Collaboration for Conservation in Cyprus — Global Issues

Collaboration for Conservation in Cyprus — Global Issues

During UN-organized beach and buffer zone clean-ups, though, youth from both the north and south of Cyprus work side-by-side with peacekeepers. Credit: UNFICYP by Abigail Van Neely (united nations) Wednesday, September 27, 2023 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, Sep 27 (IPS) – Along the 180-kilometer-long buffer zone separating the north and…

Azerbaijan must ‘guarantee the rights of ethnic Armenians’ — Global Issues

Azerbaijan must ‘guarantee the rights of ethnic Armenians’ — Global Issues

“Azerbaijan must also promptly and independently investigate alleged or suspected violations of the right to life reported in the context of its latest military offensive…during which dozens of people, including peacekeepers, were killed,” said, Morris Tidball-Binz, the UN Human Rights Council-appointed Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions. Thousands…

Azerbaijan must ‘guarantee the rights of ethnic Armenians’ — Global Issues

Rape and torture by Russian forces continuing, rights experts report — Global Issues

Members of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine told the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva that they have documented attacks with explosive weapons on residential buildings, civilian infrastructure and medical institutions, as well as torture and sexual and gender-based violence. Rape allegations Commission Chair Erik Møse provided…

Azerbaijan must ‘guarantee the rights of ethnic Armenians’ — Global Issues

Russian Foreign Minister hits out at West’s ‘empire of lies’ — Global Issues

Sergey Lavrov said power was slipping through the hands of the old order, dominated by Washington, which has long rejected the principle of equality. Americans and Europeans “make all sorts of promises…and then just don’t fulfil them”, he told delegates. Quoting President Vladimir Putin, he said the West was “truly…

Azerbaijan must ‘guarantee the rights of ethnic Armenians’ — Global Issues

Don’t turn back the clock, work together and ‘get the future right’, urges Prime Minister of Malta — Global Issues

Robert Abela told leaders gathered for the UN General Assembly’s annual debate that the voices of all countries – large and small, rich and poor – and of all elements for civil society must be heard and play a role in building and sustaining a better world. “We must build…

World must pass ‘AI stress test’, UK Deputy PM says, announcing summit — Global Issues

World must pass ‘AI stress test’, UK Deputy PM says, announcing summit — Global Issues

Mr. Dowden said the so-named AI Safety Summit, set for November, will aim to preempt the risks posed by frontier AI and explore how it can be used for the public good. “AI is the biggest transformation the world has known,” he emphasized, noting that it is going to change…

‘Immense challenges’ block justice for Ukrainian war victims, rights experts warn — Global Issues

‘Immense challenges’ block justice for Ukrainian war victims, rights experts warn — Global Issues

Speaking in Kyiv, Commission Chair Erik Møse pointed to continuing patterns of violations by Russian armed forces, including wilful killings, unlawful confinement, torture, rape, and illegal deportations, many of which qualify as war crimes. According to the Commission, the Ukrainian legal system faced “immense challenges” to provide accountability and justice…

Azerbaijan must ‘guarantee the rights of ethnic Armenians’ — Global Issues

UN expert urges immediate review of discredited UK sentencing scheme — Global Issues

As of the end of 2022, close to 2,900 people were still being held under the scheme. Unresolved legacy Between 2005 and 2012, English and Welsh courts used the IPP legislation to issue indeterminate sentences to those deemed likely to cause serious public harm, “until they no longer represented such…