Trump breaking torture taboo, laws threatened – UN rights boss
The United Nations’ top rights official has accused US President Donald Trump of breaking taboos by suggesting bringing back torture, and warned world powers against...
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UN rights boss criticises May, Trump and Duterte
The top United Nations human rights official has criticised Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May for her election campaign remarks suggesting that laws could be overturned...
Farewell my Aussie friends
By Nadia Sawyer On Friday the Australian national flag was lowered in the United Nations Protected Area (UNPA) of Nicosia during a ceremony to mark...
Aussies leave after 53 years in Unficyp
AFTER 53 years, the Australian contingent of the UN peacekeeping force (Unficyp) lowered its flag for the last time on Friday ahead of its departure...
Risk of mass starvation rapidly rising in Africa, Yemen – UN
The risk of mass starvation in four countries – north-east Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen -is rapidly rising due to drought and conflict, the...
Malala receives highest UN honour to promote girls education
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appointed Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai a UN Messenger of Peace on Monday to promote girls education, more than four years...
UN documents human rights violations in south-east Turkey
About 2,000 people were killed and entire neighbourhoods razed in south-eastern Turkey in 18 months of government security operations characterised by massive destruction and serious...
United Nations probing Cypriot citizenship case
The United Nations is looking into a case involving a senior member of the force in Cyprus who has been granted the Cypriot citizenship allegedly...
Famine is back, but why always Africa?
For the first time in six years, there is famine in the world: a real, United Nations-declared famine, with more than 30 per cent of...
Bombings, air strikes in Syria rattle Geneva peace talks
Syrian government and opposition delegates to peace talks in Geneva on Saturday warned of the impact on negotiations after a day of violence in Syria...
Cultural affinity vs political annexation
By Christos P. Panayiotides A MISTAKE committed by many Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots is that they identify the word “union” with the annexation of...
UN, Trump denounce North Korea, but no sign of any action
The UN Security Council denounced North Korea‘s weekend missile launch, urging members to “redouble efforts” to enforce sanctions against the reclusive state, but gave no indications...
Fixing the United Nations
The agency’s greatest gift to the world – peacekeeping – faces unprecedented challenges with a tripling of major armed conflicts since 2008 plus the threat...
Mosul food, water reserves dwindle as fighting cuts off supplies
The United Nations issued a fresh warning on Wednesday about the humanitarian situation in eastern Mosul where the US-backed Iraqi army is locked in heavy...
France calls for UN Security Council meeting on Aleppo
French foreign affairs minister Jean-Marc Ayrault called on Tuesday for an immediate United Nations Security Council meeting to discuss the situation in the Syrian city...
Islamic State executes scores, stockpiles chemicals – UN
Islamic State fighters have executed scores more people around Mosul this week and are reportedly stockpiling ammonia and sulphur in civilian areas, possibly for use...
IS using tens of thousands as human shields in Mosul – UN
Islamic State forces in Iraq have abducted tens of thousands of men, women and children from areas around Mosul and are using them as ‘human shields’...
Aleppo’s Jabhat Fateh al-Sham fighters far fewer than UN says – sources
By Tom Miles The number of Islamist rebels in eastern Aleppo who are not protected by any ceasefire deal, and can therefore be legitimately targeted,...
Haitians blame fatal crash on UN peacekeepers as storm aid anger grows
By Makini Brice Haitians on Thursday protested against the death of a motorcyclist in an accident they blamed on blue-helmeted peacekeepers, adding to a spate...
United Nations appoints Portugal’s Guterres as next U.N. chief
By Michelle Nichols The 193-member United Nations General Assembly unanimously appointed former Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Guterres on Thursday as the ninth secretary-general of the...
