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Flagging the United Nations | UN News

·December 9, 2024·4 min read

Captured in UN Photo’s Flags Avenue, you can view the full photo essay here. Rain or shine When weather conditions are favourable, which means above freezing conditions, the flags begin their ascent at 8am sharp. With steady hands and unwavering resolve, UN security officers undertake the task of hoisting the flags...

United States vetoes Gaza ceasefire resolution at Security Council

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·November 21, 2024·1 min read

Despite having secured 14 votes in favour, the draft resolution put forward by the 10 elected members of the Security Council (E10), failed to pass owing to the negative vote by a permanent member, the US. The text also reiterated the Council’s demand for the immediate and unconditional release of...

Five judges elected to United Nations’ top court

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·November 9, 2023·2 min read

In parallel and independent voting conducted by secret ballot, the Assembly and the Council re-elected one judge who is currently serving, Hilary Charlesworth of Australia. Another justice currently on the bench, Kirill Gevorgian of Russia, was not successful in securing another term. Four new justices were elected: Bogdan-Lucian Aurescu...

United States commits to rejoin UN cultural agency

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·June 13, 2023·1 min read

UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay told Member States that the decision was “a strong act of confidence, in UNESCO and in multilateralism,” and in the way that the agency was implementing its mandate on culture, education, science and information. Reforms and modernisation UNESCO said that in a letter sent to Ms....

Guterres calls for world ‘united in peace’ as Ramadan, Easter, Passover coincide

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·April 9, 2023·2 min read

Secretary-General António Guterres issued his plea for peace acknowledging that it is “dramatically lacking” in many parts of the world, during an interview with UN News’s Arabic service, ahead of what has now become an annual visit for him, to a Muslim country beset by challenges, during the holy month of Ramadan....

United States: UN rights experts gravely concerned over ‘brutal deaths’ at hands of police

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·February 11, 2023·3 min read

Keenan Anderson died in Los Angeles after being repeatedly tased by police following a chase resulting from a traffic stop, according to news reports, and Tyre Nichols in Memphis, died after being severely beaten as he lay on the ground, by five officers in Memphis, Tennessee, who have since been...

United States: Concrete actions needed to ‘lay the scourge of racism to rest’ – UN expert |

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·August 12, 2022·3 min read

After the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) reviewed the US’ racial justice record, the UN human rights office issued a statement in which CERD Expert and Country Rapporteur Faith Dikeledi Pansy Tlakula recounted her observation that the country’s firearm homicide rate had increased, especially amongst black men...