Millions of people will die in Yemen, in what will be the world’s worst famine crisis in decades, unless a Saudi-led military coalition ends a devastating blockade and allows aid into the country, the United Nations has warned. The Saudi-led alliance fighting Yemen’s Houthi rebels tightened its air, land and[…]
UN aid chief Mark Lowcock on Saturday voiced alarm at the “shocking” humanitarian conditions in conflict-hit Yemen and called on warring parties to respect international law. Concluding a five-day mission, his first to Yemen, the UN head of humanitarian affairs and emergency relief said the war in the impoverished Arab[…]
A new report by the UN and the chemical watchdog says the Syrian government was responsible for a chemical attack that killed scores of people in April. More than 80 people, including many women and children, died when, on April 4, the nerve agent sarin or a sarin-like substance was[…]
The head of the UN’s migration agency said he’s “shocked and concerned” about reports of sexual and gender-based violence among new Rohingya arrivals in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. The International Organization for Migration’s Director-General William Lacy Swing made the comments on Wednesday as Rohingya refugees who escaped a military crackdown in[…]
President Jacob Zuma has called for UN member states to dismantle their nuclear weapons and instead use them for peaceful means. He was addressing the 72nd session of the UN General Assembly in New York on Wednesday night. Zuma called for calm in the Korean Peninsula insisting and urging countries[…]
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called on the United Nations on Wednesday to pursue efforts to “bring an end to Israeli occupation of the state of Palestine within a set timeframe”. Abbas, addressing the United Nations General Assembly, warned that if the two-state solution were to be rejected, Palestinians would have[…]
Myanmar’s national leader Aung San Suu Kyi will not attend the upcoming UN General Assembly session in New York. A spokesperson for her party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), told Reuters news agency late on Tuesday that the Nobel Peace Prize winner had withdrawn from the meeting in New[…]
Myanmar has blocked all United Nations aid agencies from delivering vital supplies of food, water and medicine to thousands of desperate civilians at the centre of a bloody military campaign in Myanmar, the Guardian has learned. The world body halted distributions in northern Rakhine state after militants attacked government forces on 25[…]
In a visit to the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, Secretary-General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres called for Palestinian national reconciliation and demanded that Israel’s decade-long blockade on the territory be lifted, describing life in the besieged coastal enclave as “one of the most dramatic humanitarian crises” he had seen.[…]
More than two years after an appeal was sent to an Israeli court demanding the reopening of a closed investigation into the 2014 Israeli missile attack that killed four children playing soccer on a beach in Gaza, Israeli authorities have remained silent and refused to respond to the appeal. Israeli[…]
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