This was the first-ever summit between EU and Western Balkans leaders to take place in the Western Balkans region. The summit was an opportunity to reconfirm the key importance of strategic partnership between the EU and the Western Balkans, a region with a clear EU perspective. Read more

What is believed to be the first public execution in Afghanistan since the Taliban seized power last year drew criticism from the UN Office for Human Rights, OHCHR, on Wednesday. Spokesman Jeremy Laurence called it a “deeply disturbing” development. Read more

Greater global solidarity is needed to address the rapidly unfolding humanitarian catastrophe in the Horn of Africa, where millions of people are suffering from hunger due to two years of unprecedented drought. Read more

Five independent human rights experts appointed by the UN called on Tuesday for Turkey to stop using anti-terrorism legislation to intimidate human rights defenders and to immediately release Sebnem Korur Fincancı, senior doctor and anti-torture expert. Read more

The world faces risks of nuclear proliferation and nuclear catastrophes not seen in decades, noted Kőrösi (UN General Assembly President), adding that “the IAEA strives to respond to the needs of this moment with expert determination”. Read more

“Since February, humanitarian workers have provided critical aid and protection services to some 13.5 million people in all regions of Ukraine.” Associate spokeswoman Stéphanie Tremblay added that more than 4.2 million people have received cash assistance in the past eight months and that markets are reopening as the government works to restore banking services in […]

This decision is a response to Russia’s unprovoked and unjustified military aggression against Ukraine and Russia’s practice of issuing Russian international passports to residents of the occupied regions. It also follows Russia’s unilateral decision to recognise the independence of the Georgian territories of Abkhazia and South Ossetia in 2008. Read more

The agreement, brokered by the UN and implemented through a Joint Coordination Committee (JCC) in Istanbul, involving Russia, Ukraine and Turkey, was signed in July to allow wheat, oil and other foodstuffs to leave the war-torn country for overseas markets, many of which desperately need food from the ‘breadbasket’ of Europe to ward off the […]

UN Secretary-General António Guterres, speaking at the League of Arab States Summit in Algiers, said that amid growing geopolitical divisions and deepening inequalities, cooperation is the only way forward. Read more