UN expert urges immediate review of discredited UK sentencing scheme — 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…

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

Rights experts condemn ‘racist violence’ against asylum-seekers — Global Issues

That’s the message from the group of eight experts, including Ashwini K.P., the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, who urged Greece on Wednesday to investigate alleged violations against asylum-seekers. They said that they were “particularly concerned” by the failure of the country’s security personnel and coast guard to…

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

Top UN aid official in Ukraine deplores latest wave of ‘massive Russian attacks’ — Global Issues

Denise Brown issued a statement deploring this “new wave of massive Russian attacks”, and appealed for the violence to end. “Grain storage facilities, vital for the Ukrainian farmers and global food security, have been hit in the Danube area,” she said. “A school in the Sumy region was damaged, and…

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

Guterres condemns assault against UN peacekeepers in Cyprus — Global Issues

Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said in a statement issued on behalf of Secretary-General António Guterres that several members of the UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) had been injured while UN vehicles had also been damaged inside the buffer zone that divides the Turkish Cypriot north and Greek Cypriot south. Security…

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

Reintegration Assistance for Migrants Going Home — Global Issues

Opinion by Sophie Meiners (berlin) Wednesday, August 16, 2023 Inter Press Service BERLIN, Aug 16 (IPS) – Reintegration assistance for migrants returning to their countries of origin is becoming increasingly salient. Germany and the EU cooperate closely with countries of origin to support local reintegration. Here, assistance goes beyond purely monetary…

Top UN aid official in Ukraine condemns latest wave of indiscriminate attacks — Global Issues

Top UN aid official in Ukraine condemns latest wave of indiscriminate attacks — Global Issues

Denise Brown issued a statement deploring the “indiscriminate” attacks impacting civilians and civilian infrastructure. She stressed that people in the south, including in the Kherson and Odesa regions, had endured “a particularly harsh weekend” after reports that strikes left many civilians, including children, killed and injured. An entire family, including…

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

Save lives, UN agencies appeal, after yet another tragedy in the Mediterranean — Global Issues

The International Organization for Migration (IOM); the UN refugee agency, UNCHR; and the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) also called for coordinated search and rescue mechanisms. The tragedy occurred between Thursday 3 August and Friday 4 August, and to date, only four survivors have been rescued – all by a merchant…

Deal reached with Syria to reopen main border crossing from Türkiye — Global Issues

Deal reached with Syria to reopen main border crossing from Türkiye — Global Issues

For the next six months, the Bab al-Hawa border crossing will be accessible and allow much-needed assistance to reach millions of people in northwest Syria. Bab al-Hawa has been used since 2014, when the UN Security Council authorized cross-border relief deliveries “across conflict lines”. Around 85 per cent of aid…