The President and Prosecutor with the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT) briefed ambassadors on progress made over the past two years as it moves closer towards wrapping up for good. The Mechanism was established by the Council to continue essential functions of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), which closed in December…
Last year was the deadliest on record, with 8,541 migrant victims. Nearly 60 per cent of deaths were linked to drowning. So far in 2024, the trends are just as alarming. Along the Mediterranean sea route alone – while arrivals this year are significantly lower (16,818) compared to the same period in 2023 (26,984) –…
On the heels of Israel’s announcement on Sunday that it would no longer approve aid shipments into northern Gaza by the UN agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA, UN Coordinator Jamie McGoldrick cautioned of current catastrophic food shortages and growing hunger across the enclave while offering swift solutions to averting a looming famine. “Any interruption to…
Presenting the latest quarterly report by the UN Verification Mission in Colombia, which covers the period from 27 September to 26 December 2023, he expressed hope that this year will be a decisive one for peace. “Despite the many serious challenges this country still faces in extinguishing the embers of an armed conflict that has…
That figure is more than double the crossings made in all of 2022. Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, underscored the scale of the crisis. “The challenges that the unprecedented population movements in the Americas pose are formidable…no country on its own is equipped to address them,” he said. “Only by coming together with…
The report, published on Tuesday by the UN human rights office (OHCHR) and the UN political mission in Haiti (BINUH), calls for the urgent deployment of the multinational security support mission authorized by the UN Security Council in October. But alongside that, greater efforts will need to be made to strengthen the institutions of the…
File photo The August 5, 2019 move to end the special status of Occupied Kashmir was challenged in the Supreme Court of India. Indian Supreme Court formed a 5-member bench against the abrogation of Article 370 in Occupied Kashmir, which will hear on a daily basis from tomorrow. According to Indian media reports, Bureaucrat Shah…
Photos courtesy of Twitter Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Chouhan, the leader of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, has apologized for his party’s leader urinating on a man belonging to a religious minority. Bharatiya Janata Party member, Shivraj Singh Chouhan took to micro-blogging website Twitter in a few tweets in which he can be seen…
Stockholm: Outside an Eidgah in Sweden, Muslim countries are protesting against the desecration of the Quran and the government’s permission for it, but the United States has interpreted this move by the government as freedom of expression. According to international media reports, 37-year-old Iraqi Salwan Momika, who fled to Sweden several years ago, desecrated the…
—File photo Convoys of Hajj pilgrims from Mina are moving towards Maidan-e-Arafat, pilgrims arriving by buses and trains. Ticket bands have been issued for the pilgrims on board the train, the Hajj pilgrims will perform the Rukn-i-Azam today at Meydan-e-Arafat. Zuhr and Asr prayers will be offered together in the Nimra Mosque, after the Hajj…
