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Opening Forensic Exhibition of coalition Crimes Against Yemeni People
Prime Minister Abdulaziz bin Habtoor, Human Rights Minister Alia al-Sha'bi inaugurated the forensic exhibition on the crimes of the US- Saudi-led coalition against the Yemeni people.
The statistics of the exhibition of the Interior…
UN Report: Because of the Aggression, 79% of Yemeni People Live below Poverty Line
Yemen will become the poorest country in the world if its conflict goes on through 2022, a new report by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) projects. Since 2014, war has driven poverty in Yemen from 47 percent of the population…
Death toll rises in Indonesia earthquake
The death toll from Thursday’s earthquake in the eastern island of Maluku has rised to 30, Indonesia’s Disaster Management Agency said Sunday.
“Thirty people were killed and 156 injured,” Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, the spokesman for…
36 killed in bus collision in Eastern China
At least 36 people were killed and 36 others injured in eastern China when a bus collided with a truck, Chinese media reported Sunday.
The bus was carrying 69 people when it collided with a truck on a highway in east Jiangsu Province,…
Elimination of nuclear weapons ‘only real way’ to allay fear of a constant threat, Guterres insists
Progress made in reducing the danger posed by nuclear arsenals has not only come to a halt, “it is going in reverse”, and any use of a nuclear weapon in the future would ignite “a humanitarian catastrophe.”…
Human Rights Briefing: Updates on Egypt, Zimbabwe, Venezuela and Saudi Arabia
Here’s a roundup of human rights news this Friday: UN’s Bachelet urges restraint over arrests of Egypt protestors; expert calls for ‘democratic shift’ in Zimbabwe; Human Rights Council agrees fact-finding mission to Venezuela;…
‘No place for violence, intimidation or fraud’ in Afghan elections: UN chief
All key actors in Afghanistan must “uphold their responsibility to support a peaceful, credible, transparent and inclusive electoral process”, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said in a statement on Friday, the day before…
Island nations on climate crisis frontline ‘not sitting idly by’
Small island nations are “not sitting idly by” but are emerging as “frontrunners” in the fight against climate change according to Fekitamoeloa Katoa ‘Utoikamanu, the UN High Representative for Small Island Developing States.…
Security Council debates closer links between multilateral organizations in Europe and Asia
Secretary-General António Guterres welcomed the move to increase cooperation between the UN and the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), and the Shanghai Cooperation…
‘Childhood is changing, and so must we’, UNICEF declares, as world marks historic convention
Since its adoption 30 years ago, the milestone Convention of the Rights of the Child and its near universal membership has created “unprecedented international solidarity around children’s rights,'' the Secretary-General said at a…