Zambia elected for three-year term on UN Human Rights Council
President Hakainde Hichilema described it as an endorsement of the country's commitment to protecting human rights.
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President Hakainde Hichilema described it as an endorsement of the country's commitment to protecting human rights.
The statements had also called for detained leaders of the Joint Awami Action Committee to have access to legal representation and their families, and had called for due process and fair trial
Netanyahu warns again of Israel’s ‘enemies’ planning an attack before elections.
Colombia wants the UN peace mission to stop checking rural reform and focus on ex-guerrillas. The US welcomed the plan before the 31 October renewal. The post Colombia Asks UN to Drop Rural Reform by 31 October appeared first on The Rio Times.
The boat was travelling from Djibouti to Yemen with 350 people on board, when it capsized near the port town of Obock on Thursday night.
OHCHR issues statement over police handling of protests, says restrictions must meet “necessity and proportionality” test; urges government to respect right to peaceful protest
The neighbouring countries blame one another for starting war amid heightened tensions and fears of a wider conflict.
MP Mahima Kumari Mewar, exercising India’s Right of Reply at the Fourth Committee, accused Pakistan of abusing the UN platform and said it should refrain from “preaching homilies”
India exercised its Right of Reply at the plenary meeting of the First Committee of the UN General Assembly that deals with Disarmament and International Security issues
The 2026 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to South African Navanethem “Navi” Pillay on Friday, October 9, 2026. The 85-year-old South Africa-born served as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and chair of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
French student unions vowed on Friday to keep up the fight even as the government registered a "marked slowdown" in a protest movement that has rattled the country for over a week. The UN human rights agency called for de-escalation, voicing concern over violent clashes with police that have caused severe injuries among teenage protesters.
Pillay is recognised for her "efforts to promote peace and international law", the Norwegian Nobel Committee says.
The South African-born jurist and former UN human rights chief Navi Pillay, who is currently an ad hoc judge at the International Court of Justice, won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for her efforts to promote peace and international law. Her win is sure to be seen as a high-profile rebuke to US President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who have both rejected the findings of a UN commission she led that Israel committed genocide in Gaza. Both leaders also have been highly critical of the institutions where Pillay has worked. FRANCE 24's International Affairs Editor Philip Turle tells us more.
Russia and China block US efforts to expand the Darfur arms embargo to cover all of Sudan amid ongoing conflict.
UN says fighting has displaced more than 200,000 people in five weeks.
O El Niño deste ano se intensificará antes de atingir seu pico em dezembro e há quase 100% de certeza de que se estenderá até fevereiro de 2027. A informação é da Organização Meteorológica Mundial (OMM) em seu boletim climático mensal divulgado nesta quinta-feira (8), com as temperaturas da superfície do mar prestes a bater recordes. “As previsões da OMM indicam probabilidade de quase 100% de que (o El Niño) persista até fevereiro de 2027, podendo ser um dos mais fortes desde pelo menos 1950”, afirmou a secretária-geral da OMM, Celeste Saulo, em comunicado divulgado junto com o boletim. Notícias relacionadas:Painel indica que El Niño pode ser um dos mais intensos desde 1950.Brasil: 30 milhões de crianças estão expostas aos riscos climáticos .O órgão meteorológico da ONU informou ainda que as temperaturas da superfície do mar no Pacífico tropical central e oriental — região no centro do fenômeno El Niño — devem atingir recorde de 3,7 graus Celsius acima do normal entre outubro e dezembro. A anomalia de temperatura prevista é significativamente maior do que o recorde anterior de 2,6°C, registrado de novembro de 2015 a janeiro de 2016, informou o órgão. “O oceano do qual ele está extraindo calor é o mais quente que já medimos. Simplesmente há mais calor disponível para ser liberado”, disse Celeste. O El Niño é a fase quente do ciclo natural El Niño-Oscilação Sul, um padrão climático que influencia o clima em todo o mundo. Ele tende a causar temperaturas globais mais altas e a perturbar os padrões de chuva em grandes regiões — o que significa seca em algumas áreas e chuvas intensas em outras — e geralmente ocorre a cada dois a sete anos. As temperaturas médias globais em agosto atingiram 16,96°C, empatando com julho de 2023 como o mês mais quente já registrado, de acordo com o Serviço de Mudanças Climáticas Copernicus da União Europeia. Pesquisadores do Laboratório de Impacto Climático da Universidade de Chicago previram, no mês passado, que o “super El Niño” deste ano provavelmente resultaria em até 451 mil mortes a mais em todo o mundo, de junho a fevereiro de 2027. *É proibida a reprodução deste conteúdo.
El Nino will intensify even more before peaking in December, the United Nations said Thursday, warning it could be among the strongest witnessed since at least 1950. The naturally occurring weather phenomenon is set to bring higher temperatures to much of the planet, the UN's weather and climate agency said, with its impact compounding the effects of man-made climate change.
India on October 7 exercised its Right of Reply in response to the Pakistan representative’s statement in the Sixth Committee of the UN General Assembly on the Agenda Item: Measures to Eliminate International Terrorism
Danny Danon, Israel's ambassador to the United Nations, said that he does not accept attempts to make the anniversary of the October 7 attack about the continued impact on Gaza, as it was 'Hamas ideology' that brought the attack and suffering in Gaza. Danon said that while the military retains presence in Gaza three years after the attack and one year after the 2025 ceasefire agreement, Israel has 'no desire to to stay in Gaza or to run the city of Gaza.' (Source: Bloomberg)
A guide to the Central African Republic in 2026: who runs it, the fragile peace, Wagner and the UN, hunger, the CFA franc and the US deportation deal. The post Central African Republic Explained, a Fragile Peace in 2026 appeared first on The Rio Times.
A US judge orders the boat-strike memo to court, the UN renews Haiti's Gang Suppression Force and Argentina receives a second F-16 batch. The post Latin America Defense Monitor — September 26 – October 2, 2026 appeared first on The Rio Times.
Pacific leaders urged action on climate change as UN pre-COP talks opened in Fiji's Nadi on Monday, ahead of next month's COP31 summit in Turkey. Discussions in Fiji and Tuvalu will focus on limiting warming to 1.5C, improving access to climate finance and protecting oceans as rising seas threaten communities.
Trucks were 'clearly marked as humanitarian vehicles', UN agency says.
Nearly 1,500 Myanmar nationals who were sent back from Malaysia arrived in the country’s largest city on Sunday despite warnings from the UN refugee agency and rights groups that conditions for return remain unsafe. Myanmar has been in turmoil since the military seized power from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi on February 1, 2021, triggering widespread opposition and plunging large parts of the country into conflict. The returnees, including 86 women, have been convicted of staying...