Somalia's President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud addresses the United Nations General Assembly in New York, United States, on September 24, 2026 [Caitlin Ochs/Reuters] The United Nations has closed its political mission in Somalia, ending more than three decades of efforts to help the country rebuild after civil war. The United Nations Transitional Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNTMIS) ceased operations on Saturday after completing a two-year transition requested by the Somali gove

Photo via Health Policy Watch This story was originally published by The New Humanitarian. Switzerland’s federal government is freezing some funding to Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) due to the agency’s handling of a sexual abuse scandal that saw staff victimise refugees in Chad. Officials from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, or SDC, appear to have been blindsided by the scale of the abuse and MSF’s inadequate disclosure of information, according to Zurich n

Rebeca Grynspan, an economist and the daughter of Holocaust survivors with close family in Israel, got 11 votes in favor and 4 against in an informal poll on the 15-member council, two people close to the process said Rebeca Grynspan Mayufis, candidate for the position of United Nations secretary-general, poses for a portrait at the Permanent Mission of Costa Rica to the United Nations in New York City, U.S., October. Credit: Shannon Stapleton/ REUTERS An informal poll by the

The latest straw poll puts Costa Rica's Rebeca Grynspan in first place, Argentina's Rafael Grossi in second, Guyana's Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett in third and the UAE's Lana Nusseibeh in fourth place. Lana Nusseibeh, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the United Arab Emirates to the United Nations, speaks at a Sudan Humanitarian Fund event at the Institute of Peace in Washington, DC, on February 3, 2026. — Alex WROBLEWSKI / AFP via Getty Images WASHINGTON — Lana Nusseib

The panel also accuses Israel of committing crimes against humanity in the West Bank. Israel condemned the report. An Israeli strike on a Gaza City mosque in July. (Saher Alghorra for The New York Times) A commission of United Nations human rights experts said on Monday that Israel was committing genocidal acts against Palestinian civilians in Gaza despite a cease-fire agreement there and carrying out crimes against humanity in the West Bank. The report by the U.N. Independen

The International Criminal Court has been facing increased pressure from the Trump administration [File: Eva Plevier/Reuters] The European Union has awarded the International Criminal Court (ICC) its top human rights award, two weeks after US President Donald Trump vowed to dismantle the court through new sanctions. Thursday’s Sakharov Prize is the second international recognition for the war crimes tribunal this month, with former ICC Judge Navi Pillay awarded the Nobel Peac

Havana alleges Washington is using economic, political pressure to influence member states (Photo via Anadolu Ajansı) ISTANBUL Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez accused the US of committing genocide against Cuba and violating international law at a news conference on Wednesday in Havana. “A military, nuclear, economic and technological superpower is committing an atrocious and ongoing act of abuse against a peaceful, peace-loving nation,” said Rodriguez. He also accused

Judges have rejected Krautatungalung elder Robbie Thorpe's landmark bid to prosecute King Charles III over the alleged genocide of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Critics say sitting down with Johnnie Moore normalised an organisation accused of complicity in high-profile atrocity crimes.

When a mass grave was unearthed in northern Sri Lanka last February, it was not by design.