resolutions of the United Nations

UNITED NATIONS -- Rohingya refugees living in Bangladeshi camps should be moved to higher ground ahead of the monsoon season, U.N. ... A U.N. General Assembly resolution condemning the violence in Myanmar had also requested that Guterres appoint a special envoy to the country. Though no ...

One month has passed since the United Nations agreed a cease-fire in Syria - and at least 871 civilians, including 179 children, have been killed in the region of Eastern ... The UN resolution was supposed to halt all military action excepting that against internationally recognised terrorist groups for 30 days.

The UN Human Rights Council passed five more anti-Israel resolutions last week. This was not a great surprise, and U.S. Ambassador ... That resolution got 25 votes, almost entirely from Muslim countries plus a few dictatorships like Cuba, Venezuela, and China. No European country voted yes. (Why Brazil ...

“The Resolutions inter alia request the restoration of economic, transport and energy links in the region (UN SC Resolution 853) and removal of all obstacles to communications and transportation (UN SC Resolution ... 23, 2001: “Four resolutions have been adopted in the United Nations Security Council…

Though Sri Lanka has achieved 'some small recent' progress in terms of implementing UN resolutions, British Minister for Asia and Pacific Mark Field said the progress had been slower than they would have anticipated or liked. The Minister expressed these views during a debate held in British Parliament ...

In a recent conversation about the state of implementation of UN sanctions on North Korea, one Southeast Asian official lamented, “We are a year's worth of UN resolutions behind.” It was no ordinary year, either. In 2017, the United Nations Security Council was a veritable conveyor belt of sanctions on ...

UN Security Council Voting: To be approved, a Council resolution must have nine "YES" votes out of 15 and no "NO" votes from any of the five permanent ... Security Council Vetoes: A list of resolutions presented to the Security Council, along with the permanent member negative votes, can be found here.

... UN Human Rights High Commissioner Zaid Ra'ad al-Hussein. [Photo Credit: United States Mission Geneva]. On Friday, the notoriously anti-Israel United Nations “Human Rights” Council (UNHRC) once again met to discuss, or rather condemn, Israel. In its latest round of resolutions targeted at the Jewish ...

(JNS) The United Nations Human Rights Council passed five anti-Israel resolutions at the end of its 37th session in Geneva, under the "Agenda Item 7," a UNHRC ... One resolution passed, called on Israel to give the Golan Heights to civil war-torn Syria, with 25 votes in favor, 14 against and 7 abstentions.

(CNN) Calling the situation in Syria's Eastern Ghouta "a travesty," US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley admonished the Russian government ... In the weeks since the resolution was adopted, the UN estimates that over 1,700 people have been killed and thousands more have been injured in ...

The United States has cast the only "no" vote in the UN Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva rejecting a China-led resolution - its second-ever in nearly 12 years - that calls for "mutually beneficial cooperation". "I think the comments by this US official in Geneva you mention were extremely ...

The United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council has adopted a new resolution on Cooperation with Georgia supporting the country's territorial integrity and sovereignty within its internationally recognized borders. In the resolution adopted yesterday, the council condemned the grave human rights situation ...

The resolution acknowledges Venezuela's position: economic sanctions "disproportionately" affect "the poor and most vulnerable classes," threatening the realization of human rights. Rather than the application of unilateral coercive measures, which are against international law, the resolution urges states ...

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines was among five nations that rejected a resolution by the United Nations' human rights body on the human rights situation ... The Philippines joined Burundi, China, Cuba and Valenzuela in opposing a UN Human Rights Council resolution to extend the mandate of the ...

GENEVA — The resolution passed by the United Nations' top human rights body on Friday seemed innocuous, if obscurely worded in places. Without specifying any immediate action, it called for “a community of shared future for human beings” and “mutually beneficial cooperation in the field of human ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has criticised a UN-mandated ceasefire in Syria designed to stop the recent bloodshed in eastern Ghouta while defending his own military's two-month-old operation against the Kurds in Afrin. The unanimous UN decision on a resolution demanding a 30-day ...

Foreign Deputy Minister Datuk Seri Reezal Merican Naina Merican said as a nation which adhered to the Charter of the United Nations (UN), Malaysia must respect the resolution of the United Nations General Assembly on the status of Jerusalem. Last December, the UN declared a United States (US) ...

Moscow was responding to a US allegation on Sunday that Russian aircraft had flown bombing missions over the besieged eastern Ghouta region in defiance of a United Nations ceasefire. The ministry said Washington was the one breaching the UN resolution, saying it had done nothing to stop rebel ...

On October 31, 2000, United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1325 was passed unanimously. This was the first time that the UNSC had devoted a resolution for women during peace and conflict. Despite UNSCR 1325 being an essential first step towards reaching equality between women ...

The U.N. Security Council Saturday approved a resolution calling for the 30-day cease-fire, following one of the bloodiest weeks of aerial ... After days of wrangling, the United Nations Security Council voted unanimously Saturday for a 30-day cease-fire in Syria to allow aid groups access to areas in ...

The situation in Yemen has been labeled by the United Nations as "the world's worst man-made humanitarian disaster." Almost three years of civil war and sectarian violence has left much of the country in ruins, with tens of thousands dead and millions more faced with acute food shortages and a lack of ...

(CNN) Not long after the UN Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution calling for a 30-day ceasefire in Syria, regime military aircraft hit targets in ... Diplomats said Saturday's vote ended up being a bit of a showdown between Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the United Nations, and her Russian ...

Diplomats said the resolution could go to a vote on Friday. Moscow has vetoed 10 previous UN resolutions on Syria and has consistently used its permanent seat on the security council to shield the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, from concerted UN action on war crimes. In November, Russia used its ...