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Putin’s Many Paradoxes & Russia’s Weaponisation of Food
- Inter Press Service
BIRMINGHAM, UK, Aug 04 (IPS) - Russia’s special military or colonization operation in Ukraine continues to surprise. These surprises come from a decided absence of strategic thinking by Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin.
Russia: Latest Navalny sentence raises serious concerns, UN rights chief says
- UN News
The new sentence imposed on jailed Russian politician Alexei Navalny on Friday raises renewed serious concerns about judicial harassment and instrumentalization of the country’s court system for political purposes, the UN Human Rights High Commissioner said in a statement.
Ukraine Humanitarian Response Plan Only 30 Percent Funded
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 01 (IPS) - Civilian infrastructure is under attack in cities across Ukraine, and the need for long-term aid grows. However, the United Nations’ 2023 Humanitarian Response Plan for Ukraine is only 30 percent funded, the Humanitarian Coordinator for Ukraine, Denise Brown, told journalists.
Should Military Leaders be Barred from Addressing the UN?
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 31 (IPS) - A rash of military coups in African countries -- including Burkina Faso, Sudan, Guinea, Mali, and most recently Niger-- has raised a legitimate question: What should be the response of the United Nations, a world body that swears by multi-party democracy, on army take-overs?
Condemnation? Yes.
UN calls for urgent action against human trafficking
- UN News
Global crises, conflicts, and the climate emergency are escalating trafficking risks, the UN warned on Sunday, the World Day against Trafficking in Persons. People lacking legal status, living in poverty and without decent work often become the primary targets of traffickers.
Niger: Security Council strongly condemns ‘efforts to unconstitutionally change’ Government
- UN News
In a press statement published on Friday, the Security Council members called for the immediate and unconditional release of Niger’s democratically-elected President, Mohammed Bazoum, and underscored the need to protect him, his family and members of his Government.
International Inertia Follows Israeli Assault on Jenin in the West Bank
- Inter Press Service
SYDNEY, Jul 28 (IPS) - The likelihood of further confrontations remains high following a major Israeli military assault on an impoverished camp of more than 23,500 Palestinian refugees in Jenin in the north of the occupied West Bank earlier this month. The landlocked Palestinian territory, located between Israel to the west and Jordan to the east, has been illegally occupied, according to international law, following the invasion by Israel 56 years ago.
The Humanitarian & Strategic Risks of US Cluster Munitions Transfers to Ukraine
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON DC, Jul 28 (IPS) - The Biden administration’s decision to provide Ukraine with cluster munitions, a weapon widely banned for the inherent dangers they pose to non-combatants, is risky.
Its Time to Invoke Responsibility to Protect in Sudan
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON DC, Jul 27 (IPS) - When war broke out in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, in April 2023, those of us who know the region well feared what would happen to the west, in Darfur. In 2003, former Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir called on the Janjaweed Arab militia to quell an uprising in Darfur.
UN Chief vs Russia: A Second Battlefront in the Ukraine War
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 27 (IPS) - The Secretary-General of the United Nations is the creature of—and subservient to -- the 193 member states who largely reign supreme in the world body.
But, in reality, Antonio Guterres has been defiant and openly challenged one of the five permanent members of the Security Council lambasting Russia for its 17-month-old invasion of Ukraine.
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