philippines August 31, 2016. Picture taken August 31, 2016. Reuters/Czar Dancel...
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Education-For-All Target Missed by 50 Years, Says UN
Boys sit for an exam at a school in Sanaa January 12, 2014. Reuters/Mohamed al-Sayaghi/Files London: The world is set to miss by more than half a century, a deadline for ensuring all children receive...
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Rich Countries Should Take Development Goals Seriously Too
Developed countries can help achieve sustainable development in a number of ways, including by addressing climate change, tackling tax evasion and tax havens, and improving official development...
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Detaining Migrant Children is a Gross Violation of Their Rights
States need to think of alternatives instead of locking up children on the move. Credit: Unicef/The Conversation Children represent around a quarter of all migrants worldwide. While in June 2015, one...
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Syrian Ceasefire Largely Holds As Aid Preparations Begin
Al-Nusra Front members in Maarrat al-Numan. Credit: Wikimedia Commons Beirut/Geneva: A new ceasefire in Syria brought a full day with no combat deaths in the war between President Bashar al-Assad and...
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UN Summit Won’t Resolve Refugee Resettlement Impasse
The member states continue to hem-and-haw while no clear targets for refugee resettlement has been set. Border guards in Bangladeshrefusing entry to Rohingya refugees from Myanmar in 2012. Credit:...
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Refugee Women Find Stability Through Entrepreneurship in Lebanon
Women entrepreneurs from refugee and host communities in Lebanon are building their own model of social stability through economically viable businesses. Refugee and rural women in host country,...
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No Education For Millions of Refugee Children
A UNHCR report says only half of refugee children have access to primary education and the gap widens with higher education. Children from the Central African Republic in the 2014 photo at Primary...
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The Perils of Humanitarian Wars
In Perilous Interventions, Hardeep Singh Puri, an astute observer of the limits of the ‘responsibility to protect’ doctrine, explores the failure of the UNSC on several accounts, especially its...
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Myanmar’s Suu Kyi Defends Efforts on Rohingyas in First UN Address as Leader
Myanmar’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Aung San Suu Kyi addresses the 71st UN General Assembly in Manhattan, New York, US. September 21, 2016. Credit:Reuters/Carlo Allegri United Nations: In her first...
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After Middle-Finger Salute, Phillippine President Demands Respect from EU
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte speaks during a news conference in Davao after Norwegian national Kjartan Sekkingstad was freed from the al Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf Islamist militant group in Jolo,...
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Afghanistan: Officials Initialled Peace Deal with Islamist Warlord
Mohammad Amin Karim (R), representative of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, and Afghanistan national security adviser Mohammad Hanif Atmar (L) hold a document after signing a peace deal in Kabul, Afghanistan,...
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Amnesty Criticises Hungary For Mistreating Migrants Days Before Referendum
A sign pasted onto the border fence on the Hungary-Serbia borderline warns refugees that damaging the fence is a criminal offence at Roszke, Hungary, September 2, 2016. Picture taken September 2, 2016....
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US to Deploy Anti-Missile System in South Korea ‘As Soon As Possible’
A Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptor is launched during a successful intercept test. Credit: US Department of Defense, Missile Defense Agency/Handout via Reuters/File Photo...
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Sudan Used Chemical Weapons in Darfur: Amnesty International
Sudan’s President Omar Hassan al-Bashir pictured in Uganda on May 12, 2016. Credit: Reuters/Edward Echwalu UN: Sudan‘s government has carried out at least 30 likely chemical weapons attacks in the...
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