Human rights ‘best antidote’ to advance peace, Security Council hears
Ambassadors met to examine the Council’s efforts towards building trust that leads to sustainable peace, in light of current and emerging threats. …
Israel: UN experts demand accountability over death of Palestinian hunger striker
The 45-year-old Palestinian died in his prison cell on Tuesday morning following a nearly three-month hunger strike. He had been protesting Israel’s…
Afghanistan: Guterres says women worker ban ‘unacceptable and puts lives in jeopardy’
Secretary-General António Guterres was speaking to reporters in Doha, Qatar, after convening an international meeting of Special Envoys on Afghanistan. He said they…
Fragile gains on reducing child marriage, under threat from ‘polycrisis’: UNICEF
Currently, one in five young women aged 20 to 24, were married as children, versus nearly one in four a decade ago,…
Sudan latest: Over 100,000 have now fled says UNHCR
Those fleeing the fighting include Sudanese refugees as well as people who were themselves refugees in Sudan. UNHCR estimates that the number…
WFP resumes operations in Sudan, amid full-blown humanitarian ‘catastrophe’
WFP had paused its life-saving activities after three staff were killed in North Darfur on 15 April, the first day of clashes…
Guterres dispatches UN ‘relief chief’ to Sudan as humanitarian crisis nears ‘breaking point’
“The scale and speed of what is unfolding is unprecedented in Sudan. We are extremely concerned by the immediate as well as long-term…
Guterres convenes meeting in Doha to discuss key issues in Afghanistan
The aim is to reinvigorate international engagement around key issues, such as human rights, in particular women’s and girls’ rights, inclusive governance,…
INTERVIEW – Seeking justice for sexual abuse victims
Critics have said justice takes too long, and perpetrators are not always held accountable in cases of sexual abuse and exploitation committed…
Stop deporting Haitians: Rights experts’ appeal to countries in Americas
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) sounded the alarm after 36,000 people of Haitian origin were deported during…