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The Taliban government has imposed a travel ban on Richard Bennett, the UN special rapporteur for Afghanistan, citing his alleged dissemination of propaganda against the country, Afghan media reported on Wednesday. Bennett, appointed in April 2022, has consistently criticized human rights violations in Afghanistan and called on the international community to avoid normalizing the Taliban's rule. The Taliban's decision comes amid ongoing restrictions on human rights and freedoms. Since returning to power, the Taliban de facto government has not allowed Afghan girls and women to study beyond pri...
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United Nations (United States) (AFP) - The United Nations on Monday condemned "unacceptable" levels of violence that are now commonplace against humanitarian workers after a record 280 were killed worldwide in 2023. And it warned that the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza is potentially fueling even higher numbers of such deaths this year. "The normalization of violence against aid workers and the lack of accountability are unacceptable, unconscionable and enormously harmful for aid operations everywhere," Joyce Msuya, acting director of the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCH...
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Last year, more humanitarian workers died than ever recorded before, the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Monday. In 2023, 280 aid workers were killed in 33 countries, a 137% increase compared to 2022, when 118 were killed, the OCHA said. "Worse still is that 2024 may be on track to be even deadlier," the OCHA added. As of August 7, 172 aid workers had been killed, it said, citing the provisional count from the Aid Worker Security Database. UN Secretary General António Guterres wrote on Monday on X, "We demand an end to impunity so that perpetrators face ...
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Last year, more humanitarian workers died than ever recorded before, the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Monday. In 2023, 280 aid workers were killed in 33 countries, a 137% increase compared to 2022, when 118 were killed, the OCHA said. "Worse still is that 2024 may be on track to be even deadlier," it added. As of August 7, 172 aid workers had been killed, the OCHA said, citing the provisional count from the Aid Worker Security Database. More than half of the 2023 deaths were recorded in the first three months of the hostilities in Gaza, or from Octobe...
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Venezuela's government has categorically rejected a preliminary UN report on the presidential election in the South American country, which was overshadowed by allegations of fraud. "The opinion expressed in their irresponsible writing is nothing more than an act of propaganda, serving the coup interests of Venezuela's ultra-right, with whom they were in constant contact before, during and after the said elections," said Venezuela's Foreign Ministry. The four-member UN expert group, which was present in Venezuela during the election, had written in a preliminary report that the elections did n...
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Turkey on Wednesday formally submitted its bid to join South Africa's genocide case against Israel over the Gaza war at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), Turkish Parliament Speaker Numan Kurtulmuş announced. "We will continue our efforts to have Israel tried in international courts for the crime of genocide and to receive the harshest punishment it deserves for the crimes committed by Netanyahu and his gang," Kurtulmuş wrote on social media platform X. At the end of December, South Africa took Israel to the top UN court in The Hague for alleged violations of the Genocide Convention. So...
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Turkey on Wednesday formally submitted its bid to join South Africa's genocide case against Israel over the Gaza war at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), Turkish Parliament Speaker Numan Kurtulmuş announced. "We will continue our efforts to have Israel tried in international courts for the crime of genocide and to receive the harshest punishment it deserves for the crimes committed by Netanyahu and his gang," Kurtulmuş wrote on social media platform X. At the end of December, South Africa took Israel to the top UN court in The Hague for alleged violations of the Genocide Convention. So...
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Turkey on Wednesday formally submitted its bid to join South Africa's genocide case against Israel over the Gaza war at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), Turkish Parliament Speaker Numan Kurtulmuş announced. "We will continue our efforts to have Israel tried in international courts for the crime of genocide and to receive the harshest punishment it deserves for the crimes committed by Netanyahu and his gang," Kurtulmuş wrote on social media platform X. At the end of December, South Africa took Israel to the top UN court in The Hague for alleged violations of the Genocide Convention. So...
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The UN's top court said on Friday in a non-binding opinion that Israel's nearly 60-year occupation of Palestinian territories violates international law and must be ended as soon as possible. Israel's presence in the occupied Palestinian territories is illegal, said International Court of Justice (ICJ) President Nawaf Salam. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected the opinion and indicated that his country would not comply with it. The opinion said Israel's settlement policy means Israel is effectively guilty of annexation. Although not legally binding, the decision is expected to a...
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The UN's top court said on Friday in a non-binding opinion that Israel's nearly 60-year occupation of Palestinian territories violates international law and must be ended as soon as possible. Israel's presence in the occupied Palestinian territories is illegal, said International Court of Justice (ICJ) President Nawaf Salam. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected the opinion and indicated that his country would not comply with it. The opinion said Israel's settlement policy means Israel is effectively guilty of annexation. Although not legally binding, the decision is expected to a...
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