Trending UN News: Week Ending March 10
…Morales Castillo, an editor at El Espectador, March 6, 2023. JOHN PENNEY/PASSBLUE ICYMI: • Tirana Hassan, acting executive director of Human Rights Watch, met with UN-based reporters in New York…
…Morales Castillo, an editor at El Espectador, March 6, 2023. JOHN PENNEY/PASSBLUE ICYMI: • Tirana Hassan, acting executive director of Human Rights Watch, met with UN-based reporters in New York…
…refused to stand saying they will only do so if it is in memory of all victims since 2014. Watch the rest. pic.twitter.com/U84Poslyrx — Bahman Kalbasi (@BahmanKalbasi) February 24, 2023…
…Fail to Defund Human Rights Work” in the UN, essay by Human Rights Watch • “The Key to Eliminating Gender Bias Is to Change Perceptions of Women,” an essay by…
…watch the livestream to see them actually announce it. Because, what if it’s a prank? What if someone just called to mess with us? And then it was such an…
…on aid to meet their most basic needs are women and children.” Tuesday, Jan. 10 • The Sahel Region in West Africa, a Top-10 Conflict Spot to Watch in 2023,…
…LAGOS — The International Crisis Group has listed the jihadist violence in the Sahel region in West Africa as one of the 10 violent flash points to watch in 2023….
…visit by the Security Council to Afghanistan. AFGHAN PEACE WATCH/TWITTER Margot Wallstrom, who chairs the Women’s Forum on Afghanistan, is asking the United Nations Security Council to pay an urgent…
…about 17 months, when the recess appointment ran out. Then there was Nikki Haley, who had been a two-term governor of South Carolina before Trump appointed her UN ambassador in…
…“There’s a marginal improvement in the composition of the UN’s NGO Committee for the 2022-2025 period,” said Louis Charbonneau, the UN director at Human Rights Watch. “That’s thanks to the…
…her village less than a week after they took Andrusha, leaving her family to search for her. Her case became widely publicized, with Human Rights Watch writing about it as…
…the University of Pennsylvania, featuring the former head of Human Rights Watch. • Photography exhibition, “In Their Hands: Women Taking Ownership of Peace,” presented in San Francisco, Dec. 2-31, in…
…the presidential election, beating Muhammadu Buhari, who ran under the Congress for Progressive Change party. This pronouncement touched off conflict, and within days, Human Rights Watch reckoned, 800 people were…
…Africa’s Rape Victims: Sexual assault victims in South Africa continue to watch as their assailants walk away without punishment. Nyasha Bhobo, writing from Johannesburg, looked at how politics play a…
…watch. A missile hit on any of the buildings might have caused a radioactive catastrophe worse than what had happened in Chernobyl, spreading radiation throughout the region and resulting in…
…director at Human Rights Watch, said of the vote: “While the Council’s failure to adopt the proposal is an abdication of responsibility and a betrayal of Uyghur victims, the extremely…
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