April 2016: 26 April 2016: Security Council asks UN's Secretary-General to submit a broad plan within 30 days detailing how his Yemen envoy can help the warring Yemeni parties move towards peace - 29 April: Ukraine's Vadym Prystaiko said at a meeting of the UN Security Council that the Russian Federation had concentrated a 34,000-strong hybrid military force in the occupied part of Donbas

May 2016: 4 May 2016: UN Security Council condemnation of North Korea's latest missile tests has been delayed by Russian regime - 5 May: An an emergency meeting of the Security Council UN's Feltman calls for referring Syrian Assad regime to ICC, charging the regime with war crimes - 7 May 2016: Russia blocks UN statement on Syria airstrikes - 13 May 2016: UN Security Council expressed its outrage at recent attacks in Syria targeting civilians and medical facilities, stressing these actions may amount to war crimes, as the SNHR said that it had documented 23 massacres by regime and Russian forces, hundreds of barrel bomb attacks, that claimed the lives of hundreds of civilians, and the death of 26 detainees killed under torture in April - 14 May 2016: Assad regime and Russian forces stepped up airstrikes on rural Idlib, concentrated on populated areas and vital civilian facilities on Friday, killing 20 civilians and injuring at least 35 - 18 May 2016: The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office accuses the Assad regime of directly violating UN Security Council Resolution 2268 by seizing medical aid bound to civilians trapped in the besieged areas and preventing the evacuation of those in urgent need for treatment - 29 May: The number of Syrians living under siege has grown by some 75,000 to total 592,700, underscoring the worsening plight of civilians in the five-year war, the UN aid chief Stephen O’Brien tells the Security Council, saying that the use of siege and starvation as a weapon of war was 'reprehensible' and 'must stop immediately'

June 2016: 1 June 2016: Hospitals are now normal targets of war, Médecins Sans Frontières' Michiel Hofman says, describing permanent members of the UN security council as complicit in killings, after Russia blamed for new strikes which targeted two hospitals and other parts of Idlib city, killing scores - 2 juin 2016: Le Conseil de sécurité de l'ONU a condamné les trois récents tirs manqués de missiles balistiques effectués par la Corée du Nord - 14 June: Saudi Arabia-backed Syrian High Negotiations Committee's Agha slams Russia's attempts to postpone political transition, saying that the UN Security Council resolution 2254 has been ignored by Russia and rejected by the Assad regime - 21 June 2016: After Russian jets on Monday bombed the towns of Huraytan, Hayyan, Anadan, Kafar Hamra, Maaret Alartiq, Urm Alqubra, Messibin, Babees and Anjara in rural Aleppo, reportedly using cluster munitions and killing at least 21 civilians and injuring dozens more, Syrian Coalition calls for UN action to stop Russia’s use of banned weapons in Syria - 24 June 2016: 12 civilians were killed and dozens more injured in Aleppo in airstrikes by Russian jets, using internationally banned weapons, most notably incendiary and cluster munitions - 24 June 2016: Saudi Arabia-backed HNC urges UN to protect Syrian civilians from Russian incendiary bombs, as UN's Stephen O’Brien says that the use of barrel bombs in the Syrian conflict 'constitutes indiscriminate attacks' against civilians, adding that their sole purpose is 'to terrorize and punish the civilian population'

July 2016: 11 juillet 2016: 'Le Conseil de sécurité s'est reposé sur la bonne volonté des dirigeants du Soudan du Sud' et 'a brandi des menaces vides d'embargo sur les armes et de sanctions individuelles' et a ainsi échoué à empêcher les violences dans la crise au Soudan du Sud, selon Human Rights Watch - 11 juillet 2016: Le Conseil de sécurité a sollicité dimanche l'aide des pays de la région pour mettre fin aux combats au Soudan du Sud et leur a demandé en particulier de fournir des Casques bleus supplémentaires à sa mission dans le pays - 16 July 2016: Syrian Coalition calls for emergency UNSC meeting to address Assad’s military escalation and the dangerous deteriorating situation on the ground in Syria in particular in Aleppo and Daraya

August 2016: 2 August 2016: One year after the UN security council adopted a resolution that set a 12 month-deadline to identify the perpetrators of chlorine attacks in Syria, dozens injured in a chemical attack using a gas cylinder laced with chlorine and targeting the town of Saraqeb in Idlib province, which is under opposition control, and near where a Russian helicopter was shot down on Monday - 2 August 2016: Syrian Coalition demands UN action under chapter VII following Assad regime chlorine attacks on Saraqib in Idlib province - 4 August 2016: Daraya local council calls on the United Nations to immediately enforce provisions set out in international resolutions pertaining to the situation in besieged areas, as Assad helicopters drop Napalm-filled barrels on Daraya and the humanitarian situation deteriorates - 8 August 2016: As Syria’s Assad regime and Russian regime are carrying out daily airstrikes, MSF's Silvia Dallatomasina demands an immediate end to attacks on hospitals, pointing that four out of five UN security council members were participants in the war in Syria, after hospital supported by Doctors Without Borders in rebel-held northern province of Idlib that specialized in pediatrics hit by series of airstrikes in broad daylight, leaving four staff and five children dead and injuring six other hospital staff members, and after UN said it had recorded 44 attacks on health facilities in Syria in July alone - 9 August 2016: UN Security Council warns Russia's proposed 'Safe Passages' are risky - 10 August 2016: Medical workers in Syrian liberated areas say that Russian and Assad regime air forces targeted around 36 medical facilities within the last 40 days in blatant violation of UN Security Council Resolution 2286 adopted on 3 May 2016, strongly condemning attacks on medical facilities and personnel - 10 August 2016: Alwaer residents appeal to UN as Assad regime tightens siege, violating UN resolutions - 12 August 2016: With 11 votes and four abstentions UN approves increase in peacekeeping force in South Sudan, as an additional 4,000 peacekeepers will be dispatched, making the total deployment 17,000 troops, that will be asked to take more 'proactive' measures to protect civilians - 16 August 2016: Over 100 barrel bombs hit Daraya in rural Damascus, some filled with napalm, as the local council callsd on the United Nations and international organizations to intervene immediately to stop the war crimes - 16 August 2016: Syrian Coalition's Bashar says that the UN has so far failed to enforce own resolutions passed on Syria, only offering flawed proposals - 17 August 2016: Assad regime and Russian terrorist air forces continue to brutally bomb Aleppo, Idlib and Daraya, killing over 400 civilians in the past week, using internationally banned weapons, most notably cluster bombs, vacuum bombs, napalm and barrel bombs - 18 August 2016: The injuring of five-year-old Omran Daqneesh 'is a daily fact of Russian and Syrian government airstrikes' and 'they take turns bombing civilians in Aleppo before the whole world', 'this child is a representative of millions of children in Syria and its cities', Aleppo-based journalist Mustafa al-Sarout says - UN World Humanitarian Day 19 August 2016 - 22 August 2016: 'I'm angry, very angry...this callous carnage that is Syria has long since moved from the cynical, to the sinful', UN's Stephen O'Brien tells the UN Security Council, adding that Aleppo is being bombed every day and has become 'the apex of horror' in 'the greatest crisis of our time', that 'you have the power with a pen - a simple pen stroke - to allow food to people' - 24 August 2016: Reports by independent human rights groups indicate that the Assad regime has used chemical weapons 136 times since the adoption of UN Security Council resolution 2118 on 27 September 2013, as Syrian Coalition calls upon the UN Security Council to re-open the file of the 2013 Ghouta Massacre and refer it to the ICC - 24 August 2016: International inquiry accuses Syrian Assad regime of using chemical weapons, setting the stage for a Security Council decision of the five veto-wielding powers over whether sanctions should be imposed, as the Syrian Coalition repeats its call for referring the chemical weapons dossier in Syria to the International Criminal Court - 26 August 2016: As Syrian Coalition's Nyrabiya urges UNSC to refer chemical attacks case to ICC, warning that blocking this move will encourage the culture of impunity prevalent in Syria and will give a green light to perpetrators to carry out more crimes using internationally banned weapons, USA permanent representative to the United Nations S. Power calls the use of chemicals 'a barbaric tool, repugnant to the conscience of mankind' and urges the UN to take 'strong and swift action' - 30 August: Syrian Coalition's letter to UN Secretary General on Assad regime’s use of the UN as a 'cover' for mass displacement aimed at bringing about a demographic change in Syria - 30/31 August 2016: Russian air force carried out dozens of airstrikes on Idlib city and its countryside, using internationally banned weapons, including napalm and white phosphorus

September 2016: 1 September 2016: Human Rights Watch calls on the UN Security Council to urgently impose sanctions on the Assad regime for chemical weapon attacks in Syria and refer the situation to the International Criminal Court - 3 September: Syrian Coalition sent a letter to the UN Secretary-General concerning the third report of the OPCW-UN Joint Investigative Mechanism on the use of chemical weapons in Syria, calling for action against Assad - 6 septembre: L'ONU condamne les tirs nord-coréens - 8 September 2016: As chemical weapons watchdog chief says Aleppo gas attack disturbing, the UN Security Council is due to discuss a report by the UN and the watchdog group OPCW, blaming Assad regime forces for previous toxic gas attacks - 16 September 2016: UN-led international inquiry has identified two Syrian Assad regime air force helicopter squadrons and two other military units it holds responsible for chlorine gas attacks on civilians - 17 September: UN Security Council cancels meeting on Syria - 18 September: USA ambassador to the UN Samantha Power describes Russia’s call for an emergency closed-door security council meeting over an incident, that possibly killed through an error Assad regime military personnel, a 'stunt' that was 'uniquely cynical and hypocritical' as Russia had for years blocked UN punitive measures against the Syrian Assad regime and its perpetrators for the barrel bombing of civilian populations in rebel-held cities - 19 September 2016: At least eight civilians were killed and dozens more injured in Assad regime barrel bombs attacks on the southern Daraa province - 20 September 2016: USA blames Russia after UN aid convoy in Syria targeted by air attack and UN official says 'inexplicable' attack could amount to a war crime if bombing which killed aid workers proved to be deliberate - 20 September 2016: Red Cross president says attack on UN and Red Crescent convoy delivering supplies is unacceptable violation of international law and UN suspends all aid convoy movements in Syria after airstrike - 20 September: The UN said 18 of the trucks were damaged or destroyed and insisted that the damage to them had been caused by airstrikes, as bystanders at the scene of the attacks reported multiple airstrikes, and airstrikes in the area are realized only by Russian and Assad warplanes - 21 September 2016: Russian planes dropped bombs that destroyed UN aid convoy and killed at least 20 people in opposition-controlled Urem al-Kubra in Syria, according to USA officials also saying two Russian Sukhoi SU-24 warplanes were in the sky above the aid convoy at the precise time it was struck - 21 September: Speaking at UN Security Council meeting on Syria, USA secretary of state John Kerry accuses the Syrian Assad regime of dropping barrel bombs on children and bombing hospitals, adding that the council members know that these are flagrant violations of international law - 24 September: Syrian Coalition condemns the barbaric onslaught launched by the Assad regime and Russian forces on Aleppo, slamming the inaction of the international community and its failure to stop heinous crimes in Syria, despite promises and condemnations repeated again, again and again - 25 September 2016: UN security council to meet on Syria amid intense bombardment, appearing to include extremely powerful 'bunker buster' bombs, by Assad and Russian forces that left dozens dead and nearly 2 million without water in the city of Aleppo - 25 September: Russia accused of war crimes in Syria at UN security council session, as the ambassadors from the USA, Britain and France walk out of the council chamber in protest against Assad regime's Ja’afari and the regime's war crimes - 27 September 2016: Syrian photographer code-named Caesar wins 2017 Nuremberg International Human Rights Award for exposing torture in Assad’s prisons - 28 september 2016: As Unicef counts 96 children killed and 223 injured since Friday, the two largest hospitals in besieged eastern Aleppo, which serve a quarter of a million civilians, bombed out of service by Russian and Assad regime airforces, in what doctors describe as a catastrophic campaign that is testing the conscience of the world, giving account that 'children ... are coming to us as body parts' - 28 September 2016: Condemning Russian and Assad regime's attacks on the two largest hospitals in eastern Aleppo as 'war crimes', UN's Ban Ki-moon says that 'those using ever more destructive weapons know exactly what they are doing' - 29 September 2016: Daily life in Aleppo will descend into hell within a month under air strikes from the regime and its Russian ally, civil defense official Meshal warns - 29 September: UN's Stephen O’Brien asks the Security Council 'whether there is any level of disaster and death that can be visited upon the Syrian people that might prompt the parties to this conflict, and by extension the international community, to identify a red line that will not be crossed', as the UN itself has come under intense scrutiny in recent months, with aid organisations, human rights groups and NGOs accusing it of being too close to the Assad regime without scruple and its accomplices to murder - 30 September 2016: Syrian Coalition’s legal committee submits a memorandum to the UN Security Council on the genocidal war the Assad regime as well as its Russian and Iranian allies wage on Aleppo

October 2016: 1 October 2016: Syrian Coalition’s Michel Kilo says that the international community must deter Russian aggression on Syria, warning that Russia is drawing the world to the precipice of chaos and mayhem and that Russia’s actions threaten the creation of the same conditions Hitler’s policies created and which led to the breakout of World War II - 8 October 2016: UN to vote on rival Syria resolutions and likely veto both - 9 October 2016: French foreign minister Ayrault compares Aleppo's likely fate to Guernica during the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939, Srebrenica during the Bosnian war and the Chechen capital Grozny destroyed by the Russian army in the mid-1990s, saying 'it is the annihilation of Aleppo', declaring that the continued bombing by Russian and Assad forces will leave the city in ruins, a place where citizens will be left to their 'executioners', as Russian regime vetoes French-drafted UN Resolution demanding immediate halt to Aleppo bombing, and a number of ambassadors walked out, including the representatives of Britain, France, Ukraine, the USA, when Assad regime's UN ambassador Ja'afari started speaking - 11 October 2016: UN's Ban Ki-moon on Monday again asked the Security Council to formally request that the International Criminal Court ICC begin investigations of war crimes in Syria - 12 October: At least 62 countries signed a letter calling on the UN Security Council to prevent further deaths resulting from a 'calculated campaign' by the Assad regime and its allies on Aleppo - 13 October: New Zealand circulated to the 15-member UN Security Council a draft resolution that would demand an end to all attacks that kill civilians in Syria, particularly air strikes in Aleppo, just days after Russia vetoed a similar text - 14 octobre 2016: Le Royaume-Uni va présenter un projet de résolution au Conseil de sécurité de l'ONU réclamant un cessez-le-feu immédiat au Yémen après le carnage perpétré dans la capitale Sanaa lors d'une cérémonie funéraire - 19 October 2016: Russian convoy of warships, including an aircraft carrier carrying fighter bombers, passes Britain on its way to Syria, monitored by governments and politicians, since nearly 6 years concerned about their discussion threads with brutal Russian, Iranian and Assad terrorists and not about the victims, where it is thought they will participate in a final assault on the besieged city of Aleppo, where children are coming as body parts to surviving doctors in out bombed hospitals - 21 October: The Syrian Coalition and the Free Syrian Army say that the UN continues to ignore Russia’s crimes and its violations of international law in Syria - 22 October 2016: International inquiry has found Syrian Assad regime forces responsible for a third toxic gas attack in Qmenas in Idlib governorate on 16 March 2015, according to a fourth report submitted to the UN Security Council, after the third report by the inquiry in August blamed Assad for two chlorine attacks in Talmenes on 21 April 2014 and Sarmin on 16 March 2015, following Ghouta chemical attacks in August 2013 on opposition-controlled areas in the suburbs around Damascus using chemical agent sarin, and after in September 2013 the USA Senate filed a resolution to authorize use of military force against Assad's military in response, averted when the murderous regime accepted a USA–Russian negotiated deal to turn over 'every single bit' of its chemical weapons stockpiles for destruction, but has in reality encouraged Assad to escalate his war against the Syrian people, to invite the Russian regime and its murderous military to join Assad's terrorism and to annihilate the Syrian democracy and any opposition against dictatorship - 27 October 2016: UN humanitarian chief Stephen O’Brien calls the failure of the UN security council, and Russia in particular, to stop the bombing of eastern Aleppo and the mass killing of civilians 'our generation’s shame', as envoys from France,the UK and USA come to the UN’s defence against a Russian regime's envoy, who should not sit in New York but in The Hague's ICC for complicity, as Russian or Assad's warplanes in their recent terror attack kill at least 26 people, most of them schoolchildren, teachers and rescue workers, in Syria's Idlib - 27 October 2016: The USA directly accuses either Syria or Russia of being behind airstrikes that destroyed a school complex in Idlib province on Wednesday, as rescue workers describe details of the attack that levelled much of the area, killing almost 40 people, and as a doctor who treated many of the wounded says most of the dead were children aged six to 15 as well as female teachers, putting the number of injured at more than 100 and describing that many of the children who had arrived at the hospital had lost limbs - 28 October 2016: SOHR condemns the massacres committed by the Russian and Syrian warplanes against the Syrian citizens in Syria and in Idlib's Has, murdering in the recent school attack at least 37 civilians including 15 students, 4 teachers, 3 females, and a doctor, who died wounded after the aerial bombardment, as regime forces and allies are perpetuating their terror attacks on the towns of Safohin and al-Mozara in Idlib province and across the country, despite international condemnation, due to inactivity and complicity of some states, regimes and parties - 9 November 2016: As the Assad regime’s mass forced displacement operations, which amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, Syrian Coalition's Mohammed Jojah criticizes the international community’s failure to take action against the regime’s policies, saying that apart from shy calls by some friendly countries to end the conflict, the international community has not yet assumed its responsibility to put an end to the crimes of the Assad regime and its allies - 16 November 2016: New report by human rights group SNHR claims Assad regime is responsible for the death of 188,729 civilians, over 90% of all victims from nearly six years of war in Syria, also saying that the responsibility for war crimes also moved just weeks after the outbreak of the popular uprising in Syria in 2011 to the international community, to take collective measures in accordance with Articles 41 and 42 of the UN charter, but did not lift a finger because of Russian and Chinese protection for the Syrian regime - 16 November 2016: Bringing the total number of hospitals targeted by Russian warplanes on Monday in Aleppo's countryside to three, Russian murderous air strikes are targeting and destroying the Baghdad hospital, killing and wounding dozens and burying others under the rubble, while civil defense forces are working to lift the rubble to save the survivors and remove the corpses - 16 November 2016: Canadian FM Stephane Dion welcomes Syrian opposition leader for talks as meetings are touching on ways to circumvent Russia's veto power at the UNSC in order to end the bloodshed of Syrian civilians - 18 November 2016: UN Security Council approved a one-year extension of an international inquiry to determine blame for chemical weapons attacks in Syria - 19 November 2016: Syrian Coalition’s Bassam Abdullah says that the international community has a political, legal and moral responsibility to force the Assad regime and Russia to stop the horrific massacres they are committing in Syria - 21 November 2016: The Council of Free Aleppo Governorate calls upon the UN and human rights organizations to assume their responsibilities towards the protection of civilians in Aleppo from the fierce bombing campaign by the Assad regime and Russia forces - 21 November 2016: Assad's military commanders were involved in 'killing and injuring civilians' since 2011 with assaults on schools, hospitals and homes, says USA ambassador to the UN Samantha Power, reading out names and the military units to a meeting of the UN security council - 22 November 2016: Israeli activists launch awareness campaign to express their solidarity with the civilians in the face of a military escalation being carried out by Russia, Assad and his allied militias, calling for communal prayers on Jewish holiday for the 'hundreds of Syrians who are dying daily in Syria, men, women and children, while the world is silent' - 22 November 2016: Aleppo siege is 'war of extermination', a doctor in eastern Aleppo says, who was wounded earlier this month in an airstrike, adding that 'everything is being exterminated with the collusion of the United Nations, they all see and hear, but they will not answer, and they cannot stop this war machine' - 28 November 2016: Syrian Coalition urges international action to end Assad regime's siege of Al-Tal saying threat must not be ignored as Assad regime has already proven willingness to commit crimes of unimaginable proportions to achieve its goals - 29 November 2016: France calls for UN Security Council meeting over Aleppo saying 'we need to urgently put in place means to end the hostilities and to allow humanitarian aid to get through unhindered', as terror group Hezbollah and allied Iranian militants announce huge victory - 30 November: Syrian Coalition's letter to UN and UN Security Council presses for stopping Assad’s and Russia’s onslaught on Aleppo

