The imprisonment of Guatemalan investigative journalist José Rubén Zamora was found to be “arbitrary” and in violation of international law by a human rights body investigating cases of deprivation of liberty at the United Nations. In a decision made public on Monday, the United Nations’ Working Group on Arbitrary Detention concluded that Zamora’s arrest on […]
June 11 (UPI) — The U.N. Human Rights Office said Tuesday that Israel’s hostage rescue operation in Gaza may have been indiscriminate, disproportionate and negligent in a such densely populated area, potentially constituting a war crime. Expressing profound shock at the reported deaths and wounding of hundreds of Palestinians in Saturday’s operation in Nuseirat to […]
A boat carrying 260 migrants sank off Yemen’s coast on Monday, killing at least 39 people and leaving 150 others missing, the United Nations’ international migration agency said Tuesday. The International Organisation for Migration said in a message posted on social media that 71 people had survived the sinking. The nationalities of the migrants on […]
By Charlotte Greenfield ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -Iran and Pakistan called on the United Nations Security Council in a joint statement issued on Wednesday to take action against Israel, saying it had “illegally” targeted neighbouring countries and foreign diplomatic facilities. The joint statement, released by Pakistan’s foreign ministry, followed a three-day visit to the country by Iranian […]
GOMA, Congo (AP) — The world is forgetting the escalating violence in eastern Congo as conflicts continue in places like Ukraine and Gaza, the U.N. human rights chief said Wednesday while visiting the region and calling for peace and support for millions repeatedly displaced. Eastern Congo has long been overrun by more than 120 armed […]
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The United Nations said Friday it has begun distributing food in Sudan’s war-ravaged Darfur province for the first time in months, following two successful cross-border operations, but the population still faces widespread starvation unless more help arrives. The yearlong war between military and paramilitary forces in Sudan is causing one of […]
By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) – A United Nations expert told the global body’s Human Rights Council on Tuesday that she believed that Israel’s military campaign in Gaza since Oct. 7 amounted to genocide and called on countries to immediately impose sanctions and an arms embargo. Israel, which did not attend the session, rejected her […]
The United Nations Security Council on Monday approved a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, the first time it has made such a demand since the war began. Fourteen of 15 countries voted in favor of the ceasefire resolution, which did not make any preconditions such as the release […]
The United States ended decades of stalwart support for Israel in the United Nations Security Council on Thursday, submitting a draft resolution that calls for an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. But the U.N. Security Council failed to adopt the resolution in a Friday morning vote, with Algeria, China and Russia voting […]
On Thursday, the United States ended decades of stalwart support for Israel in the United Nations Security Council, submitting a draft resolution that calls for an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. The resolution, which the U.S. has worked on with the governments of Egypt and Qatar, links the cessation of fighting with […]
Iran is to blame for the “physical violence” that killed Mahsa Amini, whose death in custody in 2022 triggered massive peaceful protests led by women and girls against the country’s theocratic regime, a United Nations fact-finding mission said Friday. The mission’s report also found that Iran committed crimes against humanity in its violent repression of […]
On the ruins of what was once Gaza’s main coastal road, Palestinians displaced by months of intense fighting as Israel battles to destroy Hamas were on the move again Tuesday. This time, they were looking for food. Across the decimated Gaza Strip, starvation has become so acute that the Jordanian military has taken to airdropping […]