Dawn Clancy
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ST. JOHN’S, Antigua and Barbuda — An unusually blistering heat wave smothered this Caribbean island nation just as thousands of participants from across the globe — including 22 heads of state and government — attended the fourth United Nations conference …
- Categories: Climate Change, Small States
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For more than a decade, Mohammad Ajjour helped Palestinian couples in Gaza facing infertility to achieve their dreams of parenthood. But in a single missile attack launched by an Israeli tank in December 2023, the Al Basma IVF center was …
- Categories: Gender Violence, International Justice, Israeli-Palestinian conflict
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As the war on Gaza enters its seventh month, 35,000 Palestinian civilians have been killed, warnings of genocide and famine are mounting and reports of mass graves with bodies showing signs of torture are emerging. While Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin …
- Categories: Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Secretary-General
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RAFAH, Egypt — Like a little boy heading home from a carnival, a child with shaggy black hair, carrying a bobbing blue balloon, walked alone on Saturday through the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing into Gaza. Whether he …
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The United Nations said it found “reasonable grounds” to believe that Israeli women were subjected to sexual violence, including rape, gang rape and “sexualized torture,” across “several locations” on Oct. 7 during the attack by Hamas in southern Israel. The …
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, Israeli-Palestinian conflict
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As the United Nations marks the second year of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine this week, big-power politics are still blocking the creation of an international special tribunal to prosecute the crime of aggression by Russia’s top leaders for their …
- Categories: General Assembly, International Justice, Ukraine-Russia War
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Bombs, bullets and the suffocating weight of bodies trapped under slabs of fallen concrete where houses once stood are just a few reasons the death toll in Gaza is still soaring. But recently, contaminated water paired with an overwhelmed sanitation …
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Pramila Patten, the United Nations special representative on sexual violence in conflict, is reportedly going to Israel at the end of January. She was invited by the government to visit the country more than a month ago to hear first-hand …
- Categories: Gender Violence, International Justice
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- Categories: Africa, Middle East, Ukraine-Russia War
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- Categories: International Justice, LGBT, Security Council, This Week @UN, Ukraine-Russia War
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IDLIB, Syria — In early October, a suicide drone ripped through a graduation ceremony at a military academy in Homs, Syria, killing and injuring dozens of civilians and cadets while delivering an equally devastating blow to the psyche of the …
- Categories: Middle East, Peace and Security
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Every year, women’s equal roles in peace talks are highlighted in October at the United Nations. This time, the women, peace and security agenda, as it’s known, got attention outside the UN, near the steps to its main entrance on …
- Categories: Human Rights, Secretary-General, Security Council, Women
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His Peace Plan Will Save Both Ukraine and the UN, Zelensky Says — President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine promoted his 10-point peace formula to the United Nations Security Council, meant to end Russia’s war in his country. Among the points …
- Categories: Africa, General Assembly, Secretary-General, Security Council, Ukraine-Russia War, UNGA78
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- Categories: Africa, General Assembly, Latin America, SDGs, Secretary-General, UNGA78