[ United Nations leaders demanded a “clear, transparent and credible” investigation Tuesday after mass graves containing the bodies of hundreds of men and women were discovered on the grounds of two major hospitals in Gaza that were previously under assault by the Israeli military. The mass graves contained some people stripped naked with their hands … Read more
[ A report published Thursday on the situation in Haiti, which is facing intense gang violence, by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights found that sexual violence there is “severely underreported.” The report said that according to the U.N. Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), gangs in the Caribbean … Read more
[ United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has called for slavery reparations over the transatlantic slave trade, which deprived enslaved people of “education, healthcare, opportunity and prosperity.” “We call for reparatory justice frameworks, to help overcome generations of exclusion and discrimination,” Guterres said Monday, which marked the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery … Read more
[ Former national security adviser John Bolton criticized President Biden after the United Nations Security Council rejected a U.S.-backed resolution calling for an immediate cease-fire and said the proposal was “very detrimental to Israel.” “We saw on Friday something almost unimaginable in the UN Security Council. The Biden administration had proposed a resolution, really, very … Read more
[ The White House applauded the newly approved United Nations resolution on artificial intelligence (AI) safety Thursday, calling it a “historic step” to ensuring “trustworthy” advancements in technology. The U.N. General Assembly approved the resolution, proposed by the United States and co-sponsored by 123 other countries, senior administration officials told reporters Thursday. The proposal includes … Read more
[ The United Nations weather agency issued a “red alert” Tuesday, warning the Earth is at risk of surpassing the global warming limit following last year’s record-breaking temperatures and other environmental changes. The World Meteorological Organization’s (WMO) latest report, released Tuesday, confirmed 2023 was the warmest year on record, sitting at an average of 1.45 degrees … Read more
[ A growing number of children in Gaza are “acutely malnourished,” and isolated in the northern part of the territory, as Israel pushes forward with expanding its military operations in the region, according to a study by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) The report, published this week by the Global Nutrition Cluster — an … Read more
[ Israel launched strikes across Gaza Saturday night that killed at least 18 people as the United States said it would veto an additional United Nations cease-fire resolution. The Associated Press reported that an airstrike in Rafah killed six people overnight — including a woman and three children — while another strike in Khan Younis killed … Read more
[ The United Nations’ top court has rejected a request from South Africa that asked for them to intervene in Israel’s planned operation into the populated city of Rafah in the Gaza Strip amid it’s ongoing war with Hamas. The court acknowledged that Israel’s recent developments in the southern city, where more than 1 million … Read more
[ A dozen House lawmakers from both parties are calling on Secretary of State Antony Blinken to demand the resignation of the head of the United Nations and the leader of its Palestinian refugee agency following allegations that 12 employees participated in Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel. In a letter to Blinken sent Wednesday, … Read more
