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The British Stoke White law firm file case against UAE, Saudi Arabia for war crimes in Yemen
A group of attorneys has filed a case through the United Nations regarding war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Yemen, a statement by a U.K.-based law firm said Monday.
The legal team at the Stoke White law firm asked…
Save The Children :MORE THAN 15 MILLION CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES IN YEMEN, “SYRIA AND GAZA SET TO…
Fewer than 730 ventilators and 950 Intensive Care Unit (ICU) beds are available for more than 15 million children and their families in areas that are hard for aid agencies to reach in Yemen, northern Syria and Gaza – meaning they are…
US Inhuman Sanctions Harming Efforts to Combat Virus Pandemic
Syria has blasted “inhuman sanctions” imposed by the United States against a number of countries, raising the alarm that the restrictive measures are hampering global efforts to contain the coronavirus pandemic.
Syrian Deputy Foreign…
Scientist: COVID-19 was Produced in a US Laboratory as Bioweapon
A Pakistani scientist specializing in organic chemistry has said that the highly contagious novel coronavirus did not necessarily emerge naturally through mutation but rather may have been produced in a laboratory in the United States as a…
UN helps Pacific prepare for COVID-19 pandemic, warns that children are ‘hidden victims’
United Nations agencies are working together to provide vital support to Pacific Island countries as they rally to combat COVID-19 outbreaks across the region.
The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF)…
Coronavirus necessitates global increase in protective equipment, medical supplies: UN health chief
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) is calling for stepped-up production of medical equipment and supplies as health facilities and health workers in many countries struggle with increasing and urgent demands…
‘Immediate nationwide ceasefire’ needed for all-out effort to counter COVID-19 in Syria
Syria is at “high risk” of being unable to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, the UN Special Envoy for the country said on Monday, reiterating calls for a “complete, immediate nationwide ceasefire” to enable an all-out-effort to counter…
$2.5 trillion COVID-19 rescue package needed for world’s emerging economies
The economic fallout from COVID-19 is likely to get “much worse” before it gets better for some six billion people living in developing economies, the UN said on Monday, in an appeal for a $2.5 trillion rescue package to boost…
COVID-19 stoking xenophobia, hate and exclusion, minority rights expert warns
Combatting the COVID-19 pandemic must also include stamping out what one independent human rights expert has called the “darker sides” of the disease: verbal and physical attacks against Chinese and other minority communities, and…
Emirati activist calls on his country’s rulers to end their crimes in Yemen, Libya
A Well-known Emirati human rights activist, Abdullah al-Taweel has launched a verbal attack on UAE rulers over their repressive attitudes inside the UAE and their war crimes in Yemen and Libya.
Al-Taweel said in a tweet on Sunday, he…