December 2016: 1 December 2016: While UN's Stephen O’Brien tells an emergency session of the UN security council that Aleppo becoming 'one giant graveyard', the recent offensive by Assad regime forces, by Russian air power, Iranian ground forces, militia fighters from Iran, Iraq and Lebanese terror group Hezbollah hasn’t just cost the opposition two-thirds of their held areas, but also displaced more than 20,000 civilians and killed hundreds - 1 December: UN tightens sanctions on North Korea after largest nuclear test yet - 2 December 2016: As the Russian and Assad regime onslaught on Aleppo continues causing an untold humanitarian catastrophe, over 220 civil society organizations from 45 countries have issued a declaration saying that the UN Security Council has 'failed to uphold its responsibility to protect the Syrian people' - 3 December 2016: Thousands of Syrians took to the streets in many towns and cities across Syria to denounce the war crimes being committed by the Assad regime and Russia as well as the Iranian-backed foreign militias in Aleppo, also chanting slogans denouncing 'the international silence' over such crimes - 5 December 2016: 38 civilians confirmed dead including 5 children and 6 persons from the same family including a woman, by Russian airstrikes targeting the city of Maara al-Nuaman in Syria's Idlib province, rising the number of murdered civilians by aerial bombardment to 73 today - 6 December 2016: Syrian opposition calls on international community to shoulder its responsibility to end the bombardment and slaughter in Syria, especially Aleppo, and actively seek to deliver humanitarian aid, as Aleppo medics convert basements into operation rooms to evade airstrikes - 6 December: Syrian Coalition's Ghadbian condemns Russia’s vetoing UN Security Council resolution, drafted by New Zealand, Spain and Egypt, calling for the imposition of a 7-day cease-fire in Aleppo so that humanitarian aid could reach the city’s besieged eastern neighborhoods - 7 December 2016: Assad regime warplanes carried out dozens of air raids using vacuum bombs on the towns and villages of the Idlib countryside, killing six civilians and wounding 15, some of them seriously, as schools in Idlib province have suspended teaching after the regime and Russia’s deadly aerial campaign killed around 70 people, including many children, over the past four days, and as in Aleppo dozens of corpses are still in the streets from Shaar neighborhood, because the ambulances and rescue teams are not able to pull the corpses due to the murderous Russian and Assad's military operations - 8 December: Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Turkey issued a statement calling on the UN to hold an emergency special session of the General Assembly to end the Aleppo crisis, also condemning dealing with the Syrian crisis like it was an ordinary event, and critizising the international institution’s incapability to perform the tasks it was established for following World War II - 8 December 2016: Western diplomats have conceded that there are no technical obstacles to a plan to deliver airdrops of food and medicine to Aleppo using a GPS-guided parachute system, but the scheme has been stalled in the face of reluctance among military commanders and an absence of political will - 14 December 2016: 'Aleppo should represent the end of the quest for military victory, not the start of a broader military campaign in a country already ravaged beyond all recognition by five years of war', UN's Ban Ki-moon told an emergency meeting of the Security Council - 18 December: UN Security Council to vote Sunday on Aleppo observers, as thousands look to flee besieged areas of war-ravaged city, and as the Assad regime and Iran were trying to impose new conditions to the evacuation deal - 20 December: UN Security Council unanimously called for UN officials and others to observe the evacuation of people from eastern Aleppo and monitor the safety of civilians who remain in the rebel-held part of the city - 24 December 2016: Confusing the council with a delayed committee of the murderous Roman Empire, UN Security Council condemns Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, destroying the last remainder of UN's credibility, completely incapable to deal with proceeding war crimes against the Syrian people since 6 years - 24 December 2016: Rejecting UN Security Council's resolution which describes the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem and the Western Wall as occupied territory and condemns Israel's settlement policy, Israel's PM Netanyahu says with the necessary clarity, that 'half a million Syrians are being slaughtered in Syria, tens of thousands are butchered in Sudan, the Middle East is up in flames, yet the Obama administration and the UN Security Council choose to set upon the only democracy in the Middle East', but forgets to mention his own recent meetings with war criminal Putin in Moscow, also encouraging the Russians, Iranians and Hezbollah to commit more war crimes - 28 December 2016: Israel’s absence at the UN General Assembly on resolution A/71/L.48 to collect, consolidate, preserve and analyse evidence of violations of international humanitarian law and human rights violations and abuses in Syria since 2011, reportedly the result of 'a cynical deal' between Jerusalem and Moscow

January 2017: 2 January 2017: Syria clashes test fragile truce after UN Security Council approved a resolution supporting a Russian and Turkish initiative - 8/9 January 2017: Jerusalem terror attack by an Israeli Arab citizen, who rammed a truck deliberately into a group of Israeli soldiers disembarking from a bus in the Israeli settlement Armon Hanatziv Esplanade in Jerusalem, killing 4 and injuring 15, condemned by the UN Security Council, emphasizing 'need for those responsible for this reprehensible act of terrorism to be held accountable' - 9/10 January 2017: Syrian Coalition urges the UN Security Council to adopt a resolution calling for the immediate withdrawal of all foreign militias from Syria and to require all parties to stop supporting or providing political and legal cover for the actions of these militias, violating the ceasefire agreement - 10 January 2017: At least 271 people, including 25 women and 34 children, reportedly killed as a result of 399 ceasefire breaches by the Assad regime and Iranian-backed militias since 29 December - 13 January 2017: UNSC urged on Thursday to discuss accountability for chemical weapons attacks in Syria - 14 January 2017: For the first time in a report published Friday, joint international team of investigators for the UN and the OPCW determined that Syrian regime's Bashar Assad and his brother Maher are suspected of being tied to several chemical weapons attacks carried out in the country in 2014 and 2015, according to a document seen by Reuters, as an ICC spokesman says, that 'the only way that (the) ICC would have jurisdiction over the situation would be through a referral by the Security Council' - 19 January: Syrian Coalition urges Russia to adopt resolution under Chapter VII to hold truce violators accountable - 27 January 2017: UN officials urged the UN Security Council to do more to ensure the delivery of life-saving aid to civilians in the besieged areas, as nearly 700,000 people still under siege across Syria and as Assad regime continues to block aid - 31 janvier 2017: Le Conseil de sécurité de l'ONU se réunira en urgence après un tir de missile iranien

February 2017: 1 February 2017: UN Security Council's representatives, including Russian regime's, express grave concern about the dangerous deterioration of the situation in eastern Ukraine and its severe impact on the local civilian population, also calling for an immediate return to a ceasefire regime, as the Trilateral Contact Group's representatives, including Russian regime's, will meet in Minsk today - 8 February 2017: Syrian Coalition’s Muhammed Jojah renews calls to refer the situation in Syria to the International Criminal Court and to hold the Assad regime accountable for war crimes, especially after further evidence on the scale of torture and murder perpetrated by the regime against civilian detainees has emerged in a rights group's report in February - 8 February 2017: UN reportedly 'horrified' about Amnesty’s report on Saydnaya prison - 14 February 2017: The Assad regime forces conducted coordinated chemical attacks in opposition-controlled parts of Aleppo during the final month of the battle for the city, according to Human Rights Watch - 15 February 2017: France calls on UN Security Council to respond over the Assad regime’s use of chemical weapons in Syria with a resolution that would punish those responsible for repeated attacks - 20 February: Russia is breaking promise to investigate civilian casualties of airstrikes in Syria, Human Rights Watch says - 23 February 2017: Human Rights Watch's official Whitson confirms Assad regime responsible for Sarin attack on Eastern Ghouta in 2013 - 24 February 2017: UN Security Council is likely to vote next week on a draft resolution proposing some sanctions on the Assad regime over the use of chemical weapons, but Russia is almost certain to veto the symbolic measures proposed by Britain, France and the USA, including a ban on the sale of more helicopters and a travel ban on 11 Assad regime officials

March 2017: 1 March 2017: France, UK and USA want sanctions on Syria's Assad regime over chemical weapon use, but Russia and China veto UN resolution - 6 March 2017: Call made for emergency UN security council meeting after North Korea's missile launches on Monday shocked international community - 15 March 2017: Syrian Coalition calls for an emergency UN Security Council session to discuss the serious findings of the UN Independent Commission of Inquiry on Syria - 30 March 2017: Syrian Coalition slams Russia’s support for Assad as dozens killed in airstrikes in rural Idlib, saying that Russia, as a permanent member of the UN Security Council, is responsible for maintaining international peace and security and is obliged to respect the Syrian people

April 2017: 1 April 2017: Airstrikes hit a hospital supported by medical aid group in Latamnah in Hama province last week, killing two people, with evidence chemical weapons were used, according to Medecins Sans Frontieres - 4 April 2017: At least 35 people have been killed in a suspected chemical attack on the rebel-held town of Khan Sheikhun in the central province of Idlib, according to SOHR - 5 April 2017: Syrian opposition blames international community for allowing conditions for further attacks on civilians after reported chemical attack in Khan Sheikhoun, demanding to hold the perpetrators of these crimes accountable and to take urgent action to protect civilians from the daily crimes committed against them since March 2011 - 5 April 2017: Warplanes thought to be Russian carried out heavy and concentrated airstrikes on rescue centers and medical facilities which were treating victims of the chemical attack in Khan Sheikhoun, Civil Defense in Idlib countryside says - 10/11 April 2017: Russian air force have intensified bombing raids on towns and villages in the provinces of Hama and Idlib in revenge attacks, causing dozens of civilian casualties and using internationally banned weapons - 12 April 2017: Using its veto power the eighth time to protect the Assad regime, Russian regime vetoed a UN draft resolution expressing the council’s full backing of OPCW's investigation and demanding the Assad regime's cooperation with the investigators of the sarin gas attack on Khan Sheikhun in Syria's Idlib province - 13 April 2017: USA intercepted communications between Syrian military and chemical weapons experts discussing plans for Khan Sheikhun poison gas attack in Idlib province, according to USA media, citing an intelligence official, as samples taken from the chemical weapons attack in Syria last week tested positive for the nerve agent sarin by British delegation to OPCW and as OPCW's investigators are already testing samples from Khan Sheikhun deadly poison gas attack - 14 April 2017: Asking 'how long can the UN endure the shame of chemical attacks on Syrian citizens?', France's and UK's foreign ministers urge the international community to 'go further' in punishing those responsible for the chemical weapons attack in Syria on 4 April 2017 - 19 April 2017: Considering the situation in the Ukrainian Crimea, occupied by Russia, and Donbas, Ukraine’s delegation has called on the UN Security Council members to pay special attention to the observance of human rights on the temporarily territories

June 2017: 3 June 2017: UN Security Council expanded targeted sanctions against North Korea after its repeated missile tests, adopting the first such resolution agreed by the USA and North Korea's only major ally China - 17 June 2017: Syrian Coalition's Riad Seif sends letter to UN, international organizations and 26 countries to urge action to stop the brutal onslaught being waged by the Assad regime and its allies on Daraa and surrounding towns and villages

July 2017: 5 July 2017: UN Security Council to hold emergency meeting on North Korea, after the regime had tested its first intercontinental ballistic missile, a new threat

August 2017: 5 August 2017: On the eve of Hiroshima Day and aimed at increasing economic pressure on North Korean regime to return to negotiations on its nuclear and missile programs, UN Security Council unanimously approved tough new sanctions against the regime including a ban on coal and other exports totaling more than $1 billion, a huge bite in its total exports, valued at $3 billion last year - 7 August 2017: Carla Del Ponte resigns from UN’s independent Commission of Inquiry on Syria, decrying Security Council inaction to hold criminals accountable in the war-battered country, saying 'for five years we’ve been running up against walls', 'the states in the Security Council don’t want justice' - 12 August 2017: Blaming Russia for blocking solution in Syria by using its repeated use of its veto power in the UN Security Council, Carla del Ponte held the council partly responsible for the continued tragedy in Syria as it has not yet put pressure on Putin regime - 14 August 2017: Enough evidence to convict Assad of war crimes, according to del Ponte, saying that 'the preparatory work has been done', but 'there is no prosecutor and no court' - 16 August 2017: UNSC discussed sending an instigative mission to determine responsibility for the April 4 sarin attack on the town of Khan Sheikhoun in rural Idlib, as rights group SNHR issued its 27th report on the use of chemical weapons in Syria - 22 August 2017: Two shipments of North Korean chemical weapons bound for Syria's Assad regime and part of a Damascus-Pyongyang arms deal have reportedly been intercepted by UN member states in the past six months, as activities between Assad and North Korean regime under investigation includes Scud missile programs and surface-to-air missiles systems - 30 August 2017: UN strongly condemns the latest ballistic missile launch by the North Korean regime, which flew over Japan, as well as the series of launches that took place on 25 August

September 2017: 3 September 2017: The international community including the UN security council should react quickly and firmly to North Korea’s latest nuclear test, democratic countries demand - 4 September 2017: At an emergency session the USA urged the UN Security Council to impose the 'strongest possible measures' against North Korea in response to its sixth and most powerful nuclear test - 6 septembre 2017: Des enquêteurs de l’ONU ont indiqué pour la première fois que le régime de Damas était responsable de l’attaque au gaz sarin sur la localité de Khan Cheikhoun le 4 avril en Syrie, qui avait fait 87 morts - 11 September 2017: UN security council unanimously agrees new North Korea sanctions including ban on the country’s textile exports and capping imports of crude oil, after USA watered down initial tougher version to avoid veto by China - 29 September 2017: The Syrian opposition calls on the UN to act urgently to stop war crimes being committed by Syrian and Russian air forces, as warplanes continue to bomb towns and villages in the liberated areas

October 2017: 24 October 2017: The international community, especially the UN Security Council, is obliged to shoulder its responsibilities to put an end to the ongoing suffering of civilians in eastern Ghouta, Syrian Coalition says - 24/25 October 2017: After UN war crimes investigators said last month they had evidence that Assad regime's air force was behind the nerve gas attack in Khan Sheikhun murdering more than 87 people, Russian regime's veto puts an end to Syria chemical weapons probe, as USA Ambassador says Moscow again siding 'with the dictators and terrorists who use these weapons', as 11 countries back extending the mandate, Bolivia joins Russia in voting against and China and Kazakhstan abstain from the vote - 26 October 2017: Head of Amnesty International’s UN office Sherine Tadros says that the 'routine abuse of the veto has become the equivalent of a green light for war crimes' and that 'UN Secretary General as well as Security Council members can no longer idly stand by' - 26/27 October 2017: Syria’s Assad forces are responsible for the deadly sarin gas attack on the rebel-held town of Khan Sheikhun that killed scores of people in April, UN expert panel’s report says, as USA reaffirms Assad’s rule must end

November 2017: 8 novembre 2017: La Russie, soutien de Damas, s'est à nouveau opposée aux Occidentaux sur l'implication du régime syrien dans des attaques chimiques, lors d'une réunion mardi à l'ONU sur le mandat des enquêteurs internationaux chargés d'en désigner les auteurs - 9 November 2017: Facing 'the largest famine the world has seen for many decades', according to the UN, following Iranian-backed Houthi militia's 2015 coup d'état, UN Security Council reiterates the need for the Houthis and the anti-Houthi coalition 'to provide full, safe, rapid and unhindered access for humanitarian supplies and UN personnel to the population of all affected governorates, including by air, land and sea' - 13 November 2017: Roundly rejecting Russian aspersions against the task force, Israel endorses a UN watchdog report on Assad regime’s use of chemical weapons, saying it 'unequivocally' proves Assad used poison gas and must therefore be punished by the international community - 17 November 2017: In response to Russia’s vetoing of the draft resolution calling for the extension of the mandate for the UN-OPCW investigation panel, Syrian Coalition’s Ahmad Ramadan says 'it is a disgraceful day in the history of humanity that the UN Security Council failed once again to redress thousands of victims of chemical weapons in Syria or hold war criminals accountable' - 18 novembre 2017: La Russie a opposé vendredi un deuxième veto en deux jours contre une résolution présentée devant le Conseil de sécurité, qui visait à renouveler de 30 jours le mandat de la commission d'enquête sur l'utilisation d'armes chimiques en Syrie, un message clair que Moscou n'accorde aucune importance aux victimes des attaques chimiques en Syrie, selon Mme Haley - 23 November 2017: After refusing to back extension of investigative mechanism that blamed Assad for April attack, Russian regime declares 'death' of body probing Syria chemical attacks, saying it will only discuss replacing expert panel, fearing itself investigation after Putin-Assad coalition committed war crimes in Syria, among others during aerial bombing campaign of opposition-controlled territory in Aleppo in 2016 - 29 November 2017: UN Security Council scheduled an emergency meeting for Wednesday afternoon at the request of Japan, South Korea and the USA following the launch of North Korean nuclear-capable intercontinental missile

December 2017: 1 December 2017: Remnants of four ballistic missiles fired into Saudi Arabia by Yemen's Houthi rebels from May to November 2017 appear to have been designed and manufactured by Iranian regime, despite regime denying it supplies Houthis, a confidential report by United Nations sanctions monitors said, bolstering a push by the USA to punish the Tehran government - 2 décembre 2017: Le Conseil de sécurité de l'ONU se réunira le 15 décembre pour évoquer le programme d'armement de la Corée du Nord, une autre réunion prévue le 11 décembre sera consacrée aux violations des droits de l'homme du régime de Pyongyang - 18/19 December 2017: USA vetoes a UN Security Council draft resolution condemning the USA's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, as Ambassador Haley defends USA's sovereignty and explains the honest and courageous recognition of reality, also noting that the USA has given more than $5 billion to the Palestinians since 1994, more than any other country, as Israel's PM Benjamin Netanyahu thanks the USA for vetoing the resolution, saying 'truth defeated lies' - 23 December 2017: UN Security Council slapped new sanctions on North Korean regime that will restrict oil supplies vital for its missile and nuclear programs, also ordering North Korean workers abroad back home and a crackdown on smuggling, after latest regime's ballistic missile launch - 23 December 2017: UN Security Council condemns this week’s ballistic missile attack by Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen against Saudi Arabia’s capital 'in the strongest possible terms', calling on Houthis to cease announced further attacks and urging implementation of arms embargo on group - 30 décembre 2017: Des navires russes ont fourni ces derniers mois des produits pétroliers à la Corée du Nord au moins à trois reprises en octobre et en novembre, en violation des dispositions adoptées à l'ONU - 31 December 2017: North Korean regime vows to press on with nuclear agenda as Russian regime denies trade violations

January 2018: 5 January 2018: After the USA asked the council to show support for anti-regime protesters, UN Security Council to meet on 2017/2018 Iranian protests - 5 January 2018: UN Security Council discusses deadly protests across Iran, told about rising poverty after the Iranian regime had spent $6 billion every year propping up the regime in Syria, as Iranian Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi urges USA and the international community to support the nationwide protests in Iran with sanctions, but not economic measures that could hit the general population - 6 January 2018: During 2017 129 massacres were committed by Assad regime forces, 83 by the Russian forces, and 113 by the international coalition forces, according to SNHR, calling on the UN to refer the situation in Syria to the International Criminal Court and stop blocking the UN resolutions - 12 January 2018: Iran has violated a UN arms embargo by failing to block supplies to Yemen's Houthi rebels of ballistic missiles that were fired at Saudi Arabia, according to a UN experts' report - 19 January 2018: In the eighth year of Assad's Iranian-Russian backed war against the Syrian people, UN's Guterres renews calls for revival of Syria chemical weapons probe to punish those responsible, adding that the use of chemical weapons in Syria had challenged the 'global taboo' against these weapons of mass destruction - 23 January 2018: UN-Security Council discussed Turkey's aggression against Kurds in Syria and the worsening humanitarian crisis in the country, but did not condemn or demand an end to the Turkish military operation, as USA's ambassador Nikki Haley did not attend the meeting - 27 January 2018: UN's Antonio Guterres is again calling on the UN Security Council to refer Syria to the International Criminal Criminal Court, pointing to 'serious violations' including blocking aid deliveries and medical care to millions

February 2018: 2 February 2018: Between 2012 and 2017 North Korea has supplied weapons to Syria and Myanmar, according to a confidential report by independent UN monitors which also said Pyongyang's regime violated UN sanctions to earn nearly $200m in 2017 and ballistic missile and chemical weapons programmes may have benefited - 6 February 2018: The UN Security Council failed to adapt a resolution to stop such attacks or to adopt a draft resolution on the use of chemical weapons, as ferocious onslaught by the Assad regime forces and Iranian militias backed by the Russian air force continues to target civilians in many parts across Syria, and as UN's Panos Moumtzis says 'We can no longer stay silent', calling for a one-month ceasefire to ease an 'extreme situation' that 'we haven’t seen before' at any point during the war, which is soon to enter its eighth year - 9 February 2018: Damascus provincial council called upon the UN Security Council to take action to address the deteriorating humanitarian situation in the suburb of eastern Ghouta and put an end to the Assad regime's relentless bombardment of civilians - 9 February 2018: As many as 45 local non-government aid groups have issued a joint statement calling for an end to the systematic targeting of health facilities by the Assad regime forces and their allies - 9 February 2018: The suffering in Syria grows and the world turns away, the British 'Guardian' says, as the UN warns of unprecedented levels of suffering in the country that has already witnessed so many crimes and such desperation in 7 years, but as its calls for a ceasefire are ignored - 10 février 2018: Suède et Koweit tentent de faire examiner par le Conseil de sécurité une résolution visant une trêve d'un mois à des fins humanitaires, mais le régime russie, alliée du régime d'Assad, a de manière répétée bloqué toute initiative du Conseil qui viserait Assad - 13 February 2018: UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric says 'that we are witnessing (in Syria) some of the worst fighting of the entire conflict, with reports of hundreds of civilian deaths and injuries, massive displacement and the destruction of civilian infrastructure, including medical facilities' and that 'history will record failure to stop the fighting and will lay the blame on those responsible' - 14 February 2018: UN once again calls for Syria cease-fire, as UN's 'Deputy regional humanitarian coordinator for the Syria crisis' Rajasingham says it is 'very possible' - 16 February 2018: Amid military escalation by the Assad regime and its allies in many parts across Syria, described by the UN as the worst throughout the course of Assad's war in Syria, Sweden and Kuwait presented a revised draft UN Security Council resolution calling for a 30-day ceasefire, revised to obtain backing by Russian war criminals - 16 February 2018: Russia bombs seventh hospital in Syria in 2 weeks in the village of Hass in Idlib province - 21 February 2018: Fears and outrage over bloodshed in Syria, also described as a 'hell on earth' by the UN, but once again no action of the UN disabled by the Russian perpetrator (11 vetoes), China and others, as families in Ghouta take to basements in attempt to survive, and as Ghouta's desperate civilians say they've been abandoned to their fate with aid groups denied access to the devastated Syrian enclave - 23 February 2018: As Assad regime and Russian war criminals are destroying eastern Ghouta's healthcare, systematically targeting hospitals, and as Médecins Sans Frontières say 13 hospitals it supported had been destroyed or damaged in the past three days alone, Russian Putin regime blocks UN resolution on eastern Ghouta ceasefire - 23 February 2018: After 5 days of massacres which left about 2,550 civilian casualties and wounded, the escalation continues on the Eastern Ghouta by the Assad regime and its allies - 24 February 2018: Over 400 people killed and 1,000 injured as UNSC fails to stop carnage in Eastern Ghouta, according to UN, as SOHR reports about 520 civilian casualties and more than 2,500 wounded in the vicious attack on the Eastern Ghouta - 24 February 2018: Blocked by Russian perpetrators, UN Security Council once again delayed a vote on demanding a 30-day ceasefire in Syria to Saturday at noon, as USA's ambassador asks 'how many more people will die before the Security Council agrees to take up this vote', as Syrian Coalition calls for preventing Russian perpetrators from voting on Syria-related resolutions at UN Security Council, and as deaths mount in Syria - 24 February 2018: Syrian teenager tweeting the horror of life in Ghouta - 24 février 2018: Les bombes du régime syrien ont encore frappé la Ghouta orientale dans la nuit de vendredi à samedi, 21 civils sont morts - 24 February 2018: UN Security Council unanimously approved a resolution demanding a 30-day cease-fire across Syria 'without delay' to deliver humanitarian aid to millions and evacuate the critically ill and wounded, after many countries have been pressing for immediate UN action as deaths mount in an Assad bombing campaign in eastern Ghouta and as USA's Nikki Haley was sharply critical of Russian regime for delaying the vote, saying it cost lives - 25 February 2018: New regime strikes hit Eastern Ghouta on Sunday despite UN Security Council demand for a ceasefire, as residents doubt Security Council resolution will be implemented, while UN diplomats say it was 'watered down' to avoid Russia veto - 25 February 2018: Iranian and Syrian Assad regime will continue attacks on Damascus suburbs despite February 2018 UN resolution demanding a 30-day truce across Syria - 26 February 2018: The wording of UNSC resolution let Russia resume bombing within hours, sidelining the UN as a decision maker and setting up Putin and his military as ultimate arbiters of who gets fed, or killed - 27 February 2018: Russian regime ordered a daily five-hour 'humanitarian pause' in the besieged eastern Ghouta, effectively replacing UN security council resolution that had demanded a month-long ceasefire in the embattled region, replaced by a choice of forced displacement and decline or being killed in Russian-backed bombardment and siege - 27 February 2018: Russian Putin regime vetoed a British-drafted UN resolution that promised action against violations of a UN arms embargo on Yemen and pointed to a report by experts that cited Iran as a violator, as the vote was 11 in favor, Russia and Bolivia opposed, and China and Kazakhstan abstaining, as 17 million people in Yemen, 60% of the total population, are in need of food aid, of whom seven million are on the brink of famine - 28 February 2018: USA and three European allies condemned Iran, after the UN found Iranian regime had violated the arms embargo on Yemen by failing to block supplies of missiles and drones to Houthi rebels, but Russia vetoed British-drafted resolution

