Hello, I’m Ben bringing you Geneva Solutions’ Peace and Humanitarian news coverage, produced this week in collaboration with The New Humanitarian.
Today, we’re covering major movements at the United Nations, as President Biden announces the US will rejoin the Human Rights Council while seeking to reform the “flawed body”. Over in New York, the top humanitarian official Mark Lowcock has announced he’s stepping down. We look at his time in office and who might replace him.
We’re also talking to experts about the crises to watch in 2021 and why the “F-word”, famine, has been on the tongues of leading humanitarians. |
The US will rejoin the council as an observer while seeking reforms of the body. (AP Photo / Alex Brandon)
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Peace and humanitarian news
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🔮 What tomorrow holds.
Humanitarian journalists, analysts and aid workers share hopes and fears for 2021, and the trends they’ll be keeping on their radar - from vaccine nationalism to violence against women.
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Here’s what else is happening
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Protestors in Port-au-Prince demanded the resignation of Haiti’s president on Sunday. (EPA / Jean Marc Herve Abelard)
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‘Coup attempt’ in Haiti.
While the eyes of the world are fixed on Myanmar, there have been allegations of another potential ‘coup’ in Haiti, where President Jovenel Moïse says an attempt to kill him and overthrow the government has been foiled. The news comes amid a dispute over when his term in office ends, with opponents saying it finished on Sunday while the president insists he isn’t due to depart until February 2022. At least 23 people were arrested during clashes with police when protestors took to the streets following his refusal to step down.
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