Tag: United Nations Security Council
‘Midnight hour of need’: St. Vincent pleads for global help
<p>UNITED NATIONS — The prime minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines made a heartfelt plea Monday to the international community to help his...
UN agrees to deploy cease-fire monitors in Libya
UNITED NATIONS — International monitors will watch over a nearly six-month-old cease-fire agreement in Libya, the U.N. Security Council decided in a vote announced...
UN agrees to deploy cease-fire monitors in Libya
<p>UNITED NATIONS — International monitors will watch over a nearly six-month-old cease-fire agreement in Libya, the U.N. Security Council decided in a vote announced...
Nobel doctor calls sexual violence in conflict a `pandemic’
UNITED NATIONS — Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dr. Denis Mukwege warned Wednesday that the scourge of sexual violence and rape in all conflicts is...
Amnesty: Eritrean troops still killing in Ethiopia’s Tigray
NAIROBI, Kenya — Eritrean soldiers remain in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region and are killing civilians weeks after Ethiopia said the soldiers would leave, according...
UN Security Council votes on monitors of Libya cease-fire
UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Security Council is voting on a draft resolution that urges all foreign forces and mercenaries to leave Libya and...
Nobel doctor calls sexual violence in conflict a `pandemic’
<p>UNITED NATIONS — Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dr. Denis Mukwege warned Wednesday that the scourge of sexual violence and rape in all conflicts is...
Amnesty: Eritrean troops still killing in Ethiopia’s Tigray
<p>NAIROBI, Kenya — Eritrean soldiers remain in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region and are killing civilians weeks after Ethiopia said the soldiers would leave, according...
UN Security Council votes on monitors of Libya cease-fire
<p>UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Security Council is voting on a draft resolution that urges all foreign forces and mercenaries to leave Libya and...
UN chief: 52 armies and groups suspected of sexual violence
UNITED NATIONS — The COVID-19 pandemic led to a spike in gender-based violence last year and combatants continued to use sexual violence “as a...