UNFPA has built six health facilities in hard-to-reach parts of Guinea-Bissau. Here, a monitoring team digs out of a waterlogged road on their way to a health facility rehabilitation project in Gã-Para. © UNFPA Guinea-Bissau
15/08/2018
DR Congo: Conflict Zones Could Constitute ‘Hiding Places’ for the Deadly Ebola Virus – WHO Chief
Human Wrongs Watch
Following a two-day mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Head of the World Health Organization (WHO) on 14 August 2018 repeated his call for warring parties in conflict-riven North Kivu to stop fighting, and allow health teams access to areas affected by the recent Ebola outbreak in the region.
15/08/2018
‘Defend the People, Not the States’ – Outgoing UN Human Rights Chief
Human Wrongs Watch
15 August 2018 – For four years, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, has been taking governments across the world to task, publicly naming and shaming States which have fallen short of their human rights obligations.*
15/08/2018
Militias Force Nearly 2,000 People to Leave Libyan Capital’s Largest Shelter for Internally-Displaced – UN Refugee Agency
Human Wrongs Watch
Libyan militias have forced nearly 2,000 people from an ethnic minority likely targeted for their alleged links to the former Gadaffi Government, to flee long-established shelters in the capital Tripoli, the UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, on 14 August 2018 said.
15/08/2018
Caspian Sea Now Shared by Iran, Russia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan
Human Wrongs Watch
Caspian Sea deal an invaluable step towards easing regional tensions, says UN Chief
UN Photo/Mark Garten | UN Secretary-General António Guterres
14 August 2018 — António Guterres, the UN Secretary-General, has welcomed the historic signing of the Convention on the Legal Status of the Caspian Sea, which took place on Sunday [13 August 2018], marked by a ceremony which brought together the leaders of the five countries bordering its coastline.
The region has been a subject of dispute, ever since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. Up until that time, the Caspian – the largest enclosed body of water on earth – was shared by just two states, the USSR and Iran.
Today, Iran has to share it with Russia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan, all of which have different, and divergent, interests as far as the sea is concerned.
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