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PublishedFebruary 19, 2024
Taliban set unacceptable conditions for attending UN meeting, says UN secretary-general
The biggest point of contention between the international community and the Taliban is the bans imposed on women and girls.
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PublishedFebruary 19, 2024
Palestinian diplomat accuses Israel of apartheid and asks UN court to declare its occupation illegal
The case opened against the backdrop of the Israel-Hamas war, which immediately became a focal point of the day.
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PublishedFebruary 10, 2024
Israel says it found tunnels underneath Gaza headquarters of UN agency for Palestinian refugees
Israel has accused the UNWRA of collaborating with Hamas.
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PublishedJanuary 11, 2024
South Africa tells UN top court Israel is committing genocide in Gaza as landmark case begins
'Nothing will stop the suffering except an order from this court,' South African lawyers said.
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PublishedDecember 22, 2023
UN approves watered-down resolution on aid to Gaza without call for suspension of hostilities
The revised text was negotiated during a week and a half of high-level diplomacy by the United States, and the United Arab Emirates on behalf of Arab nations and others.
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PublishedDecember 21, 2023
UN says more than 1 in 4 people in Gaza are starving because of war
A report from the U.N. finds that more than half a million people in Gaza are starving because of not enough food entering the territory since the outbreak of war more than 10 weeks ago.
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PublishedDecember 21, 2023
Agreement on UN resolution on critical aid for Gaza is ‘very close’ and vote expected, sponsor says
The U.S. has been struggling to change the text’s references to a cessation of hostilities in the Israel-Hamas war, but the key sticking point is the inspection of aid trucks entering Gaza to ensure they are only carrying humanitarian goods.
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PublishedOctober 27, 2023
UN General Assembly set to vote on nonbinding resolution calling for a ‘humanitarian truce’ in Gaza
The assembly’s emergency special session on Israeli actions, which began Wednesday, continued Friday with U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield echoing Israel’s envoy in calling the resolution to be voted on.
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PublishedOctober 18, 2023
U.S. vetoes UN resolution condemning all violence against civilians in Israel-Hamas war
The resolution sponsored by Brazil had wide support and would have condemned all violence against civilians, including 'the heinous terrorist attacks by Hamas' against Israel.
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PublishedSeptember 20, 2023
UN chief warns of ‘gates of hell’ in climate summit, but carbon polluting nations stay silent
The only countries that touted their efforts – 'first movers and doers,' the United Nations called them – were responsible for just one-ninth of the world's annual carbon pollution.
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