Jonathan Shrier Acting Representative to the UN Economic and Social Council New York, New York June 30, 2025 AS DELIVERED Thank you, Madam Moderator, and thank you to the briefers for your compelling presentations. Human trafficking is a crime that affects over 27 million people worldwide, destroying communities and threatening national security. It is antithetical…
Miami — A former Venezuelan spymaster who was close to the country’s late President Hugo Chávez pleaded guilty Wednesday to drug trafficking charges a week before his trial was set to begin in a Manhattan federal court. Retired Maj. Gen. Hugo Carvajal was extradited from Spain in 2023 after more than a decade on the…
On day six of the 59th Session of the Human Rights Council (HRC) in Geneva, the Council heard urgent updates on rising internal displacement driven by organised crime, escalating genocide risks and the trafficking of women in the domestic work sector. Of the record 83 million people internally displaced worldwide, at least 1.2 million were…
