The Security Council failed to provide aid to Syria from Türkiye

He security Council failed to expand the mechanism that would allow the supply of humanitarian aid from Turkey to some four million people in northwestern Syria.

The first resolution, tabled by Brazil and Switzerland, authorizes the passage of the last stronghold held by the opposition for continued use for nine months vetoed by Russia. China abstained and 13 other members voted in favor.

Russia filed a second draft resolutionauthorizes the passage for six months, which also fails Not getting the support needed. Russia and China voted in favour, the United States, Britain and France voted against, and ten other countries abstained.

To be adopted, a resolution needs at least nine votes in favor and no vetoes by Russia, China, the United States, France or Britain.

Authorization for humanitarian convoys to use the Bab al Hawa border crossing ends at midnight July 10.

He general Secretary he regretted the Council was unable to reach an agreement and said that cross-border assistance from the United Nations remained “a real lifeline”. To that end, he asked Council members to reach an agreement to renew assistance “as long as possible”.

Israel has turned Palestine “into an open prison,” the UN rapporteur said

A UN expert denounced that Israel had turned Palestine into an “open prison”.

Francesca Albanese, special rapporteur* on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, said that since 1967 Israel has detained around one million Palestinians in the occupied territories, including tens of thousands of children. Currently, there are 5,000 Palestinians in Israeli prisons, including 160 children, and around 1,100 are being held without charge or trial.

“Most of the punishments are violations of international law and the result of criminalize everyday activities”, denounced the Albanians in front of the press.

“Palestinians are found guilty without evidence, arrested without warrants, too often detained without charge or trial, and abused while in custody,” continuous.

Israel’s illegal prison practices, he stressed, constitute an international crime that requires an urgent investigation by the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. Even more so since these crimes appear to be part of a plan to “depalestinize” the region.

Albanese stressed that residents of the Palestinian territories face “blockades, walls, segregated infrastructure, checkpoints and (Jewish) colonies surrounding Palestinian towns and villages.”

“There is no other way to define the regime that Israel imposes on Palestine, an apartheid, like what a open air prison”, conclude.

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Women attend a training session on health and education in Rajasthan, India.

Gender equality will take 300 years to reach its current level of progress, said the Secretary-General in his message for World Population Day, which this year is dedicated to the discrimination suffered by women and girls.

António Guterres said that “improvements in maternal health and access to family planning have progressed very slowly.”

The Secretary General emphasized that gender discrimination is detrimental to all of us.

“It is very important to promote gender equality, improve maternal health and empower women by giving them reproductive freedom, because such progress is very important to achieve all the Sustainable Development Goals,” he stressed.

The United States is once again a member of UNESCO

UNESCO headquarters in Paris. Photo: UNESCO/Michel Ravassard

On July 10, the United States formally adopted the Constitution of the United Nations Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (UNESCO). From now on, once again become a full member of the Organization, which has 194 member countries.

“This is a historic moment. Our organization is once again advancing towards universality (…) This is great news for multilateralism as a whole. If we are to face the challenges of our century, there can only be a collective response“, emphasized Audrey Azoulay, director of UNESCO.

Azoulay explained that the additional resources the United States would provide would help provide more support to “students and students, researchers, students, artists, educators, journalists…” and that UNESCO would have more funding for two of its strategic priorities: Africa and Gender Equality.

*The special rapporteur is part of “Special Procedure” from Human Rights Council. Special Procedures, the largest body of independent experts in the United Nations system on Human Rights, is the general name for the independent fact-finding and monitoring mechanisms set up by the Council to deal with specific country situations or thematic issues around the world. Special Procedures Specialists work on a voluntary basis; they are not UN staff and do not receive a salary for their work. They are independent from any government or organization and act in their respective capacities.