March 2018: 1 March 2018: Speaking at a monthly Security Council meeting devoted to the Syrian conflict, UN under secretary general for humanitarian affairs Mark Lowcock says there has been no access for humanitarian convoys, nor authorization by the regime to go into the besieged areas, nor medical evacuations, on the contrary, the bombings have continued, and deaths and wounded have mounted, since the Security Council resolution was passed - 5 March 2018: USA slams Russia, Iran over 'brutal’ assault on Syria’s Eastern Ghouta, accusing them of killing 'innocent civilians under the false auspices of counterterrorism operations', as shelter still withhold by the international community and homemade shelters are tombs for the living - 5 March 2018: Residents in the besieged Damascus suburb of eastern Ghouta have begun using UN aid bags as shrouds for children killed in the devastating bombardment by the Assad regime to express their frustration over the organization's inaction - 9 mars 2018: 'Le Conseil de sécurité a échoué à l'égard du peuple syrien' en raison d'oppositions de la Russie, selon l'ambassadeur britannique adjoint à l'ONU Jonathan Allen - 10 March 2018: UN aid barely suffices 25% of eastern Ghouta residents as Syrian Coalition reiterates calls for implementation of UNSC resolution 2401 - 10 March 2018: Terrifying escalation in the death toll of the Eastern Ghouta raises it to about 1,100 civilian casualties, including 227 children and 154 women, killed by aerial, rocket and artillery shelling, more than half of them since UNSC resolution, and 4,378 wounded citizens, including hundreds of children and women - 12 March 2018: Following repeated violations by the Syrian regime of the previous ceasefire resolution passed a fortnight ago, the USA demands to end chemical attacks and 'inhuman suffering', as it proposes a new binding resolution imposing an immediate 30-day ceasefire in Eastern Ghouta and signals readiness to act unilaterally, as when it attacked airbase last year - 14 March 2018: The UK has called for an urgent meeting of the UN security council to update council members on the investigation into the 'Novichok' nerve agent attack in Salisbury - 15 March 2018: Describing a pattern of Russian regime's behavior and calling to take action, allies back UK at UN security council and condemn Russia, as the Russian regime, denying known facts and Russian chemist Vil Mirzayanov's evidence of novichok, claims that it never made or even researched novichok nerve agents, and laughs at the victims suggesting that the British government might have carried out the attack itself in an effort to 'tarnish' Russia ahead of the football World Cup this summer, as attacked people are fighting for their lives, once again also in British hospitals - 16 March 2018: Tens of Russian airstrikes target the southern section of the Eastern Ghouta leaving 10 casualties and tens of wounded in Saqba - 17 March 2018: Air strikes by Assad regime and Russian jets on Eastern Ghouta killed at least 30 civilians on Saturday, according to SOHR, as rights group slams seven years of 'catastrophic failure' of the international community in Syria - France and Britain urge UNSC to enforce resolution 2401, warning of massacres in eastern Ghouta - 17 March 2018: Doctors and civil leaders among signatories to open letter to the UN, demanding action to stop massacre by Russian-backed Assad forces - 20 March 2018: Syrian Coalition calls for sending urgent commission of inquiry to eastern Ghouta - 20 March 2018: At least 738 civilians, including 116 children killed by the Assad and Russian forces in eastern Ghouta since adoption of UN Security Council resolution 2401, according to SNHR and SOHR - 20 March 2018: Russian warplanes reportedly hit a school basement in eastern Ghouta, killing at least 15 children, as in New York the UN human rights chief was blocked from addressing the Security Council on the carnage in Syria - 22 March 2018: Syrian Coalition sends letter to UK urging action against use of chemical weapons stressing that the failure of the international community had encouraged the use of chemical weapons on both Syrian and British territory - 22 March 2018: UN High Commissioner for Human Rights al-Hussein calls on the UN Security Council to refer human rights violations being committed by the Assad regime and its allied militias in Syria to the International Criminal Court ICC - 22 March 2018: Syrian Coalition calls on international community to hold Russia and Assad regime accountable for their crimes - 26 March 2018: Syrian Coalition's Mohammed Yahya Maktabi said that the mass forced displacement taking place in the Damascus suburb of eastern Ghouta is a 'war crime' as he condemned Russian’s major role in these crimes, adding that regime forces, the Iranian militias, and Russian air force are killing civilians, targeting popular markets, residential areas and public facilities and bombing hospitals, medical centers, and rescue workers - 26 March 2018: The UN has come under fire for sharing the coordinates of hospitals in the Damascus suburb of eastern Ghouta with Russia, only for one of them to be bombed days later killing at least one patient by what medics suspected to be a 'bunker-buster' bomb, according to 'The Telegraph' - 26 March 2018: 871 civilians killed in eastern Ghouta since adoption of UN-security council resolution 2401, according to SNHR - 30 March 2018: The International community and the UN failed to solve humanitarian crises in Syria and other countries, outgoing UN Undersecretary General for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman said Friday - 31 March 2018: Despite fierce opposition by Israel and the USA, and requests to postpone the meeting until after the Passover holiday, the UN Security Council convenes during the Passover Seder to discuss the situation in Gaza and renewed deadly Gaza-Israel border clashes, as Israeli army says fatalities include Hamas gunmen trying to breach fence and warns of further escalation amid an already-disastrous humanitarian situation worsened after the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority refused to pay for Gaza’s electricity, in part to press it’s political rival Hamas to loosen control of the area

April 2018: 1 April 2018: USA blocks UN resolution condemning Israel for deaths in Gaza clashes, as Israeli military on Saturday night identified 10 of the 16 people reported killed during violent protests along the Gaza security fence as members of Palestinian terrorist groups, and published a list of their names and positions in the organizations, also saying it only shot at protesters charging Gaza border

7 April 2018 Douma chemical attack: International reactions to the 7 April 2018 Douma chemical attack - 11 April 2018: 'The number of dead bodies that can be established through open source data is 34+', and 'aircraft spotters reported two Mi-8 Hip helicopters heading southwest from Dumayr Airbase, in the direction of Douma, 30 minutes before the chemical attack in Douma, and two Hip helicopters were observed above Douma shortly before the attack' according to Bellingcat Investigation team

Since 8 April: 8 April 2018: Israeli officials on Sunday called on the international community to intervene in Syria, where the Russian-backed Assad regime killed dozens in a chemical attack in Douma and a series of airstrikes over the weekend, according to rescuers and medics, as USA State Departement said that 'the Assad regime and its backers must be held accountable and any further attacks prevented immediately', adding that 'Russia ... ultimately bears responsibility for these brutal attacks' - 8 April 2018: Aid workers and local medics have described apocalyptic scenes in the besieged city of Douma, the site of a chemical attack that has killed at least 42 people, as they scrambled to save the survivors of the latest atrocity in Syria, as Haaretz' Anshel Pfeffer describes how the West failed to prevent one Syrian chemical attack after another, saying that in the history of war, no war crime has been so well documented and so predictable to those who had it in their power to prevent it from recurring - 8 April 2018: 'What’s happening in Syria is genocide of women and children in its cruelest form, using weapons of mass destruction', Israeli chief rabbi Yitzhak Yosef says in a statement, adding that 'we have a moral obligation not to keep quiet and to try and stop this massacre' - 8 April 2018: France and eight countries seek urgent UN Security Council meet on Syria - 9/10 April 2018: As Israeli government says that Syrian chemical attack is a 'crime against humanity’, the UK ambassador to the UN, Karen Pierce, calls on the security council to conduct a thorough investigation of the alleged chemical weapons attack, demanding that Russia must uphold the chemical weapons convention, UK's Theresa May condemns 'barbaric' targeting of civilians, saying Bashar al-Assad and his Russian backers must be held to account if found responsible for the chemical attack on Douma, and USA's Trump to decide on USA response to gas attack 'within 48 hours' - 10/11 April 2018: After UN clash with Russian regime, USA readies response to Syria attacks, consulting with international allies on possible joint military response - 12 April 2018: Israel ambassador to the UN Danny Danon accompanied a group of fellow diplomats to the world body in participating in the March of the Living on Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day visiting the death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau, telling fellow ambassadors that the 'international community must act with determination to ensure that such things never happen again', and warned of 'rising anti-Semitism’ - 13 April 2018: UN Security Council met for the fourth time this week over the gas attack by Assad forces on Douma, which killed dozens of people

14 April 2018 allied military strikes against Assad's chemical weapons: 14 April 2018 allied military strikes, involving manned aircraft and ship-based missiles, against multiple Assad regime sites in Syria - 14 April 2018: Following UN's failure since 2011 to stop and to take action against Assad's, Iranin and Russian war crimes, France, United Kingdom and USA take part in strikes on targets associated with chemical weapons in the wake of gas attack on Douma

14 April 2018: Russian regime has been defeated in its bid to have the USA, France and UK airstrikes condemned in the UN security council with 8 countries voting against, and 4 abstentions of Ethiopia, Kazakhstan, Peru and Equitorial Guinea, confirming how isolated Putin has become on the Syrian issue - 14 April 2018: Widespread support for allied military strikes against Assad regime, as European Union and NATO, Australia, Canada, Israel, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey immediately voiced support - 14 April 2018: NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg says all NATO allies have expressed their full support for last night's military actions to degrade the Syrian regime's chemical weapons capability

15/16 April 2018: 15 April 2018: Britain, France and the USA have launched a new bid at the UN to investigate chemical weapons attacks in Syria in the missile strikes against Assad’s regime, also calling for unimpeded delivery of humanitarian aid, enforcement of a ceasefire and a demand that Syria engage in UN-led peace talk - 16 April 2018: Pressure grows on Russia to stop protecting Assad’s regime, as USA, UK and France press for inquiry into its use of chemical weapons and as UN security council’s 15 members will meet on Monday to discuss a call for a wider push to eliminate the covert Syrian regime stockpiles

18 April: 18 April 2018: OPCW's international chemical weapons inspectors were not able to go into the town of Douma in eastern Ghouta on Wednesday, a UN source in Syria told Reuters, as the USA, UK and France earlier accused Russian and Assad's regime of trying to tamper with the evidence in site of the crime

24/25 April 2018: 24 April 2018: After 7 years of Assad's Iranian and Russian backed war against the Syrian people, Western nations want to end the years-long paralysis at the UN over Syria by referring the issue of chemical weapons use to the entire UN general assembly, where Russia’s security council veto would not apply - 25 April 2018: Head of the UN’s humanitarian task force for Syria Jan Egeland warns Idlib could be next Syrian disaster zone in 'marathon of pain', now lasting 'two years longer than the second world war'

May 2018: 5 May 2018: Proposed UN security council statement expressing 'serious concern' about Abbas’s anti-Semitic remarks that Holocaust was not caused by anti-Semitism but rather by Jews’ 'social behavior', rejected by Kuwait arguing that Abbas had already apologized and that it was one-sided, and fails to win UN backing - 11 May 2018: Israel demands UN condemn Iran barrage as Novichok/Sarin-Guterres calls for calm and Iranian regime revenews threats to destroy Tel Aviv and Haifa - 14 May 2018: Iran is funding Hamas’s campaign to promote violence and attacks against Israel under the cover of mass demonstrations at Gaza border, keeping its own gunmen back ready to enter Israel if fence is breached to carry out terror attacks, the Shin Bet security service says releasing findings of interrogations of suspects - 15 May 2018: USA blocks UN Security Council call for probe of Gaza deaths and UN statement that would have expressed 'outrage at killing of Palestinian civilians exercising their right to peaceful protest', as Israel blames Hamas for the deadly violence, saying the terror group had encouraged and led the protests, which included attacks on Israeli troops and attempts to breach the border fence - 17 May 2018: Hamas co-founder al-Zahar admits 'we are deceiving the public’ about peaceful Gaza border protests, saying in an interview that 'this is not peaceful resistance', the option of armed struggle 'is growing and developing', 'this is a peaceful resistance bolstered by a military force and by security agencies' - 22 May 2018: UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees UNRWA says that the Yarmouk camp for Palestinian refugees in Damascus lies today in ruins, with hardly a single building that has not been destroyed or damaged - Foreign involvement and support for Assad's war against the Syrian people by the Russian and the Iran regime, allied with Hezbollah and Hamas

United Nations General Assembly

25 October 1971 UN General Assembly Resolution 2758: On 25 October 1971 UN General Assembly Resolution 2758 passed in response to the UN General Assembly Resolution 1668 that required any change in China's representation in the UN be determined by a two-thirds vote, recognizing the so-called People's Republic of China PRC as 'the only legitimate representative of China to the United Nations' and expelled 'the representatives of Chiang Kai-shek from the place which they unlawfully occupy at the United Nations' - During the 1950s and 1960s United Kingdom, Switzerland, Sweden, and France shifted their recognition of China from the Republic of China (Taipei) to the China's Beijing regime called PRC, in the 1970s, Canada, Turkey, the USA and more western countries established diplomatic relations with Beijing's PRC, and severed diplomatic relations with the Republic of China

Since 8 July 1998 request to review UN resolution 2758: 8 July 1998 Need to review UN General Assembly resolution 2758 of 25 October 1971 owing to the fundamental change in the international situation and to the coexistence of two Governments across the Taiwan Strait, letter from the representatives of Burkina Faso, El Salvador, the Gambia, Grenada, Liberia, Nicaragua, Sao Tome and Principe, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Senegal, Swaziland and Solomon Islands to the UN

2012: 27 September 2012: UN Assembly remains divided over Syria - ongoing support of Assad's crimes by Russia

25 December 2012: The UN General Assembly voted overwhelmingly on Monday to restart negotiations on a draft international treaty to regulate the $70 billion global trade in conventional arms, opposed by US gun lobby

2013: General debate of the 68th session of the UN General Assembly 24 September 2013 - 4 October 2013 - 28 September 2013: Making a strong case for the reform of the UN Security Council to reflect current political realities, Indian PM Manmohan Singh says at the General Assembly that global peace and security issues must be handled through multilateral efforts - 1 novembre: Le Brésil et l'Allemagne ont présenté à l'ONU un projet de résolution sur la protection des libertés individuelles, dans le contexte d'espionnage international des Etats-Unis - 27 November: UN General Assembly's Third Committee adopted a weakened draft resolution calling for sn end to excessive electronic spying - 28 November: UN General Assembly committee agrees women's rights resolution despite backlash - 19 December 2013: UN General Assembly calls for end to excessive electronic spying

2014: 27 March: Ukraine is optimistic over UN General Assembly vote today on country's territorial integrity after Russian annexation of Crimea

27 March 2014 UN General Assembly Resolution 68/262 recognizing Crimea within Ukraine’s international borders and underscoring the invalidity of the 2014 Crimean referendum - 27 March: Backing Ukraine’s territorial integrity, UN General Assembly declares Crimea secession vote invalid - 29 March: Russia threatened several Eastern European, Asian and African states with retaliation if they voted in favor of a UN resolution against its annexation of Crimea, UN diplomats say

20 May 2014: 58 countries urge United Nations to refer Syria to International Criminal Court

23 September 2014: More than 140 world leaders are converging in the UN general assembly to discuss urgent matters in this week, timetable - 24 September: At the UN Climate Change Summit Ban Ki-moon says that $2.3bn has been pledged to the Green Climate Fund, China and USA promise their support for a climate deal, without offering specifics, and France, promising $1bn to the Climate Fund for poor countries, calls for the establishment of a new green economy - 24 September: At the UN Climate Summit efforts to slow deforestation got a boost when dozens of countries, indigenous groups and companies pledged to halve destructive deforestation by 2020, and completely end losses by 2030 - 25 September: In his speech at the UN General Assembly session, Ukrainian PM Arseniy Yatseniuk urges Russia's Putin to stop the aggression against Ukraine - 28 September 2014: World leaders demanded Security Council reform during their addresses to the UN General Assembly over the past few days, calling for the addition of more permanent and non-permanent seats on the council and the elimination of the veto - 28 September 2014: Defeating terrorism starts with toppling Assad, Syrian Coalition's Hadi Al Bahra says in his speech at the UN General Assembly

19 December 2014: UN General Assembly urges Security Council to refer North Korea to ICC

21 December 2014: UN General Assembly voted on a non-binding resolution, adopted by 116 votes to 20 with 52 abstentions, condemning the Assad regime's violations of human rights

2015: 22 January 2015: UN's first-ever meeting on anti-Semitism organized in response to violence toward Jews worldwide - 23 January: UN issued a joint declaration against anti-Semitism, signed by more than 40 countries - 28 January: At UN Holocaust commemoration, Israel's President Rivlin calls on UN to do more to prevent atrocities - 3 August 2015: UN states agree post-2015 sustainable development agenda now due to be formally adopted in September, aiming to eradicate hunger and extreme poverty, reduce inequality within and between states, achieve gender equality, improve water management and energy, and take urgent action to combat climate change, over the next 15 years - 26 August 2015: Russia's veto power may be restricted at UN General Assembly, Ukraine's FM Klimkin says, as an initiative is already joined by over 40 countries - 11 September: UN approves proposal to raise Palestinian flag with 119 votes in favor and most of EU's nations among the 45 nations that abstained - 15 September: 70th UN General Assembly to start in New York with Russia-Ukraine conflict on agenda, as Ukraine wants UN to recognise Russia a state sponsor of terrorism - 16 September: 67 countries already support depriving Russian regime of veto right in UN - 26 September 2015: UN, Chad, Niger and Cameroon appealed for help for millions of people in the Lake Chad Basin region forced to flee the violence of Boko Haram and hit with repeated droughts and floods that have brought malnutrition and disease, but Nigeria did not attend the event on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly - 26 September 2015: As countries whose nationals lost their lives when the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 went down gather at the UN general assembly to discuss their options, Russia could face legal action over downing of jet over Ukraine - 28 September - 3 October 2015 general debate of the UN general assembly - 28 September: Russian delegation walks out of Poroshenko UN speech - 28 September: Poroshenko urges West not be fooled by Putin's UN speech - 28 September: Ukrainian delegation walks out of Putin's UN Assembly speech - 29 September: Ukrainians raise blood-soaked flag in a silent protest during Putin's speech at the UNGA - 29 September: Ukraine president Poroshenko accuses Russian regime of using UN veto as 'licence to kill', calling for the UN Security Council veto powers to be reviewed and urging world to unite in fight against terrorism in all its forms - 1 October: At UN Israel's Netanyahu calls on Palestinians to resume peace talks, deplores Iran for annihilation threats - 20 November 2015: The UN General Assembly's human rights committee in a non-binding resolution adopted with 76 votes criticizes Iran for cracking down on activists, journalists and dissidents and its increased use of the death penalty - 20 November 2015: Without explicitly naming Russia the UN General Assembly’s human rights committee adopted a resolution with 115 votes in favor, condemning all attacks against the Syrian moderate opposition, given that such attacks benefit ISIS and other terrorist groups, and the presence in Syria of 'all foreign terrorist fighters ... and foreign forces fighting on behalf of the Assad regime'

September 2016: 20 September 2016: 'Present in this Hall today are representatives of governments that have ignored, facilitated, funded, participated in or even planned and carried out atrocities inflicted by all sides of the Syria conflict against Syrian civilians', 'many groups have killed many innocents – but none more so than the Government of Syria, which continues to barrel bomb neighbourhoods and systematically torture thousands of detainees', 'powerful patrons that keep feeding the war machine also have blood on their hands', Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says addressing to the UN General Assembly - 22 September: Syrian opposition delegation meets with western politicians on sidelines of UN General Assembly, calling on western officials to provide protection for civilians and put an end to the Assad regime’s mass forced displacement policy - 23 September 2016: Many of the victims are children, 'they lose their limbs and become disabled for life and their only sin is that they are the children of Syria', Russian and Assad criminals 'have burned their childhood and their innocence and made them homeless in their country and all we get in return are words and promises from outside', Bara’a, a nurse in Aleppo, says - 27 September 2016: Syrian photographer code-named Caesar wins 2017 Nuremberg International Human Rights Award for exposing torture in Assad’s prisons

