Europe
What can the UN do? 5 of your questions answered
The current war in Ukraine, following the Russian invasion, has sparked all sorts of questions about the United Nations, particularly the role of the Security Council, the General Assembly and…
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Institutions
Europe
Ukraine’s President calls on Security Council to act for peace, or ‘dissolve’ itself
In an impassioned address to the Security Council that evoked the ashen destruction wrought during the Second World War, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday described in stark detail what he said…
Environment
UN climate report: It’s ‘now or never’ to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees
Reacting to the latest findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the UN Secretary-General insisted that unless governments everywhere reassess their energy policies, the world will be uninhabitable.
Europe
Bucha killings raise ‘serious’ questions about possible war crimes: Bachelet
Senior UN officials have echoed the Secretary-General’s call for an independent investigation into the killing of scores of civilians in the Ukrainian town of Bucha.
News
UNODC Executive Director visits the frontlines of the Asia-Pacific drug trade
© UNODC Chiang Rai (Thailand), 4 April 2022 – The so-called Golden Triangle area, bordering Myanmar, Thailand and the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, has historically been a centre of Southeast…
Human Rights
Interview: Slave trade reparations ‘essential’
400th anniversary of the first ship that brought the first Africans to the British colony of Virginia. We mark that as the real beginning slave trade in America in the…
Europe
UN rights experts raise alarm over Russia’s ‘choking’ media clampdown at home
The recent adoption by Russia of a punitive “fake war news” law is an alarming move by the Government to gag and blindfold the media and the entire population
Europe
Ukraine: UN Secretary-General calls for probe into Bucha killings
UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Sunday called for an independent investigation into the killing of civilians in the Ukrainian town of Bucha, a suburb of the capital, Kyiv.
Council of Europe
Russia ceases to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022
Following its expulsion from the Council of Europe on 16 March 2022, the Russian Federation will cease to be a High Contracting Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022. This…
Europe
First Person: ‘I fear I will never see my husband again’
Nataliia Vladimirova fled her home in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on the first day of the Russian invasion, on 24 February, with her four-year-old daughter Oleksandra and mother-in-law. They are amongst the…