Indigenous peoples are ‘moral compass of humanity,’ special UN General Assembly meeting told
President Evo Morales Ayma of Bolivia, addresses the General Assembly high-level event to mark the tenth anniversary of the adoption of...
Genocide Watch
Apr 25, 2017
Opening of UN files on Holocaust will 'rewrite chapters of history'
Survivors visit the former Auschwitz-Birkenau camp in Poland on the anniversary of its liberation. Photograph: Kuba Ociepa/Agencja...
The Guardian
Apr 25, 2017
Nikki Haley Presides Over Human Rights Discussion at U.N. Security Council
In a bid to show that the Trump administration cares about human rights around the world, its envoy to the United Nations, Nikki R....
New York Times 1
Apr 18, 2017
Opening of UN files on Holocaust will 'rewrite chapters of history'
War crimes files revealing early evidence of Holocaust death camps that was smuggled out of eastern Europe are among tens of thousands of...
The Guardian
Apr 17, 2017
Inside the tense closed-door UN Security Council deliberations on Syria
New York (CNN)The US missile strikes in Syria Thursday night exploded just as the UN Security Council in New York concluded a closed-door...
CNN 1
Apr 10, 2017
South Africa tells ICC it didn’t break rules by failing to arrest Sudan's Bashir
© Ashraf Shazly, AFP file picture | Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir gives a press conference in the presidential palace in Khartoum, on...
!Aa France 24 1
Apr 8, 2017
CLASSIC PODCAST: The man who defined genocide
Dr. Raphael Lemkin, who coined the word ‘Genocide.’ The Convention on Genocide was drafted by the United Nations to prevent and punish...
Genocide Watch
Apr 6, 2017
As famine looms, malnutrition and disease rise sharply among Somali children
A medical practitioner uses a Mid Upper-Arm Circumference (MUAC) measuring tape on a child indicating Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) at...
Genocide Watch
Mar 31, 2017
Mosul: UN rights chief urges civilian protection as sniper fire, airstrikes kill dozens
A family climbs out of their destroyed home to flee minutes after an ISIS suicide car bomber detonated his vehicle on the street outside...
Genocide Watch
Mar 28, 2017
Congo disappearances raise alarm as political tensions grow
By Carley Petesch Nearly a week after Congo's government announced the kidnapping of two United Nations experts along with their...
ABC 1
Mar 28, 2017
Security Council and region must ‘speak with one voice,’ end suffering in South Sudan – UN chief
Women wait with their children to be examined and possibly give supplementary food at a mobile clinic run by UNICEF in the village of...
Genocide Watch
Mar 27, 2017
Near East and North Africa: Conflicts threaten to erode gains in region’s zero-hunger battle
An Egyptian farmer feeding cows fresh fodder. Photo: FAO/Giulio Napolitano Food security and nutrition levels have sharply deteriorated...
Genocide Watch
Mar 27, 2017