October 2016: 8 October 2016: After Russian regime 'has once again abused its veto privilege and sabotaged the UN security council, this time stonewalling efforts to stop the vicious assault on east Aleppo’s civilians', UN director at Human Rights Watch Louis Charbonneau says, that there is the urgent need for permanent members of the security council to shelve the veto in situations of mass atrocities, an idea supported by a vast majority of countries around the world, and that the UN general assembly should feel compelled to hold an emergency meeting, demanding an end to unlawful attacks on civilians in Aleppo - 11 October 2016: Syrian Coalition's Steifo says that the Coalition, as the legitimate representative of the Syrian people, will be working with friendly countries at the UN General Assembly to press for action under the 'Uniting for Peace' resolution to bypass the Russian veto at the UN Security Council - 11 October 2016: 'Sorry for being late, but there was a massacre', Hamza Khatib, one of the handful of medics still working in opposition-held Aleppo, told British newspaper Guardian on a brief break from tending to victims of Tuesday morning’s Russian terrorists' bombing raids - 13 October 2016: Syrian Coalition presents a detailed proposal to representatives of the Friends of the Syrian People group pushing for the adoption of a draft resolution by the UN General Assembly on Syria - 14 October 2016: Syria is suffering 'a small holocaust’ as 'every day not far from here, as we sit here, men, women and children are murdered in Syria, and particularly in Aleppo', Israeli chief rabbi Yitzhak Yosef says, demanding that Jews must not be silent in the face of genocide across northern border - 20 October: UN General Assembly must step in to fill the void left by the Security Council members’ catastrophic failure to end relentless attacks targeting the civilian population in eastern Aleppo city, Amnesty International says ahead of UNGA meeting - 24 October 2016: At least 70 countries have so far announced support for the initiative led by the Syrian Coalition and friendly countries to stop the bloodshed in Syria and avoid the veto Russia repeatedly used to block any action on Syria in the UN Security Council, Syrian Coalition says

November/December 2016: 16 November 2016: At the meeting of the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly, member states adopt a resolution, supported by 73 countries, on the human rights situation in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol in Ukraine, condemning the massive human rights violations in the occupied Crimea and calling on Russian regime as an occupying power to adhere to its obligations under the international law - 16 November 2016: General Assembly's human rights committee approved a resolution by a vote of 85 in favor, 35 against and 63 countries abstaining, to cease enforced disappearances and the widespread use of arbitrary detention by the Iranian regime and has expressed serious concern about severe limitations on freedom of thought, conscience and religion or belief - 16 November 2016: General Assembly’s human rights committee voted 116-15 with 49 abstentions in favor of the draft resolution strongly condemning the recent escalation of attacks in Aleppo and continuing violence by the Syrian Assad regime against its own people - 20 December: UNGA to vote on draft resolution on accountability of war crimes in Syria, after the UN Security Council on Monday unanimously called for UN officials and others to observe the evacuation of people from eastern Aleppo and monitor the safety of civilians who remain in the rebel-held part of the city - 21 December 2016 'International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism to Assist in the Investigation and Prosecution of Those Responsible for the Most Serious Crimes under International Law Committed in the Syrian Arab Republic since March 2011' resolution adopted by a recorded vote of 105 in favour and 15 against, with 52 abstentions, with Israel’s absence at the UN General Assembly on this resolution A/71/L.48 - 22 décembre 2016: Adoptée par 105 voix contre 15, l'Assemblée générale des Nations unies s'est prononcée pour la création d'une équipe spéciale chargée de 'collecter, regrouper, préserver et analyser les preuves' de crimes de guerre et atteintes aux droits humains commis en Syrie

2017: 20 January 2017: Syrian rights groups documenting violations in Syria and concerned in the issues of accountability and transitional justice expressed regret in a joint memorandum sent to the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, that they were not consulted about the new mechanism the UN General Assembly has recently established to investigate war crime and ensure accountability in Syria - 22 February 2017: Syrian Coalition urges UNGA to convene under 'Uniting for Peace' resolution to end tragedy in Syria

June 2017: 20 June 2017: After more than five months ago, the UN General Assembly decided to launch an investigation into war crimes in Syria, international and Syrian human rights organizations have launched a fundraiser campaign to fund investigations into war crimes in Syria following the failure of UN member states to secure adequate funding, organizers say - 23 June 2017: The UK suffered a humiliating defeat at the UN general assembly in a vote over decolonisation and its residual hold over disputed territory in the Indian Ocean, as delegates by a margin of 94 to 15 countries supported a Mauritian-backed resolution to seek an advisory opinion from the international court of justice in The Hague on the legal status of the Chagos Islands

August/September 2017: 26 August 2017: As Russia is blocking the deployment of UN peacekeepers in Donbas, Ukraine will present the idea of deploying a mission at the meeting of the UN General Assembly in September

September 2017: September 2017 72th session of the UN General Assembly - Since 19 September General Debate of the 72th session of the UN General Assembly, agenda - 19 September 2017: Trump blasted for threatening to 'totally destroy North Korea' in speech to UN General Assembly, as critics say 'threatening to kill 25 million North Koreans' is 'threatening to commit genocide' - 24 September 2017: North Korean regime's FM Ri Yong Ho tells the UN General Assembly that it is 'inevitable' North Korea would fire rockets at the USA, as war of words escalates and USA bombers, fighters buzz North Korea in show of force

December 2017: 21/22 December 2017: Non-binding General Assembly vote, including Germany's, rejects USA recognition of Jerusalem as Israeli capital, as USA's Nikki Haley notes '65 countries refused to condemn' USA, including some surprise abstentions, as 21 countries did not vote at all, and as Hamas, following the UN vote and fearing that protests are quieting down, calls for 'red bloody day’ in West Bank - 24 December 2017: Russian and Chinese regime oppose UN resolution on Rohingya, calling on Myanmar to allow access for aid workers and the return of refugees, as the resolution was nevertheless adopted by a vote of 122 to 10 with 24 abstentions

Emergency special sessions of the General Assembly of the United Nations, under the resolution 377 A 'Uniting for peace' adopted by the General Assembly on 3 November 1950 an 'emergency special session' can be convened within 24 hours and shall be called if requested by the Security Council on the vote of any seven members, or by a majority of the Members of the United Nations because of lack of unanimity of the permanent UNSC members, fails to exercise its primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security in any case where there appears to be a threat to the peace, breach of the peace, or act of aggression

List of emergency special sessions of the United Nations General Assembly since 1956

United Nations fact-finding missions

1991: 9 December 1991: Declaration on Fact-Finding by the United Nations in the Field of the Maintenance of International Peace and Security

United Nations conferences

Since 1979 Conference on Disarmament: The Conference on Disarmament, established in 1979 by the international community to negotiate multilateral arms control and disarmament agreements, is not formally a UN organization but is linked to the UN through a personal representative of the UN Secretary-General

July 1944: July 1944 UN Monetary and Financial Conference of 730 delegates from all 44 Allied nations to regulate the international monetary and financial order after the conclusion of World War II

April-June 1945 UN Charter: UN Conference on International Organization was a convention of delegates from 50 Allied nations that took place from 25 April to 26 June 1945 in San Francisco resulting in the creation of the United Nations Charter, which was opened for signature on 26 June

April-September 1949: Lausanne Conference of 1949 was convened by the UN Conciliation Commission for Palestine from 27 April to 12 September 1949 in Switzerland

December 1973: Geneva Conference of December 1973 was an attempt to negotiate a solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict following the October 1973 Yom Kippur War

December 1978 and since 1978 UN conferences against racism: UN World Conferences Against Racism organized by UNESCO since 1978 - December 1978 UN's World Conference to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination

June 1992: UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro from 3 to 14 June 1992

September 1995: Fourth UN World Conference on Women - 'Action for Equality, Development and Peace' conference 4–15 September 1995 in China

Since 1995: Since 1995 UN Climate Change conference - UN climate change conferences 1998-2017, COP 24 expected to be held in December 2018 - Since 1988 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

August/September 2001 World Conference against Racism: World Conference against Racism was held at the Durban International Convention Centre in South Africa under UN auspices from 31 August to 8 September 2001

October 2001 3 October 2001: The August/September 2001 anti-racism conference in Durban says that slave trade and slavery was and is 'a crime against humanity'

January 2005: 18-22 January 2005 UN World Conferences on Disaster Risk Reduction since 2005 bringing together government officials, non-governmental experts and other specialists from around the world to discuss the growing trend of people affected by natural disasters

2005-2018 'Responsibility to Protect': 14–16 September 2005 World Summit follow-up summit meeting to the UN conference of 2000, which led to the declaration of 'Millennium Development Goals' - At the 14–16 September 2005 World Summit 'Responsibility to Protect' global political commitment endorsed by all member states of the UN, called 2005 UN's 'Genocide Prevention And The Responsibility To Protect', seeking to narrow the gap between Member States’ pre-existing obligations under international humanitarian and human rights law and the reality faced by populations at risk of genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity - 3 January 2018: September 2005 UN declaration and solemn promise to prevent, protect and to take 'timely and decisive action, in accordance with the UN charter' broken on a daily basis all over the world

May 2010: Review Conference for the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons at UN Headquarters in New York from 3 to 28 May 2010

March 2015: Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction 14-18 March 2015 in Japan - 13 March 2015: International cooperation being vital in reducing impact of natural disasters, UN conference in Sendai will discuss the creation of a forum to share scientific advances in disaster prediction

April/May 2015: April/May 2015 UN Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons - 24 April 2015: At UN conference in New York on Non-Proliferation Treaty, many non-nuclear nations frustrated by apparent lack of progress - 21 May 2015: Month-long conference of more than 150 countries at the UN to decide on an action plan for nuclear disarmament headed into a final stretch with no agreement in sight, deadlocked over demands by non-nuclear states for concrete steps from nuclear powers to reduce their arsenals and provide annual reports on the state of their stockpiles, an Austrian-led initiative backed by 159 states to ban nuclear weapons altogether has come up against strong resistance by declared nuclear powers Britain, China, France, Russia, USA - 23 May: Amid Iran nuclear talks, 1970 nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty members were unable to overcome disagreements on an atomic weapons ban for the Middle East, which the USA blamed on Egypt

July 2015: UN’s Third Financing for Development conference, in Addis Ababa 13-16 July 2015 - 13 July 2015: Financing the sustainable development goals will rely heavily on the tax factor - 14 July 2015: World’s richest countries, including the USA the UK, accused at Addis Ababa development finance summit of foiling effort to give poorer countries a greater say on UN tax policies - 16 July: Three-day conference on the future of foreign aid concludes without resolving the issue of multinational tax avoidance as richer nations reject call for tough tax provisions

September 2015: 25-27 September 2015 UN Sustainable Development Summit at UN headquarters in New York

May 2016: May 2016 World humanitarian summit held in Istanbul - 5 May 2016: Citing concern over accountability of governments 'Médecins Sans Frontières' pulls out of this month’s world humanitarian summit, describing it as a 'fig-leaf of good intentions' that will do little to protect the planet’s most vulnerable people or those trying to help them

'World Humanitarian Summit' 23-24 May 2016 - 23 May: It is necessary to stand up for international humanitarian law being disregarded, UN's Jan Eliasson says at the opening news conference of the first world humanitarian summit, citing attacks on hospitals and sieges on civilians in Syria and Yemen and adding that there are 'many signs' the Geneva convention on human rights is being neglected - 23 May: World humanitarian summit starts amid hope, hype and fear of empty words - 24 May 2016: Syrian Civil Defense Corps have recovered tens of thousands of people from under the rubble caused by aerial bombardment by the Assad regime and Russian forces in liberated areas since 2013, Raed Saleh says at the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul - 25 May: Syrian civil society organizations urge international community to improve humanitarian response in a letter signed by more than 80 Syrian non-governmental organizations and sent to the World humanitarian Summit

September 2016: September 2016 UN summit for refugees and migrants - 21 September 2016: As politicians gather in New York to discuss the refugee crisis, dozens of people dy and officials fear hundreds more are lost at sea after a boat carrying 600 refugees and migrants capsizes off the north Egyptian coast

November 2016: 7 au 18 novembre 2016 Conférence de Marrakech sur le réchauffement climatique, la 22e conférence des parties COP22 de la Convention-cadre des Nations unies sur les changements climatiques - 14 novembre 2016: Plusieurs milliers de personnes, membres d'associations marocaines et étrangères, ont défilé dimanche à Marrakech pour réclamer plus de 'justice climatique' aux Etats réunis pour la conférence climat de l'ONU - 18 novembre 2016: Avec un appel à 'augmenter le montant, les versements et l'accès aux financements pour des projets climatiques' fin d'une COP22 bousculée par Trump - 18 November 2016: As 48 nations, including the world’s poorest countries, promise to cut their carbon emissions dramatically and rapidly move to 100% renewable power, COP22 climate summit's Salaheddine Mezouar makes a direct plea to the maybe incoming USA president Trump to join the struggle against global warming for the sake of humanity and the planet

June 2017: 5-9 June 2017 The Ocean Conference

Science: Science - History of science - Scientific revolution - emergence of modern science during the early modern period

History of Physics

History of Astronomy - History of Mathematics

History of Chemistry - Inorganic Chemistry

History of Geology - Historical geology - Geological history of Earth - Atmospheric sciences - Hydrology - Oceanography - History of Meteorology

History of Organic Chemistry - History of Biochemistry - History of Molecular Biology - Abiogenesis

History of Biology

History of the Social Sciences - History of economic thought - Classical political economy - Marxian economics

Human evolution, criticism of religion, above all of professionalism of religious faith and history of study

Works about human violence - Works about wars - Works about genocide - Works about terrorism

History of Linguistics

History of Geography

Since 1992 UN's Memory of the World Programme to safeguard the documentary heritage of humanity against collective amnesia, neglect, the ravages of time and climatic conditions, and willful and deliberate destruction - UN's Memory of the World Register by continent and country - Libraries by country - List of archives by countries - Museums by country

Holocaust museums, documenting and remembering the genocide during World War II in which Nazi Germany, aided by its collaborators, systematically murdered some six million European Jews, around two-thirds of the Jewish population of Europe - List of Holocaust memorials and museums by country, also chronicling the persecution of Jews since the 63 BC siege of Jerusalem by the Roman empire making Judea a Roman client state and the Roman empire's following wars and exterminations

Slavery museums - Since 1977 'National Museum of Slavery' in Luanda with the objective of depicting the history of slavery in Angola, adjoining the Capela da Casa Grande, a 17th-century structure where slaves were baptised before being put on slave ships for transport to the Americas - Since 2007 International Slavery Museum in Liverpool, that focuses on the history and legacy of the transatlantic slave trade by European countries from the 16th to the 19th centuries, consisting of three main galleries which focus on the lives of people in West Africa, their eventual enslavement, and their continued fight for freedom, also discussing slavery in the modern day as well as topics on racism and discrimination - Since 2014 'Whitney Plantation Historic District' museum devoted to slavery in the southern USA, located in Louisiana the plantation was started in 1752 by German immigrants and their descendants owned it until 1867

Genocide museums

Apartheid museums

Human rights museums

Education is the teaching or learning of knowledge, especially to develop the reasoning, judgement and skill required in adult life and professional occupations - History of education

2016: 15 December 2016: Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, the systematic operation to wipe out the Jews of Eastern Europe began, 75 years after falling into the abyss 'Never Again' has become an empty phrase in Germany and in many countries - 2013-2017 second banning attempt of the neo-Nazi organization 'National Democratic Party of Germany', but on 17 January the German Federal Constitutional Court rejected the attempt to outlaw the party - January 2017: On 20 January 1942 outside of Berlin a gathering of representatives of the Nazi Germany’s bureaucratic offices decided on the 'Final Solution' for genocide, in the language of bureaucracy and as among the 15 representatives not one was from the German army while eight held doctorates

Education by country - Education by method - History of education by country - Language education by country - Music education by country

Schools by country - Elementary and primary schools by country - High schools and secondary schools by country

International schools by continent and country - International schools by country of origin - International School of Aleppo, closed in 2011 due to Assad's war against the Syrian people

Science and technology by country - Science education by country

Knowledge sharing - Knowledge transfer - Technology transfer

Social movements: Social movements, Internet, World Wide Web

Since the 1950s history of the Internet and the World Wide Web (since the 1980s) - 6 May 2014: World to have nearly three billion internet users 2014 with two-thirds of them from the developing world, mobile-cellular subscriptions will reach almost seven billion 2014, UN says

Online social movement - Wikipedia collaboratively edited, multilingual, free Internet encyclopedia

Peace movement - List of anti-war organizations - Anti-war protests - Civil and human rights protests - Environmental protests

July/August 1914 SPD's appeal to demonstrate against the coming war, only to vote on 4 August for the war credits: On 25 July 1914 the executive of the Social Democratic Party of Germany issued an appeal to its membership to demonstrate against the coming war, only to vote on 4 August for the war credits the German Empire's government wanted

1917 Putilov strike, demonstrations and revolution in Russia: February 1917 Putilov Strike of 1917, sparking more strikes and demonstrations in Petrograd and sparking the February Revolution - On 8 March 1917, Putilov protesters were joined in uprising by those celebrating International Woman's Day and protesting against the government's implemented food rationing, both men and women flooded the streets of Petrograd, demanding an end to Russian food shortages, the end of World War I and the end of autocracy and tsarist despotism

1920-1946 League of Nations: The League of Nations intergovernmental organisation founded on 10 January 1920 as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended World War I and was the first international organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace

Since 1938 Jewish resistance in German-occupied Europe: Since 1938 Jewish resistance in German-occupied Europe

Since 1950s Civil rights movements: Civil rights movements are a worldwide series of political movements for equality before the law, that peaked in the 1960s, in many situations they have been characterized by nonviolent protests, or have taken the form of campaigns of civil resistance aimed at achieving change through nonviolent forms of resistance

1950-1994 Internal resistance to apartheid in South Africa: 1950-1994 Internal resistance to apartheid in South Africa originated from several independent sectors of society and alternatively took the form of social movements, passive resistance, or guerrilla warfare

1954-1968 African-American civil rights movement: 1954-1968 African-American civil rights movement, preceeded by the, 1865-1896 African-American civil rights movement, that aimed at eliminating racial discrimination against African Americans, improving educational and employment opportunities, and establishing electoral power, following the elimination of slavery in the South, and the 1896-1954 African-American civil rights movement

1964-1970s opposition to the USA's Vietnam War: From 1964 to the 1970s opposition to the USA's Vietnam War

Since 1980 Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War: Since 1980 International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War IPPNW, a non-partisan federation of national medical groups in 64 countries, representing tens of thousands of doctors, medical students, other health workers, and concerned citizens who share the common goal of creating a more peaceful and secure world freed from the threat of nuclear annihilation

March 2008 Remembrance of 1968 My Lai Massacre: 16 March 2008: More than a thousand people and My Lai survivors turned out to remember the victims of My Lai Massacre during the USA's Vietnam War on 16 March 1968, when members of USA's Charlie Company killed hundreds of Vietnamese civilians, nearly all of them unarmed children, women and elderly, after My Lai courts-martial failed to uphold the laws of war established in the Nuremberg and Tokyo War Crimes Tribunals, and Telford Taylor, a senior USA prosecutor at Nuremberg, wrote that legal principles established at the war crimes trials could have been used to prosecute senior military commanders for failing to prevent atrocities such as the one at My Lai

Since December 2010 'Arab Spring': Arab Spring revolutionary wave of demonstrations, protests, riots, coups, foreign interventions, and civil wars in North Africa and the Middle East, that began on 17 December 2010 in Tunisia with the Tunisian Revolution

2014 anti-war protests in Russia: 2014 anti-war protests in Russia opposing the Russian military intervention in Ukraine since 2014

2015 worldwide demonstrations against Russian aggression on Syria: 17 October 2015: Worldwide demonstrations against Russian aggression on Syria denouncing the Russian air raids that kill civilians - 18 October 2015: Russian anti-war protesters in Moscow slam Putin's wars in Syria and Ukraine

2016: 16 January 2016: Organizers of worldwide protests against starvation of civilians in Syria organize sit-ins in a number of capitals with the aim of helping to break the sieges the Assad regime impose on civilians with the backing of Hezbollah militias, Iran and Russia - 8 February 2016: Hundreds of protestors gathered in Istanbul to protest against the Russian airstrikes on Syria, especially on Latakia and Aleppo provinces, triggering mass displacements and forcing tens of thousands of civilians to flee - 22 February: Hundreds of residents and protesters, mostly women and children, trapped in the district of Darayya in rural Damascus demonstrated on Sunday against the siege Assad regime forces have laid on the district for over three years - 10 March 2016: Protesters around the world gathered near Russian regime's embassies, demanding freedom for Ukrainian patriots, soldiers, journalists and other political prisoners who are currently kept in Russian jails and separatists' captivity - 25 March 2016: For the 4th Friday in a row since the truce has been declared on 27 February, the Syrian people took to the streets today in many cities and towns across Syria chanting for freedom and demanding the fall of the Assad regime

July 2016 Battle of the Somme centenary commemorations: 1 July 2016: Battle of the Somme centenary commemorations in France and in the United Kingdom - 1 juillet 2016: Près de 600 enfants - 300 Britanniques et 300 Français - doivent participer à la célébration à Thiepval pour célébrer le centenaire de la bataille de la Somme, la plus meurtrière de la Grande Guerre

