Jailed journalists in Myanmar must be freed ‘immediately’, says UN right chief Bachelet

Mediterranean crossings deadlier than ever, new UNHCR report shows

Facebook’s definition of terrorism potentially “discriminatory“: UN human rights expert

Tsunami tests to go ahead in 24 Indian Ocean nations

Refugees overcrowded to “boiling point” on Greek island, warns UNHCR

Cluster munitions still used extensively in Syrian conflict, say treaty monitors

Returnee migrants speak of hope from business training in Nigeria

Four countries have completely destroyed their stockpiles of cluster munitions since 2017, according to a report by a leading coalition seeking a global ban on the weapons in line with the international convention governing their use. However, Mary Wareham, one of the editors of Cluster Munition Monitor 2018, tells UN News that these weapons are still claiming victims.

UN Syria Envoy warns of potential ‘perfect storm’ in Idlib

Cholera cases in Yemen on the rise

Top UN officials conduct missions to Mali

The International Day Against Nuclear Tests, marked annually on 29 August, draws attention to the plight of people impacted by the after effects of nuclear tests to rally global support to end such tests.  Against this backdrop, UN News’s Elena Vapnitchnaia spoke to Ambassador Kairat Umarov, Permanent Representative of Kazakhstan to the UN, on the impact of over 450 nuclear tests conducted in his country and Kazakhstan’s efforts to work with the wider international community on enhancing public awareness and education about the effects of nuclear weapon test explosions.

Both war and mediating peace becoming ‘increasingly complex’, says UN Secretary-General

‘Every effort’ must be made to bring the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty into force, urges UN chief

Refugee education is in crisis, warns UNHCR

UN investigators find possible war crimes in Yemen

Chile’s migration solution reunites Haitian families: IOM

Support stepped up for children in DRC’s Ebola-affected areas: UNICEF

Parties to the conflict in Yemen may be guilty of war crimes, and a confidential list of the perpetrators has been compiled.  These are just some of the results that an independent fact-finding mission on Yemen announced on Tuesday in Geneva, following the publishing of the panel’s report.  Daniel Johnson from UN News spoke to Charles Garraway from the Group of Eminent Experts on Yemen.

In a report released in July, the UN Counter-Terrorism Executive Directorate for the Security Council (CTED), warned of a growing threat: the return of foreign terrorist fighters, or FTFs. For the latest episode of our Lid is On podcast, we asked David Wells, political analysis and research Unit coordinator for CTED, to explain the challenges and potential solutions to the problem.

Veteran human rights investigator Radhika Coomaraswamy, member of the Independent International Fact-finding Mission on Myanmar, said she was shocked by the horrific sexual violence perpetrated against Myanmar’s ethnic Rohingya. She spoke to UN News following the release of the Mission’s report.