UN’s rights chief says horrified by Sudan escalation as famine draws nearer

The UN’s top human rights official has personally intervened to try to stop spiralling violence in Sudan that’s having a terrifying impact on millions of civilians, who humanitarians say are “staring famine in the face”. https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2024/05/1149876
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UN’s rights chief says horrified by Sudan escalation as famine draws nearer
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UN envoy appeals for other nations to ‘keep out of Libya’

06 Jan 2020

The top UN official in Libya has delivered a stern message urging other nations to stop intervening in the country’s ongoing crisis. 

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Gaza: Top UN aid official calls for end to attacks on sites sheltering civilians

Gaza: Top UN aid official calls for end to attacks on sites sheltering civilians

25 Jan 2024

Attacks on buildings in Gaza where terrified civilians are sheltering are “abhorrent and must stop immediately”, a top UN humanitarian official insisted on Thursday following a direct hit on a United Nations training centre.

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Human rights in Myanmar face ‘profound crisis’ – Bachelet

21 Mar 2022

The UN’s top rights official said on Monday that amidst a “profound crisis” facing access to basic human rights in Myanmar following the coup in February last year, hundreds of localized armed resistance groups have now formed across the country, triggering “widespread violence in areas that were previously stable”.