Author: Jamey Keaten
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At least 8,500 migrants died on land and sea routes worldwide last year, the most in a decade
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The U.N. migration agency says at least 8,565 migrants died on land and sea routes worldwide last year
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UN rights chief urges end to ‘repression’ of independent voices in Russia after Navalny’s death
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The U.N. human rights chief has called for a quick end to the “repression of independent voices” in Russia and expressed concerns about the “persecution” of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died in prison last month
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UN experts take Russia to task over deported Ukrainian children and a ‘military agenda’ in schools
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A panel of U.N.-backed experts that focuses on children’s human rights is calling on Russia to prevent efforts to rewrite school curricula and textbooks to reflect the government’s “political and military agenda” including in Ukraine
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UN aid chief says warring Sudan generals agreed to talk on humanitarian issues. He’s still waiting
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A top U.N. official says that two generals in Sudan whose forces have been at war for the last 10 months assured him recently that they would attend a meeting in Switzerland to discuss humanitarian issues and Sudan’s beleaguered civilians
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Panel seeks to allow re-exports of Swiss weaponry to Ukraine
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GENEVA • A parliamentary panel in Switzerland has recommended waiving a law that bars countries from re-exporting Swiss armored vehicles, weapons and other war materiel to Ukraine for its defense against Russia, insisting the move would not violate the country’s much-vaunted neutrality. The Security Policy Committee of the lower house of Switzerland’s parliament voted 14-11…
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Zelensky urges allies to speed up push vs. Russia
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DAVOS, Switzerland • Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told political leaders at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos that supplies of Western weapons must come quicker than Russia’s attacks, urging the world to move faster because “tragedies are outpacing life; the tyranny is outpacing democracy.” Zelensky, speaking by video link from Kyiv, said the world…
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At Davos, Ukraine’s first lady urges support for her nation
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DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — Ukraine’s first lady on Tuesday pressed world leaders and corporate executives at the World Economic Forum’s annual gathering to do more to help her country at a time when Russia’s invasion is leaving children dying and the world struggling with food insecurity. As the anniversary of the war nears, Olena Zelenska…
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Ukraine’s ‘Invincibility’ centers offer refuge, resilience
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BUCHA, Ukraine • Retired Ukrainian construction worker Borys Markovnikov is on the move again: This time, just a few steps from his home in the town of Bucha, northwest of Kyiv, to seek shelter and warmth at a “Point of Invincibility” — a government-built help station that serves food, drinks, warmth and ultimately, resilience, in…
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U.N. cites possible crimes vs. humanity in China’s Xinjiang
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GENEVA • China’s discriminatory detention of Uyghurs and other mostly Muslim ethnic groups in the western region of Xinjiang may constitute crimes against humanity, the U.N. human rights office said in a long-awaited report released Wednesday. The report calls for an urgent international response over allegations of torture and other rights violations in Beijing’s campaign…
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Number of Ukraine refugees passes worst-case U.N. estimate
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MEDYKA, Poland • The number of people who have fled Ukraine since Russian troops invaded has surpassed 4 million, the United Nations reported Wednesday as shelling continued in places where Moscow had vowed to ease its military operations. “I do not know if we can still believe the Russians,” refugee Nikolay Nazarov, 23, said as…