A UN-appointed probe into violence in Gaza last year in which more than 180 Palestinian protesters were killed – including 35 children - said on Thursday that there was “no justification” for Israel to shoot protesters with live ammunition. In an interview with UN News’s Daniel Johnson, Sara Hossain, Member of the Commission of Inquiry, discusses the report’s main findings.

• Gaza probe finds ‘reasonable grounds’ Israeli forces committed international human rights violations
• Safe return of Syrians ‘completely illusory’
• ‘Backlash against human rights’ today

The slow progress of achieving gender equality in the workplace is “almost a joke,” Lise Kingo, head of the UN Global Compact, told UN News.

When Conor Lennon from UN News met Lise Kingo, he started by asking her to outline the biggest challenge in improving gender equality.

Anna Falth,from the Women’s Empowerment Principles, thinks 2019 be a tipping point for improving gender equality in the workplace.

She told UN News that the head of steam that has built up around the Me Too movement is driving change, and making a positive impact on corporate culture.

• Positive news for desperate Yemenis as UN accesses Hudaydah food stores
• Millions benefit from West Africa bid to eradicate statelessness: UNHCR
• Lifesaving food airlifts in Central African Republic to help 18,000 people

 Writer-director-producer Roberta Grossman, and executive producer, Nancy Spielberg were recently at UN Headquarters for the screening of their new film “Who Will Write Our History”. For this edition of our Lid Is On podcast from UN News, they sat down with Jessica Jiji during the UN’s Holocaust remembrance commemorations in New York, to talk about their film. 

• $2.6 billion pledged to help millions of wartorn Yemenis
• Ebola response risks slowing amid massive funding shortages
• UN’s emergency aid chief travels to Zimbabwe, Malawi amid rising food insecurity

On Monday, a new photography exhibition was officially opened in Geneva that celebrates the work of journalists over the last 70 years or so. In an interview with UN News’s Daniel Johnson, Nina Larson, President of the Association of UN Correspondents in Geneva (ACANU), describes what it’s like writing the “first draft of history” day in, and day out. 

• People’s rights under fire, UN chief tells the Human Rights Council
• Around 6,000 more mostly women and children flee last ISIL terrorist stronghold in Syria
• UN experts ‘deplore’ executions of nine in Egypt who ‘confessed under torture’

• UN human rights office appeal to Egypt amid death row executions
• Some 260,000 South Sudanese face food insecurity “catastrophe”, UN agencies warn
• $4.2 billion urgently needed to save Yemen’s families from ‘horrific’ plight