A message to Lebanon’s next government: recover stolen wealth, build accountability
Op-Ed published by L'Orient Today (11/05/2022) The Lebanese population will have an opportunity to change the course of its history...
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Press Release: Lebanon: UN expert warns of ‘failing State’ amid widespread poverty
العربية GENEVA (11 May 2022) – The destructive actions of Lebanon’s political and financial leaders are responsible for forcing most...
Diversity is a challenge in Nepal’s fight against poverty, yet its management can be a lesson to the world
OnlineKhabar - Nasana Bajracharya On November 25, the United Nations approved a historic resolution to promote Nepal from the least...
Les termes du débat sur France Culture : “Inégalités”
Alors que les écarts de richesse et de patrimoine se creusent dans la plupart des pays, pourquoi les inégalités ne...
Press release: Nepal must now deliver on promise of social justice – UN human rights expert
In Nepali here --------- Video of the press conference here KATHMANDU (9 December 2021) – Nepal has one of the...
Press conference invitation: UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights presents Nepal mission findings
Online and in the UN House - 9 December at 12 noon (Kathmandu time) --------- Nepali click here --------- On...
Kathmandu Post: ‘We have nowhere to go. The state doesn’t count us as humans’
After years of endless hardships, Thapathali’s squatter settlers tell their pleas to the visiting UN Special Rapporteur, Olivier De Schutter....
States must prioritize health and equality over profits and vaccine hoarding, UN experts say
Omicron and other new variants underline urgency to act GENEVA (29 November 2021) – UN human rights experts* today urged...
Media advisory: UN human rights expert to visit Nepal to assess poverty
In Nepali GENEVA (24 November 2021) – The UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Olivier De Schutter,...
Thomson Reuters Foundation: Lebanon’s most impoverished city, Tripoli’s decades-long decline traces the history of marginalization in Lebanon – and warns of the desperation still to come
By Maya Gebeily TRIPOLI, Nov 10 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - After patiently waiting in line, Umm Mustafa extended two grubby...
Al Jazeera: UN rep slams Lebanon central bank chief over economic crisis
A UN expert blasted the country’s banking sector for failing to recognize its role in the country’s crippling economic crisis....
Press release : Lebanon – UN poverty expert says Government fails population
-------------In Arabic here------------- Watch online here BEIRUT (12 November 2021) – The Lebanese authorities’ destruction of the national currency, political...