The head of the U.N. agency promoting equality for women is lamenting that a girl born today will be an 81-year-old grandmother before she has the same chance as a man to be CEO of a company – and she will have to wait until she’s 50-years-old to have an[…]
Fighting extremism with disproportionate policies violates human rights, thus undermining the values that have been holding together global security, UN rights chief Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein said Thursday in Geneva. “Terrorist attacks cannot destroy the values on which our societies are grounded – but laws and policies can,” the UN[…]
The global chemical weapons watchdog said in a new report that it has destroyed two Syrian chemical weapons facilities and expects the destruction of all 12 facilities to be completed this summer. Ahmet Uzumcu, head of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, said in his monthly report to[…]
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday delivered a vigorous defense of Israel before the U.N. Human Rights Council, urging its members to end what the United States says is its unfair and biased focus on the Jewish State that could undermine its credibility. His remarks came as the[…]
The Syrian refugee crisis is reaching a tipping point as humanitarian appeals remain under funded, and neighbouring countries are struggling to keep up with the flood of refugees, a UN official told the UN Security Council Thursday. Antonio Guterres, UN high commissioner for refugees, said that the international community needs[…]
OPINION by Nabila Ismail- The Times article by Graeme Hosken (Al-Qaeda at the gates :Friday, 20 February 2015) reports that the United Nations Security Council has informed the South African Government to be on the look out “for 11 international terrorists who might consider using the country as an operational[…]
The UN special envoy to Syria is travelling to Damascus to try to reduce the fighting which has intensified in Aleppo, where rebels claim to have killed 300 government soldiers in the past week. Staffan de Mistura, on his fourth trip to the country since July, is expected to arrive[…]
Libya’s foreign minister on Wednesday demanded that the U.N. Security Council lift an arms embargo so his country can fight the Islamic State group as it establishes a presence in north Africa and moves closer to Europe. Foreign Minister Mohammed al Dairi spoke to an emergency session of the council[…]
Only about a little over five percent of money pledged to rebuild Gaza devastated by Israel’s deadly assault on the Palestinian territory last year has reached Gaza, humanitarian news service IRIN has said. A source at the office of the Palestinian Deputy Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa, told IRIN on Monday[…]
The government of President Bashar al-Assad has expressed a willingness to suspend its aerial bombardment and artillery shelling of the northern city of Aleppo to allow for a local ceasefire to be tested, the UN special envoy to Syria has said. Staffan de Mistura said on Tuesday that the opposition[…]
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