2016 protests against Russian aggression on Syria: 7 October 2016: Protesters opposed to Russian military intervention in Syria gathered outside the Russian Embassy in Canberra, with some carrying placards comparing Russian regime's Vladimir Putin to Adolf Hitler - 11 October 2016: On the eve of Yom Kippur, Israeli groups unite across the country to call for aid for victims of six-year Assad's war against the Syrian people, with the involvement of rabbis and communal leaders under the banner 'The world is silent, we are not'

October 2016 Aleppo protests: 21 October 2016: Hundreds of people in the besieged parts of Aleppo took to the streets to protest against Russia’s planned 'evacuation' of besieged parts of the city, calling for toppling the Assad regime and the ousting of the Russian and Iranian invaders from Syria

November 2016: 4 November 2016: Hundreds of artificial limbs blocked the entrance to the Russian Embassy in London on Thursday as members of the Syria Campaign group protested Russian regime's airstrikes in Syria's largest city of Aleppo - 10 novembre 2016: Des milliers de manifestants se sont rassemblés à travers les Etats-Unis et ont dénoncé les vues racistes, sexistes et xénophobes de Donald Trump

December 2016: 13 December 2016: Thousands of people took to the streets of Istanbul and London on Tuesday to protest the reported massacres of civilians in Aleppo by Russian, Assad regime and allied forces and to show solidarity with the people of Aleppo facing Russian, Iranian and Assad war crimes - 14 December 2016: Protests and vigils were held in cities across the world including Ankara, Beirut, Istanbul and Paris on Tuesday and Wednesday to show solidarity with civilians in eastern Aleppo and to denounce the international community’s inaction over the atrocious crimes being committed against civilians by the Assad regime and its Hezbollah, Iranian and Russian allies - 15 December 2016: Global outcry condemns Russian regime for Aleppo tragedy, as condemnation of the Syrian dictator Assad and his allies Russia and Iran has intensified in capitals across Europe including Berlin, where at least hundreds have demonstrated blaming Russian regime and its support of Assad for the unfolding tragedy - 15 December 2016: Protests are being held in front of the Russian embassy in Kyiv, expressing anger over Russia's war crimes in Aleppo and calling on the USA and the EU to impose fresh sanctions on Russia over the war crimes in Syria, and also ensure safety and decent conditions for civilians in war-torn Syria - 15 December 2016: People continued to hold protests and vigils in many Arab and Western cities, including Copenhagen, Kuwait, Oslo, Paris, Rabat, Sarajevo, Stockholm and Washington, to show solidarity with civilians in eastern Aleppo and to denounce the international community’s inaction over the atrocious crimes being carried out against civilians by the Assad regime - 17 December 2016: Demonstrations and vigils condemning the war crimes being committed by Assad, Russia and the Iranian militias against civilians in Syria, especially in Aleppo, continue to be held in many cities across the world, as most demonstrations were held in front of Russian and Iranian embassies in many European and Arab countries - 18 December: Doctors, nurses and medics have staged a protest outside Parliament in London against Russian, Iranian and Assad's attacks on their professional colleagues trying to save lives in Syria as thousands of people in Germany and in France were protesting against Assad's ongoing war in Syria

30 December 2016: 30 December 2016: Thousands of Syrians took to the streets in several towns and cities in Syria to demonstrate against the Assad regime a few hours after a nationwide ceasefire took effect on Thursday midnight

January 2017 protests against Assad's and allies’ war in Syria: 7 January 2017: Demonstrators take to the streets in various parts of Syria to denounce the Assad regime’s and allies’ violations of the ceasefire agreement and their continued targeting of civilians, particularly in Wadi Barada valley in Rural Damascus, as more civilians are killed and injured in bombardment by regime forces and the Hezbollah militias

January 2017 The Women’s March Global movement: 19 January 2017: The Women’s March Global movement now covers all seven continents after 'Women’s March–Antarctic Peninsula' joined 161 sister marches in 61 countries, standing in solidarity with marches in the USA on 21 January to defend human rights concerning health, economic security, safety, representation and environmental issues

21/22 January 2017 Women's March: 21 January 2017 Women's March, a political rally in cities around the world, initially centered around Washington D.C. to promote women's rights and to address racial inequities, workers' issues, and environmental issues, an estimated 2.9 million people attended the 408 marches across the USA and other marches occurred in 168 countries around the world - Women's March on London 21 January 2017 - 22 January 2017: From Washington to Nairobi women around the world and millions of protesters march in solidarity against the USA's 45th president Trump

March 2017: 6 March 2017: Since Trump’s inauguration, women in the USA and around the world have been organising, protesting and preparing to run for office in a growing wave, British newspaper reports - 8 March 2017: International Women’s Day 2017 events take place around the world to mark the ongoing fight for equality, women's and human rights

April 2017 'March for Science': 22 April 2017 'March for Science' in over 600 other cities across the world - 22 April 2017: Hundreds of thousands of climate researchers, oceanographers, bird watchers and other supporters of science rallied in marches around the world on Saturday, in an attempt to bolster scientists’ increasingly precarious status with politicians

May 2017 'Mères de la Place de Mai': 1 mai 2017: Cela fait 40 ans que les 'Mères de la Place de Mai' se rassemblent pour réclamer la vérité sur la disparition de leurs enfants pendant la dictature argentine

January 2018 Hollywood protest and 2018 Women's March: 8 January 2018: Accepting Golden Globe 2018 award, Oprah Winfrey gave a powerful speech, a searing rebuke of racial injustice, sexual abuse and attacks on the integrity of the press, as more speakers and the images from this year’s ceremony spoke of women in terms of power and solidarity rather than glamour or competition - 2018 Women's March - 20 January 2018: A year after millions of women and men demonstrated in cities around the globe in an extraordinary rebuke of Donald Trump, tens of thousands turned out in Washington, New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and hundreds of other cities across the USA and the world

January 2018 protests against Turkish Afrin campaign: 28 January 2018: A show of solidarity around the world for Syria's Afrin and against the Turkish campaign, as people gathered in Amsterdam, Barcelona, Brussels, Cologne, London, Ottawa, Paris, Stockholm, Washington D.C., and more than 50 places

February 2018 protests against Assad's Rif Dimashq offensive and bombing campaign: 22 February 2018: Demonstrations in towns and villages in Syria to show solidarity with the Damascus suburb of eastern Ghouta which is under a ferocious bombing campaign by regime forces who are backed by Russian air force - 23 February 2018: Demonstrations were held in European cities and capitals to show solidarity with the people of the Damascus suburb of eastern Ghouta which has been subjected to ferocious onslaught by Assad regime forces and their allies over the past few days

March 2018: 2 mars 2018: Des milliers de personnes ont manifesté à Bratislava et dans d'autres villes de Slovaquie en mémoire du journaliste d'investigation Jan Kuciak assassiné, qui était spécialisé dans les enquêtes sur des fraudes fiscales et des détournements de subventions - 2 March 2018: Tens of thousands of Slovaks marched in a national rally to honor journalist Jan Kuciak and his girlfriend, who were shot dead as Kuciak was working on a story about the influence of the Italian mafia in Slovakia, as similar marches were being held in some 25 towns and cities across the country and in cities abroad, including London, Paris and Brussels

5 March 2018: Medical workers in eastern Ghouta held a sit-in in one of the hospitals in the besieged Damascus suburb to protest against the continued bombing campaign by the Assad regime and Russia forces, as the relentless bombardment killed hundreds of civilians, according to international reports

8 March 2018: Coinciding with 2018 International Women’s Day under its theme 'Time is Now: Rural and urban activists transforming women’s lives', an all-woman international convoy started a journey to raise awareness of the suffering of women and young girls imprisoned by the Assad regime and to reach the province of Hatay at the Turkish-Syrian border on March 8 - 8 March 2018: Syrian Coalition's Dima Moussa has issued an appeal to all women across the world to participate in the campaigns and sit-ins being held across the world to spotlight the suffering Syrian women are enduring as a result of the criminal practices of the Assad regime against them - 9 March 2018: International Women's Day was celebrated across the world on Wednesday at a time when the women of the Eastern Ghouta are hiding in the cellars with their children to escape a brutal campaign waged by the Syrian regime on the area

16 March 2018: Syrians at home and abroad commemorated the seventh anniversary of the Syrian revolution which began in March 2011, vowing they would carry on with the struggle against the Assad regime until they fully regain their rights to freedom and dignity - 17 March 2018: The Civil Defense corpse in the Damascus suburb of eastern Ghouta called on all people around the world to hold demonstrations to put pressure on their governments to work on putting an end to the brutal bombing campaign on eastern Ghouta

24 March 2018 'March for Our Lives' student-led demonstration in Washington D.C. with 845 sibling events throughout the USA and around the world for gun control legislation

April 2018: 29 April 2018: Tens of thousands have protested in Spanish cities in recent days, outraged by the decision of a court in Navarre to clear five men of gang rape and convicting them instead of the lesser offence of sexual abuse, echoing the determination of women globally to force society and the state to give them justice

International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons since 2007 - International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War since 1980

1961: 1961 Women Strike for Peace and march in 60 cities in the USA to demonstrate against nuclear weapons, pushing the USA and the Soviet Union into signing a nuclear test-ban treaty two years later

2015: 26 April 2015: As nuclear powers meet, global activists present 8 million petitions to the UN disarmament chief demanding a world free of nuclear weapons and New York rally demands that the world's nine nuclear-armed countries do far more toward cutting stockpiles - 29 April 2015: A number of protesters were arrested by New York's police on Tuesday as they called for an end to all nuclear weapons

October 2017: 2017 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons - 6 October 2017: International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons wins Nobel peace prize 2017, as Norwegian Nobel Committee says award made in recognition of work to draw attention to catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons

Anti-nuclear movement

Social democracy since 19th century

2013: 2 May 2013: Workers around the world united in anger during May Day rallies - from Europe to Asia over relentlessly low pay, the rising cost of living, elimination of jobs and hideous working conditions

2016: 1 May 2016: On May day workers and activists worldwide, from Brazil, Cambodia, Chile to the USA, rallied in support of workers' rights, demanding higher wages, better conditions and more job security, criticizing the Trans-Pacific Partnership TPP agreement in Malaysia, carrying Mexican flags in Los Angeles, as in Istanbul a man was killed when he was run over by a police water cannon vehicle

United Nations Post-2015 Development Agenda - 30 January 2012: UN panel aims for 'a future worth choosing' - UN Global Sustainability Panel (January 2012)

2015: 7 June 2015: Climate debate takes global pulse ahead of 2015 Paris summit as thousands of people gathered across 79 countries for what was touted as the world's largest-ever public debate on climate change

28 November 2015: As part of worldwide protests thousands of people rally in cities across Australia, New Zealand and the Philippines calling for action on climate change ahead of 2015 Paris summit - 29 November: Hundreds of thousands march around the world urging action to stop dangerous global warming

2014: 30 March 2014: Lights off for Earth Hour's global crowdfunding call for local environmental projects

2015: 24 May 2015: Thousands of people hit the streets in cities across the world to protest against the USA biotechnology giant Monsanto and its genetically modified crops and pesticides - 7 December 2015: People make the 'Pray for Paris' sign along with the slogan '100 per cent renewable' near the Eiffel Tower in Paris, as more than 10,000 climate activists pushing for an 'ambitious, fair and binding' climate deal marched along the beaches near Ostend in Belgium and as in Paris a coalition of African nations and donors unveiled an ambitious initiative to restore 100 million hectares of degraded and felled forests

2016: 14-16 October 2016 'Monsanto Tribunal' international civil society initiative to hold Monsanto accountable for human rights violations, for crimes against humanity, and for ecocide, as judges will hear testimonies from victims, and deliver an advisory opinion following procedures of the International Court of Justice

Since 2001 World Social Forum since - March 2013 World Social Forum in Tunis - December 2014 World Social Forum on Migrations - March 2015 World Social Forum in Tunisia - 5 août 2016: Après Tunis en 2015 Montréal accueille à partir de mardi le prochain Forum social mondial

'Internet Social Forum' emerged to envision the role of the internet in help shape a new world on broadly similar lines to the WSF, founded in March 2015 at the Tunis WSF Conference

Occupy movement protest locations worldwide - Occupy movement

List of revolutions and rebellions

Since 2010: 2010/2011 Tunisian Revolution, an intensive campaign of civil resistance, including a series of street demonstrations in Tunisia leading to a democratization of the country and to free and democratic elections - Arab Spring by country

2016: 10 juillet 2016: Habib Essid a félicité les forces sécuritaires après que la Tunisie a connu son premier mois de ramadan sans attaque djihadiste depuis 2012

Journalism and media: News media and Journalism, the work and distribution of reports on the interaction of events, facts, ideas, and people that are the news of the day or a longer period

Newspaper, serial publication containing news and other informative articles - Online newspaper, either as a stand-alone publication or as the online version of a printed periodical - Lists of newspapers by continent, by countries, by languages, and by type

News broadcasting of various news events and other information via television, radio or internet - Radio news, Television news and broadcast journalism

Weather forecasting and its broadcasting

News agencies

History: History of journalism

Since 15th century: Spread of the printing press beginning with the invention of movable type by Johannes Gutenberg in the 15th century, printing technology was adopted in all world regions by the end of the 19th century - List of the oldest newspapers since 1605 - 19th-century German newspaper 'Rheinische Zeitung', edited by Karl Marx since 1842 and terminated by Prussian state censorship in March 1843 - 'Neue Rheinische Zeitung: Organ der Demokratie', German daily newspaper published by Karl Marx 1848/1849, suppressed by Prussian state in May 1849

1948: 1948 United Nations 'Universal Declaration of Human Rights' states that everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression, and that this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference, and impart information and ideas through any media regardless of frontiers

Since the 1950s: History of the Internet beginning with the development of electronic computers in the 1950s

Since the 1970s: Since the 1970s Environmental journalism, the collection, verification, production, distribution and exhibition of information regarding current events, trends, issues and people that are associated with the non-human world with which humans necessarily interact

1971: 1971 'Pentagon Papers'

Since 1985: Since 1985 'Reporters Without Borders' international non-profit, non-governmental organization that promotes and defends freedom of information and freedom of the press - 'Reporters Without Borders' website

1991: 1991 Windhoek Declaration statement of press freedom principles by African newspaper journalists

Since 1997: Since 1997 'International Consortium of Investigative Journalists ICIJ', a Washington-based international network launched by the Center for Public Integrity which includes 165 investigative journalists in over 65 countries who work together on issues such as cross-border crime, corruption, and the accountability of power - Investigative journalism - List of public disclosures of classified information, global and by countries

Since 2006 Wikileaks: Information published by WikiLeaks since 2006

2012: 2012 Syria Files, collection of more than two million emails from Syrian political figures and ministries and from companies including Finmeccanica and Brown Lloyd James dating from August 2006 to March 2012

Since 2014 Investigative journalists' 'Bellingcat': Since 2014 Investigative journalists' 'Bellingcat', using open source and social media investigation to investigate a variety of subjects and conflicts, for example Assad's war against the Syrian people and the Russian regime's aggression against Ukraine

2015: March/April 2015: Hacking the hackers, an interview with the recipient of the ACFE Guardian Award Brian Krebs

2016: April 2016 'Panama Papers' - TTIP Leaks - Greenpeace website

2016: 9 November 2016: Reporters Without Borders awarded its 2016 Press Freedom Prize to Syrian journalist and activist Hadi Abdullah for his efforts covering the nearly six-year conflict in Syria

2017: 7 March 2017: After WikiLeaks published what it described as the biggest ever leak of confidential documents from the CIA detailing the tools it uses to break into phones, communication apps and other electronic devices, USA intelligence agencies are facing fresh embarrassment

Freedom of the press, freedom of speech and freedom of information

IFEX (formerly the International Freedom of Expression Exchange) global network of over 100 independent non-governmental organisations working at the local, national, regional and international level to defend and promote freedom of expression as a fundamental human right - International Federation of Journalists - Journalism ethics and standards

Since 2012 Bellingcat website founded by the British citizen journalist Eliot Higgins, publishing the findings of citizen journalist investigations into war and the criminal underground, also publishing guides to their techniques and case studies, after in March 2012 Eliot Higgins started a blog demonstrating that the Syrian regime was using cluster munitions and chemical weapons - 'Bellingcat' website

Since 2012: Since 2012 Bellingcat investigation of the use of weapons, including chemical weapons, in Assad's war against the Syrian people

Since 2014: Since 2014 Bellingcat investigation of the downing of the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 during the still ongoing war in eastern Ukraine

June 2017: 5 June 2017: Bellingcat publishes new evidence of Buk 332 origin used to down Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 - 17 July 2017: Bellingcat's team of investigative journalists has released report summarizing all major open source evidence surrounding the downing of MH17 in an easy-to-read 73-page survey, naming Buk 332 of the Russian Armed Forces to be the only credible candidate for the missile launcher that downed MH17

April 2018: 19 April 2018: Bellingcat journalists report how they tracked the illegal shipment of Sarin precursor from Belgium to Syria, after Syrian Archive and Knack revealed information that Belgium violated EU sanctions

Since 2010 Bureau of Investigative Journalism, a nonprofit news organisation based in London - 'Bureau of Investigative Journalism' website

Since 1997 International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, an independent Washington D.C.-based international network - 'International Consortium of Investigative Journalists' website

Since 1985 Reporters Without Borders, or Reporters Sans Frontières RSF, is an international non-profit, non-governmental organization that promotes and defends freedom of information and freedom of the press - 'Reporters Without Borders' website - The Press Freedom Index is an annual ranking of countries compiled and published by 'Reporters Without Borders' based upon the organisation's own assessment of the countries' press freedom records in the previous year

April 2018: 16 April 2018: Reporters Without Borders RSF calls for a full and impartial investigation into journalist Maxim Borodin’s death as a result of a fall from the balcony of his apartment in Russia's Yekaterinburg, who was known for reports on private military firm and prison investigations - 16 April 2018: Russian investigative journalist Borodin who confirmed the deaths of Russian mercenaries in Syria has died after falling from his fifth-floor balcony in the city of Yekaterinburg

Citizen journalism is based upon public citizens 'playing an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing, and disseminating news and information' - Crowdsourcing

Collaborative journalism, a mode of journalism where multiple reporters or news organizations, without affiliation to a common parent organization, report on and contribute news items to a news story together, practiced by both professional and amateur reporters

Investigative journalism is a form of journalism in which reporters deeply investigate a single topic of interest, such as serious crimes, political corruption, or corporate wrongdoing, and an investigative journalist may spend months or years researching and preparing a report - Lists of investigative journalists by country

Democracy: Democracy - History of democracy - Election - Suffrage - State - Government

History of law connected to the development of civilisations and economic, social and political history - Contract law - Treaty - International law

Abolition of slavery - timeline

Opposition to nationalism

Monarchy abolishment - Monarchy abolishment since twentieth century and World War I

Democratization, the transition to a more democratic political regime, also referring to substantive changes of society moving in a democratic direction - Democratization in corporations

International law and international human rights law: International law is the set of rules generally regarded and accepted as binding in relations between states and between nations - International human rights law is primarily made up of treaties, agreements between sovereign states intended to have binding legal effect between the parties and designed to promote human rights on social, regional, and domestic levels - Sources of international law - Customary international law - Customary international humanitarian law - Crimes against humanity

Human rights by issue - Right to life - The right to health is the economic, social and cultural right to a universal minimum standard of health to which all individuals are entitled - Freedom of speech - Toleration - Right to equal protection - Children's rights

Right to work - Right to food - Human right to water and sanitation - Environmental protection

Opposition to nationalism and racism: Opposition to nationalism - Anti-racism includes convincements, actions, movements, and policies inevitably developed to oppose racism, also intending to promote an egalitarian society in which people do not face discrimination - Opposition to fascist ideologies, groups and individuals in European, African, American and Asian countries since the 1920s, an opposition spreading to other countries around the world

Since 1938 Jewish resistance in German-occupied Europe: Since 1938 Jewish resistance in German-occupied Europe

Resistance during World War II: Resistance movements during World War II occurred in every occupied country by a variety of means, ranging from non-cooperation, disinformation and propaganda, to hiding crashed pilots and even to outright warfare and the recapturing of towns

February 2018: 22 février 2018: Le monde subit les conséquences effroyables de discours de haine qui menacent de normaliser la discrimination contre des groupes marginalisés, souligne l'ONG Amnesty International dans son rapport 2017/18 sur les droits humains dans le monde

April 2018: 19 April 2018: Paying homage to the hundreds of Jewish fighters who took up arms in the 1943 rebellion against the German forces that occupied Poland during World War II in the April-May Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Polish survivor of the Warsaw ghetto Marian Kalwary says 'I am terrified by the rebirth of fascism and nationalism and I can see nationalism being glorified and put on a pedestal as something noble'

United Nations Secretariat and Secretary-General of the United Nations - UN Secretary-General selection - a candidate must receive the votes of at least 9 members of the UN Security Council, with no vetoes from permanent members, and a majority vote of the UN General Assembly, but the General Assembly has never refused to appoint the person recommended by the Security Council

1953-1961: 1953-1961 Dag Hammarskjöld, a Swedish diplomat, economist, and author, served as the second Secretary-General of the United Nations

1961/2017: September 1961 Ndola United Nations DC-6 crash - 26 September 2017: A UN report into the death of its secretary general Dag Hammarskjöld in a 1961 plane clash in central Africa has found that there is a 'significant amount of evidence' that his flight was brought down by another aircraft

1972-1981: United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim 1972-1981 - The International Committee of Historians and Waldheim's involvement with the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany 1941-1945, his knowledge of Nazi war crimes - 2 May 2001: CIA knew about Waldheim's Nazi past long before he was appointed UN secretary general

2014: 14 August 2014: After delegation of 11 organizations meets UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, leaders of major Jewish organizations accuse him of being one-sided in his handling of the crisis in Gaza - 1 November 2014: UN's Ban Ki-moon appoints panel to recommend changes to international peacekeeping in the face of increasingly complex and dangerous conflicts

