Uphold promise to protect civilians caught in conflict: Guterres

The world is failing to live up to its commitment to protect civilians during wartime, Secretary-General António Guterres told the UN Security Council on Tuesday, urging greater respect for international humanitarian law. 

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Sudan: ‘We cannot work under the barrel of a gun,’ UN relief chief says

Sudan: ‘We cannot work under the barrel of a gun,’ UN relief chief says

15 Jul 2023

Warring factions in Sudan must respect international law, protect civilians, and stop targeting relief and aid workers, the United Nations top humanitarian official urged on Saturday, as the conflict reached its three-month mark.

Syria: Warring parties failed to abide by international law over hospital attacks

06 Apr 2020

Parties to Syria’s brutal civil war, now in its tenth year, failed to abide by their obligations under international law to avoid attacks on hospitals and other civilian facilities that featured on the UN’s so-called deconfliction list, Secretary-General António Guterres said on Monday. 

Guterres outlines four recommendations to help us all ‘Save Our Ocean’

27 Jun 2022

At the UN Ocean Conference in Lisbon on Monday, UN Secretary-General António Guterres urged the international community to commit and unite around the protection and preservation of our seas.