The latest flare-up in the slow burning conflict between Israel and Hamas highlights a larger conflict. Here’s what to know.
Tag: United Nations
U.N. Rights Officials Criticize China Over Muslim Internments
Human rights officials and experts condemned regulations on Chinese re-education camps as a violation of international law and criminalized basic rights.
U.N.’s Expert on ‘Extreme Poverty’ Is Investigating Britain. Why?
Normally, Philip Alston spends his time in the developing world. But the United Nations expert on extreme poverty sees Britain as the ideal test case of the effects of “self-imposed austerity.”
A ‘Legacy of Terror’: ISIS Left More Than 200 Mass Graves in Iraq
It may not be much of a surprise, but the scale of the job of digging up Islamic State victims is shocking. The UN says there may be 12,000 victims.
As Famine Looms in Yemen, Saudi-Led Coalition Redoubles Attacks
The surge in fighting follows a U.S. call for peace talks, with the United Nations warning that as many as 14 million people could be at risk of starvation.