2015: 23 January 2015: UN's Ban Ki-moon paints a worsening picture of Assad's war in Syria, citing indiscriminate government bombing and opposition shelling, high civilian casualties and deteriorating humanitarian conditions - 13 March 2015: Syrians feel 'increasingly abandoned', UN's Ban Ki-moon says - 24 March 2015: The people of Syria feel 'increasingly abandoned by the world' as global attention focuses on Islamic State militants, while violence and government bureaucracy hinder attempts to deliver aid to 12 million people, UN's Ban Ki-moon repeats on Monday 23 March - 3 May 2015: The UN is telling Syria's Assad regime that the use of explosive weapons in the besieged Palestinian refugee community of Yarmouk and other populated areas must stop - 28 May 2015: 'The level of carnage and devastation throughout the Syrian Arab Republic should shock the collective conscience of the world', UN's Ban Ki-moon says in the fifth year of Assad's war in a report - 24 June 2015: UN's Ban Ki-moon again calls for urgent action in Syria - 21 July 2015: Syrian Coalition criticizes UN's Ban Ki-moon’s silence over Iran and Assad crimes - 17 September 2015: Hungary's treatment of refugees is shocking and unacceptable, UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon says - 4 October 2015: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warns of a dangerous escalation in Jerusalem and the West Bank and urges leaders to 'condemn violence and incitement' - 31 October 2015: Making reference to the 'brazen and brutal erosion of respect for international humanitarian law', which was characterized by indiscriminate attacks on civilians areas, such as one reported yesterday in a marketplace in Syria and credited to government forces, UN's Ban Ki-moon along with the head of the ICRC calls for action to stop suffering by ending conflict, saying 'Enough is enough'

2016: 15 January 2016: At a press conference in New York UN's Ban Ki-moon warns that the use of starvation as a weapon in Syria amounts to a war crime and a violation of international humanitarian law - 11 March 2016: As Iranian regime insists missiles emblazoned with 'Israel must be wiped out' are 'for legitimate defense', UN's Ban Ki-moon urges Iranian 'moderation' after missile tests, calling on the Iranian regime and its 'moderates' 'not to increase tensions through hasty actions' so soon after nuclear deal 'and so soon after the positive news of the lifting of sanctions against Iran' - 3 May 2016: New Zealand’s former PM Helen Clark started her campaign to become the first woman to lead the UN, saying in Paris that 'peace really matters to women' - 16 June 2016: Ukraine's UN ambassador is 'completely outraged' by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's speech at St. Petersburg forum, asking how the UN chief 'can say such things which sort of praise the role of Russia in settling the conflict in Ukraine when the Russian Federation is the main player in aggressing Ukraine and in keeping this conflict boiling' - 29 December 2016: With António Guterres 'the toothless United Nations must seize this last chance to save itself' and its task, the Guardian's Mary Dejevsky says

2017: 17 February 2017: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is due to name a judge or prosecutor as the head of a new UN team aiming to bring Syria war crimes to court - 21 février 2017: Juger les crimes contre l'humanité commis par le régime syrien, c'est la requête faite à la Cour pénale internationale par des intellectuels et des artistes syriens, consignée dans une lettre ouverte au secrétaire général de l'ONU Antonio Guterres - 25 April 2017: Syrian Interim Government sent a letter to the UN Secretary-General Guterres highlighting the systematic bombing of hospitals and medical facilities by the Assad regime and Russia forces - 1 June 2017: UN's Guterres calls for referring Syrian file to the International Criminal Court, accusing the Syrian regime of hampering the access of civilians to humanitarian aid - 8 August 2017: UN's Guterres says a UN commission probing war crimes in Syria should continue its work, despite the resignation of prosecutor Carla Del Ponte - 14 December 2017: UN secretary general Antonio Guterres has warned that Iran may be defying a call to halt ballistic missile development and may have passed ballistic missiles to Yemen's Houthis, also saying that the Simorgh space launch vehicle that Iran launched on 27 July, if configured as a ballistic missile, is 'inherently capable of delivering nuclear weapons'

2018: 11 January 2018: António Guterres calls on UN member states to adopt humane approach to refugees and migrants by making more travel routes available and protecting foreign workers - 30 January 2018: UN chief meets with Sudan’s president, who is accused of genocide, on grounds of alleged 'operational necessity' - 23 February 2018: With support of UN head Guterres Syria’s Bashar Ja’afari was elected earlier Thursday to the UN’s Special Committee on Decolonization, as Hillel Neuer, executive director of the Geneva-based human rights group UN Watch, says that 'it is incomprehensible for the UN on one day to lament the Syrian regime’s killing and wounding of hundreds of thousands of Syrians - to declare the regime guilty of a ‘monstrous campaign of annihilation’ of its own people - and to then hand this gift of false legitimacy to the mass murderer Bashar al-Assad'

UN Special Representatives and Envoys of the Secretary-General - UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General - Special Envoy of the Secretary-General

Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations

Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations

2016: 20 August 2016: Responding to questions about the heartbreaking photos of five-year-old Omran Daqneesh, rescued from under the rubble of his home in Aleppo that was destroyed in an airstrike and whose brother died, UN's deputy secretary-general Jan Eliasson says that the whole world has failed the Syrian people, as Syrian Coalition's Osama Taljou calls upon the United Nations to hold Assad accountable for killing over 400,000 Syrians and displacing over 13 million more, stressing that the Syrian people will never give up the struggle for freedom and dignity

UN Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict: UN Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict

2012: 11 June 2012: Annual Report of the UN Secretary-General on Children and Armed Conflict - 12 June 2012: Assads forces using Syrian children as human shields, UN report says

October 2017: 5 October 2017: Millions of children caught in conflict, victims and targets of despicable harm, according to UN 2016 report revealing shocking levels of grave violations against children affected by conflicts - 5 October 2017: Adding to its existing list UN blacklists Iran-allied Houthi rebel group in Yemen, Yemeni government forces, pro-government militia, al Qaeda and Saudi-led coalition for killing children in the Arabian Peninsula

November 2017: 17 November 2017: Criticizing the performance of UN staff covering the conflict in Syria, SNHR says UN Secretary General report on Syria children is ‘not accurately reflecting the atrocious reality in Syria’

United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process: United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process - 22 June 2014: UN envoy Robert Serry denies claim he tried to funnel $20m to Hamas behind Israel's back - 5 February 2015: Nikolay Mladenov to replace Robert Serry as UN mideast envoy - 7 June 2015: Israel's PM Netanyahu chides world over silence after new Gaza rocket attacks in 2015, saying 'I have not heard a single international figure condemn the violence, not even at the United Nations' - 16 September 2015: The UN’s Mideast peace envoy Nikolay Mladenov warns that clashes between Israelis and Palestinians in and around Jerusalem’s holy sites have the potential to ignite violence well beyond the walls of its Old City, pointing to 'a vicious tide of terror and extremism' in the region

UN Special Representative and Envoy for Syria: United Nations Special Representative for Syria

2012/2013: 20 August 2012: The Syrian National Council has asked the new UN envoy Lakhdar Brahimi to apologise over his refusal to immediately call for Bashar al-Assad to step down - 17 July 2013: Five thousand people a month are dying in Syria's war, which has now generated the worst refugee crisis since the 1994 Rwandan genocide, UN says

2014: 13 May 2014: UN and Arab League special representative on Syria Brahimi resigns - 11 October 2014: UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura fears massacre after Islamic State terrorists seize Kurdish HQ in Kobane - 30 October 2014: UN warns that some of Syria's neighbors are at their 'breaking point', caught between a sense of duty to keep their borders open to refugees and a responsibility to their own citizens

2015: 14 February 2015: The Syrian Coalition sent a strongly worded letter to the UN Security Council explaining the atrocities and massacres committed by the Assad regime in the district of Douma - 14 February 2015: France repeated its position that Syrian regime's Al-Assad must step down as part of any political transition after UN Special Envoy de Mistura said that Al-Assad 'is part of the solution' - 18 March 2015: The Syrian Coalition sent a letter to the UN Security Council calling for punishing Assad under Chapter VII of UN Charter after regime's latest chlorine gas attack on Sarmin in rural Idlib on Monday - 25 April 2015: UN envoy to Syria to begin talks with groups and regional powers in hopes to end conflict - 4 May 2015: Syrian Coalition's decision to attend Geneva meetings to consider how to get rid of Assad - 8 June 2015: UN Special Envoy to Syria de Mistura, who recently called Assad a 'part of the solution', now says the dictator must go and should be militarily pressured to do so by the USA - 19 June 2015: Over 70 countries demand that Assad regime stops deadly aerial attacks against the Syrian people - 9 July 2015: WikiLeaks Cable details private meeting between Assad and Kofi Annan in 2012 - 30 July 2015: The Palestinian Committee for Human Rights condemns the decision by UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs to stop the provision of aid and support to 18,000 people in Damascus' Yarmouk refugee camp, after removing the camp from its list of besieged Syrian areas - 27 December 2015: UN sets to start Syrian peace talks on 25 January 2016 in Geneva - 30 December 2015: 40,000 civilians in Syria's Madaya city, besieged by Assad regime forces and Hezbollah since months, are starving to death amid silence by the international envoy

2016: 6 January 2016: Residents of the Syrian town of Madaya north of Damascus say they are dying of starvation as a result of a months-long siege by Assad regime's forces, as an aid official, who visited Madaya and Zabadani in October, cites an appeal from the children in those two places - 6 January: Syrian Coalition calls upon the Arab League, the UN, and the UN envoy to Syria to shoulder their responsibilities towards the civilians trapped by Assad gangs and the Hezbollah militia in Madaya, Biqqin and other besieged areas - 7 January 2016: Turkey's Davutoglu says that Russia has become a partner of the Syrian regime, which is brutally bombing civilians in Syria, and the world should not tolerate a situation where Syrians are fleeing the bombing, adding that the UN Security Council and Russia are responsible for the tragedy unfolding in Syria - 18 January 2016: A leaked document from the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs of the United Nations in Damascus shows that the organization was aware of the existence of famine in Madaya months ago - 22 January 2016: The United Nations reportedly altered a key humanitarian aid plan for Syria after consultation with the Assad regime, including deleting references to besieged areas such as Madaya where thousands of people are starving - 25 January: Sit-in of protestors in Istanbul to denounce Russian, Iranian and Assad's terrorism against the Syrian People, stressing that stopping barrel bombing and Russian airstrikes, lifting the siege and releasing the detainees are non-negotiable humanitarian demands - 25 January: UN talks on Syria due to begin later this week despite disagreement on key issues, Mistura says - 26 January: The Syrian Coalition says that 'the informal talks that De Mistura will host in Geneva assume that the problem is not in the Assad regime, but between Syrians themselves (and that) this approach will not only exempt the Assad regime from responsibility for the crisis, but will also present the regime as the only salvation for a community that is fragmented and divided (and that) Tehran will appear as a guarantor of Syria’s unity after it was the dynamite that blew it apart'

January 2016 UN hosted Geneva Syria talks: 30 January 2016: Part of Syrian opposition announced late Friday that it would join the Geneva talks after receiving 'UN assurances' - 30 janvier 2016: La délégation de l'opposition syrienne doit arriver samedi soir à Genève pour participer aux discussions organisées par l'ONU, mais en Syrie 16 autre personnes sont mortes de faim dans la ville de Madaya, assiégée par les forces pro Assad, depuis que des convois humanitaires y sont entrés mi-janvier - 30 January: Syrian opposition demands release of prisoners before peace talks - 30 January 2016: Russian air forces have murdered 1,380 civilians, including 332 children, 195 women and 853 men and young men, since the 30th of September 2015, documented by SOHR - 30 January 2016: Despite promises which has been said that the opposition delegation received for Geneva consultations, Russian warplanes continue to target the Syrian areas and the siege also continues - 31 January 2016: Russian war planes strike Homs as Geneva hosts UN-brokered 'peace' talks

February 2016: 2 February: Situation remains unclear in Geneva as UN's Mistura announces start of Syrian talks - 2 February: After the Assad regime, Russia and Iran even have escalated barbaric attacks, Riyad Naasan Agha urges the international community and the UN to take measures in order to deter Russia and the Assad regime from committing further crimes against the Syrian people - 3 February: The Assad regime and Russia have killed nearly 300 civilians in Syria since the launch of the Geneva III conference on January 29th, according to the SNHR - 4 February: After UN envoy Mistura halted his efforts to conduct Geneva talks, Turkish president Erdogan says Syrian talks in Geneva are pointless while Assad's forces and Russia continue their attacks - 4 February: Syrian Coalition says that UN envoy Mistura’s decision to suspend Geneva talks due to Assad's refusal to implement UN Security Council resolution 2254, and that it's reflecting the international community’s failure to put pressure on the regime and its allies, mainly Russia and Iran - 4 February 2016: Russian bombs triggering mass Aleppo exodus, Syria conference told - 5 February 2016: As murderous Russian and Assad regime's airstrikes, killing hundreds of civilians, trigger mass exodus from Aleppo, Turkey's Erdogan slams world’s silence over Russia’s aggression on Syria - 10 February: UK special representative for Syria Bayley says that Russia 'cannot continue to claim a seat at the table whilst deliberately bombing the moderate opposition and killing civilians in blatant breach of international humanitarian law' - 12 February: Partial ceasefire 'within a week' in Syria agreed at Munich talks but no end in sight to Russian airstrikes, as UN’s Zeid Ra’ad al Hussein underlines the urgency of the need for humanitarian access to besieged areas, condemning Assad regime's offensive and Russian airstrikes displacing tens of thousands of Syrian civilians, as Syrian Coalition's Hijab, at a news conference in London, condemns the scorched earth policy through the intensification of the bombardment by Russians and Iranians, and as USA's Warren describes the Assad regime’s and Russia’s onslaught on Aleppo province as 'systematic and widespread attack on civilians' - 13 February 2016: UN-backed investigators to look into reports of five possible uses of chlorine and mustard gas on rebel-held areas in Syria - 13 February 2016: Ukrainian President Poroshenko at Munich 'Security Conference', focusing on the migrant crisis as well as the war in Syria, underlines the importance of not giving into the Russian propaganda during the conference, saying 'Mr Putin, Mr Lavrov, Mr Medvedev, this is your aggression in Ukraine and we do not give you any tiny opportunity to provide here propaganda, Kremlin style propaganda, to poison the opinion of European people' - 14 February: So-called 'ceasefire' deal seems more an endorsement of Russian regime's murderous role in Syria than a challenge to it, as opposition against dictatorship in Syria is abandoned by the USA and European governments, British newspaper states - 14/15 February: Riyad Hijab says in Munich that the solution for the crisis in Syria lies in neutralizing foreign hostile operations carried out by Russia and Iran and its allied militias, and in stopping the bombardment that Russian warplanes are carrying out on populated areas - 15 February 2016: A makeshift clinic supported by Médecins Sans Frontières in Idlib province hit by a suspected Russian strike, killing nine people and wounding dozens, as in a separate incident seven Russian missiles struck a hospital in the northern town of Azaz - 15 February: Following the recent war crime in Idlib, Syrian Coalition condemns Russian crimes and airstrikes targeting civilian neighborhoods, medical centers, schools and houses of worship adding the crime in Idlib will not be the last as long as the international community keeps silent and shirks its responsibility to respond to them - 16 February: France and Turkey say that air strikes on hospitals in northern Syria constitute war crimes - 16 February: SNHR says it had documented eight new chemical weapons attacks by Assad regime forces against rebel-held areas in Syria in late 2015, that killed 19 people and also caused dozens of cases of asphyxiation - 19 February: Considering Russian aggression in Syria as 'blatant violations of international law' in the same way as spokesperson Farhan Haq for the UN Secretary General, Syrian Network for Human Rights calls upon the USA and Europe to stop considering Russia a key partner in the efforts aimed at finding a political solution in Syria - 22 February 2016: War crimes in Syria's five-year-old conflict are widespread and Syrian government forces and Islamic State militants continue to commit crimes against humanity in the face of inaction by the international community, UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry says in its latest report - 22 February: Syrian opposition's faction provisionally agrees to temporary truce, provided there were guarantees Assad’s allies including Russia would implement the ceasefire - 23 February: Syrian Coalition aays Assad regime unable to control foreign, Iranian-backed militias - 26 February: Syrian Coalition demands investigation into regime’s seizing of UN aid airdrops on Deir Ezzor - 26 February: Excluding the district of Darayya from ceasefire agreement is unacceptable, Syrian Coalition says - 27 February: UN wants ot respond quickly to violations to reach cessation of attacks in Syria, following agreement that urges weapons such as aerial bombing, mortal shelling, and rockets not to be used - 27 February: The Syrian Coalition says that the Assad regime has violated the 'cessation of hostilities' agreement after it took effect at Friday midnight, bombing 15 rebel-held areas across Syria with heavy machine-guns, artillery and barrel bombs in Damascus, Rural Damascus, Daraa, Aleppo, Homs, Hama and Latakia province - 29 February: Syria’s opposition will stick to the cessation of hostilities despite violations and more breaches on Sunday, Salem al-Muslat says - 29 February: In a letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Syrian opposition is warning attacks by Russian warplanes backing government forces are threatening fragile truce - 29 February: The district of Qaboun in the northern suburbs of Damascus remains under siege despite a cease-fire agreement reached two years ago in early 2014 and despite new 'cessation of hostilities', residents and activists say - 29 February 2016: Continuing Russian-backed terror attacks, Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Idlib province, dropping several barrel bombs on the villages of al-Najyeh and al-Kenda and carrying out airstrikes on the city of Jisr al-Shughur, which killed a pregnant woman and injured 12 others, including four children and 2 citizen women, in Lattakia province, also dropping barrel bombs, in Homs province, also dropping barrel bombs, in Rif Damashq province, where civilians were wounded by regime forces and activists accused regime forces in using gases, and in Aleppo province - 29 February / 1 March: Activists say that 29 civilians, including 15 in Aleppo, were killed in Russian and regime attacks on rebel-held areas on Sunday, recording attacks on 40 areas across Syria in violation of the UN-backed truce agreement

March 2016: 1 March 2016: Syrian Assad regime forces and their allies accused of threatening the fragile ceasefire, as aid groups still hope to reach over a hundred thousand people in desperate need - 2 March 2016: War Monitor SNHR documents 44 violations on third day of UN-backed truce - 2 March: Syrian Coalition calls on UN to deter Assad breaches of truce, as 143 regime violations of truce are documented since Saturday - 3 March: The Syrian Network for Human Rights says it has documented 35 violations of the UN-sponsored truce on its fifth day, Wednesday - 4 March: Russian and Assad regime forces have deliberately struck hospitals and medical facilities in Aleppo as they advanced on the north Syrian town, killing and wounding civilians and medical workers, according to rights group - 7 March: Turkey and Qatar backed Syrian Coalition demands release of detainees - 8 March 2016: Assad’s forces, supported by Russian air strikes, had carried out a massacre of dozens of civilians around Aleppo on Monday, Riad Hijab says - 9 March 2016: Syrian Coalition calls for urgent international action to lift siege on Darayya and for the release of detainees from the prisons of the Assad regime to enhance chances of a political solution - 12 March: Main Syrian opposition will attend peace talks in Geneva, starting in two days’ time - 13 March: Syrian Coalition calls for full sustained access of aid convoys to besieged areas - 14 March: Syrian opposition delegation arrives in Switzerland ahead of second round of UN-backed peace talks - 14/15 March: Syrian opposition delegation will meet with the UN envoy to discuss the political transition process, the forming of a transitional governing body with full powers to find a permanent political solution and to alleviate the suffering of the Syrian people - 15 March: After Russian regime's Putin announced on Monday that 'the main part' of its armed forces in Syria would start to withdraw, UN human rights investigators on Syria say that preparing prosecutions against war criminals should not be delayed until the end of the conflict in Syria, now entering its sixth year - 19 March: UN raises pressure on Syrian Assad regime as peace talks end first week - 22 March 2016: A total of 530 people were killed in the first 23 days of a truce in Syria in areas covered by the cessation of hostilities agreement, SOHR days - 23 March: The Syrian opposition said on Tuesday there was no common ground with the Assad regime after more than a week of peace talks, accusing the regime of renewing sieges and stepping up barrel bombings on civilians - 23 March: Syrian Coalition demands to put pressure on the Assad regime to be serious in Geneva talks - 24 March: Saudi Arabia-backed Syrian opposition’s negotiating delegation in Geneva has laid out a comprehensive vision for the transitional period in Syria, involving the formation of a transitional governing body with full powers, drafting a new constitution and holding free and democratic elections - 24 March: Summing up 'Geneva III Intra-Syrian Talks' press conferences with Mistura, who now acknowledges that there are 'two negotiating parties' - 25 mars: Reprise des discussions de Genève le 9 ou 10 avril, selon l'ONU - 25 March: Syrian Coalition's Samira al-Masalmah says that Syrian Women aspire to a political transition that achieves justice, freedom, dignity and equality for all Syrians and accountability for crimes against the Syrian people, criticizing calls to lift economic sanctions on the Assad regime - 27 March 2016: More than 170 civilians including 41 children and 34 women are among the 646 people killed in a month of 'truce' in Syria, according to SOHR - 28 March: The Syrian Network for Human Rights documented 896 violations of the February 'cessation of hostilities' agreement, saying that nearly 129 people, including 28 children and 11 women, were killed in these violations

