Yemen: UN launches crowdfunding campaign to head off decaying oil tanker threat
The goal is to raise funds to start the $80 million emergency operation to transfer oil from the FSO Safer to a temporary vessel. The FSO Safer is moored off…
The goal is to raise funds to start the $80 million emergency operation to transfer oil from the FSO Safer to a temporary vessel. The FSO Safer is moored off…
It is the first of several flights that the International Organization for Migration (IOM) has planned to help 900 Ethiopians flee the Arabian Peninsula in the coming month. “Migrants stranded…
Christian Ritscher, who also heads the Investigative Team to Promote Accountability for Crimes Committed by Da’esh/ISIL (UNITAD), upheld that those responsible must be identified, tried, and convicted “at the national…
The finding comes in the first report by the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel, established last May by the UN…
Special Rapporteurs Fernand de Varennes and Balakrishnan Rajagopal said the move could result in “irreparable damage” to the minority community. “Thousands of Bedouin citizens of Israel living in the Naqab…
“By agreeing to implementing and now renewing the truce, the parties have provided a rare glimmer of hope to Yemenis that an end to this devastating conflict is possible,” he…
Food insecurity in Syria has reached an historic high, amidst a downward socio-economic spiral, while humanitarian needs soar to peak levels. UNDP and other humanitarian partners are now ramping up…
Decades of civil conflict have left Lebanon with a legacy of hundreds of thousands of land mines and cluster munitions which continue to be a danger to people. Rem Sreypy…
“First, we need a sustained focus on prevention,” said Secretary-General António Guterres at an advisory board meeting of the UN Counter-Terrorism Centre (UNCCT), held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. “No one…