Third Committee Approves Nine Draft Resolutions, Including Texts on Gender-Based Violence, Right to Development, Unilateral Coercive Measures

The Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) approved nine draft resolutions today covering human rights issues ranging from mercenaries to the right to food, as well as the elimination of all forms of violence against women and girls. The draft on elimination of all forms of violence against women and girls was approved in a […]

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Ethiopian Federal Forces Control Most of Tigray, Official Says

ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA — A senior Ethiopian government official says federal government forces now control the majority of the country’s northern Tigray region, following the signing of a peace deal earlier this month that provisions for the disarming of rebel fighters. Rewdan Hussein, the national security adviser to Ethiopia’s prime minister, said Friday that “70% of […]

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