General Assembly President urges Europeans to ‘stand up’ for the UN
In a key address to the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, Annalena Baerbock repeated her call to uphold multilateralism amid “trying times” globally. She noted that just 40 days into 2026, the world has...
History of Police Oppression of Africans in America (with Ronald Hampton), Part II
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Ronald Hampton, Chairman of the IBW Police Justice and Accountability Task Force, , joins Dr. Ron Daniels for a Vantage Point...
In Sudan, sick and starving children ‘wasting away’
As heavy fighting continues between former allies the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and their allies, the UN Children’s Fund...
Ethiopia: Türk fears new crisis in Tigray amid renewed fighting
“The situation remains highly volatile and we fear it will further deteriorate, worsening the region’s already precarious human rights and humanitarian situation,” Mr. Türk...
Trump’s affordability crisis is catching up to Republicans as Black and Brown voters shift
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By Kevin Harris and Richard McDaniel —
Donald Trump won 48% of Latino voters in 2024 – the best Republican showing in...
February Is About Loving Too
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By Ben Jealous —
We keep Black History Month on one shelf and Valentine’s Day on another. One is supposed to be...
Proposed amnesty law offers political prisoners in Venezuela an ‘opportunity’
The amnesty is aimed at promoting peace, democratic coexistence and national reconciliation as the South American country enters a new era following the seizure...
World News in Brief: Floods in Syria, relief operations in Cuba at risk, ending...
According to the relief coordination office, OCHA, rainfall since Saturday caused widespread flooding across parts of Idleb and northern Latakia, damaging around 1,800 tents...
West Bank: New Israeli measures further erode prospects for two-State solution
The measures would make it easier for Jewish settlers to take over Palestinian land, thus expanding Israel’s power in the territory, according to media reports. The UN chief warned that the...
DR Congo: UN vows orderly peacekeeping transition as South Africa withdraws troops
In a statement issued on Sunday, President Cyril Ramaphosa said he informed UN Secretary-General António Guterres on 12 January about the decision, which “is influenced by the...
Sudan: UN rights chief says worse is to come without international action
“We can only expect worse to come” unless action is taken to halt the bloodshed, Mr. Türk told Member States at the Human Rights...
UN calls for release of Hong Kong publisher Jimmy Lai following 20-year sentence
High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk deplored the sentence imposed on Mr. Lai, the 78-year-old founder of the now-shuttered pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily,...
53 migrants die in latest shipwreck tragedy off Libya coast
According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the boat overturned in the perishingly cold waters of the central Mediterranean Sea, north of the...
From rural margins to media trailblazers: India’s women journalists are rewriting the news
Khabar Lahariya, literally “news waves”, is an all-women media organisation run since 2002 by rural reporters, many of them Dalit, Adivasi and Muslim, dispatching...
Guterres condemns escalating violence in South Sudan as aid operations come under fire
In a statement issued by his Deputy Spokesperson, Farhan Haq on Saturday, the UN chief said nearly 10 million people – “more than two...
How AI, gaming and virtual worlds are reshaping Holocaust remembrance
“At the moment, we have an incredibly dispersed and diverse landscape of memory-making, and the more digital we get, the most diverse it gets,”...
Nuclear disarmament at breaking point as mistrust grows – but hope remains
Yet even as the architecture weakens, signs of progress – including nuclear-weapon-free zones and rising youth engagement – offer grounds for cautious hope, a...
Pakistan: Guterres condemns deadly suicide bombing at Islamabad mosque
In a statement issued by his spokesperson, Secretary-General António Guterres said he condemned the bombing “in the strongest terms.”Call for accountability“The Secretary-General reiterates that...
Ukraine war keeps nuclear safety on a knife-edge, UN watchdog warns
Russian forces have been carrying out strikes on critical infrastructure amid freezing winter temperatures as their full-scale invasion approaches the four-year mark next month. IAEA Director-General Rafael Grossi said the...
Guterres welcomes resumption of Iran-US talks
The development follows weeks of tensions surrounding Iran’s nuclear programme and threats of a US military attack. Delegations headed by US Special Envoy to the Middle East...
Fatwas, faith and fallacies: Myth-busting female genital mutilation in Africa
“Deep down, I knew what I had experienced was not something any girl should go through," she emphasised. FGM was once considered an unavoidable rite...
UN Police ‘indispensable’ to fulfilling peacekeeping mandates, Security Council hears
Jean-Pierre Lacroix was speaking in the UN Security Council during the annual briefing by heads of police components of UN peace operations. “Despite severe constraints, our police...
