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UN InterviewsIran: Transparency, women’s rights and the right to lifeThe number of prisoners in Iran being executed is rising while civic space shrinks, according to the independent human rights expert who monitors the country.Special Rapporteur Mai Sato was at UN Headquarters last week briefing the General Assembly, where she highlighted lack of transparency by authorities in Tehran and the failure to uphold the right to life, while also raising the alarm over the worsening situation facing women in the country.In an interview with UN News’s Julia Foxen, the UN Human Rights Council-appointed expert who only took up her role in August th...2024-11-1306 min
UN InterviewsMine action amid third decade of conflict in DR CongoAs the Democratic Republic of the Congo enters its third decade of armed conflict, a huge number of unexploded land mines and other ordinance remain, constituting a deadly threat to civilians.That’s according to Jean-Denis Larsen, the chief of the UN Mine Action Service (UNMAS) in the central African nation, who told UN News’s Julia Foxen in an interview at UN Headquarters in New York, that the danger leaves less land available for housing and crucial civilian infrastructure.The key measure of success, he says, is the agency’s ability to hand back safe e...2024-11-1205 min
UN InterviewsWorld court must maintain autonomy amid global divideThe International Court of Justice, or ICJ, is currently dealing with an unprecedented number of cases from around the world, particularly as the Middle East continues to be mired in conflict.That’s according to Belgian jurist Philippe Gautier who has held the post of Registrar of the ICJ since August 2019, giving him the title of the senior-most official who heads the Secretariat of the Court.In an interview at the UN Headquarters in NY on Friday, he told UN News’s Julia Foxen that today’s profound geopolitical tensions require the UN’s principal judicial...2024-10-2313 min
ONU InfoA la CIJ, le volume de travail « a plus que doublé » en dix ansLa Cour internationale de Justice (CIJ), qui est basée à La Haye, aux Pays-Bas, a vu son volume de travail fortement augmenté ces dernières années. Il a « plus que doublé » en dix ans, selon le Greffier de la CIJ, Philippe Gautier.
En visite récemment au siège de l'ONU à New York, il a eu un bref entretien avec Julia Foxen d'ONU Info. Il estime notamment que cette charge de travail supplémentaire nécessite une augmentation du budget de la CIJ2024-10-2201 min
The Lid is OnThe power of our choices: from war-torn childhood to Nobel Peace Prize nomineeA Ugandan man, some of whose family and friends were abducted in the East African country, tells the story of his journey from war-torn childhood to becoming the youngest ever African nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.Victor Ochen grew up in northern Uganda at a time when the Lord’s Resistance Army, or LRA, was terrorising the region with violent abductions, forced child soldier recruitment, and widespread atrocities against civilians.For 21 years the focus of his life was survival, struggling to find enough to eat in a variety of internal displacement camps.To...2024-08-1217 min