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Darfur: ICC Prosecutor urges immediate action to address atrocities
- UN News
The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Monday called on the UN Security Council to act decisively to address the worsening atrocities in Sudan’s Darfur region.
DR Congo: Battle for Goma continues as ‘volatile’ crisis unfolds
- UN News
As fighting intensifies between the Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group and Congolese forces, UN chief of Peace Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix underscored the critical state of the battle for eastern DRC’s regional capital Goma, describing the crisis as “volatile and dangerous”.
Guterres calls on US to exempt development and humanitarian funds from aid ‘pause’
- UN News
The UN Secretary-General on Monday called on the US Government to consider “additional exemptions” to a directive which pauses nearly all foreign aid for 90 days.
‘Hold fast to our common humanity’: UN marks 80 years since death camps were liberated
- UN News
Hate continues to grow at an alarming speed, and the world must do more to fight growing antisemitism the UN Secretary-General said on Monday, honouring the victims of the Holocaust and those who survived the Nazi death camps.
Syria: Rights probe reveals systematic torture and detention of Assad regime
- UN News
A report from UN human rights investigators for Syria released on Monday has laid bare the systematic use of arbitrary detention, torture and enforced disappearances by the deposed Assad regime.
‘We have a duty to stand against intolerance’: UN human rights chief
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On this day, 80 years ago, some 7,000 prisoners who had been left to starve in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camps were liberated by allied soldiers.
Saints and liars: The story of American aid workers who helped Jewish refugees escape the Holocaust
- UN News
Long before the United States entered the Second World War in December 1941, American aid workers were fanning out across territory occupied by the Axis powers, attempting to help Jews escape, as their grip tightened.
DR CONGO CRISIS: Live updates as Security Council holds emergency meeting
- UN News
Spiralling violence and killings in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo triggered an emergency Security Council meeting Sunday morning on the heels of the UN mission temporarily relocating non-essential staff from the area. App users can follow our live coverage here.
UN officials call for ceasefire compliance after 15 people killed in Lebanon
- UN News
Top UN officials in Lebanon are calling for compliance with the ongoing ceasefire after reports that Israeli forces killed 15 people, including a Lebanese soldier, along the buffer zone with Israel, which Israel was due to withdraw from on Sunday under the agreement.
What’s UNDOF? Why UN peacekeepers patrol the Israel-Syria border
- UN News
More than 1,100 UN peacekeepers are currently deployed in the Golan, a demilitarised zone along the Israel-Syria border at what is a tense and dangerous time in the history of the region. But, why are the Blue Helmets there?
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