United Nations

On October 27, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution entitled ” Protection of civilians and upholding legal and  humanitarian obligations .  ” In it, an immediate humanitarian truce is called for in the hostilities in Gaza, it is…

UN emergency aid chief Martin Griffiths on Monday expressed deep concern about the worsening humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the fate of the Israeli hostages while anticipating “good news” on aid access to southern Gaza from Egypt. “We are living…

Secretary-General António Guterres and other senior United Nations officials celebrated the award of the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize to imprisoned Iranian journalist and human rights activist Narges Mohammadi. The Nobel Prize “is a tribute to all those women who fight…

A hundred Latin American and Caribbean organisations spoke out today in solidarity with the struggle of the Haitian people and to reject the authorisation to invade Haiti approved yesterday by the UN Security Council. The new “Multinational Security Support Mission”,…

The total (100%) of Argentinean participants in international research on pesticides “presented a range of 6 to 13 pesticides in urine, a range of 2 to 10 pesticides in blood and a range of 0 to 18 pesticides in faecal…

The establishment of the United Nations International Day for the Complete Elimination of Nuclear Weapons reflects humanity’s recognition of the continuing existential threat to human survival and civilization posed by nuclear weapons. As the Hibakusha, Japanese A- and H- Bomb…

UN General Assembly President Dennis Francis today praised the Group of 77 (G77) plus China for supporting multilateralism. “At a time when multilateralism is tested at every turn, the G77 plus China countries are steadfast in their support for the…

With the aim of picking up the pace towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals set for 2030, the SDG Summit was held at the United Nations headquarters in New York on 18 and 19 September, in parallel with the high-level…

The United Nations Climate Ambition Summit in New York today brings together what UN Secretary-General António Guterres called the “first movers and doers” of the climate crisis with the goal of speeding up action on climate change by governments, local authorities, business and finance…

The situation that has affected Jehovah’s Witnesses in Eritrea for 30 years certainly deserves greater media coverage. The Eritrean government has in fact undertaken, unfortunately for decades now, the sad practice of imprisoning many faithful, including women and elderly people,…