"INTERNATIONAL LAW"

The UN Security Council adopted a resolution which encourages a survivor-centred approach to preventing and responding to sexual violence in conflict and post-conflict situation. UNIFEED

A top UN official told reporters in Geneva help is needed urgently from the international community for some 2,500 apparently stateless “foreign children” at a camp in north-east Syria. UNTV CH

The Head of the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia, Carlos Ruiz Massieu, told the Security Council that ‘the killings of community leaders, human rights defenders and former FARC-EP combatants continue and remain a grave concern.” UNIFEED

Following the United States’ efforts to revoke the credentials of Venezuela’s representative to the United Nations, and recognize interim president Juan Guaidó, Venezuela’s Ambassador Samuel Moncada said his country is “campaigning at the United Nations to protect its rights as a full UN member.” UNIFEED

Noon briefing by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

In its 2018 report on the death penalty, Amnesty International found that global executions fell by 31 percent marking the lowest recorded number in a decade. UNIFEED

Aid operations under increasing threat as state, non-state combatants ignore international law, Humanitarian Affairs Chief warns Security Council at 8499th meeting.

In an appeal to the Bruneian Government to stop what she described as “draconian” revisions, UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet stated that they “would enshrine in legislation cruel and inhuman punishments that seriously breach international human rights law.” UNIFEED

Security Council unanimously adopts resolution calling upon member states to combat and criminalize financing of terrorists and their Activities at 8496h meeting.

Security Council unanimously adopts resolution calling upon member states to combat and criminalize financing of terrorists and their Activities at 8496h meeting.