The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen has invited a UN team to visit its headquarters in Riyadh for talks on a UN report that blamed the military alliance for the deaths of hundreds of children in Yemen. Saudi Ambassador Abdullah Al-Mouallimi extended the invitation in a letter sent to Secretary[…]
A report released by rights group The Syria Campaign accuses the United Nations of delivering 99 percent of its aid to government-controlled territories, and calls on the UN to “restore its impartiality”. The report, based on interviews with aid workers, including current and former UN staff, finds the UN in[…]
The UN Security Council unanimously approved a resolution on Monday calling for Libya’s feuding militias and security forces to unite and strengthen national security forces to defend the country from “terrorism.” The resolution encouraged the recently formed national unity government to finalise interim security arrangements to stabilise the country “as[…]
Saudi Arabia has denied threatening a cut-off of humanitarian funding to pressure the United Nations into removing the Arab-led coalition fighting in Yemen from a blacklist of child rights violators. The UN had blacklisted the coalition after concluding in a report released last Thursday that it was responsible for 60[…]
Eritrea’s government is guilty of committing crimes against humanity since independence a quarter-century ago with up to 400,000 people “enslaved”, the UN said on Wednesday. The crimes committed since 1991 to the present day include imprisonment, enforced disappearance, extrajudicial killings, and rape and murder, said the United Nations Commission of[…]
The UN refugee agency said more than 700 refugees may have drowned in three Mediterranean Sea shipwrecks south of Italy in the last few days. Speaking to Al Jazeera from Geneva, William Spindler, a UNHCR spokesman for Europe, said there had been a spate of incidents in the Mediterranean last[…]
The UN has called for greater humanitarian access in Syria amid fears that many civilians risk starvation in besieged areas of the wartorn country. Speaking in Geneva on Thursday, Staffan de Mistura, the UN special envoy, said there “are plenty of civilians at the moment in danger of starvation” in[…]
The United Nations said on Tuesday it has received 44 allegations of sexual abuse by peacekeepers and staff in UN missions so far this year involving more than 40 minors. UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said 29 allegations were reported in the UN peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic, seven[…]
Up to 5.3 million people in South Sudan may face a severe food shortages during this year’s lean season, the U.N. World Food Programme said on Monday, nearly double the number in the first three months of the year. From January to March, 2.8 million people were classed as being[…]
Member states of the U.N. Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) are not meeting until September, but some African countries have already drawn their battle lines on divisive issues such as the ivory trade. Proposals for the meeting in Johannesburg were made public this week, pitting bids by[…]
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