UN investigative team outlines findings around ISIL chemical weapons use — Global Issues

UN investigative team outlines findings around ISIL chemical weapons use — Global Issues

Senior officials with the UN Investigative Team promoting accountability for ISIL crimes, UNITAD, presented some of their findings to Member States meeting at UN Headquarters in New York. For the past five years, UNITAD has been gathering evidence of crimes committed during ISIL’s self-proclaimed caliphate from June 2014 to December…

Admissible evidence, competent courts, critical to ensuring justice for ISIL victims in Iraq — Global Issues

Admissible evidence, competent courts, critical to ensuring justice for ISIL victims in Iraq — Global Issues

Ambassadors were briefed by Christian Ritscher, Special Adviser and Head of the UN Investigative Team to promote accountability for these crimes, UNITAD, established five years ago. The Islamist group declared a self-styled caliphate across parts of Iraq and northern Syria in 2014, before being militarily defeated and driven from Iraq…

Huge increase in transnational crime and synthetic drugs in SE Asia requires cross-border cooperation — Global Issues

Huge increase in transnational crime and synthetic drugs in SE Asia requires cross-border cooperation — Global Issues

A Thai Navy launch travels at high speed down the muddy brown waters of the Mekong River close to the border town of Chiang Saen in the north of Thailand. To the right is Laos, where huge construction projects funded by foreign investment are rising out of the lush undergrowth…

US state abortion bans ‘putting millions of women and girls at risk’ — Global Issues

US state abortion bans ‘putting millions of women and girls at risk’ — Global Issues

Since the start of the year, abortion has been banned in 14 states across the country, and the consequences of the Supreme Court decision has reverberated throughout the entire legal and policy system, the Human Rights Council-appointed experts said. “The regressive position taken by the US Supreme Court…by essentially dismantling…

Guterres voices deep concern as Anti-Homosexuality Act signed into law — Global Issues

Guterres voices deep concern as Anti-Homosexuality Act signed into law — Global Issues

The draconian law foresees the application of the death penalty and long prison sentences for consensual sex between adults. Non-discrimination principle Mr. Guterres called on Uganda to fully respect its international human rights obligations, “in particular the principle of non-discrimination and the respect for personal privacy”, irrespective of sexual orientation…

UN commends Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia, as final judgement is delivered — Global Issues

UN commends Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia, as final judgement is delivered — Global Issues

Jovica Stanišić and Franko Simatović were convicted by the court – part of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT) which took over from the ICTY – in 2021, for their roles training death squads accused of ethnic cleansing during the conflict that saw the breakup of the former…

UN humanitarians complete first food distribution in Khartoum as hunger, threats to children, intensify — Global Issues

UN humanitarians complete first food distribution in Khartoum as hunger, threats to children, intensify — Global Issues

WFP’s Country Director in Sudan, Eddie Rowe, told reporters in Geneva that in a major breakthrough, the agency distributed food assistance to 15,000 people in both Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) controlled areas of Omdurman, part of the Khartoum metropolitan area, beginning on Saturday. Speaking from…