"ABDUCTION"

Assistant-Secretary-General Khaled Khiari told the Security Council that the expansion of armed conflict throughout Myanmar, “has deprived communities of basic needs and access to essential services, and a devastating impact on human rights and fundamental freedoms.” UNIFEED

A top UN official said, “repeated calls” for protection of civilians in Russia and Ukraine “appear to fall on deaf ears.” UNIFEED

The human toll of Myanmar’s human rights crisis is mounting as armed conflict escalates and spreads, UN High Commissioner Volker Türk warned as he repeated a call for the situation in Myanmar as a whole to be referred to the International Criminal Court. UNTV CH

ECW plans to renew multi-year investment that has already exceeded its targets and reached over 400,000 children and adolescents with quality, holistic education in areas affected by the crisis in North-East Nigeria with up to US$15 million. ECW

According to the UN Human Rights Office, many Syrians who had fled the war face gross human rights violations and abuses upon their return to Syria. UNTV CH

The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, told the Security Council, “There are grounds to believe that presently Rome Statute crimes are being committed in Darfur by both the Sudanese Armed Forces and Rapid Support Forces affiliated groups.” UNIFEED

Human rights spokesperson Marta Hurtado said the emergency powers granted to the armed forces in Ecuador for public security tasks, “must be exceptional, limited in time and subordinate to civil authorities, to whom they must be accountable.” OHCHR

The General Assembly held a plenary meeting to debate the use of a veto cast by the United States on a Security Council resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza on 22 December 2023. UNIFEED

Warning of the risk of regional spillover, Assistant Secretary-General Khaled Khiari told the Security Council that “recent weeks have seen some of the most intensive Israeli operations in the West Bank since the Second Intifada.” UNIFEED

Speaking to reporters on the situation in Gaza, the UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, said, “More than half a million people – a quarter of the population – are facing what experts classify as catastrophic levels of hunger. Four out of five of the hungriest people anywhere in the world are in Gaza." UNIFEED