Administering Power Has No Intention of Complying, Says Mauritius as Fourth Committee Continues Western Sahara DebateDelegates called upon the United Kingdom to withdraw from the territory of Mauritius in accordance with a recent ruling by the Internat…
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Sixth Committee (Legal)
Note: A complete summary of today’s Sixth Committee meetings will be made available after their conclusion.Statements on Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts
NIINA NYRHINEN (Finland), also speaking for Denmark, Iceland, Nor…
Read MoreThird Committee Opens Debate on Promotion of Human Rights, with Experts Urging Governments to Honour Treaty Obligations, Delegates Calling for Objectivity
The Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) opened its debate on human rights today, holding a series of dialogues with United Nations experts — on topics ranging from the rights of migrants and safety of journalists, to the prevention of t…
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Unable to Adopt Work Programme Due to Ongoing Issues, Speakers Urge that Diplomacy Prevail, Tradition of Consensus UpheldImplementation of the rule of law principle on the international level — particularly in the area of conflict resolution — was…
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Note: Owing to the liquidity crisis impacting our Organization, only a partial summary of statements made in today’s meetings of the Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) is available at this time. The complete summary will be issue…
Read MoreUNHCR Cameroon Factsheet September 2019
Cameroon currently has 1,567,543 people of concern, including 291,803 Central African and 108,335 Nigerian refugees.Beginning 30 September, Cameroon organized a one-week major national dialogue to seek solutions to crisis in the country’s Englishspeaki…
Read MoreThird Committee Opens Debate on Promotion of Human Rights, with Experts Urging Governments to Honour Treaty Obligations, Delegates Calling for Objectivity
The Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) opened its debate on human rights today, holding a series of dialogues with United Nations experts on topics ranging from the rights of migrants and safety of journalists, to the prevention of tor…
Read MoreClimate change and displacement
They murdered his father, torched his neighbourhood and sent him running for his life. Rounding up as many family members as he could find, Hawali Oumar fled his hometown of Baga, in north-eastern Nigeria, to escape the killers of Boko Haram. Together,…
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