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Syria: US Has Committed Systematic Violations of Human Rights
Syrian Foreign and Expatriates Ministry affirmed Thursday that the US administrations have committed systematic violations of the Human rights against peoples of the World, among them killing thousands of people in Raqqa city in Syria and…
Al-Mortada holds UN responsible for lack of progress on prisoners’ file
Head of the National Committee for Prisoners’ Affairs Abdulqader al-Mortada on Friday said that the weak UN performance towards prisoners’ file is what made a whole year passes without achieving any terms of Sweden agreement.
“A full year…
5,000 Somali refugees evacuated from Yemen since 2017: UN
The United Nations has announced the evacuation of more than 5,000 Somali refugees voluntarily to their homeland from Yemen since 2017.
UNHCR and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said they had helped 5,087 Somali refugees…
A year on from Yemen talks breakthrough, top UN Envoy hails ‘shift’ towards peace, despite setbacks
When warring parties in Yemen met in a renovated castle outside the Swedish capital last December for UN-brokered talks, they showed that perhaps there could be a way out of brutal conflict and the world’s worst humanitarian crisis,…
South Sudan famine threat: UN food security agency in ‘race against time’
The World Food Programme (WFP) is warning against potential famine in South Sudan as hunger deepens due to drought, floods and an uncertain political future.
WFP fears more than 5.5 million people could be…
As COP25 goes into the night, Guterres calls for more climate ambition
With national delegations thrashing out an outcome agreement at the UN COP25 climate change conference in Madrid, the UN chief has called on countries to be more ambitious, side strongly with science, and commit to stronger action.…
New citizenship law in India ‘fundamentally discriminatory’: UN human rights office
A new law in India which expedites citizenship for certain religious minorities has been criticized by the UN human rights office for being “fundamentally discriminatory in nature.”
The amendment to the…
UN human rights report cites ‘multiple root causes’ of deadly Chile protests
During the recent mass protests which led Chile to declare a state of emergency, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said in a report published on Friday that international human rights norms had been…
‘Air bridge’ vaccination operation begins for Ebola-hit communities in DR Congo
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has seen an increase in the number of reported cases of the deadly haemorrhagic virus Ebola linked to ongoing violence by armed groups targeting remote communities, the World Health…
BAE Systems Accused of Being Party to Alleged War Crime
A group of human rights organizations have filed a complaint with the International Criminal Court (ICC), accusing BAE Systems and other arms manufacturers based in Europe of being party to alleged war crimes in the conflict in Yemen, the…