Video feed of the meeting, expected to start at 3 PM. 4:48 PM We must work towards Palestinian State: France Nicolas de Rivière, Ambassador of France, which holds the Council presidency for January, spoke in his national capacity, saying efforts must focus immediately towards a lasting ceasefire, with the help of all regional and international…
Speaking ahead of Sunday’s grim milestone, Spokesperson Liz Throssell reiterated the need for OHCHR staff to have access to Israel and all parts of the Occupied Palestinian Territory to investigate human rights violations by all parties. Fourteen weeks have passed since Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups carried out bloody attacks against Israel on 7…
The UN chief’s appeal came a day after the United States and the United Kingdom, with the support of other countries, launched airstrikes across multiple parts of Yemen in response. The UN Security Council is meeting in New York to discuss the crisis, just days after adopting a resolution demanding an end to the Houthi…
Since 1 January, in Kabul and Daykundi provinces, UNAMA has documented a series of hijab decree enforcement campaigns by the de facto Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, aided by Taliban police units. In the capital, Kabul, large numbers of women and girls have been warned and detained, said the…
In a flash update, the Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said that since the intensification of aerial attacks on 29 December, approximately 3,000 families had seen their homes damaged across Ukraine. That day saw one of the deadliest attacks since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022, in which at least…
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…
The development came amid the ongoing and massive Israeli bombardment across the Gaza Strip in response to Hamas-led terror attacks on 7 October that left some 1,200 Israeli and foreign nationals dead in southern Israel and some 250 taken hostage. Laying out their case, the South African legal team told the International Court of Justice…
The rumour began when Mr. Khrushchev travelled to New York at the height of the cold war. During the Assembly’s general debate for Heads of State and Government on 12 October 1960, he indicated that he wanted to make a point of order about the way his counterpart from the Philippines referred to the Soviet…
The rate of access denials by Israel so far this month marks a “significant deterioration” over December, OCHA said in its latest update, issued late on Wednesday. Between 1 and 10 January, only three out of 21 planned deliveries of food, medicines, water, and other lifesaving items to the north of Wadi Gaza got through, it revealed. Denials, delays and…
Briefing ambassadors in the Security Council, Leonardo Santos Simão, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General, said that while some nations have made significant democratic strides, others have been subject to military takeovers, posing wider threats to regional stability. The presidential election in Liberia and the peaceful transfer of power was a decisive political moment for…
