... you have lost a limb,’ said Ms. Mustafa, briefing a video-teleconference Council on political aspects of the war in Syria that erupted in 2011. “I can tell you, it is a growing pain, a pain unlike any other”, she said. She said that ... is cause for added urgency. “We hear excuses about the need to prioritize other humanitarian or political issues in Syria, that now is not the time to focus on detainees.  But all these issues are connected – and this Council can and ... Follow international law: Pedersen Geir O. Pedersen, the United Nations’  Special Envoy for Syria , also briefing the  Council , said the issue of detainees, abductees and the missing requires sustained and ...

... well Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. It also identifies, in the Middle East, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and Yemen; in Asia, Bangladesh; and in Latin America and the Caribbean, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, ...

... updates from UN News, click here. Humanitarians said the first confirmed case of the disease was reported in Idlib, Syria, last week, sparking fears of a devastating outbreak in crowded camps housing millions of people displaced by the ...

... and suppressing transmission”. WHO is also, he said, dealing with many other situations, including health crises in Syria and Yemen, and Ebola and plague outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Despite the US withdrawal, Dr. ...