United Nations – Yemenis are dying from cholera, hunger and other ills because Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are not making good on funding pledges they made earlier this year, a top United Nations official warned on Thursday. Mark Lowcock, the UN’s emergency relief coordinator and under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, told the UN[…]
By Ramona Wadi The UN has contributed another contradiction in its assessment of Palestinian prospects following the “Peace to Prosperity” summit. Instead of highlighting how and why the UN has failed Palestine, a recent statement from Michael Lynk, the Special Rapporteur on human rights in Palestine, emphasized the absence of an international law[…]
The United Nations is close to agreement with Syria on establishing a constitutional committee, the UN Secretary General’s Syria envoy Geir Pedersen said on Wednesday, according to Reuters. The UN wants to convene the committee as a next step in efforts to find a political solution to end the war[…]
United Nations – A United Nations investigator is drafting a series of steps the international community can take to deter Israel from building more settlements in the occupied West Bank and any efforts to formally annex the Palestinian territory. Michael Lynk, an independent UN researcher, said the European Union (EU) and some world powers should consider cutting economic,[…]
UN secretary-general’s special envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen expects that the list of members of the Syrian Constitutional Committee will be formed soon. He will hold meetings with the Syrian government and opposition in order to ensure this, the diplomat told TASS on Thursday. The committee “can be a very important[…]
The UN Security Council has failed to condemn the deadly air raid on a migrant detention centre in the Libyan capital Tripoli amid global outrage over the attack that killed 44 people and wounded 130 others. Earlier, the United Nations envoy to Libya, Ghassan Salame, condemned the air raid saying it “clearly could[…]
The UN has called for a “thorough and transparent investigation” into the death of Mohamed Morsi in court, as thousands of people across the Middle East paid their respects to Egypt‘s former president. The UN human rights office on Tuesday said the investigation should encompass all aspects of his treatment during nearly six[…]
After the US put the blame squarely on Iran for sabotaging four oil tankers off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, a preliminary probe concluded that a ‘state actor’ was likely behind the raid, but made no mention of Iran. According to reports by Reuters and Bloomberg, preliminary findings[…]
The Palestinian government has pledged to suspend a secret increase in ministerial salaries, the UN envoy on the Israel-Palestinian conflict said on Thursday, after reports of the raise sparked anger. Documents leaked online appeared to show that in 2017 Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas had quietly agreed to increase the monthly[…]
Nearly half of all rural Afghans now face some level of food insecurity, a UN agency said on Monday, as a historic drought and deteriorating security grip the country. Described by some locals as the worst in a lifetime, the drought had a devastating effect on rural populations last year,[…]
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