News in Brief 18 December 2023
Gaza hospital destroyed, WHO chief reiterates ceasefire call
Migrants’ Day: UN chief calls for rights-based migration governance
Gaza hospital destroyed, WHO chief reiterates ceasefire call
Migrants’ Day: UN chief calls for rights-based migration governance
In an exclusive interview with UN News, Volker Türk, High Commissioner for Human Rights, underlined that accountability is key and a fundamental “missing link” in most conflicts around the world which simply perpetuates cycles of violence.
Supporting refugees is all of humanity’s ‘obligation’: UN chief
Afghanistan: instead of justice, women survivors of violence face prison: UNAMA
Sixteen year-olds in Gaza are now in the middle of the fourth war of their short lifetimes, a leading UN humanitarian has told UN News, pointing out that for the youngest, it’s causing unimaginable trauma.
Vanessa Frazier, Malta’s Permanent Representative to the UN, has told UN News that the Security Council must insist on the release of all Hamas hostages in Gaza, and the unhindered and sufficient flow of humanitarian aid into the Strip.
UN peacekeeping operations are facing more challenging political and security conditions in Sub-Saharan Africa and require the united and committed support from Member States.