UN rights chief calls for end to ‘culture of impunity’ — Global Issues

UN rights chief calls for end to ‘culture of impunity’ — Global Issues

Her appeal comes in the wake of the killing of Al Jazeera correspondent Shireen Abu Akleh, who was fatally shot on Wednesday while covering an Israeli raid in Jenin, West Bank. The veteran Palestinian-American journalist was buried in East Jerusalem on Friday and huge crowds turned out for her funeral….

UN rights chief calls for end to ‘culture of impunity’ — Global Issues

‘I rescued over 1000 trafficking victims’ — Global Issues

“My position as head of National Trafficking in Persons Investigation Office in Lithuania was very challenging, but also very interesting. I would conduct and coordinate domestic and international police operations and investigations that led to the identification and rescue of victims. We would receive information that there was a potential…

UN rights chief calls for end to ‘culture of impunity’ — Global Issues

World Migratory Bird Day illuminates the dark side of light pollution — Global Issues

The issue is the focus for World Migratory Bird Day, observed this Saturday, 14 April, under the theme “Dim the Lights for Birds at Night.” Light pollution is increasing, with artificially lit outdoor areas rising by 2.2 per cent per year from 2012 to 2016, according to one study cited…

UN rights chief calls for end to ‘culture of impunity’ — Global Issues

Relief chief underlines need for urgent support as millions face drought in Horn of Africa — Global Issues

The drought follows four consecutive failed rainy seasons, and the fear is the number could jump to 20 million if the current below-average rains fail.  Imagine having to choose between feeding your child or sending them to school. Communities I met in Turkana County, #Kenya today, are facing these impossible…

UN rights chief calls for end to ‘culture of impunity’ — Global Issues

Amid fresh Russian claims, no trace of secret bioweapons programme — Global Issues

“This remains the case today,” Thomas Markram said.  The Russian Federation, the United States and Ukraine are all States Parties to the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention prohibiting the development, production, acquisition, transfer, stockpiling and use of biological and toxin weapons.  Channels for recourse  Mr. Markram – who is also the…

Unity among nations, in push for greater space security at UN-led talks — Global Issues

Unity among nations, in push for greater space security at UN-led talks — Global Issues

The first Open-ended Working Group on Reducing Space Threats that’s been meeting all week in the Swiss city, is the result of a UN General Assembly resolution last December, seeking to promote “norms, rules and principles of responsible behaviours” among countries already present in the cosmos – or which are planning to have a…

‘Coalition of the willing’ to ensure healthy diets from sustainable food systems — Global Issues

‘Coalition of the willing’ to ensure healthy diets from sustainable food systems — Global Issues

The Coalition of Action for Healthy Diets from Sustainable Food Systems for all (HDSFS), brings together governments, UN agencies, civil society organizations, academic institutions, and social movements.  It is one of the outcomes of the UN Food Systems Summit held in September 2021, as part of the Decade of Action…

UN rights chief calls for end to ‘culture of impunity’ — Global Issues

World ‘at a crossroads’ as droughts increase nearly a third in a generation — Global Issues

Through its newly published Drought in Numbers report, released in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, during the 15th Conference of Parties (COP15), UNCCD’s compendium of drought-related information and data is helping inform negotiations for the final outcomes of the conference when it closes on 20 May. UNCCD Executive Secretary Ibrahim Thiaw, said that the…

UN rights chief calls for end to ‘culture of impunity’ — Global Issues

UN experts urge immediate end to death penalty — Global Issues

States that have not yet abolished the death penalty may only impose it for “the most serious crimes,” the group of eleven experts said in a joint statement, adding that under international law, “only crimes of extreme gravity involving intentional killing” should be considered “most serious”. “Drug offences clearly do…

UN rights chief calls for end to ‘culture of impunity’ — Global Issues

UN envoy condemns latest Israeli settlement expansion plan — Global Issues

“I condemn today’s decision by Israeli authorities to advance plans for over 4,000 housing units in settlements in the occupied West Bank,” Tor Wennesland, UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, said in a statement.  Israel’s Higher Planning Council, which approved the move, also retroactively legalized two outposts:…