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U.N. has failed in its global responsibilities

By Joseph R. DeTrani

Israeli women demand the immediate release of the Israeli hostages held in the Gaza Strip by the Hamas militant group at a protest in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. Israel says Hamas is still holding more than 100 people it captured in an Oct. 7 raid that triggered the current war with Israel. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Seeking justice: UN’s troubling bias against Israeli women amid calls for accountability

By Danielle Ofek – Special to Higher Ground

Family and supporters of the hostages held captive by Hamas in Gaza complete the final leg of a four-day march from the Israel-Gaza border to Jerusalem, to demand the immediate release of all hostages, near Jerusalem, Saturday, March 2, 2024. The hostages, mostly Israeli citizens, were abducted during the brutal Oct. 7 Hamas cross-border attack in Israel and have been held in the enclave since as war rages. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Hamas raped corpses, carried out ‘sexualized torture’ during Oct. 7 attack on Israel: U.N. report

By Staff - The Washington Times

Inmates gather inside the National Penitentiary in downtown Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sunday, March 3, 2024. Hundreds of inmates fled Haiti's main prison after armed gangs stormed the facility overnight. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

Haiti orders nightly curfew trying to restore calm after a weekend of violence and prison break

By Evens Sano and Pierre-Richard Luxama - Associated Press

U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk speaks at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023. The U.N. human rights chief called Monday, March 4, 2024, for a quick end to the “repression of independent voices” in Russia and expressed concerns about the “persecution" of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died in prison last month. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP, File)

U.N. rights chief urges end to ‘repression’ of independent voices in Russia after Navalny’s death

By Jamey Keaten - Associated Press

The site of a music festival near the border with the Gaza Strip in southern Israel, Oct. 12, 2023. The U.N. envoy focusing on sexual violence in conflict said in a new report Monday, March 4, 2024, that there are “reasonable grounds” to believe Hamas committed rape, “sexualized torture,” and other cruel and inhumane treatment of women during its surprise attack in southern Israel on Oct. 7. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg, File)

U.N. envoy says ‘reasonable grounds’ to believe Hamas committed sexual violence on Oct. 7

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

Soldiers serving with the United Nations peacekeeping force (UNFICYP) in ethnically-divided Cyprus stand during a parade marking the 60th anniversary of the force's inception, inside a U.N. controlled buffer zone that separates breakaway Turkish Cypriots in the north and Greek Cypriots in the internationally recognized south, on Monday, March 4, 2024. More than 150,000 peacekeepers from 43 countries have served with UNFICYP since 1964 with 187 soldiers and staff losing their lives while serving with the mission. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

In ethnically split Cyprus, buffer zone tensions persist after decades, a U.N. official says

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Families of hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip gather in Re'im, southern Israel, as they begin their march to Jerusalem calling for the release of hostages, Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024. They began the four-day march at the site where hundreds of revelers at the Nova music festival were killed or captured by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Food aid reaches north Gaza for first time in weeks. Israeli hostages’ families push for release

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Israeli soldiers drive a tanks near the Gaza Strip border, in southern Israel, Monday, Feb. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Live updates | 2 killed in Gaza where Palestinians were seeking shelter: Doctors Without Borders

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Palestinians line up for a free meal in Rafah, Gaza Strip, Friday, Feb. 16, 2024. The World Food Program said Tuesday it has paused deliveries of food to isolated northern Gaza because of increasing chaos across the territory, hiking fears of potential starvation. A study by the U.N. children's agency warned that one in six children in the north are acutely malnourished. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair, File)

Why isn’t desperately needed aid reaching Palestinians in Gaza?

By Joseph Krauss - Associated Press

Palestinian looks from his house damaged by Israeli airstrikes in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Hatem Ali)

U.N. agency says it can’t deliver aid to northern Gaza because of chaos, and famine fears are rising

By Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy - Associated Press

African heads of state attend the 37th Ordinary session of the Assembly of the African Union (AU) Summit at the AU headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on Feb. 17, 2024. Arab nations are putting to a vote a U.N. resolution demanding an immediate humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza, knowing it will be vetoed by the United States but hoping to show broad global support for ending the Israel-Hamas war. (AP Photo)

U.N. Security Council is voting on a Gaza cease-fire on Tuesday, with the U.S. certain to veto

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

The Security Council meets before voting on a resolution concerning a ceasefire in Gaza at United Nations headquarters, Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

U.S. vetoes an Arab-backed U.N. resolution demanding an immediate humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

Freezing funding to U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees

UNRWA is the tip of the iceberg at United Nations

By Olga Deutsch

Afghan women wait to receive food rations distributed by a humanitarian aid group, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on May 23, 2023. Afghan women feel scared or unsafe leaving their home alone because of Taliban decrees and enforcement campaigns on clothing and male guardians, according to a report from the U.N. mission in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

Taliban decrees on clothing and male guardians leave Afghan women scared to go out alone

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The Commissioner-General of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, Philippe Lazzarini, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at the UNRWA headquarters in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023.The head of the main United Nations agency supporting people in Gaza alleges that Israel is intent on “destroying” it along with the idea that Palestinians are refugees and have a right one day to return home. Philippe Lazzarini in an interview with a Swiss newspaper accuses Israel of having a “long-term political goal” of eliminating the agency created decades ago to assist Palestinians who fled during the war over Israel’s creation. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein, File)

The head of the U.N.’s lead agency helping Palestinians accuses Israel of seeking to destroy it

By Cara Anna - Associated Press

An Israeli medical team evacuate a person injured by a rocket fired from Lebanon, at Ziv hospital in Safed, northern Israel, Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2024. Israeli media reported 1 killed and eight wounded in the rocket attack. The town, which is around 12 kilometers (7 miles) from the border is farther south than most of the daily border skirmishes with Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group. (AP Photo/Gil Eliyahu)

Live updates | Israel’s war against Hamas, now in its fifth month, has devastated Gaza’s hospitals

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Smoke rises after a bombardment in the Gaza Strip as seen from southern, Israel, Monday, Feb. 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Live updates | China calls on Israel to halt military operations in Gaza as soon as possible

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Israeli soldiers guard a crater-like hole giving way to a small tunnel entrance in UNRWA compound where the military discovered tunnels underneath the main headquarters of the U.N. agency that the military says Hamas militants used to attack its forces during a ground operation in Gaza, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024. The Israeli military says it has discovered tunnels underneath the main headquarters of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees in Gaza City, alleging that Hamas militants used the space as an electrical supply room. The unveiling of the tunnels marked the latest chapter in Israel's campaign against the embattled agency, which it accuses of collaborating with Hamas. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Biden faces pressure to cut funding for U.N. relief agency after Hamas data center found

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Israeli soldiers take position as they enter the UNRWA headquarter where the military discovered tunnels underneath of the U.N. agency that the military says Hamas militants used to attack its forces during a ground operation in Gaza, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024. The Israeli military says it has discovered tunnels underneath the main headquarters of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees in Gaza City, alleging that Hamas militants used the space as an electrical supply room. The unveiling of the tunnels marked the latest chapter in Israel's campaign against the embattled agency, which it accuses of collaborating with Hamas. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Israel unveils tunnels underneath Gaza City headquarters of U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees

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