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DR CONGO CRISIS LIVE: Security Council hears call for ‘urgent and coordinated international action’ over Goma

As fighting intensifies between the Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group and Congolese forces, UN chief of Peace Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix underscored the critical state of the battle for eastern DRC’s regional capital Goma, describing the crisis as “volatile and dangerous”. Source link

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January 29, 2025

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Israel UNRWA ban will undermine Gaza ceasefire, Security Council hears

Briefing ambassadors in New York on Tuesday, UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini warned that the laws passed in October last year jeopardize the lives of millions of Palestinians and risks undermining the fragile ceasefire in Gaza. They require that UNRWA cease its activities in the territory of the State of Israel – including the occupied West […]

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January 28, 2025

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‘We have a duty to stand against intolerance’: UN human rights chief

Marking Holocaust Remembrance Day on Monday, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, said the essence of commemorations was to acknowledge the past but they “must also examine the present and look to the future”. ‘Hateful rhetoric’ reverberating Underlying the rise of hateful rhetoric, with rising antisemitism on the streets and online, the UN rights […]

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January 28, 2025

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Darfur: ICC Prosecutor urges immediate action to address atrocities

Briefing ambassadors, Karim Khan highlighted the urgent need for justice and accountability as violence and humanitarian suffering escalate. “Criminality is accelerating in Darfur. Civilians are being targeted, women and girls are subjected to sexual violence, and entire communities are left in destruction,” he said. “This is not just an assessment; it is a hard-edged analysis […]

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January 28, 2025

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DR Congo: Battle for Goma continues as ‘volatile’ crisis unfolds

In a briefing on Monday, Mr. Lacroix told journalists in New York that some staff from the UN’s Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) was forced to seek shelter for a few hours due to the ongoing conflict. He explained that this had “limited their ability to have the full level […]

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January 28, 2025

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Guterres calls on US to exempt development and humanitarian funds from aid ‘pause’

President Trump’s executive order a week ago called for all foreign aid to be re-evaluated to ensure that it complies which his new foreign policy priorities. The immediate scope of the order was not clear but on Friday, according to news reports, the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued an order putting any new […]

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January 28, 2025

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‘Hold fast to our common humanity’: UN marks 80 years since death camps were liberated

More than 15 months on from the 7 October terror attacks by Hamas in Israel, António Guterres said the UN will continue doing its “utmost to ensure it leads to the release of all hostages – since the beginning we have asked for the unconditional and immediate release of all hostages – and to a permanent […]

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January 28, 2025

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Syria: Rights probe reveals systematic torture and detention of Assad regime

The findings from the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria detail crimes against humanity and war crimes that left a legacy of trauma for countless Syrians, representing some of the worst violations of international law committed during more than a decade of brutal conflict. “We stand at a critical juncture. The caretaker government and […]

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January 27, 2025

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Saints and liars: The story of American aid workers who helped Jewish refugees escape the Holocaust

A new book on their work underlines the chaos of the time, and the difficult decisions they had to make, knowing that for every person they saved, many more would be killed. Saints and Liars, by Debórah Dwork, the Director of the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity at […]

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January 27, 2025

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DR CONGO CRISIS: Updates as top UN official tells emergency Security Council meeting ‘we are trapped’

Intensifying hostilities in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo involving the non-state armed group M23 have caused further mass displacement in the mineral-rich region, with fears that the regional capital Goma could come under attack, UN agencies warned on Friday. Source link

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January 27, 2025

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UN officials call for ceasefire compliance after 15 people killed in Lebanon

The timelines envisaged in the November ceasefire agreement “have not been met”, according to a joint statement by UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert and head of the UN peacekeeping mission, UNIFIL, and force commander Aroldo Lázaro. The agreement between Israel and armed group Hezbollah had been reached after more than a year of […]

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January 26, 2025

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World News in Brief: Hostilities in northeast Syria, response plan in Mali, Uyghur deportations in Thailand

Between 16 and 18 January, at least three civilians were killed and 14 injured in shelling and other attacks impacting Manbij, Ain al-Arab and other villages near the Tishreen Dam in the eastern Aleppo region. UN partners also reported that shops in the main market were damaged when an improvised bomb detonated inside a car […]

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January 26, 2025

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