Security Council expected to vote on Friday on US-drafted ceasefire resolution with talks to continue in Qatar. The United Nations Security Council is expected to vote as soon as Friday on a United States-drafted resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza as the European Union called for a “humanitarian pause”,…
The UN General Assembly has called for a set of international guidelines to address the risks and benefits of AI. The United Nations General Assembly has unanimously adopted the first global resolution on artificial intelligence to encourage the protection of personal data, the monitoring of AI for risks, and the…
Israel asks the UN court to reject South Africa’s request for more emergency orders in the Gaza genocide case. Israel has asked the International Court of Justice (ICJ) not to issue emergency orders for it to step up humanitarian aid to Gaza to address a looming famine, dismissing South Africa’s…
Israel says it will send a delegation to Qatar for more talks with mediators after Hamas presented a new truce proposal. The main United Nations aid agency operating in Gaza has said that acute malnutrition was accelerating in the north of the Palestinian enclave as Israel prepared to send a…
Bangladesh hosts more than a million Rohingya people, many of whom fled a 2017 military crackdown in Myanmar. The United Nations is calling for more donations for Rohingya refugees living in camps in Bangladesh. In its annual response plan to the crisis, the UN appealed for $852.4m to provide food…
Ko Naing* is just the sort of young man Myanmar’s military is looking for. Hoping to make up for recruitment shortfalls and battlefield losses against armed groups fighting to reverse its 2021 coup, Myanmar’s military last month announced plans to enforce a years-old conscription law. Starting in April, the military…
Fighting has forcibly displaced more than eight million people, with millions more in need of food and humanitarian aid. The United Nations Security Council has called for a ceasefire in Sudan to coincide with the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and allow aid to get to 25 million people in…
Five people were killed and several injured after a parachute landing a humanitarian airdrop failed to open, bringing a pallet crashing down into a crowd of people waiting for food north of Gaza City’s Shati refugee camp. The government media office in Gaza confirmed the casualties after the incident occurred on…
Tehran’s violent crackdown on peaceful protests and discrimination against women and girls triggered serious rights violations, many amounting to crimes against humanity, a United Nations fact-finding mission has concluded. Iran was rocked by widespread demonstrations sparked by the September 2022 death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurd who had…
NewsFeed ‘There’s a reason why ethnic cleansing was possible in Palestine.’ Palestine’s UN envoy slammed the US during a UN session examining the potential misuse of veto power by the United States in blocking repeated ceasefire resolutions for Gaza. Published On 5 Mar 20245 Mar 2024 Check out our…
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