At least 32 UN peacekeeping personnel were slain in deliberate attacks last year, with the Mali mission suffering the most, the UN Staff Union said yesterday.Among the 32 fatalities were 28 military and four police personnel, including a woman police o…
Day: January 21, 2023
Door of No Return: Yellen Visits Onetime Slave-Trading Post
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen paid a solemn visit Saturday to the salmon-colored house on an island off Senegal that is one of the most recognized symbols of the horrors of the Atlantic slave trade that trapped tens of millions of Africans in bo…
UN Rights Chief Launches $452 Million Appeal to Protect, Defend Human Rights
The U.N.’s top human rights official, Volker Türk, appealed Friday for $452 million to fund the critical work of the high commissioner’s office in protecting and defending human rights throughout the world this year.The high commissioner’s office is th…