Photo:Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, (right) visits the UN Multidimensional Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA), here pictured with the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Mission chief, Parfait Onanga-Anyanga.
Politics
Photo:Agnes Callamard, UN Special Rapporteur on Extra-Judicial summary or arbitrary Executions.
31 July 2017
The fight against racism must be unremitting to be successful, according to the oldest of the United Nations treaty-monitoring bodies, which opened its latest session in Geneva today.
Photo:A Jordanian police officer stands guard in front of the parliament in Amman, Jordan
Photo:Civilians fleeing Kajo Keji county, toward the southern border with Uganda, April 27, 2017.
July 31, 2017
Late on July 30, the president of Venezuela’s Electoral Council announced that more than 8 million people – or 41 percent of the electorate – had participated in the election of Constituent Assembly members convoked by the administration of President Nicolás Maduro.
Wuthipong Kachathamakul, exiled Thai activist, was reportedly abducted by unknown armed men from his house in Vientiane on July 29, 2017.
Photo:Women take part in a march to mark International Women's Day in Managua, Nicaragua, March 8, 2017.
Photo:Migrants rescued from a dinghy off the Spanish coast wait to be screened by the Spanish Red Cross at the port in Motril, Spain July 23, 2017.