UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, called the Public Order Bill “deeply troubling legislation”, after it completed its passage through parliament on Wednesday. “It is especially worrying that the law expands the powers of the police to stop and search individuals, including without suspicion; defines some of the new criminal offences in a…
UN Special Representative and head of the UN Interim Administration Mission, Caroline Ziadeh, told ambassadors that the most recent Secretary-General’s report on developments in Kosovo, which declared independence in 2008 but is not recognized by Serbia, “included serious challenges as well as an important collective effort to bring Belgrade-Pristina relations nearer to stability and normalisation.”…
Wednesday morning in the Chilean capital of Santiago, Ms. Mohammed met at the Palacio de La Moneda with President Gabriel Boric to discuss the acceleration of the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the country. The President delivered the National Strategy for the Implementation of the 2030 Agenda. The UN Resident Coordinator…
The 2023 UN SDG Action Awards will be presented in Rome, Italy, in July, and the deadline for applications and nominations has been extended to 7 May. “We are calling on all activists, mobilizers, and changemakers to submit their application today for a chance to become an awards finalist and to join us in Rome…
Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator Abdou Dieng, speaking from Port Sudan, told reporters in the briefing room in New York that senior leadership would be returning to the Sudanese capital, as soon as the situation allows. The needs are urgent, and widespread, he said, as the final few hours of a US-brokered 72-hour ceasefire neared, with…
The groom was sentenced to 6 months and the bride to 7 months; Photo: File Singapore City: In Singapore, a senior citizen who arranged a fake marriage with his niece to get his friend’s citizenship was sentenced to 6 months in jail. According to Indian media, 73-year-old Indian-origin Miran Ghani married his 58-year-old Singaporean niece…
Tehran: The representative of Iran’s Supreme Commander Ayatollah Khamenei and well-known religious scholar Ayatollah Abbas Ali Soleimani was killed. According to the details, the representative of Iran’s Supreme Commander Ayatollah Khamenei and a powerful and scholarly Ayatollah Abbas Ali Soleimani were killed in the assassination attack. Iran’s official media say that 75-year-old Ayatollah Abbas Ali…
57 people drowned after two migrant boats sank off the coast of Libya. At least 57 people died after two boats capsized in two different locations in the Mediterranean Sea, rescue workers said, according to the Lebanese Coast Guard. The coast guard officer said that the bodies of 11 people, including a child, have been…
Iran’s powerful religious leader Ayatollah Abbas Soleimani was killed yesterday; Photo: File Tehran: In Iran, the video of the killing of Ayatollah Abbas Soleimani, a special confidant of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei and a powerful Shia cleric, has gone viral on social media. According to the international news organization, the former representative of the supreme…
File photo The Sudanese army has announced its initial approval of a 72-hour extension to the ceasefire. According to foreign media, France has started an operation to evacuate more citizens from Sudan after the extension of the ceasefire. According to the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, more citizens will be evacuated from Sudan, citizens of…
