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[ ] Maria Isabel Salvador, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Haiti, briefed ambassadors at the Security Council, highlighting the installation of the Transitional Presidential Council in April and the swearing-in of an interim Prime Minister and new government…

[ ] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk reported increasing restrictions on civic spaces, urging stakeholders to reverse course. “My Office (OHCHR) continues to receive reports of detentions as election day approaches, including of supporters and members of…

[ ] According to the agency’s Patent Landscape Report, between 2014-2023, more than 38,000 GenAI patents came out of China, six times more than those filed by inventors in the United States, which came in second place. GenAI, or Generative…

[ ] Speaking via video link from Jerusalem, Andrea De Domenico, head of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in the occupied Palestinian territory (OPT), said people have been forced to “completely reset their lives over…

[ ] Released on Wednesday by the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU), the report explained the hardships civilians faced, including physical and long-term socioeconomic harm. It also emphasised the human rights impact of Russia’s renewed large-scale attacks…

[ ] Opinion by Umang Dhingra (new delhi, india) Thursday, July 04, 2024 Inter Press Service NEW DELHI, India, Jul 04 (IPS) – As the temperature soars to new heights in India, so does domestic violence. It’s a well-established correlation that…

[ ] In her final, annual report to the Human Rights Council in Geneva, Special Rapporteur on the rights situation in Belarus, Anaïs Marin, echoed wider, longstanding concerns from the UN and the international community about a crackdown on democratic…

[ ] Opinion by James E. Jennings (atlanta, georgia) Wednesday, July 03, 2024 Inter Press Service ATLANTA, Georgia, Jul 03 (IPS) – Zionism is broken. It is finished as a political philosophy and cannot long survive. Having earned the visceral opposition…

[ ] Opinion by Andrew Firmin (london) Wednesday, July 03, 2024 Inter Press Service LONDON, Jul 03 (IPS) – Myanmar’s army, at war with pro-democracy forces and ethnic militias, must know it’s nowhere near victory. It recently came close to losing…

[ ] Opinion by Anis Chowdhury (sydney) Wednesday, July 03, 2024 Inter Press Service SYDNEY, Jul 03 (IPS) – Fifty years ago on 1 May 1974, the Sixth Special Session of the General Assembly (April–May) adopted a revolutionary declaration and programme…