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25 January 2023, 08:15

Ambassadors, UN officials and experts from the international community have been sharing ways to better prevent genocide, ethnic cleansing, war crimes and crimes against humanity, at a special meeting of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) in New York on Tuesday. 

Read the full story, “Top UN body asks what more can be done to stop genocide, atrocity crimes”, on globalissues.org

25 January 2023, 08:15

Haiti’s protracted political and humanitarian crisis – marked by spiking levels of gang-related violence and a badly struggling national police force – are reversing crucial security and development strides made since the country’s devastating 2010 earthquake, the senior UN representative in Port-au-Prince told the Security Council on Tuesday. 

Read the full story, “Police overwhelmed, development stalled, as gang violence spirals in Haiti”, on globalissues.org

25 January 2023, 08:15

The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has issued a statement deploring the abduction of a doctor working for the UN health agency in the town of Menaka, in eastern Mali, by unknown assailants on Monday.

Read the full story, “Mali: WHO doctor seized by ‘unidentified assailants’, as UNHCR raises alarm over continuing violence”, on globalissues.org

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