Growing fears of chemical Armageddon in Syria
Will Syria’s huge chemical weapons stockpile be used by the regime against its own people? Will it be transferred to Lebanon for use against Israel? Or could it fall into the hands of jihadists?
Will Syria’s huge chemical weapons stockpile be used by the regime against its own people? Will it be transferred to Lebanon for use against Israel? Or could it fall into the hands of jihadists?
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The UN has a vital job in Syria, but with violence increasing, it is becoming increasingly difficult for the organisation to operate there and staff are being pulled out.
Alex Thomson reports on a bloody day in Damascus as the UN withdraws staff in the latest in our Syria’s Descent series.
All sides tell lies in war, but this latest claim by the Syrian government, of a chemical attack near Aleppo, is one that the UN is taking seriously.
Syrian rebels abduct more than 20 UN peacekeepers the Golan Heights ceasefire zone pushing back the frontier of their war with President Bashar al-Assad.
The UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, discusses violence in South Africa with Channel 4 News, including the “shocking” rate of rape and the shooting of the Marikana miners.
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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay tells Channel 4 News that she is “deeply disturbed” by the shooting of a Sri Lankan journalist and calls on the Sri Lankan government to protect him.
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The UN human rights commissioner didn’t mince her words this week when she accused the Sri Lankan government of “triumphalism” in the Tamil north, home of the vanquished Tamil Tiger insurgency.
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“At the risk of repeating myself, there’s some nonsense being pedalled on social media about the story we broke recently in Aqrab.”