Blog posts tagged "United Nations"

March 2, 2012 12:59 pm 3 Comments

As Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin calls for reconciliation in Syria, Lindsey Hilsum wonders if he is really moved by the suffering of the citizens of Homs?

February 10, 2012 3:48 pm 2 Comments

Channel 4 News International Editor Lindsey Hilsum blogs on China's veto of the UN Security Council resolution on Syria

11:06 am 2 Comments

When the UN Secretary General describes what is already a desperate situation in Syria as "a grim harbinger of worse to come", you know things are bad.

February 6, 2012 6:59 pm 3 Comments

Channel 4 News International Editor Lindsey Hilsum blogs on the options for dealing with the violence in Syria

November 17, 2011 5:26 pm 1 Comment

Behind the scenes, the diplomatic momentum on Syria is growing. We are not just talking about the Arab League giving President Assad three days to halt the violence. I understand that senior American diplomats are travelling to Paris today to meet Syrian opposition figures, as well as a conclave of the British, French, Turks, Saudis [...]

October 9, 2011 12:50 pm 35 Comments

On his last trip to Sri Lanka, Defence Secretary Liam Fox called on the country to properly investigate its actions at the end of the civil war. But what, blogs Channel 4 News Foreign Editor Ben De Pear, was Adam Werritty doing at Mr Fox's meetings with the regime?

October 13, 2010 10:28 am 4 Comments

The endemic sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo is not an unreported story - but reporting itself cannot make the difference, as Lindsey Hilsum writes of new hope that the perpetrators could be caught.

October 1, 2010 5:49 pm No Comments

International Editor Lindsey Hilsum on the grim reality of what lies behind today's report on genocide in the Congo.

September 21, 2010 11:51 am 2 Comments

Lindsey Hilsum blogs on how Millennium Development Goals targets to reduce poverty have been met by countries that have adopted successful capitalist policies, and not by relying on foreign aid.

August 24, 2010 6:51 pm 2 Comments

Ban Ki-moon is dispatching the Assistant Secretary General in charge of Peacekeeping to Congo to find out why peacekeepers did not stop the rape of nearly 200 women in one of the most shocking incidents in the 15 year long civil war.