Headlines
  • After American raids on the Iranian island of Sirik in the Hormozgan region, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps stated on Monday that it attacked an unidentified air base in retaliation.
  • After the occupation of the strategic Beaufort Castle, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claims he has "instructed the Israeli military to expand the manoeuvre in Lebanon."
  • According to Lebanon's Ministry of Public Health, 3,412 people have died and 10,269 more have been injured as a result of Israel's military intervention.
  • After an Iranian missile attack was intercepted over Kuwait's Ali Al Salem Air Base on Wednesday, a number of American soldiers and civilian contractors were returned to duty after suffering minor injuries.
  • British Foreign Minister Yvette Cooper stated on Sunday that the Israeli military's increased operations in Lebanon must halt since they have killed and displaced civilians, damaged infrastructure, and reduced diplomatic space.
  • New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani became the first mayor of a city in decades to abstain from the annual Israel Day Parade by skipping it on Sunday.

Tag: United Nations

December 19, 2018

UN Deputy Secretary-General Poses for Group...

United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed (centre from row) poses for a group photo with 8th Students from St. Augustine Roman Catholic School at United Nations,New York

United Nations Human Rights Award

Gyumi from Tanzania, an activist for education rights for girls; the late human rights lawyer Asma Jahangir from Pakistan; Joênia Wapichana, Brazil’s first indigenous woman lawyer; and Front Line Defenders from Ireland, working to protect human rights defenders at risk

December 17, 2018

Anti-Migrant Protest in Belgium Turns Violent

Right-wing groups organized a massive protest Sunday in Belgium against the United Nation’s agreement on global migration

December 14, 2018

Mobile Court for Rape Victims in...

The UN mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) helped in refurbishing the courthouse within its existing resources and now, at the directive of the country’s Chief Justice, the court has been set up to try serious crimes committed inside and outside the Mission’s protections sites

December 12, 2018

Conference on Global Compact on Migration

Main gate of the venue for the Intergovernmental Conference on the Global Compact for Migration. The Conference, taking place in Marrakech

December 11, 2018

UN: 20 Million Yemenis are Hungry,...

Lowcock, the U.N. undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs, said those 250,000 Yemenis facing “catastrophe” are overwhelmingly concentrated in four provinces “where the conflict is raging quite intensely” — Taiz, Saada, Hajja and Hodeida

UN: More Than 13 Million Nigerian...

A survey conducted by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) indicates there’s been a marked rise of Nigerian children who are not attending school: from 10.5 million to 13.2 million – the highest in the world

December 10, 2018

MARRAKECH :United Nations-Led Conference on Migration

It was born out of the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants, adopted unanimously by the UN General Assembly in September 2016, and is the culmination of 18 months of discussions and consultations among Member States, and other actors, including national and local officials, civil society, private and public sectors and migrants

December 8, 2018

Scene from Marrakech, Morroco

One of the “logos” depiting migrants at the conference to symbolize migrant children

Rape Victims in South Sudan Speak...

Following the reports, the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS,) which has been tasked with the ‘Protection of Civilians’ mandate, intensified patrols in the areas where the attacks were reported to have taken place, and at the same time redeployed engineers to work on clearing roads leading to paths women used to walk to collect food

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