Syria’s needs are at their highest ever, says top rights probe — Global Issues

Syria’s needs are at their highest ever, says top rights probe — Global Issues

According to the Commission of Inquiry on Syria, 14.6 million Syrians depend on humanitarian assistance, 12 million face acute food insecurity, and nine in 10 now live below the poverty line.  Just last month, humanitarians warned that the funds pledged for relief operations were too small to help, said Commission…

Decade of brutal war left nearly 307,000 civilians dead — Global Issues

Decade of brutal war left nearly 307,000 civilians dead — Global Issues

“The conflict-related casualty figures in this report are not simply a set of abstract numbers, but represent individual human beings,” UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said, in a press release. “The impact of the killing of each of these 306,887 civilians would have had a profound, reverberating…

Supporting UN’s Palestine refugee agency, means ‘investing in stability for the region’ — Global Issues

Supporting UN’s Palestine refugee agency, means ‘investing in stability for the region’ — Global Issues

“It means investing in the economic and social wellbeing of Palestine refugees and advancing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs),” Secretary-General António Guterres told the UN General Assembly ad hoc committee for voluntary contributions to UNRWA. “It means investing in the future through education of children and youth, girls and boys,…

Guterres underlines ‘moral imperative’ to continue cross-border aid operation from Türkiye — Global Issues

Guterres underlines ‘moral imperative’ to continue cross-border aid operation from Türkiye — Global Issues

Overall, more than 14 million people in Syria require assistance amid a dire situation in which infrastructure has crumbled and economic activity halved due to conflict, regional financial crises, sanctions, and the COVID-19 pandemic.  The international community has helped avoid a total collapse in Syria. But the only way to…

$3.2 billion plan launched to support local families and refugees — Global Issues

$3.2 billion plan launched to support local families and refugees — Global Issues

The 2022 Lebanon Crisis Response Plan (LCRP) aims to deliver critical assistance to more than three million people as vulnerabilities rise, and to support public infrastructure, services, and the local economy.  Today, over 126 partners launched the LCRP to help support displaced &host communities in #Lebanon ,incl.:– 1.5M Lebanese– 1.5M…

Yemen truce holding, but full measures still not in place — Global Issues

Yemen truce holding, but full measures still not in place — Global Issues

Ambassadors were briefed by two top UN officials who provided an update on the impact of the agreement between the Government and Houthi rebels, which was recently renewed for an additional two months, while also outlining the challenges that remain.  Grundberg outlines to #UNSC plans including working with the parties…

UN launches crowdfunding campaign to head off decaying oil tanker threat — Global Issues

UN launches crowdfunding campaign to head off decaying oil tanker threat — Global Issues

The goal is to raise funds to start the $80 million emergency operation to transfer oil from the FSO Safer to a temporary vessel.  The FSO Safer is moored off Yemen’s Red Sea coast and contains more than a million barrels of oil.  The tanker is beyond repair, and the…

‘Great progress’ being made bringing Da’esh/ISIL terrorists to justice, Security Council hears — Global Issues

‘Great progress’ being made bringing Da’esh/ISIL terrorists to justice, Security Council hears — Global Issues

Christian Ritscher, who also heads the Investigative Team to Promote Accountability for Crimes Committed by Da’esh/ISIL (UNITAD), upheld that those responsible must be identified, tried, and convicted “at the national and international level.” “Only by prosecuting and referring to such barbaric acts as war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide,…

Occupation, discrimination driving Israel-Palestine conflict, recurring violence — Global Issues

Occupation, discrimination driving Israel-Palestine conflict, recurring violence — Global Issues

The finding comes in the first report by the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel, established last May by the UN Human Rights Council.  The Commission said occupation and discrimination are the key root causes of the recurrent tensions, instability, and…

Rights experts urge Israel to cease eviction and demolition of Bedouin village — Global Issues

Rights experts urge Israel to cease eviction and demolition of Bedouin village — Global Issues

Special Rapporteurs Fernand de Varennes and Balakrishnan Rajagopal said the move could result in “irreparable damage” to the minority community.  UN human rights experts urged 🇮🇱 to stop the eviction & demolition of a village in #Israel that will forcibly displace 500 Bedouins, which could cause “irreparable damage” to their…