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• 🚸Israel targeted Gaza children resulting in genocide, UN inquiry says. The findings, by the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, come after an earlier report published in September said Israel had committed genocide in Gaza – accusations that the country rejected as “libellous sham”.
  Reuters (EN)
• 🇸🇩Sexual violence used as ‘weapon of war’ in Sudan conflict: UN report. The UN Human Rights Office said sexual violence has accompanied both the geographic spread of the conflict and has been used to terrorise civilians, with 546 incidents recorded across 16 of Sudan’s 18 states since the start of the war.
  Anadolu Agency (EN)
• 🏭UN chief says fossil fuel industry must cut methane for warming ‘relief’. In a major speech at London Climate Action Week, as severe heatwaves gripped the UK and several parts of the world, António Guterres said countries had not done enough to keep global warming below the globally agreed goal. He pointed to coal, oil and gas as the root of today’s climate and energy crises.
  Climate Home News (EN)
• 🚧Who dares to take on the hurdles to peace? The UN is filling the position of secretary general. Here are 25 interview questions that should deter any sensible person from applying for the challenging role.
  Republik🔐 (DE)
• 🎙️Defending the defenceless. In this interview, Karen Tse, a former US public defender and the founder of International Bridges to Justice , a Geneva-based organisation focused on protecting the legal rights of citizens in developing countries, describes how providing early access to a lawyer can end investigative torture.
  The McKay Interview (EN)
• 📚Inside Geneva: books to make you think. Podcast host, BBC journalist Imogen Foulkes, looks at what tomes to read this summer, from an inside account of USAID as it was being torn apart, and a forensic analysis of the language used by US media to report the war in Gaza.
  Swissinfo (EN)