Turkey has entered the increasingly contested race to lead the United Nations, nominating veteran diplomat Feridun Sinirlioglu for the organisation’s top position as negotiations over the successor to Secretary-General António Guterres remain
Members of the UN Security Council on Monday observed a minute of silence to mourn the deaths of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, and other passengers in Sunday’s helicopter
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Sri Lanka’s Government must take meaningful action to determine and disclose the fates and whereabouts of tens of thousands of people who have been subjected to enforced disappearance over the decades and
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Editorial Sri Lanka has unfortunately become a platform where anyone and everyone feels entitled to air their grievances and baseless accusations, resembling a chaotic Hyde Park of sorts. The recent involvement of
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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday called for the “wholesale reform” of the global financial architecture and specifically, its approach to debt. He made the appeal at a high-level thematic debate on
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Sabah, Libya, is an oasis town at the northern edge of the Sahara Desert. To stand at the edge of the town and look southward into the desert toward Niger is forbidding.
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Faced with a continued cash flow crisis, the United Nations in Geneva (UNOG) will partially close down – for the second time since December last year— as it scales back its operations,
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The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk today offered a vision statement, with “signposts for the years to come” for human rights, as the world navigates an array of challenges. Addressing
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UN experts today called for greater efforts by the international community to end Russia’s war against Ukraine in line with the UN Charter and find a path of peace without delay. They
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The inability of the World Food Program (WFP) to sustain its food assistance to millions of Syrians plunged more struggling families into deeper hardship and despair. Mohammed Ibrahim Hindawi, once a skilled
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Syria’s population is facing an urgent food crisis as the World Food Program (WFP) unveiled its inability to sustain its food assistance to millions of Syrians, a WFP official has said. “The
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UN experts* expressed alarm at the heavy security-driven approach of Sri Lanka’s drug response. They called on authorities to immediately suspend and review so-called Operation ‘Yukthiya’ and to focus on policies based
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The freshly concluded 2023 marked the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which has great significance in human history and has had a profound impact on the cause of
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In 2024, 12 percent of “forcibly displaced and stateless people” are expected to be from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, said the United Nations. This displacement will be caused due to war,
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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres sees the assassination of a senior Hamas leader in a suspected Israeli strike in Beirut as a worrying development, said a UN spokesperson on Tuesday. “Obviously, the developments
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Within the United Nations, there is a little-known debate about the status of global tax regulation. In August 2023, UN Secretary-General António Guterres released a draft document called ‘Promotion of Inclusive and Effective International
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