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Gaza: Hope Walks on Our Own Legs

UN Security Council Resolution 2803 represents a victory for American diplomacy, enforcing the law of the jungle. On November 17, 2025, in New York, Russia and China abstained, despite holding the power to block the resolution with their veto—a privilege…

UN Security Council resolution a violation of the Palestinian right of self-determination and UN Charter, UN expert warns

A UN expert today expressed serious concern with the Security Council’s adoption of Resolution 2803, warning that it runs counter to the Palestinian right to self-determination, consolidates Israel’s unlawful presence in the occupied Palestinian territory, including ongoing unlawful policies and…

Ghana’s Parliamentary Speaker Bagbin, new African Group to mediate Russia-Ukraine crisis

The Speaker of Ghana’s Parliament, Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, currently serving as the President of the Conference of Speakers and Presidents of African Legislatures (COSPAL), has been unanimously elected as a member to the newly created African Group on Peace…

Urgent Next Steps for Palestine at the UN

As U.S. President Donald Trump surely intended, his “20-point Gaza plan” succeeded in upstaging calls by many other world leaders at the UN General Assembly for concrete, coordinated UN-led measures to force Israel to end its criminal genocide in Gaza and the…

The UN Security Council’s Astonishing Silence on Myanmar Atrocities

The United Nations Security Council should mobilize to prevent further atrocities in Myanmar. The Council’s inaction over the last few months starkly contrasts with the clear warnings from senior UN officials who are urgently ringing alarm bells. By Akshaya Kumar As…

Gaza, MSF speaks to the UN Security Council: “An immediate and lasting ceasefire is needed”

The speech of the MSF secretary-general to the UN Security Council has just finished. Christopher Lockyear, secretary general of Doctors Without Borders [ Médecins sans Frontières] (MSF), in a speech to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), urged member states…

Security Council: rejection of a Russian draft resolution on the situation in Gaza

Meeting early in the evening, the Security Council rejected by 5 votes for, 4 votes against (United States, France, Japan, and the United Kingdom), and 6 abstentions a draft resolution presented by the Russian Federation by which the Council notably…

Brazil chairs UN meeting to discuss Palestinian-Israeli conflict

Brazilian Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira chairs a meeting of the UN Security Council today in New York, USA, to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Vieira, who concluded his working visit to Cambodia, postponed his visit to the Philippines and travelled to…

Russia calls out Western elites at UN (WATCH FULL SPEECH)

By refusing to negotiate, the US and NATO left Moscow no choice but to launch its military operation in Ukraine, FM Sergey Lavrov said Years of NATO encroachment on Russia and the West’s refusal to negotiate over Ukraine left Russia “no…

Northwest Syria: UN resolution period halves. This is how humanitarian aid is exploited

On 12th of July, 2022, the UN Security Council approved the conditional renewal of humanitarian aid through the Bab Al-Hawa crossing. Still I Rise’s alarm: “The lives of 4.4 million people have been turned into an instrument of political pressure.”…

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