April 2016: 1 April 2016: Syrian Coalition urges UNSC to stop Assad regime violations of truce and targeting of civilians, as regime’s warplanes continue to commit massacres - 4 April: Assad regime reportedly continues to block aid to besieged areas - 6 April 2016: SOHR documented the death of 2,658 persons in March 2016 including 588 civilians and 214 child and citizen women, 223 citizens including 43 children and 45 citizen women were killed in raids by Russian and Syrian warplanes’ bombing and helicopters’ barrel bombs, 90 civilians including 23 children and 5 citizen women were killed in the shelling and sniper fire of the regime forces, 28 civilians were killed under torture in Assad regime prisons and dungeons of its intelligence branches, 5 citizens including 3 children and a citizen women died due to poor health conditions and the bad living conditions and the lack of medication, 13 civilians including 7 children and 2 citizen women were killed in the bombing by warplanes of the international coalition - 13 April 2016: Syrian activists and civil society associations have appealed to end the siege on the city of Daraya, south-western Damascus, and other besieged areas days after the UN criticized the Syrian Assad regime for hindering the delivery of aid to blockaded areas - 13/15 April: Syrian Coalition's Nyrabiya says that Assad killed 1,400 Syrians during truce and that political transition is vital to protect Syrians, also saying that Assad is using truce deal to make advances on the ground - 15 April: Syrian Coalition’s Yasser Farhan says that the intransigence of the Assad regime and its refusal to lift the blockades on the besieged cities have exacerbated the suffering of civilians - 16 avril 2016: De violents combats qui ont déjà fait 210 morts depuis dimanche dernier, impliquant tous les protagonistes de la guerre en Syrie, poussent sur les routes des milliers de civils dans le nord, jetant une ombre sur les pourparlers entre le régime et l'opposition à Genève - 20 April 2016: Political solution in Syria impossible while criminal Assad remains, Riyad Hijab says - 20 April 2016: Political opposition adjourns UN-led peace talks as Syrian Assad regime's air strikes kill at least 35 civilians and injure dozens in Idleb following attacks on crowded areas of two marketplaces - 22 April 2016: UN will name a coordinator to probe the fate of Syrians in Assad’s prisons, killed, tortured and starving in custody - 23 April: Syrian Coalition Anas al-Abdah says that the international community’s soft stance in dealing with Assad, who continues to commit massacres against civilians in Syria, is seen by him as a license to carry on with his crimes against the Syrian people, as at least 20 civilians, including children, were killed and many more wounded in intensified aerial bombing of Aleppo on Friday by regime and Russian forces - 25 April: Regime forces carried out two appalling massacres on Saturday in the Damascus countryside and the city of Aleppo, with dozens of dead and wounded, including women and children - 25 April: Hijab says number of civilian casualties and besieged cities has increased since envoy Mistura's appointment, after comments in which Mistura described the withdrawal of the committee from the talks as a political display - 27 April: Date of new Geneva Syria talks unclear amid conflicting reports - 27 April: Syrian Coalition calls for timetable for lifting sieges and releasing detainees, as meeting with representatives of the 'Friends of the Syrian People' group also touches on the suggestion to establish a safe area in Syria - 28 April: Assad’s targeting of hospitals a war crime backed by Russia and Iran, Syrian Coaltion says - 29 April: United Nations and USA condemn Syria hospital bombing in war-ravaged Aleppo, with UN officials also voicing alarm at the 'catastrophic deterioration' of the situation in Syria and appealing on world powers to salvage February truce - 29 April 2016: United NGOs International Committee of the Red Cross and Médecins Sans Frontières demand end to Syria atrocities as Assad regime's Aleppo airstrikes continue - 30 April: Surge in fighting on the Aleppo battlefied shows 'monstrous disregard' for civilian lives, UN says

May 2016: 1 May 2016: Syrian Coalition's Anas al-Abdah urges 'Friends of Syria' to end Assad regime’s war crimes in Aleppo, as regime and Russian warplanes continue to launch brutal attacks for the ninth consecutive day, hitting Aleppo with all types of bombs and missiles and returning to bomb the same target after rescue workers and first responders have gathered to help the victims - 1 May 2016: Continuing Russian-backed terror attacks, Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Aleppo, in Hayan and the village of Tal Msibin, as violent clashes in the countryside continue, in Homs, Idlib and al-Suwaidaa province, in Hama province, and in Rif Damashq province

- 1 May 2016: Despite the alleged truce and the data of Mistura, 3,116 people including 859 civilians were killed during the second month of it, documented by the SOHR during the month of April - 2 May: Russian regime offering the Syrian people 'two hard choices', accepting Assad’s terms or the bombing and destruction of whole cities and vital civilian facilities, Syrian Coalition's Nyrabia says, as Russian regime is directly involved in the massacres, also bombing hospitals as strategy of war - 3 May: Russia deceiving international community to keep Assad in power, Syrian Coalition’s Nora al-Ameer says - 6 May: Assad regime accused of bombing a Syrian refugee camp near Sarmada, a town in Idlib province, that left dozens of civilians dead and wounded and the camp in ruins, with one witness describing a scene of horror, with tents on fire and body parts strewn around the area - 6 May: Syrian Coalition urges UN to visit Hama prison, warns of imminent massacre - 6 May: Assad regime forces prevent UN aid convoys from entering the district of Al-Waer in Homs - 9 May: Syrian Coalition's Abu Hatab slams international community’s reluctance to establish no-fly zone to protect hospitals, as health services in the liberated areas have seriously deteriorated as a result of the continued deliberate targeting of hospitals and medical facilities by regime and Russian forces - 11 May: During meeting with Friends of Syria Group in Paris Riyad Hijab says that the political process can only continue by immediately and unconditionally implementing UN resolutions related to the cessation of violence - 11 May: Assad continues to bomb Aleppo, as UN investigators demand halt to attacks on civilians, as 10 people, including women and children, are killed in airstrikes by regime forces on the town of Binnish in rural Idlib and Alzoabi says that Russia and USA are unable to stop Assad’s crimes - 14 May 2016: Assad regime and Russian forces stepped up airstrikes on rural Idlib, concentrated on populated areas and vital civilian facilities on Friday, killing 20 civilians and injuring at least 35 - 16 May: International Syria Support Group ISSG should raise Russia’s aggression during next meeting in Vienna on Tuesday, Riad Nassan Agha says - 19 May: Alzoabi says that the statements made by the Assad regime and its allies on a political solution in Syria are just a smokescreen behind which they hide their real intentions and plans - 21 May: Russia is offering the Syrian people a choice between Assad or continued killings, head of the opposition’s negotiation delegation Alzoabi says, criticizing the role of the UN's Mistura in the negotiations, saying Mistura listens to decisions by Russia and the USA and serves the interests of major powers - 24 Mai 2016: Assad regime continues to block aid convoys to besieged civilians, UN's Dujarric says - 25 May: Forming a transitional governing body will help defeat terror in Syria, Syrian coalition's Hisham Marwa says - 29 May: Fears of UN reversal over aid airdrops plan to send food and urgent medicine to besieged towns in Syria, as British MP's ask whether the words of the international community are meant to mean anything - 30 May: Chief negotiator of Syria's main opposition umbrella group Mohammed Allush resigns over the failure of UN-backed peace talks, the continued shelling of rebel-held areas by al-Assad's regime, and over 'international community’s lack of seriousness'

June 2016: 1 June 2016: Russia blamed for overnight strikes which targeted two hospitals and other parts of Idleb city, killing scores including several children, in the latest incident in a systematic aerial campaign against medical personnel and facilities that has gone unpunished despite its intensification over the last year and a half - 1 June 2016: Hospitals are now normal targets of war, Médecins Sans Frontières' Michiel Hofman says, describing permanent members of the UN security council as complicit in killings - 1 June 2016: Sources from Idlib province have confirmed that Russian air forces were responsible for targeting Idlib Monday 30 May, killing and injuring scores while causing destruction to vital infrastructure - 2 June: Syrian opposition has proposed a nationwide truce on the occasion of Ramadan, as a UN aid convoy entered the besieged towns of Daraya and Moadamiya, reaching besieged suburb of the Syrian capital in a first delivery since 2012, but according to reports 'there is no indication that there is a true move towards loosening the sieges and allowing an end to the starvation strategy' - 6 June 2016: At least 53 civilians, including women and children, were killed and many more wounded in intense bombardment of Aleppo by the Assad regime and Russian forces on Sunday - 13 June: Russia’s continued aggression on Syria disrupted Geneva negotiations, Syrian Coalition says in Brussels - 17 June 2016: 80 civilians killed by Russian airstrikes on Aleppo despite 48-hour truce, Syrian Coalition says that Russian regime has lost its credibility as a sponsor of negotiations and that the regime proves day after day it cannot claim to be a guarantor of the political process as it is directly complicit in the crimes and terrorism perpetrated against the Syrian people - 24 June 2016: UN urged to protect Syrian civilians from Russian incendiary bombs - 27 June 2016: Syrian Coalition's Muwaffaq Nyrabiya says, UN reluctance to hold Assad accountable risks shattering political process - 28 June 2016: UK envoy to Syria Bayley says reports of Russian strikes on civilian areas constitute a violation of the UN-backed cessation of hostilities agreement, as Russian warplanes continue to target Deir-ez-Zor civilians

July 2016: 18 July 2016: Syrian Coalition's Maktabi says that the USA continues to ignore the terror practiced by the Russians in cooperation with the Iranians and the Assad regime in Syria, criticizing the absence of the international will to hold the Assad regime accountable for the war crimes and the inability of the international community to stop those crimes - 19 juillet 2016: Près de 60 civils, dont 11 enfants, morts et des dizaines de blessés mardi dans des raids de la coalition menée par les Etats-Unis près du village d'al-Toukhar tenu par Daech dans la province d'Alep, selon l'OSDH - 19 July 2016: As at least 500 civilians were killed in aerial attacks by the Assad regime and Russia forces on Aleppo and its countryside between 11-19 July mainly directed on the rebel-held areas, Syrian Coalition's Yahya says that the Syrian people lost confidence in the international community as more get killed every day - 22 July 2016: Asa’ad Alzoabi says the Hezbollah militias have been recruiting children to fight alongside the Assad regime, calling on the international community to take action in order to stop the flow of foreign fighters to Syria - 25 July: Bombing of hospitals by Assad and Russian regime disprove claims they agree to political solution, Syrian Coalition's Steifo says - 26 July 2016: Russian warplanes fired vacuum missiles and cluster bombs at residential neighborhoods, hitting Atareb's main hospital and medicine stores and wounding 45 more people - 26 July 2016: Syrian Coalition's Alabdah calls on International Syria Support Group to take urgent action after regime and Russian air forces escalated their attacks with systematic targeting of vital civilian infrastructure; particularly medical facilities - 28 July 2016: 5,188 civilians killed since start of 'Cessation of Hostilities', SNHR says - 28 July 2016: The regime forces with full Russian air cover control the entire factories of Leiramon and large parts of Bani Zaid neighborhood north of Aleppo, as Assad's helicopters also dropped barrel bombs on areas at Bab al-Hadid neighborhood - 31 July: UN's Syria envoy urges Russia to leave so called 'humanitarian corridors' to UN - 31 July 2016: Four new-born babies reportedly killed after a recent triple airstrike, which aid workers said came from Syrian government warplanes, hit besieged Aleppo’s last children’s hospital run by a group of Syrian doctors, the Independent Doctors’ Association, and backed by the charity Unicef

August 2016: 1 August 2016: Syrian Coalition's Bashar says that the international community standing by as Russian and Assad regimes destroy Aleppo - 8 August 2016: Russian warplanes are attacking the town of Saraqeb, its vicinity and countryside until today with more than 105 airstrikes causing destruction of homes, schools, public facilities, institutions of electricity and water and medical points, leaving four casualties at least including a child, and about 70 wounded - 8 August 2016: Hospital supported by Doctors Without Borders in rebel-held northern province of Idlib that specialized in pediatrics hit by series of airstrikes in broad daylight, leaving four staff and five children dead and injuring six other hospital staff members - 8 August 2016: Continuous airstrikes target Aleppo, its countryside and outskirts, causing casualties and wounded people - 25 August 2016: Special Advisor Jan Egeland says UN ready to send aid to Aleppo at any time, waiting for ceasefire - 27 August 2016: Syrian Coalition condemns forced displacement of Daraya residents as the spokesman for the local council in Darya F. Mohammed points out that Mistura's statement regarding the evacuation of Daraya is aimed at evading responsibility to protect the people of Daraya and preventing their forced displacement by the Assad regime, adding that the UN and Mistura chose to remain silent about the regime’s torching of Daraya farmlands, its deliberate bombing of its only field hospital, and its use of incendiary napalm against residential neighborhoods in the district - 31 August: Syrian Coalition calls for inquiry into UN dealings with the Assad regime following corruption revelations

September 2016: 1 September 2016: Women of Syria, a strong constituency for peace, says Insaf Hamad, member of the first-ever Women’s Advisory Board, composed of 12 independent civil society representatives from diverse backgrounds, who consult regularly with the UN Special Envoy for Syria, raising matters that are missing from the agenda and providing recommendations to assist the peace talks - 7 September: After Assad's helicopters dropped several barrel bombs filled with the toxic chlorine gas on the Aleppo neighborhood of Alsukkari Syrian Coalition says that the international community’s silence on Assad’s crimes has encouraged the regime to use chemical weapons against unarmed civilians over again - 8 September: Opposition sets out three-phase plan for political solution in Syria - 10 September: Putin-Assad forces renew terror attacks in Syria hours after USA-Russia deal, as 'Bellingcat' journalists document that Russian regime lied about its noninvolvement in the 17 August bombing of Al-Qaterji district in Aleppo city, that wounded five-year-old Omran Daqneesh and killed his brother - 13 September 2016: In breach of the agreement to allow unhindered access, Syrian Assad regime is blocking aid from entering eastern Aleppo, claims UN - 15 September 2016: Aleppo Local Council rejects presence of Russian forces on Castello Road, saying presence is not acceptable due to its lack of neutrality - 15 September: UN's Mistura admits 'we have a problem' on getting humanitarian aid into Syria, despite the USA-Russia brokered deal - 16 September: Aid delivery into besieged areas does not require regime’s consent and requests by UN's Mistura 'for the regime’s approval to go ahead with the delivery of aid contravenes the UN Security Council resolutions on Syria and renders the cessation of hostilities agreement meaningless', Syrian Coalition says - 16 September: Syrian Coalition's Yahya says that absence of punishment encourages Assad regime and its allies to violate ceasefire agreements, as SCHR says that at least 129 civilians were killed across Syria between 12-15 September, including 78 civilians killed as a result of bombardment by the Russian and regime forces - 19 septembre: L'ONU déplore le blocage d'un convoi d'aide pour les habitants des quartiers est d'Alep à la frontière turco-syrienne pendant la semaine de trêve - 20 September 2016: USA blames Russia after UN aid convoy in Syria targeted by air attack and UN official says 'inexplicable' attack could amount to a war crime if bombing which killed aid workers proved to be deliberate - 20 September 2016: Red Cross president says attack on UN and Red Crescent convoy delivering supplies is unacceptable violation of international law and UN suspends all aid convoy movements in Syria after airstrike

October 2016: 6 October 2016: Eastern Aleppo could be destroyed by Christmas if the 'cruel, constant' Russian-backed bombing of the Syrian city continues, UN Syria envoy says warning of 'another Srebrenica, another Rwanda' and offering to personally escort Islamist fighters out of city to halt bombing - 13 October 2016: USA Secretary of State John Kerry plans to meet Russian regime's FM Sergey Lavrov in Switzerland on 15 October and to try once again to reach an agreement on a cessation of violence in Syria and renewal of humanitarian help deliveries, as several countries call the USA and the EU to add more sanctions against Russian regime and as rescue workers say, that 145 people, including many children, are killed in last two days of Russian/Assad bombing of Syria's Aleppo - 15 octobre 2016: Négociations à Lausanne, Alep sous les bombes - 15 October 2016: Syria talks with Russian regime, including envoys from Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, in Lausanne's lakeside 'Beau-Rivage' hosted by USA's John Kerry end without agreement, highlighting once again the world’s inability to tackle Assad's, Russian and Iranian crimes against humanity and to find a peaceful path out of a conflict with as many as half a million murdered people, followed by Europe’s worst refugee crisis since the second world war, and that has created a vast space of instability that also 'Islamic State', another terrorist group, has exploited - 18 October 2016: USA and UK reject a Russian and Assad regime offer of a temporary 'pause' on airstrikes in Aleppo as the basis for reopening talks, saying there has to be a credible and durable ceasefire that should initially last as long as 48 hours, as the UN humanitarian spokesman says that relief workers need longer than eight hours to help extricate the injured and Syrian Coalition’s Michel Kilo says that Russia’s announcement of a so-called eight-hour 'humanitarian pause' in Aleppo is a gimmick aimed at crushing the FSA and rebels’ resistance and quashing the revolution - 20 October 2016: UN proposal on Aleppo 'flawed', and made amid mass forced displacement operations around Damascus, Syrian Coalition says - 21 October: Aleppo ceasefire at risk after Russian regime says all rebels can be eliminated - 31 October 2016: Syrian Coalition's Abdul Ilah Fahd criticizes de Mistura's remarks about Aleppo FSA and rebel offensive, describing these remarks as biased and a form of 'double standards'

November 2016: 1 November 2016: At least 1,106 people, including 791 civilians, were killed in attacks by the Assad regime and Russian forces across Syria in October 2016, SNHR says - 2 November 2016: Syrian Coalition's Riad Hijab slams Russia's defense minister's remarks about postponing political solution 'indefinitely’ - 3 November: FSA reaffirms commitment to civilian protection against the barbaric onslaught by the Assad regime and its allies, and denies allegations about attacks on civilians in Aleppo - 14 November 2016: Syrian Coalition stresses the need for a new, comprehensive, and integrated strategy to protect civilians in Syria through cessation of hostilities and the establishment of no-bombing zones - 16 November 2016: New report by human rights group SNHR claims Assad regime is responsible for the death of 188,729 civilians, over 90% of all victims from nearly six years of war in Syria, also saying that the responsibility for war crimes also moved just weeks after the outbreak of the popular uprising in Syria in 2011 to the international community, to take collective measures in accordance with Articles 41 and 42 of the UN charter, but did not lift a finger because of Russian and Chinese protection for the Syrian regime - 16 November 2016: Bringing the total number of hospitals targeted by Russian warplanes on Monday in Aleppo's countryside to three, Russian murderous air strikes are targeting and destroying the Baghdad hospital, killing and wounding dozens and burying others under the rubble, while civil defense forces are working to lift the rubble to save the survivors and remove the corpses - 16 November 2016: Canadian FM Stephane Dion welcomes Syrian opposition leader for talks as meetings are touching on ways to circumvent Russia's veto power at the UNSC in order to end the bloodshed of Syrian civilians - 18 November 2016: Syrian Coalition’s Osama Taljo expresses surprise at the silence of the UN envoy to Syria Staffan de Mistura over the war crimes that the Assad regime and the Russians are committing in Aleppo - 21 November 2016: The Council of Free Aleppo Governorate calls upon the UN and human rights organizations to assume their responsibilities towards the protection of civilians in Aleppo from the fierce bombing campaign by the Assad regime and Russia forces - 21 November 2016: At a meeting with French FM Jean-Marc Ayrault Syrian Coalition's Hijab stresses that the brutal onslaught on Aleppo by Assad and its Russian and Iranian allies are war crimes and crimes against humanity, calling upon the international community to assume its duty to stop Assad and Russia’s massacres in Syria - 24 November 2016: Residents and a group of activists including doctors and civil servants from Aleppo's rebel-held areas urged the international community to make airdrops of humanitarian aid to put an end to the siege the Assad regime and its allies have imposed on the city for nearly three months - 28 November 2016: Syrian Coalition urges international action to end Assad regime's siege of Al-Tal saying threat must not be ignored as Assad regime has already proven willingness to commit crimes of unimaginable proportions to achieve its goals

December 2016: 1 December 2016: Over 400,000 displaced in Aleppo after tens of thousands more flee, UN's special envoy Mistura says, as Assad's and Russian regimes decline UN request for a pause in fighting to evacuate 400 sick and wounded in need of immediate treatment - 3 December 2016: Syrian Coalition's Abdul Ahad Steifo stresses the urgent need for the resumption of the political process through negotiations in Geneva and the enforcement of UN resolutions, especially the humanitarian provisions that call for an end to the bombing, lifting the sieges, the delivery of aid to civilians in need, and the release of detainees - 9 December: Russia has not halted military operations in besieged eastern Aleppo despite Russia’s claims of a pause, as 'Doctors of the World’ slams international silence over ongoing atrocities against Syrian civilians - 11 December 2016: USA's Kerry denounced Russian and Assad 'war crimes’ in Syria after new round of talks in Paris, before USA and Russian officials once again will convene in Geneva - 13 December 2016: Urgent calls to save Aleppo civilians as UN voices alarm over atrocity reports, and as residents are giving account that 'people are under the rubble alive and no one can save them, some people are injured in the streets and no one can go to help them, the cries and fear of women and children heard from the streets' - 13 December 2016: At least 82 civilians, including 11 women and 13 children, in four different neighborhoods of eastern Aleppo have been killed by Assad regime troops and allied Iraqi militia, 'being shot in the street trying to flee and shot in their homes', UN says - 14 December 2016: Residents still await evacuation of east Aleppo, which the UN said had endured a brutal 'meltdown of humanity' as forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad rampaged through newly reclaimed districts reportedly carrying out extrajudicial killings - 17 December 2016: 'The carnage in Syria remains a gaping hole in the global conscience, Aleppo is now a synonym for hell' says UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, as terrified residents cram on buses for journey into the unknown - 18 December 2016: Thousands of Aleppo residents in limbo as transport fails to arrive, and as a senior Syrian rebel blames Iran and its Shia militias of holding up the evacuation of civilians - 27 December 2016: UN says situation of Aleppo evacuees catastrophic as regime and allies mass forces to attack western rural Aleppo - 30 December 2016: Syrian Coalition calls for stopping attempts by the Assad regime and its Iranian ally to sabotage ceasefire agreement as over 30 violations of the agreement by Assad and the Iranian-backed foreign militias have been recorded

