Peace and Security

UN News/Reem Abaza

UN ‘regrets’ new US position on legality of Israeli settlements

19 November 2019
Middle East

The longstanding position of the UN regarding Israeli settlements in Occupied Palestinian Territory – that they are in breach of international law – is unchanged, Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said during a press briefing on Tuesday in New York, reacting to the policy reversal announced by the United States.

MINUSMA

Reconciliation helps ‘repair fractures’, enable lasting peace, Security Council hears

19 November 2019
Global

The UN Security Council this Tuesday has been debating what one activist labeled “the toughest and arguably most important part of the peace-building cycle”: reconciliation.

WFP/Marwa Awad

‘Three-country crisis’ across central Sahel puts whole generation at risk, warns UN food agency

19 November 2019
Africa

Violent attacks by extremists “almost every day” in the Sahel nations of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso have displaced nearly one million people and caused emergency levels of malnutrition, UN humanitarians have said.

UN Photo/Rick Bajornas

Libya ‘in race against time’, but dissolving conflict ‘a realistic prospect’, Security Council hears

18 November 2019
Africa

A recent resurgence of violence in Tripoli, means Libya is “ever more in a race against time” to reach peace, however, agreeing the way forward to ending the conflict “is a realistic prospect”, the top UN official in the country told the Security Council on Monday.  

 

UN Photo/Manuel Elias

At UN, Middle East countries discuss steps towards regional nuclear-free zone

18 November 2019
Middle East

Representatives from across the Middle East are meeting at UN Headquarters this week in efforts to negotiate a legally binding treaty establishing a regional zone free of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction.

UN Photo/Laura Jarriel

Repression, use of force risk worsening Bolivia crisis: UN human rights chief

16 November 2019
Americas

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights is urging authorities in Bolivia to ensure security forces comply with international standards on the use of force following the deaths of at least five protestors on Friday.

MINUSCA/Hervé Serefio

Friday's Daily Brief: Security Council resolutions on CAR and Somalia, ICC to probe crimes against Rohingya, Tolerance Day, Americas migrant deaths, Ebola

15 November 2019
Global

A recap of Friday’s main stories: The Security Council adopts resolutions on Central African Republic and Somalia: ICC to investigate crimes against Rohingya; UNESCO marks International Day for Tolerance; rise in migrant deaths in the Americas, and encouraging news on Ebola in the DRC.

WFP/Alan Ali

Renewal of cross-border aid operation critical to northern Syria: UN relief chief

14 November 2019
Middle East

The top UN humanitarian official was in the Security Council on Wednesday to appeal for the renewal of an operation that delivers life-saving food and other aid relief to some four million civilians in northern Syria.

UN Bolivia/Hasan Lopez

Bolivia crisis: UN chief sends envoy to support peace, amidst renewed clashes

14 November 2019
Americas

UN chief António Guterres announced on Thursday that he had appointed a Personal Envoy who would be travelling to Bolivia later in the day, to offer support to national leaders, following the departure of former president, Evo Morales. 

UNAMI

Iraqis paying an ‘unthinkable price’ to be heard, UN envoy tells politicians in Baghdad 

13 November 2019
Middle East

Noting that the people of Iraq were at “a critical juncture”, the top UN Envoy in the country told parliamentarians there on Thursday that over the past six weeks, hundreds of thousands have been peacefully voicing their “genuine, legitimate, demands, loud and clear”.