On December 2nd, the United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator told the Security Council that over three million displaced Syrians will be “particularly vulnerable” in what is increasingly looking like it will be a tough winter. Ramesh Rajasingham, Acting Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, said this year’s snow and cold are
Antonio Guterres, the UN Chief has expressed his concern regarding an operation reported to have been launched by the Moroccan Government in response to blockades run by the Frente POLISARIO in the Western Sahara buffer strip in the Guerguerat area. The Frente POLISARIO is a Sahrawi national liberation group that
According to a report released on Tuesday November 17th by the UN Refugee Agency, thousands of refugees from Ethiopia were fleeing to eastern Sudan to escape the ongoing fighting in the Tigray region of Ethiopia. This ongoing fighting has erupted a “full-scale humanitarian crisis” in the region and the citizens
Since Belarus’s controversial election results in August, female human rights activists have taken to the streets to protest against human rights issues that have been resolved since the election. In the wake of these protests, it seems as though women protesters have been targeted more specifically for their actions in
In a statement released on Wednesday by António Guterres, the UN Secretary General, he criticized “the violent escalation on 20 October in Lagos which resulted in multiple deaths and caused many injuries.” On Tuesday night, Nigerian Security Forces let loose on protesters in Lagos. Nigerian citizens were in the streets
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, encouraged Bolivian citizens to get out and vote on Sunday October 18, 2020, whilst also urging authorities and political bodies to maintain peaceful actions during this period. She believes that this election is a great opportunity to “defuse [the] extreme polarization”
The United Nations chief has expressed that he is “extremely concerned” over the eruption of conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh territory. Following violence that escalated on September 27th, at least 23 people were killed over the dispute between the former Soviet Union states. António Guterres, the
Since President Evariste Ndayishimiye of Burundi took office in June, there has been little to no progress regarding the country’s human rights violations, as expressed in a report recently submitted to the UN Human Rights Council by the UN Commission of Inquiry on Burundi. The Commission accused the government and
The United Nations Humans Rights Council has “grounds to reasonably believe” that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has made orders on “crimes against humanity,” says a 411-page report released last Wednesday. The report concluded that the authoritarian president, his inner circle, and the state have nearly 3,000 cases against them since
