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Slovakia donates an S-300 anti-aircraft system to Ukraine

The country is expected to receive American Patriot complexes Slovakia has donated its S-300 anti-aircraft system to Ukraine to help Kyiv defend itself against the...

UN General Assembly votes to suspend Russia from the Human Rights Council

The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution on Thursday calling for Russia to be suspended from the Human Rights Council. 

Ukraine: UN relief chief joins call for probe after ‘horrifying’ visit to Bucha

The UN’s top humanitarian official has joined the call for an investigation into the killing of hundreds of civilians in Bucha, Ukraine, following a visit to the city on Thursday. 

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 the Secretary-General.

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 was the deliberate slaughter of civilians in Bucha by Russian forces, laying out an existential choice for its members, over the whole future of the world’s security architecture, founded in 1945.

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

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...

Ukraine war: Russia used cluster weapons at least 24 times, says UN’s Bachelet

Credible reports indicate that Russian armed forces have used cluster munitions in populated areas of Ukraine, at least two dozen times since they invaded on 24 February, UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet said on Wednesday.

‘Difficult months ahead’ in Ukraine, as deaths rise, along with global shortages

At least 1,100 civilians have been killed in a month of fighting in Ukraine, a senior UN humanitarian official told the Security Council on Tuesday, stressing that the conflict “shows no signs of abating.”

Targeted by Traffickers – Ukrainian Refugees at High Risk of Exploitation

One month into the war in Ukraine, millions of people, mainly women and children, continue to flee their homes. As long as the conflict continues, the risk of them being targeted by traffickers and criminal networks grows.
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