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Explainer: How to advance women’s roles in peace and security

·October 24, 2024·4 min read

Right now, the reality is grim: in 2023, the proportion of women killed in armed conflicts doubled compared to the previous year, and the number of UN-verified cases of conflict-related sexual violence increased by 50 per cent. Meanwhile, the proportion of international aid committed to supporting gender equality in conflict-affected...

SECURITY COUNCIL LIVE: Gangs ‘spreading terror and fear’ across Haiti

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·October 22, 2024·1 min read

The UN Security Council on Tuesday heard briefings from top officials on the Haiti crisis and although gangs continue spreading terror and fear there is a “glimmer of hope” that stability can return to the Caribbean island nation in the months ahead, said the UN Special Representative, following years of...

UN Security Council extends sanctions, arms embargo on Haiti

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·October 19, 2024·1 min read

Unanimously adopting, under Chapter VII of the UN Charter, resolution 2752 (2024) the 15-member Council determined that the situation in Haiti continues to constitute a threat to international peace and security in the region. The resolution emphasises the continuation of sanctions measures originally imposed in earlier resolutions to prevent the...

Security Council meets on north Gaza as ‘supplies for survival’ run out

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·October 16, 2024·10 min read

Joyce Msuya, Acting Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, briefed ambassadors on the situation in the north, where fighting has escalated. Hospitals are running out of fuel and critical medical supplies, and food stocks are dwindling. Patients burned alive Ms. Msuya said that since her last briefing a week ago, the people...

MIDDLE EAST: Updating live from the Security Council and across the UN

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·October 11, 2024·1 min read

As turmoil roils the Middle East, senior UN officials provided humanitarian updates on the impact of continued fighting in Lebanon and Gaza, while many ambassadors in the Security Council offered strong support for the “indispensable” role of the Palestine refugee agency, UNRWA, which has come under increasing attack in the...

MIDDLE EAST: Live updates from the Security Council and across the UN

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·October 10, 2024·1 min read

As turmoil roils the Middle East, senior UN officials provided humanitarian updates on the impact of continued fighting in Lebanon and Gaza, while many ambassadors in the Security Council offered strong support for the “indispensable” role of the Palestine refugee agency, UNRWA, which has come under increasing attack in the...

Security Council briefed on progress in UN-AU partnership for peace

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·October 3, 2024·1 min read

Parfait Onanga-Anyanga, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General to the African Union, highlighted “encouraging developments” that are fueling optimism. “These include Africa’s resilient people and resourceful women and youth, their stated preference for democratic rule against all odds, the recently gained G20 membership, and the newly adopted Pact for...

SECURITY COUNCIL LIVE: End ‘sickening cycle’ of escalation across the Middle East, Guterres urges

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·October 3, 2024·1 min read

UN humanitarians launched a $426 million appeal for Lebanon on Tuesday to support one million people uprooted by widespread Israeli shelling amid what Israel has described as a “limited, localised and targeted” ground operation into Lebanon, across the UN-patrolled line of separation....

Security Council renews Haiti mission mandate, calls for more action against gangs

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·October 1, 2024·3 min read

The mission was authorized last October to assist Haiti’s beleaguered police force. Led by Kenya, it currently has around 410 police officers on the ground and is expected to grow to around 2,500. For now, the country remains mired in crisis. The renewal comes as the mission tries to curb...

UN agencies urge Security Council to stop ‘mass graves for migrants’

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·September 30, 2024·3 min read

“The scale of this tragedy, its impact on survivors, families and communities and the frequency with which we witness deaths in transit constitute an intolerable and utterly soluble, humanitarian crisis,” said Pär Liljert, director of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Office to the UN, referring to one of the...

SECURITY COUNCIL LIVE: Humanitarian system in Gaza ‘hanging by a thread’, says Guterres

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·September 28, 2024·1 min read

The UN Security Council debated the current situation on the ground in war-torn Gaza on Friday, where Israeli strikes have killed more than 41,500 Palestinians amid mass displacement and stymied humanitarian efforts as Israel continues hampering the entry of lifesaving aid. UN News app users can catch up with our...

Security Council ‘must spare no effort’ to unite and push for peace

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·September 26, 2024·10 min read

António Guterres was addressing a High-Level Debate in the Security Council on Leadership for Peace, designed to bolster support for the principles of the UN Charter and build on the call for reform contained in the ground-breaking Pact for the Future, adopted on Sunday. In the face of deepening divisions...