"INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW"

The Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Mali, El-Ghassim Wane, said that the security environment in the country had remained complex in recent months, particularly in the Center and the tri-border area between Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger. UNIFEED

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk conducted a two-day official mission to Colombia from Tuesday 24 to Wednesday 25 January, at the invitation of the Government. OHCHR

The United Nations Special Envoy for Syria, Geir O. Pedersen, told the Security Council that the scale of needs inside Syria is “at the worst level since the conflict began”. UNIFEED

The UN Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights told the Security Council that “the armed attack by the Russian Federation against Ukraine and the ensuing hostilities have brought the most severe forms of human rights and international humanitarian law violations into the everyday lives of people in Ukraine, putting at risk countless lives, causing massive displacement and destruction of civilian infrastructure.” UNIFEED

Secretary-General António Guterres condemned air strikes that killed and injured dozens of civilians during what spokesperson Stephanie Tremblay called “a grim weekend” for civilians in Ukraine. UNIFEED

UN Special Envoy for Yemen Hans Grundberg told the Security Council that the absence of large-scale fighting is positive for the continuation of the elements operated under the truce. UNIFEED

General Assembly adopts $3.4 billion programme budget for 2023, approves permanent shift to annual cycle, concluding main part of Seventy-Seventh Session.

General Assembly adopts two draft resolutions on protecting oceans, preventing violent extremism, elects five member states to Peacebuilding Commission.

Cycle of violence, bloodshed between Israelis, Palestinians untenable, delegate stresses at Security Council briefing on Middle East.

Speaking during a Human Rights Council meeting on the situation in Ukraine, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said, “My visit to Ukraine ended a week ago. But the horrors, suffering and the daily toll that this war is having on people in the country remain with me. The deaths. The lives uprooted. The families ripped apart. With more than 18 million people in Ukraine in need of humanitarian aid". UNTV CH