Marta Santos Pais

Oct 13, 2023 | passblue.com | Arthur Bassas |Banjo Damilola |Joseph Chamie |Navi Pillay |Marta Santos Pais

Welcome to This Week @UN, where we summarize the most important news emanating from the organization as well as promote our own articles that you may have missed in the last seven days. Since Saturday, Oct. 7, the murder spree by the Hamas militant group in Israel that continues today, as well as the retaliation by Israeli defense forces in the Gaza Strip, which is controlled by Hamas, has led the United Nations spokesperson's daily briefings. On Oct.

Oct 8, 2023 | passblue.com | Navi Pillay |Marta Santos Pais |Banjo Damilola |Joseph Chamie

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights lies at the heart of global efforts to end the death penalty. So as its 75th anniversary approaches on Dec. 10 and as we mark the 21st World Day Against the Death Penalty, on Oct. 10, we welcome the steady progress to ban such measures by countries across the globe. When the human rights declaration was adopted in late 1948, only 14 countries had abolished capital punishment.

Sep 21, 2023 | passblue.com | Dulcie Leimbach |Banjo Damilola |Alan Doss |Navi Pillay |Marta Santos Pais |Joseph Chamie

The United Nations Secretariat has received requests from both the ousted government of Nigerien President Mohamed Bazoum, who has been held hostage in Niger's capital Niamey by the country's military since it staged a coup d'état on July 26, 2023, and from the coup-led regime of Gen. Abdourahmane Tchiani, to allow their respective representatives to speak at the world leaders' annual gathering of the UN General Assembly. It ends on Sept. 26.