UK foreign secretary calls for expansion of UN security council
James Cleverly says global south deserves more powerful voice at top table and review needed into five permanent members’ veto The global south deserves a...
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UN expert calls for arms embargo on Haiti amid gang violence
William O’Neill says ‘survival of a nation’ is at stake and also calls for deployment of an international force A UN official has called for...
Peru violated rights of 13-year-old girl repeatedly raped by father, UN rules
Authorities denied pregnant Indigenous girl her legal right to an abortion and ‘re-victimised’ her, UN child rights committee says Peru violated the rights of a...
Aid agencies raise alarm as solo children cross Chad border to flee Sudan fighting
Unicef says ‘more and more unaccompanied children’ among thousands of refugees streaming across 1,000km-long border Hundreds of unaccompanied children have crossed the border from Sudan...
Romania recalls ambassador who allegedly compared monkey to African diplomats
UN’s Africa group ‘not prepared to participate’ with Dragos Viorel Tigau after alleged comment in Kenya The Africa group within the United Nations said it...
Ugandan president signs anti-LGBTQ+ law with death penalty for same-sex acts
Global outcry over Museveni’s assent to draconian new anti-gay law, condemned as a ‘permission slip for hate and dehumanisation’ Uganda’s president, Yoweri Museveni, has signed...
Sudan army calls on former soldiers to re-enlist as fighting persists through ceasefire
Army leader Abdel-Fatteh al-Burhan has asked the UN to replace its envoy to the country Sudan’s army has asked the United Nations to change its...
UK funding cuts to east Africa ‘insulting and shortsighted’, say aid organisations
NGOs dismayed at reduction in Britain’s contribution as crisis-hit region faces challenges from drought, rising prices and conflict The UK has been accused of taking...
Russian mercenaries behind slaughter of 500 in Mali village, UN report finds
Report implicates Wagner group fighters in Moura atrocity, including the torture and rape of civilians First came a single helicopter, flying low over the marshes...
Developing country voices ‘locked out of the room’ at UN plastic waste talks
Limits on NGO numbers at Paris summit mean some of those ‘most needing to be heard’ will not feature Scientists and NGOs have accused the...
