Cycle of human rights violations continues in Myanmar
14/6/2022: The UN Human Rights Council has been briefed that Myanmar is still suffering from the devastating consequences of the February 2021 military coup, with at least 1,900 killings by the military and one million internally displaced people. Many experts are critical of the international community for its inadequate financial and ethical response.
Source: UN News
Cambodia convicts opposition figures in mass trial
14/6/2022: A Phnom Penh court has convicted around 60 opposition figures as long-serving leader Hun Sen cracks down on dissent ahead of national elections next year. Opposition leader Sam Rainsy, in exile in France, had another eight years added to his existing sentence.
Source: CNA
WTO under pressure to reform at overdue Geneva summit
12/6/2022: The World Trade Organization faces a deep internal crisis, as its first summit in years gets under way. Key agenda issues such as patent protection on COVID-19 vaccines and fishing subsidies remain unresolved.
Source: DW
Global nuclear arsenals are expected to grow
13/6/2022: Despite a marginal decrease in the number of nuclear warheads in 2021, nuclear arsenals are expected to grow over the coming decade. There are clear indications that the reductions that have characterized global nuclear arsenals since the end of the cold war have ended.
Source: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
New declaration on Migration and Protection in the Americas
10/6/2022: The UN Refugee Agency has welcomed the commitment of 20 countries in the Americas that no one should be returned to a country where they would face persecution or human rights violations. The Los Angeles Declaration is based on principles of international cooperation, as set out in the Global Compacts on refugees and on safe and orderly migration.
Source: UN Refugee Agency
Rising refugee death toll in Mediterranean crossings
10/6/2022: While reported numbers of refugees and migrants crossing the Mediterranean to Europe are fewer than in 2015, journeys are becoming more fatal. New data for 2021 records 3,231 people as dead or missing at sea in the Mediterranean and the northwest Atlantic.
Source: UN Refugee Agency
Food security now top priority for G20 cooperation
5/6/2022: Many countries have panicked in the face of global food shortages, restricting trade in essential produce in defiance of lessons learned in the 2008 crisis. The G20 summit meeting in Bali in November will be an opportunity to restore global coordination and roll back trade restrictions.
Source: East Asia Forum
Ethiopia’s complicated barriers to peace
7/6/2022: There has been some progress in negotiations between the main warring parties since the start of this year. But movement towards meaningful talks has been slow on account of mistrust and the complexity of the issues.
Source: African Arguments
A call to expand the international right to education
6/6/2022: Leading humanitarians have signed a statement calling for the key target in the Sustainable Development Goal for education to be cemented in international law. This would ensure that all girls and boys have access to quality pre-primary education, and free, equitable and quality secondary education.
Source: Human Rights Watch
Overlapping crises raise risk of famine in six countries
6/6/2022: UN food agencies are concerned that the perfect storm of global crises is undermining relief operations in the world's hunger hotspots. Ethiopia, Nigeria, South Sudan, Yemen, Afghanistan and Somalia all have areas at risk of the most catastrophic conditions, with up to 750,000 people facing starvation.
Source: UN News