U.A.E. nominates Sudan Genocide Denier for U.N. Sec. General
U.A.E. Sudan Genocide Denier Nominated to be U.N. Secretary General New York Times November 5, 2026 Lana Nusseibeh, one of the Gulf nation’s top diplomats, has led the effort to deny her country’s role in Sudan. Now it’s complicating her bid to become secretary general of the United Nations. Minister of State Lana Nusseibeh of the United Arab Emirates is a candidate to become the next secretary general of the United Nations. Credit...Abdelhadi Ramahi/Reuters By Declan Walsh T
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Hate speech is ‘first step down the path of dehumanisation’
By UN News June 17, 2026 As online platforms continue to fuel a surge in real-world violence against vulnerable communities, UN Secretary-General António Guterres is warning that freedom of expression must never be used to justify hate speech. © UNICEF Young adults check social media in North Macedonia (file) “Hate speech is the first step down the path of dehumanisation,” declared Mr. Guterres in his message marking the 2026 International Day for Countering Hate Speech. It
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UN urges Pakistan to free rearrested rights lawyers
JURIST October 1, 2026 Credit: Aerra Carnicom, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons UN experts on Wednesday called on Pakistan to immediately release human rights lawyers Imaan Mazari-Hazir and Hadi Ali Chattha and to drop all charges against them, which they say have no justifiable basis. Mazari-Hazir and Chattha were re-arrested on September 17 on charges relating to an alleged illegal protest in March 2025. The arrest took place hours after the Supreme Court of Pakistan gra
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UN: Pakistani airstrikes kill 10 civilians in Afghanistan
Sami Yousafzai October 1, 2026 Credit: Aimal ZAHIR/AFP/Getty Islamabad — Pakistan launched new airstrikes in Afghanistan overnight, killing at least 10 people, most of them children, the United Nations mission in the country said Thursday. Islamabad claimed the attacks targeted militants with Pakistani insurgent groups who have mounted attacks on the country, but Afghanistan's Taliban government accused the neighboring nation of aggression, saying the strikes hit civilian hom
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Millions Fleeing Sudan's War Risk Losing Shelter
By AI Jazeera Staff and Reuters November 6, 2026 Fewer than 1 million of the 15.4 million people in need emergency shelter in Sudan have received assistance. Credit: El Tayeb Siddig Millions of people in Sudan who have been displaced by the country’s civil war risk being left without emergency shelter due to funding shortages and depleting aid stocks, according to the United Nations refugee agency and the International Organization for Migration. An estimated 15.4 million p
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UN: More than 86,000 Afghans held in Pakistan this year
Siyar Sirat October 24, 2026 More than 86,000 Afghan nationals have been arrested or detained in Pakistan so far this year, while more than 812,000 have returned to Afghanistan, according to new figures from the UN refugee and migration agencies. Credit: IOM A joint update by UNHCR and the International Organization for Migration shows that 86,644 Afghans were arrested or detained across Pakistan between Jan. 1 and Oct. 17. Of those, 82,526 were Afghan Citizen Card holders or
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Macau opposes European Parliament criticism of Au's trial
MNA October 10, 2026 Credit: Macau Business The Macau SAR Government and the Legislative Assembly have issued statements expressing strong opposition to a report by the European Parliament (EP) regarding national security proceedings and calls for the release of former lawmaker Au Kam San. Au stands accused of “subversion against state power”, “establishing ties with external entities to engage in acts endangering state security”, and “breach of secret”—marking the first nati
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West Papuan civil society calls for UN and Pacific access
Johnny Blades October 22, 2026 Caption: RNZ/Johnny Blades West Papuan civil society organisations have called on Indonesia to allow access to their region for the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, and to open up genuine, inclusive dialogue. Claims of persistent human rights abuses continue as violent conflict has deepened in the rugged interior of the Indonesian-controlled Papua region in recent months, causing an increasing number of Internally Displaced Peo
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Singapore: Government criminalises human rights defenders
CIVICUS Monitor October 29, 2026 Credit: The Independent Singapore Singapore’s civic space is rated as ‘repressed’ by the CIVICUS Monitor. There are ongoing concerns about the use of restrictive laws as well as the harassment of human rights defenders. The 2019 Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act (POFMA) provides excessive powers to the government and has been used to target activists and critics, and block websites, while there are ongoing restrictions on
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Somalia Looks To The Future As UN's Political Mission Ends
By Daniel Dickinson 31 October 2026 “The story of the UN's political engagement in Somalia has been one of persistence, partnership and adaptation,” Raisedon Zenenga, the UN Secretary-General's Deputy Special Representative for Somalia has said, as three decades of UN political missions in the Horn of Africa country comes to an end on 31 October. © UNTMIS A traffic officer directs the flow of vehicles in Beledweyne a city in central Somalia. The UN Transitional Assistance Mis
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Morocco celebrates defeat of UN resolution on Western Sahara
By Al Jazeera November 1, 2026 The mandate for UN mission that was tasked to monitor 1991 truce and hold referendum in disputed territory expires. A Sahrawi man at a closed school in Bir Lahlou in Western Sahara [File: Bernat Armangue/AP] Morocco has welcomed the defeat of a US-drafted resolution which sought to extend the mandate of the UN mission in the disputed Western Sahara. The mandate of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) expired
The D.R.Congo Case Against Rwanda at the ICJ
Special Report, October 2026 By Grace Harris and Erik Heyman UN Photo/ICJ-CIJ/Wiebe Kiestra Judges hold hearings at the International Court of Justice. UN News. The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Rwanda have experienced decades of atrocities stemming from unresolved ethnic conflicts since the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi and the subsequent Congo Wars. The DRC has now brought a case against Rwanda in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for the crime of genocide
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