UN aid convoys deliver lifesaving relief to Ukraine’s war-ravaged east — Global Issues

UN aid convoys deliver lifesaving relief to Ukraine’s war-ravaged east — Global Issues

Medicines, roofing repair kits, bottled water and solar lamps were offloaded, highlighting the desperate plight of many thousands of people who are unable or unwilling to leave their homes, amid “regular” shelling attacks. On Thursday, a five-lorry inter agency convoy reached the town of Hulyaipole in the Zaporizhia region –…

UN aid convoys deliver lifesaving relief to Ukraine’s war-ravaged east — Global Issues

UN child rights committee lauds Swiss asylum offer to Kurdish family — Global Issues

“We welcome the timely action taken by Switzerland to suspend the children’s return to Bulgaria, in compliance with the Committee’s request for interim measures,” said Ann Skelton, a member of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC). “We also welcome the decision to reassess these children’s situation and…

Rights experts call for probe into claim Catalan leaders were spied on — Global Issues

Rights experts call for probe into claim Catalan leaders were spied on — Global Issues

“Spanish authorities must conduct a full, fair, and effective investigation into these allegations, publish the findings and stop any unlawful interference into the fundamental rights of the Catalan minority activists in Spain,” they said in a statement.  Top leaders arrested  Following the October 2017 independence referendum, Spain arrested leaders of the…

Will the Ukraine War be Resolved With Talks– or with Tanks? — Global Issues

Will the Ukraine War be Resolved With Talks– or with Tanks? — Global Issues

US M1A2 Abrams Main Battle Tank Credit: Military.com by Thalif Deen (united nations) Monday, January 30, 2023 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, Jan 30 (IPS) – After much reluctance, the US and its Western allies last week agreed to provide Ukraine with some of the world’s most sophisticated battle tanks: American-made…

Destruction of Ukraine’s Healthcare Facilities Violates International Humanitarian Law — Global Issues

Destruction of Ukraine’s Healthcare Facilities Violates International Humanitarian Law — Global Issues

On March 6, 2022, Izyum Central City Hospital (Kharkiv oblast) was attacked as a part of what appears to have been a large-scale carpet-bombing campaign. Reportedly, the hospital team had also marked the hospital with a big red cross that could be seen from the air. Credit: UHC by Ed…

UN aid convoys deliver lifesaving relief to Ukraine’s war-ravaged east — Global Issues

UN human rights experts — Global Issues

“We have serious concerns about impunity and the failure to address racial disparities in the criminal justice system, deaths in police custody, ‘joint enterprise’ convictions, and the dehumanising nature”, of the so-called ‘stop and search’ policing strategy, the UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent said in a statement at…

UN aid convoys deliver lifesaving relief to Ukraine’s war-ravaged east — Global Issues

beware ‘siren songs of hate’ – UN chief — Global Issues

In his speech, delivered at UN Headquarters in New York, Mr. Guterres recalled that, within months, the Nazis had dismantled fundamental constitutional rights and paved the way for totalitarian rule: members of parliament were arrested, freedom of the press was abolished, and the first concentration camp was built, in Dachau….

UN aid convoys deliver lifesaving relief to Ukraine’s war-ravaged east — Global Issues

Closure of Moscow Helsinki Group, ‘yet another blow to human rights’ in Russia: OHCHR — Global Issues

Maria Hurtado said in a statement that the judgement was just the latest “in a series of actions against civil society”, journalists, other media and opposition groups and human rights defenders. MHG was founded in 1976 by well-known dissidents and reported on human rights violations in the former Soviet Union…