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cholera epidemic

Security Council approves sanctions package for Haiti to quell gang violence

Staff Writer Oct 21, 2022

(United Nations News) The UN Security Council on Friday unanimously approved a sanctions regime for Haiti, targeting gang leaders and those who finance them, in the hope of easing months of violence and lawlessness which has fuelled a…
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US judge rules Haitians cannot sue UN for cholera epidemic

Tusankine English Jan 12, 2015 0

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Thousands of Haitians killed or sickened by a cholera epidemic that they blame on UN peacekeepers cannot sue the United Nations in a US court because the UN has legal immunity that only it can waive, a judge has ruled.…
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