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Exclusive: Special rapporteur Olivier De Schutter to urge ministers to increase welfare spending on visit to country this weekPoverty levels in the UK are “simply not acceptable” and the government is violating international law, the United Nations’ po…
This edited volume uses the case of MINURSO to shed light on the efficacy of United Nations peacekeeping missions, which could be improved with more first-hand accounts.
Israeli bombs hit school being used as a shelter while warning comes that children form 40% of fatalitiesThe UN has warned of a “catastrophic” situation for children in Gaza, as Israeli bombs hit a school being used as a shelter and landed outside a ho…
Polluted water supplies and salty groundwater are making people ill, with UN warning of threat of child deaths from dehydration Israel and Hamas at war – live updatesPalestinians who fled to southern Gaza, after warnings from Israel to leave their home…
World leaders will reconvene in Abu Dhabi before UAE’s Cop28 after talks broke down two weeks agoGovernments will meet this weekend for a last-ditch attempt to bridge deep divisions between rich and poor countries over how to get money to vulnerable pe…
Concerns ahead of Cop28 climate summit that Rishi Sunak among leaders backsliding on green measures The UN secretary-general, António Guterres, will be seeking assurances from the UK that there will be no reneging on climate promises, after Rishi Suna…
Iran is carrying out executions “at an alarming rate,” putting to death at least 419 people in the first seven months of the year, the United Nations chief said in a new report.
Huq, ‘a visionary and climate champion’, who was named one of the top 10 scientists in the world by Nature last year, has died at 71Tributes have poured in from around for world for the renowned Bangladeshi scientist Prof Saleemul Huq, who died on 28 O…
Israeli military says it bombed Jabalia camp to target a key Hamas commander, Ibrahim BiariIsrael and Hamas at war – live updatesIsraeli airstrikes have destroyed apartment blocks and killed dozens of people at a refugee camp in northern Gaza on the 25…
Craig Mokhiber, director of human rights body, accuses the US, UK and much of Europe as ‘wholly complicit in the horrific assault’Israel and Hamas at war – live updatesThe director of the New York office of the UN high commissioner for human rights ha…