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The UN Security Council (UNSC) voted Friday to briefly extend and then end the United Nations Assistance to Iraq Mission (UNAMI). The mission’s mandate was extended until December 31, 2025, in order to wrap up the mission’s final phase and withdraw. Established in 2003 following the US invasion of Iraq, the mission was sent to [...]

UN development specialist Garry Conille arrived on Saturday in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, to take on his new role as Haiti’s prime minister. Conille has been serving as UNICEF’s Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean since January 2023. Prior to this role, he held various positions for different UN branches. In the wake of [...]

The Ecuadorian police announced Friday the arrest of Julio Alberto M. A., also known as “Negro Tulio,” the leader of the Chone gang, in Panama. He is implicated in the murder of prosecutor Cesar Suarez in January 2024, who was investigating organized transnational crime in Guayas province. On June 1, Ecuadorian authorities confirmed that Julio [...]

The UN Security Council adopted Resolution 2731 (2024) on Thursday, extending for one year the sanctions regime imposed on South Sudan that includes asset freezes, travel bans and an arms embargo. The Resolution received nine votes in favor, none against and six abstentions from Algeria, China, Guyana, Mozambique, Russian Federation and Sierra Leone. The council [...]

The Slovenian government on Thursday endorsed a motion to recognize a Palestinian state and and sent for parliamentary approval. Slovenian Prime Minister Robert Golob announced on Monday that, after a series of consultations, he would place on the agenda of a Thursday government meeting a decision to forward recognition of Palestine to the National Assembly. [...]

Australia’s Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights published a report on Thursday calling for establishing a federal human rights act. The recommendation is the result of the committee’s inquiry, which began in March 2023, into the scope and effectiveness of Australia’s current human rights legislation. The committee was made up of 104 civil society organizations [...]

Spain’s parliament on Thursday gave final approval to an amnesty law for Catalonian political leaders charged with crimes following the controversial 2017 independence referendum.  The referendum, which passed 90 percent in favor and 10 percent against, came after Spain’s Constitutional Court declared it illegal. Leaders from Catalonia pushed forward with the referendum regardless. Spain’s constitutional court [...]

Denmark’s parliament on Tuesday rejected a bill recognizing a Palestinian state, proposed at the end of February by four left-wing parties. Based on voting results, 83 MPs voted against the proposal, while 21 lawmakers in favor. Speaking at the first parliamentary debate on the proposed bill in April, Foreign Minister Lars L. Rasmussen said that [...]

The UN General Assembly (UNGA) passed a resolution last week establishing a commemoration day for the 1995 killings of more than 8,000 Bosniak men and boys in Srebrenica and to formally recognize the event as genocide. Proposed by Germany and Rwanda, two countries with a unique history dealing with genocide in the 20th century, and [...]

The ruling Georgian Dream party overrode a veto from President Salome Zourabichvili Tuesday allowing controversial “foreign influence” legislation affecting media and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in the country to become law. The parliament overwhelmingly voted with 66 votes in favor of overriding Zourabichvili’s veto and voted with a majority of 84-4 votes in favor of the bill, [...]