The Least Developed Countries, or LDCs, must go at a “higher speed” than the rest of the world, and “all too few” of them have managed to graduate from the group so far.
An international conference focusing on multiple global humanitarian crises is about supporting people who are affected by natural and man-made disasters, according to the UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson.
The international community is being urged to “prioritize” the migrant and refugee crisis at a global UN humanitarian summit due to open in Istanbul, Turkey on Monday.
Turkey’s invitation to UN human rights chief Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein to visit the country following concerns over reported mass rights violations is welcome but does not go far enough, his office has announced.
Reports that more than 100 people burned to death in shelters that were surrounded by the Turkish military must be investigated independently, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said Tuesday.
