UN Commission Confirms Surge in Repression in Venezuela Following Presidential Elections
The International Mission has also denounced that among the various practices are torture to extract confessions, threats, and sexual violence….
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UN Security Council Rejects Extension of Sanctions Relief for Iran
On September 19, the UN Security Council voted on a draft resolution presented by the Republic of Korea, in its capacity as Council president, which sought to continue sanctions relief imposed on Iran under the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). The text did not pass: it received four votes in favor (Algeria, China, Pakistan, and Russia), nine against (Denmark, France, Greece, Panama, Sierra Leone, Slovenia, Somalia, the United Kingdom, and the United States), and two abstentions (Guyana and South Korea itself).
Chronicle: Sérgio Vieira de Mello, A Peacebuilder Between Ruins and Hope
Amid refugee camps, in the rubble of a failed state, or in the gray halls of international diplomacy, there was a man who believed in the impossible…