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Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights Dmytro Lubinets has addressed Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict Virginia Gamba de Potgieter with a request to receive lists of deported Ukrainian children from the Russian side and transfer them to Ukraine.

WASHINGTON DC, Jul 28 (IPS) - The Biden administration’s decision to provide Ukraine with cluster munitions, a weapon widely banned for the inherent dangers they pose to non-combatants, is risky.

The Secretary-General of the United Nations is the creature of—and subservient to -- the 193 member states who largely reign supreme in the world body.But, in reality, Antonio Guterres has been

Perhaps the greatest tragedy of the immensely destructive Ukraine War lies in the fact that it could have been averted. The most obvious way was for the Russian government to abandon its plan for the

Iran is not interested in a highly powerful Russia that could block Iranian ambitions in the South Caucasus and Middle East. At the same time, a too weak Russia would constitute a dangerous developmen

As Russia 'paused' the renewal of the Black Sea Grain Initiative, data from the UN shows that most of the grain went to middle and upper-income countries.

Addressing the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) Secretary-General António Guterres said COVID-19, the climate crisis, and widespread conflict, including Russia’s invasion of Ukraine “have hobbled fragile and limited progress,” but he made clear that “our world was off track well before these upheavals.” UNIFEED

A new manual can help the U.S. and its partners stay on the same page.

On the night of 17 July 1998, the outcome of the Diplomatic Conference convened to create the International Criminal Court was still uncertain. Hundreds of state representatives and civil society orga

ROME, Jul 10 (IPS) - There seems to be no end in sight to the war in Ukraine. On the contrary it continues to escalate. The latest ratchet up has been the decision by the USA to supply the Ukrainian army with cluster bombs. These are nasty weapons which scatter and explode over a wide area. They are specifically designed to kill people rather that destroy infrastructure, military installations or communication hubs. They also have a sting in the tail – some of the bomblets remain unexploded, ...