INTERNATIONAL Global wages fell in 2022 for the first time since the global financial crisis due to soaring living costs, threatening to worsen inequality and drive social unrest, the United Nations labour agency has warned. Monthly wages dropped 0.9 percent in real terms in the first half of 2022 –[…]
INTERNATIONAL Germany will withdraw its troops from the UN’s peacekeeping mission in Mali by May 2024, a government spokesman has said, becoming the latest country to announce its pullout from the rebellion-hit country. The government will propose to parliament that Germany’s commitment to the MINUSMA operation be extended “in May[…]
INTERNATIONAL Armed gangs are “terrorising” residents in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, a United Nations official has warned, as deadly violence and instability continue to complicate the country’s response to a worsening outbreak of cholera. Ulrika Richardson, the UN’s resident and humanitarian coordinator in Haiti, told reporters on Wednesday that 195[…]
INTERNATIONAL The world’s population has reached eight billion people, the United Nations has said, warning of more hardship in store for regions already facing resource scarcity because of climate change. Reaching eight billion people is “a sign of human success, but it’s also a great risk for our future,” said[…]
INTERNATIONAL The UN has demanded the Egyptian government release imprisoned activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah, who is currently refusing both food and water while incarcerated. Abd el-Fattah was an icon of the 2011 Egyptian revolution and has spent eight of the past 10 years in jail on various charges. He was rearrested in[…]
INTERNATIONAL The past eight years are on track to be the hottest ever recorded, a United Nations report has found, as UN chief Antonio Guterres warned that the planet was sending “a distress signal”. The UN’s weather and climate body released its annual state of the global climate report on[…]
INTERNATIONAL A United Nations independent commission of inquiry has begun public hearings on the alleged human rights violations in the Palestinian territories, with the first day focusing on Israel’s outlawing of several Palestinian rights organisations last year. The commission, established by the UN Human Rrights Council last year, plans five days of hearings[…]
INTERNATIONAL Russia has warned the United Nations against investigating its use of drones in Ukraine, amid accusations the weapons came from Iran and were used in violation of UN arms restrictions on the Middle Eastern country. The United States, France and the United Kingdom called a closed-door Security Council meeting[…]
INTERNATIONAL Israel’s actions against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank amount to “persecution”, the United Nations special rapporteur on human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories said in a report released to the public on Tuesday. “Realizing the inalienable right of the Palestinian people to self-determination requires dismantling once and[…]
LOCAL The UN General Assembly has elected South Africa, Algeria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Chile, Costa Rica, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Maldives, Morocco, Romania and Vietnam to the Human Rights Council for a three-year term starting on January 1 2023. Germany and Sudan also won second terms on the Geneva-based body, but South Korea[…]
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