Trending UN News: Week Ending May 13
…of Honor for his charitable work in Burkina Faso, focusing on promoting girls’ higher education. • Human Rights Watch released a report on the use of cluster munitions by Russia…
…of Honor for his charitable work in Burkina Faso, focusing on promoting girls’ higher education. • Human Rights Watch released a report on the use of cluster munitions by Russia…
…Human Rights Watch, referring to the paramilitaries. Human Rights Watch released a report on abuses by Russians in CAR recently. Mudge told PassBlue that civilians in CAR are terrified of…
…Ukrainian guards in the site’s basement. At the same time, the troops allowed the Ukrainian technicians and engineers to continue to run the facility under the Russians’ watch. The Ukrainian…
…heard from UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet, Amal Clooney, the British-Lebanese human-rights lawyer, and Ida Sawyer, the crisis and conflict director for Human Rights Watch. At the…
…Government of Myanmar, on April 8, to discuss the “ongoing crisis in Burma and efforts to support the restoration” of the country’s “path to inclusive democracy.” • Watch: Roosevelt House…
Pyongyang residents watch a KCTV report on the Hwasong-17 ICBM launch, March 25, 2022. Russia’s unprovoked violence against Ukraine has set off “strategic recalculations” of international relations in the rest…
…below of Putin’s address to Russia’s Federal Assembly, 2005.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTvswwU5Eco “For Soviet citizens born around the time that Putin was born . . . there was a sense that the…
…to watch Russia’s destruction against Ukraine on social media, including Russia’s deadly assault on a maternity hospital in Mariupol. But the Cuban crisis did not unfold online. U Thant almost…
…Council chamber was packed with UN diplomats representing countries from across the world to watch the Feb. 25 vote regarding Russia and Ukraine. JOHN PENNEY/PASSBLUE Friday, Feb. 25 • Spokesperson’s…
…a village in North Vietnam, was a crisp shade of blue, 7-year-old Dang Dinh Quy would climb to the top of a tree to watch the United States bomber planes…
…Watch has appealed to Guterres to not only “press the Chinese leadership to end its crimes against humanity” in Xinjiang, but it also calls repeatedly for the UN High Commissioner…
…Yet she is leader of a country about a quarter the physical size of metropolitan London, with a population of about 300,000, comparable to that of the Bahamas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miI8xRP4xK4 “We…
…Moynihan, Madeleine Albright, Samantha Power and Nikki Haley — but, nonetheless, she has cabinet-level status. She has quiet strengths as an experienced negotiator and exhibits civility and professionalism in her…
…how the triple “crises” of Covid-19, global warming and a “morally bankrupt financial system” have devastated the developing world. The transcript of his interaction with the media. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xccGfGxppvw Separately, Guterres…
…two were acquitted. But despite the verdict in the trial, which began nearly five years ago, “there are still more questions than answers,” Thomas Fessy, Human Rights Watch’s senior researcher…
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