AFP: UN Security Council is 'failing' war-wracked world says Red Cross
Dakar (AFP) - The Red Cross has warned that the world is facing conflict on an "unprecedented" scale, fuelled by the international community's failure to work together to end wars and humanitarian crises.
Dominik Stillhart, director of operations at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) told AFP the UN Security Council was failing in its mission to maintain peace -- leading to protracted crises which were escalating into regional conflicts.
"Looking at the entire world, what we see is an unprecedented number of armed conflicts -- an unprecedented number and simultaneous -- generating ever-growing humanitarian needs," he said.
WNU Editor: The two paragraphs in this report that caught my attention are the following ....
.... The Global Peace Index 2014, published by the Sydney-based Institute for Economics and Peace think tank, showed just 11 of 162 countries representing more than 99 percent of the global population were not involved in conflict of any kind.
The study said the world had been getting less peaceful every year since 2008, highlighting tensions in the Ukraine, the Syria conflict, civil war in South Sudan and an increased intensity of terrorist activity as major threats to world peace.
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