Politics

UN chief seeking ‘renewed commitment’ to global rules and values, as world leaders head to New York

 

20 September 2018

 

Conflicts and extreme climate change threatens access to food in 39 countries – UN agriculture report

 

20 September 2018

 

Humanitarian Aid

 

Misery Deepens for Trapped Asylum Seekers in Greece

 

September 20, 2018 

 

Boat migration to Greece is no longer in the headlines but the crisis for asylum seekers on the Greek islands continues.

 

Make the guns fall silent. ‘Immediately and everywhere': South Sudan envoy

 

18 September 2018

 

Peace and Security

 

Vietnam’s Rights Violations Put Trade Deal with EU at Risk

 

September 17, 2018 

 

The European Union (EU)’s efforts to finalize a free trade deal with Vietnam are at risk because of Vietnam’s poor human rights record.

 

About the Mediterranean, Start with Saving Lives

 

September 17, 2018 

 

Following his meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel last week, French President Emmanuel Macron tweeted that he wanted “to make the Mediterranean a chance and not a fear.”
 

Maldives: Election Rigging Feared

 

September 19, 2018 

 

Agreement over buffer zone to spare civilians in Syria’s Idlib welcomed by top UN officials

 

18 September 2018

In a complex world, ‘we need to take the right road’: outgoing General Assembly President

 

17 September 2018

 

UN Affairs

 

‘Wind of hope’ blowing through Horn of Africa says UN chief, as Ethiopia and Eritrea sign historic peace accord

 

16 September 2018

 

Peace and Security