2016/2017: 10 February 2017: At least 162 rescue workers have so far lost their lives while performing their humanitarian duty in search and rescue operations among the rubble of buildings destroyed by the Assad regime and Russian forces in 2016, according to the Syrian Civil Defense's 3rd Annual Conference

January 2017: 2 January 2016: Assad regime and Russia must respect ceasefire in Barada Valley, FSA spokesman Osama Abazeid says - 5 January 2017: Syrian Coalition denounces Russian attempts to interfere in representation of the Syrian people - 6 January 2017: Assad regime forces and the Iranian-backed militias committed no fewer than 251 breaches of the nationwide ceasefire in its first week, according to Syrian Coalition - 7 January 2017: Activists in Deir Ezzor call for sparing civilians and ceasing the bombing of the city, denying claims that civilians in the city constitute a social base for Islamic State terrorists - 24 janvier: Le mécanisme trilatéral, sur lequel viennent de se mettre d'accord la Russie, la Turquie et l'Iran, sera destiné à surveiller l'application du cessez-le-feu en Syrie, selon un agence de presse - 30 January 2017: Mass forced displacement of Wadi Barada residents violates truce and is a crime against humanity, Syrian Coalition says - 31 January: Syrian Coalition records 911 truce violations by Assad regime in 1st month - 31 January 2017: Assad regime and Iran continue to violate truce as Russia renege on its pledges, Syrian Coalition's Fahd says

February 2017: 1 February 2017: UN postpones Syria political talks until 20 February, as Mistura alleges that the cease-fire is broadly working 'quite effectively', and as SOHR documented since the 24th of August 2016, the date of the entry of Turkish forces into Syria, the death of 3,231 Syrian civilians by Russian, Assad and Turkish airstrikes, including 784 children and 436 citizen women - 12 février 2017: L'opposition syrienne a présenté les 21 membres d'une délégation unifiée, dont dix représentants des rebelles, qui se rendront à Genève pour les pourparlers de paix prévus le 20 février - 14 February 2017: Regime forces and the Iranian-backed militias continue to violate the ceasefire agreement in many areas across Syria, as UN says attacks were the bloodiest since truce took effect - 16 February: Opposition's official media claims nation-wide ceasefire at risk of total collapse due to Russia's support for regime bombardment of the southern Syrian province, which has killed 47 people in past three days - 17 February: UN's Jan Egeland calls to allow aid convoys to reach besieged and hard-to-reach areas of Syria, critizising that not a single UN-arranged land convoy has reached any of more than a dozen besieged towns or villages this year, citing a lack of approvals from authorities - 20 February: Assad regime forces and the Iranian-backed militias continue to block the entry of aid convoys to Alwaer district in Homs to undermine the political process and to prevent political transition in Syria, Syrian Coalition’s Mohammed Jojah says - 22/23 February: Assad regime and Iranian-backed militias loot UN aid convoy heading to besieged Alwaer district in Homs, as the Syrian Coalition criticizes the failure of the UN to enforce its resolutions - 23 février: Reprise des pourparlers à Genève, peu d'espoir - 27 February 2017: Syrian Opposition's Nasr al-Hariri says Geneva talks must focus on political transition, criticizing the Iranian and Russian violent interference and the international community's silence over the daily crimes that have been committed against the Syrian people for nearly six years now - 28 February: Syrian Opposition's Nasr al-Hariri says that the regime's proposal for a national unity government during the political transition phase is not backed by any previous UN resolutions

March 2017: 1 March 2017: A total of 413 people had been killed across Syria within a week of the start of the fourth round of talks in Geneva, which began on February 20, according to SNHR - 4 March 2017: Sit-in in front of UN Geneva headquarters to support Syrian people’s demands in Geneva talks - 14 March 2017: A total of 488 people have been killed in Syria since the ceasefire agreement was announced in Syria on 29 December, the victims included over 107 children and 56 women, according to SNHR - 25 March 2017: Syrian opposition's HNC discussed in detail the question of a transitional governing body during their first meeting in Geneva with the UN special envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura

April 2017: 3 April 2017: A total of 1,134 civilians were killed in Syria in March 2017 despite the December 'ceasefire', according to SNHR - 8 April 2017: USA warns Assad over using chemical weapons again, also saying that Russia bears responsibility for Assad's gas attack - 8 April 2017: Syrian Coalition welcomes USA strikes on Shaerat airbase in eastern Homs province, calling for further strikes until Assad is removed from power, as USA Secretary of State Tillerson says that 'steps are underway' with our partners around the world to ultimately remove Bashar al-Assad from power through a political process

May 2017: 3 May 2017: Syrian Coalition condemns the bombing that targeted the headquarters of the Syrian interim government in Azaz in northern Aleppo province, killing at least five civilians and wounding many more - 4 May 2017: Angry delegates leave Astana conference called to announce 'de-escalation' plan agreed by Turkey, Iran and Russia amid the ongoing war led by the Assad, Iranian and Russian regimes against the Syrian people - 6 May 2017: Assad regime forces shell the towns of Kafr Zita and Latamneh and fighter jets fire at the rebel-held village of al-Zalakiyat and nearby positions in the Hama countryside, following a so-called 'safe zones' agreement by Russia, Turkey and Iran, announced to go into effect at midnight on Friday, which evidentially exists only on paper - 12 May 2017: UN demands more details on Syria 'safe zones' deal as some UN members remain skeptical of plan as Security Council reportedly prepares to meet in 'closed session' to debate specifics of the deal - 15 May 2017: The Syrian Kurds will not attend the next round of Geneva talks on Syrian settlement due to Turkey’s anti-Kurdish sentiment - 17 May 2017: Syrian Coalition's Nazir Hakim warns that international inaction towards the Assad regime’s use of chemical and non-conventional weapons against the Syrian people risks creating security threats affecting the whole world, as EU's Federica Mogherini says that accountability for war crimes is key to resolving the conflict in Syria - 19 May 2017: Syrian peace talks in Geneva break up as UN’s special envoy defends himself against charge that talks have become hopelessly bogged down - 24 May 2017: The Syrian National Coalition condemns the Islamic State’s massacre of Syrian civilians in rural Hama, emphasizing that the Assad regime and its allied Iranian militias are fully responsible for the group’s crimes and calling for an alliance of 'civilized world' to tackle threat of Assad regime and all forms of terrorism - 24 May 2017: Assad forces carried out a series of airstrikes on a city that has been declared a safe zone under a recent Russia-sponsored deal, as 12 airstrikes and at least nine barrel bombs hit the city of Daraa

June 2017: 22 June 2017: Meeting with a delegation of British diplomats and talking about the need to support the Syrian Interim Government SIG to be able to provide services to civilians in the liberated areas, to administer the liberated areas and restore security and stability, the Syrian Coalition says that the international community should have courage to admit failure to protect Syrians instead of inventing excuses

August 2017: 1 August 2017: The UN paid at least $18 million in 2016 to companies with close ties to Bashar Al Assad, some of them run by cronies of the Syrian dictator who are on USA and EU blacklists, including 'Syria Trust charity' chaired by Assad’s wife Asma, spending a total of $8.5m though Asma is under both USA and EU sanctions - 3 August 2017: The UN-brokered Syrian peace talks are failing due to external interference and can only be rescued by refocusing on the issue of political transition, a coalition of 160 Syrian civil society groups says in an open letter to the UN’s special envoy - 7 Augut 2017: UN Syria investigator Carla del Ponte quits over lack of political backing - 25 August 2017: UN adviser Jan Egeland urges pause in Raqqa fighting to allow civilians out

September 2017: 6 September 2017: Syrian Coalition urges international community to take action to stop Assad’s ongoing crimes - 6 September 2017: UN appointed French judge Marchi-Uhel vows justice for atrocities in Syria - 27 September 2017: Russia and the Assad regime escalate bombing on all liberated areas in violation of ceasefire agreements, as a total of 140 civilians were killed and dozens more injured in intensified aerial attacks - 29 September 2017: Syrian Coalition's Salwa Akso warns of the consequences of turning a blind eye to the crimes and killings Russia is committing in Syria, noting that the indiscriminate bombardment 'mainly targets civilians and forces of the revolution with the aim of eliminating them', as UN's Jan Egeland denounces air raids on hospitals and calls for establishing system of notification to prevent attacks on humanitarian facilities in Syria

November 2017: 1 November 2017: Russia’s efforts to broker a Syrian peace deal outside the UN’s Geneva process stumbled on Wednesday after the official Syrian opposition said it would not attend talks planned for later this month - 24 November 2017: Syrian opposition groups, more precisely around 140 opposition figures gathered in Riyadh, agree to send united delegation to Geneva talks, stressing that there should be no place for Bashar al-Assad and his clique at the start of the transitional period in Syria - 28 novembre 2017: Reprise des pourparlers à Genève, mais sans le régime de Damas

December 2017: 1 December 2017: Assad regime's delegation in Geneva has announced its intention to return to Damascus at the end of the week, rejecting 'direct' negotiations with opposition - 14 December 2017: UN special envoy de Mistura blasts Bashar al-Assad, who is ‘unwilling to meet anyone with a different opinion’, as UN-sponsored talks in its eighth round in Geneva collapse - 26 December 2017: Russian-sponsored Sochi conference rejected by around 40 opposition groups on Monday due to intention to bypass Geneva peace process held by UN, also saying that 'Russia is an aggressor country that has committed war crimes against Syrians ... It stood with the regime militarily and defended its politically and over seven years preventing UN condemnation of Assad's regime'

January 2018: 4 January 2018: 120 organisations inside the Working Group for Syria including leading civil society groups are urging UN's Staffan de Mistura not to attend Russian regime sponsored conference set for the end of January, saying it would represent a 'dangerous departure from the (UN-led) Geneva process' - 26 January 2018: Truce of the besieged Eastern Ghouta begins its first hour by the launch of 2 missiles by the regime forces targeting the outskirts of Arbin city - 26 January 2018: After Russia’s 'Thermite' (cluster incendiary bombs) attack today, warplanes bomb again the eastern countryside of Idlib and shelling targets north of Homs - 27 January 2018: Syria opposition to boycott Russian peace talks - 28 January 2018: Authorities in Syria's Kurdish autonomous region said that they will not attend the peace talks in Russia's Sochi next week because of Turkey's offensive against the Kurdish enclave of Afrin - 28 January 2018: The Syrian Negotiations Commission SNC is deeply unhappy that UN's De Mistura will attend Sochi despite boycotts, saying that Russia has no intention of letting the Sochi peace process lead to any political change away from the Assad regime, after preconditions for attendance set by UN's Guterres including the primacy of the UN process have not been met by the Russians - 29 January 2018: Russian and Syrian warplanes escalated their airstrikes on the towns and cities of the Idlib countryside on Sunday, as civilian displacements continue - 30 January 2018: Syria conference in Russia's Sochi has got off to a rocky start after some delegates opposed to Assad refused to leave the airport on arrival until Syrian regime's flags and emblems were removed, and the Russian regime's FM Lavrov was heckled by delegates, accusing Putin regime of killing civilians in Syria with airstrikes - 31 January 2018: Social media sites have ignited with comments on the failure of the Sochi conference, despite 'having a UN representative here', amid ongoing attacks by several murderous regimes in Afrin, Daraa, Idlib and other Syrian provinces - 31 January 2018: The United Nations condemned a recent wave of renewed air strikes on medical centers in rebel-held parts of Syria including most recently one that targeted a hospital of Saraqib in rural Idlib serving 50,000 people, putting it out of action

February 2018: 2 February 2018: The death of 39 civilians, including 8 children and 4 women, in Syria at the hands of Russian and Assad regime during Sochi convention on 29/30 January 2018 documented by SNHR - 2 February 2018: The Syrian opposition rejects the decision by Sochi participants to form a committee on constitutional reform, saying Syria requires a entirely new constitution and not just reforms, meanwhile calling for a cease-fire and for sending humanitarian aid to besieged areas to serve the Geneva political process - 20 February 2018: Panos Moumtzis, the UN's Regional Humanitarian Coordinator for the Syria Crisis, has demanded an end to the targeting of civilians in Syria after a heavy bombardment killed at least 100 civilians in rebel-held Eastern Ghouta

May 2018: 19 May 2018: Participants from 32 countries in a conference in Paris called for holding accountable those involved in the use of chemical weapons around the world, especially in Syria, criticizing Russian regime for using its veto power on the UN Security Council several times to block attempts to hold the Assad regime accountable for dozens of chemical attacks against civilians

United Nations, Russian aggression against Ukraine since 2014, Special Representative in Crimea and observers: 28 February 2014: Ukraine's UN envoy tells UNSC that Russian military helicopters and transport planes are entering his country, and that Russian armed forces seized Crimea airport - 2 March: Ukraine's UN ambassador asked an emergency session of the Security Council 'to do everything possible now' to stop Russian aggression as Russian troops took over Ukraine's Crimea - 5 March 2014: UN special representative Robert Serry to 'end mission in Crimea' after he was stopped and threatened by armed men in a coffee shop and then surrounded outside by crowds shouting the name of Russian regime's Putin - 27 March 2014: Backing Ukraine’s territorial integrity, UN Assembly declares Crimea referendum invalid - 2 April: In a diplomatic blow to Russia, the UN will continue to view Crimea as part of Ukraine in line with a General Assembly resolution - 16 May: Listing numerous specific examples of targeted killings, torture, beatings, abductions and intimidation mostly carried out by well-organized and well-armed anti-Government groups, UN report warns of an alarming deterioration in human rights in eastern Ukraine

Since 17 July 2014 International reactions to the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 shootdown by Russian BUK missile

6 August: UN Security Council supports Ukraine, points to Russia as a source of military crisis - 11 September 2014: The mission of UN observers has extended the term of its work in Ukraine until December 15 - 4 October: As UN expresses concern over the intensification of fighting in Donbas since the September 5 ceasefire agreement, saying in a report that a total of 3,627 people have been killed and 8,447 more have been wounded since the beginning of the conflict, USA urges Russia to immediately influence militants so that they end their attacks in eastern Ukraine, and also warns it of the need to stop the flow of arms and manpower into sovereign Ukrainian territory

2015: 16 February 2015: UN's Ban Ki-moon concerned about reports of continuing military clashes in Debaltseve - 12 March 2015: UN counts nearly 1.8 million refugees and internally displaced persons in Ukraine - 2 June 2015: Since the beginning of the war in Donbas, 6362 people have been killed, another 16,000 injured, UN monitoring team says - 2 June 2015: UN's Ivan Simonovic reports on increasing evidence of Russia's invasion of Donbas - 5 June: 28 people including 9 civilians killed in recent Maryinka battle, as Russian-backed forces launched a new offensive near Donetsk using tanks, mortars, and artillery, UN's Jeffrey Feltman says - 30 June: Violence in Ukraine has killed 6,500 people in the past year, wounded 16,000 and left 5 million people in need of humanitarian aid, UN says - 8/9 September 2015: Close to 8,000 people have lost their lives in eastern Ukraine since mid-April 2014, UN says, indicating that Russian regime bore responsibility for the increasing death toll - 12 September: Ukrainian PM Yatsenyuk calls on world leaders to put more pressure on Putin, saying that Putin would see the lifting of sanctions as sign of weakness - 13 October 2015: UN's Ban Ki-moon expresses willingness to increase the UN presence in Ukraine for de-escalation and stabilization of the situation in Donbas

2016: 5 January 2016: UN delegates invite to Ukraine's war-torn eastern regions to assess the possibility of an international peacekeeping mission, but main militant leader in Donetsk region has already dismissed the idea - 21 February: Unicef says, that more 580,000 children have been affected by the nearly two year conflict in eastern Ukraine, that 215,000 children are internally displaced and that at least 20 children were killed as a result of the violence last year - 3 March 2016: Since the start of the Russian invasion in 2014 9,167 people have been killed and 21,044 have been wounded, including civilians, UN says, adding that people continue dying in the Donbas region as 21 people were killed during February 15 - March 1 - 23 March 2016: UN Secretary General supports Ukrainian side in Savchenko's case - 24 March 2016: Foreign armed actors in Donbas range from volunteers to paid-service men and women, and from independent militants to professional militaries, according to preliminary findings by the UN Working Group on mercenaries - 29 April 2016: Ukraine's Vadym Prystaiko said at a meeting of the UN Security Council that the Russian Federation had concentrated a 34,000-strong hybrid military force in the occupied part of Donbas - 23 May 2016: Ukraine's president takes part in the first ever UN World Humanitarian Organization Summit in Tureky, problems of Crimean Tatars and Russian annexation top Poroshenko's agenda - 3/4 August 2016: UN rings alarm bells on record number of civilian casualties in eastern Ukraine, as OSCE says, that Minsk contact group ignores numerous ceasefire violations, promoting unpunishment - 20 August 2016: Ukraine has drawn the attention of the United Nations to another illegal visit of Russia's Putin to the occupied Crimean peninsula - 15 October 2016: Ukrainian president Poroshenko believes that Russia will not terminate its policy of aggression until the world is united to stop Russian Putin regime, calling 'to make every effort to unmask the manifestation of Russian aggression wherever we only can – in Donbas, in the case of the downed MH17, and in Aleppo', emphasizing the importance of solidarity of the whole world in this issue and further extension of sanctions against Russia

2017: 21 June 2017: UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine has recorded 375 conflict-related civilian casualties - 67 killed and 308 injured - in Donbas since the beginning of 2017

April 2018: 21 April 2018: UN report says four years of conflict in Ukraine leave 4.4 mln people in dire humanitarian situation and ceasefire agreements are consistently disregarded, as OSCE reports 43 civilian deaths, 120 injuries from mine explosions in Donbas since last April

UN envoy for Yemen and Special Adviser to the Secretary-General: UN Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Yemen - 16 April 2015: UN envoy to Yemen Benomar of the United Kingdom resigns after criticism of failed peacemaking - 17 April 2015: Calling for an immediate cease-fire by all parties in Yemen, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is expected to nominate a new special envoy to Yemen - 25 April 2015: UN Secretary-General appoints Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed of Mauritania as new special envoy for Yemen - 31 May 2015: UN envoy for Yemen Cheikh Ahmed launches a mission to discuss stalled Geneva peace talks as Saudi-led coalition warplanes pounded Iran-backed Houthi positions across the war-ravaged country

June 2015: 15 June 2015: At the opening of consultations on the situation in Yemen, UN's Ban Ki-moon says in Geneva international community has 'obligation to act' for Yemen peace - 18 June 2015: UN extends critical Yemen peace talks as 'Islamic State' terrorists' bombings kill dozens in Sanaa

2016: 18 avril 2016: Les protagonistes du sanglant conflit yéménite se retrouvent lundi au Koweït pour de nouveaux pourparlers, selon le médiateur de l'ONU Ismaïl Ould Cheikh Ahmed - 31 juillet 2016: Les pourparlers de paix pour le Yémen, infructueux depuis avril, ont été prolongés d'une semaine à Koweït en dépit de tentatives d'incursion samedi de rebelles chiites yéménites en Arabie saoudite qui ont fait sept morts parmi les soldats saoudiens - 29 September 2016: Saudi Arabia and other Arab states have fended off the threat of an independent UN-sanctioned inquiry into human rights abuses in Yemen, but have been forced to accept that UN investigators will be tasked with documenting rights violations

2017: 26 April 2017: Yemen aid not reaching intended recipients, say activists on ground, as donors at a fundraising conference gather in Geneva - 5 September 2017: More than 1,100 children have been killed in Yemen, most in airstrikes by the Saudi military coalition, while some as young as 10 have been recruited to fight in the 'manmade catastrophe', according to the latest UN human rights office's report on the three-year conflict, also showing apparent indiscriminate attacks on civilian populations by both sides

Criticism of the United Nations: Criticism of the UN, representing the interests of governments

2015: 7 September 2015: UN security council is failing Syria, Ban Ki-moon admits

2016: 16 June 2016: A damning report has accused the United Nations of taking sides in the Syrian conflict and abandoning its neutrality by capitulating to the demands of the regime of Bashar al-Assad, including allowing it to veto aid deliveries to besieged areas - 8 September 2016: More than 70 aid groups have suspended cooperation with the UN in Syria, saying regime is manipulating relief effort

2017: 13 September 2017: In a world facing many grave challenges across many spheres, people look to the UN to play a key role in resolving them, but the UN is failing in vital areas, not least on peace and security, showing inability to act to end the protracted crises that have driven untold human misery including the forced displacement of an unprecedented 65.6 million people, former New Zealand premier and UN official Helen Clark says

2018: 12 January 2018: Human Rights Watch slams UN Security Council’s failure to hold perpetrators of chemical attacks in Syria to account, criticizing the international community's inaction in addressing this issue saying that 'Russia has used its Security Council veto 11 times to shield its allies in Damascus from condemnation, sanctions or referral to the International Criminal Court' - 23 February 2018: With support of UN head Guterres Syrian regime’s Bashar Ja’afari was elected to the UN’s Special Committee on Decolonization, as Hillel Neuer, executive director of the Geneva-based human rights group UN Watch, says that 'it is incomprehensible for the UN on one day to lament the Syrian regime’s killing and wounding of hundreds of thousands of Syrians - to declare the regime guilty of a 'monstrous campaign of annihilation’ of its own people - and to then hand this gift of false legitimacy to the mass murderer Bashar al-Assad' - 5 March 2018: Residents in the besieged Damascus suburb of eastern Ghouta have begun using UN aid bags as shrouds for children killed in the devastating bombardment by the Assad regime to express their frustration over the organization's inaction

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October 2016: 8 October 2016: UN General Assembly should now be allowed utilizing the 'Uniting for Peace' mechanism as the long-suffering people of Syria cannot wait any longer for the Security Council to live up to its responsibilities, as for the fifth time since the conflict began in 2011 a veto by Russia has blocked efforts to protect civilians in Syria, to reinstate the cessation of hostilities, to establish a military no-fly zone over Aleppo, to provide unhindered humanitarian access, and to hold perpetrators of atrocities accountable, being Russian votes in favor of continued bloodshed

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