"We Need to Act Before Warning Signs Become Mass Graves" - UN Chef de Cabinet | United Nations

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“We need to be proactive and vigilant, and act before warning signs become mass graves,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres stated on prevention of genocide in his remarks to the General Assembly. Earle Courtenay Rattray delivered remarks on behalf of the Secretary-General, presenting the 18th report on the Responsibility to Protect and warning that early warning signs of atrocity crimes are too often ignored. Speaking at the 97th plenary meeting, Rattray said the report takes stock of two decades of progress since Member States committed to the Responsibility to Protect principle. “Atrocity crimes can happen anywhere. But their effects on the world, and on our humanity, are shared. While prevention begins at home, it can be supported collectively,” he said. The report, he noted, reaffirms the responsibility of States to ensure cooperation with affected communities, civil society, and regional and international organizations. “The report we are discussing today — the 18th since this commitment was made — takes stock of two decades of progress. It includes a clear re-affirmation of the responsibility of States to ensure constructive and sustained cooperation with affected communities, civil society, subregional and regional organizations and the United Nations,” Rattray stated. He pointed to a sharp rise in global conflict as evidence of the urgency of the report's findings. “This report is not only about looking back. It's also about taking action, now. The Responsibility to Protect commitment is more vital than ever. The world faced more than 120 conflicts in 2025. Conflicts are becoming more protracted, more complex, and more interconnected,” the Chef de Cabinet said. Rattray added that responses to atrocity risks continue to fall short. “Too often, early warning signs are ignored. And responses are often too little, too late. This report makes specific calls to strengthen the Responsibility to Protect norm for this new era of instability and geopolitical risk,” he told the Assembly. At the national level, he said, the report calls on Member States to invest in prevention and protection programming. “At the national level, it calls on Member States to invest in national prevention and protection programming, and forge partnerships with civil society by designating focal points and establishing new domestic institutional arrangements,” Rattray noted. He said the report also calls for atrocity prevention to be woven into regional and multilateral tools. “At the regional and multilateral levels, it calls for integrating atrocity prevention across all the tools of peacemaking, conflict prevention and humanitarian efforts - including mediation and preventive diplomacy and dialogue, as well as security, technological, human rights and accountability frameworks,” he said. Rattray closed with a call to the Member States, “We need to be proactive and vigilant, and act before warning signs become mass graves.”


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Trump SCREWED as His DOJ ACCIDENTALLY LEAKS HIS CRIMES!!!

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AI Governance: Call for Fair, Enforceable Policies -Global Advocate's Video Message | United Nations

Joseph Gordon-Levitt is the UN’s first Global Advocate for Human-centric Digital Governance, a role designed to strengthen public understanding of how digital technologies shape everyday life, rights and opportunities. In this video message to the Global Dialogue on AI Governance, the world's first international platform on AI convened by the United Nations General Assembly, taking place in Geneva on 6-7 July 2026, he calls for policies that are effective, enforceable and fair in governing Artificial Intelligence.


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AI Governance: Call for Fair, Enforceable Policies -Global Advocate's Video Message | United Nations

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt is the UN’s first Global Advocate for Human-centric Digital Governance, a role designed to strengthen public understanding of how digital technologies shape everyday life, rights and opportunities. In this video message to the Global Dialogue on AI Governance, the world's first international platform on AI convened by the United Nations General Assembly, taking place in Geneva on 6-7 July 2026, he calls for policies that are effective, enforceable and fair in governing Artificial Intelligence.


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LIVE: MeidasTouch RESPONDS to MAJOR BREAKING NEWS - 7/6/26

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Trump BLOWS UP Reflecting Pool Case BEFORE IT STARTS!!!

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AI: UN Chief Calls for Global Rules to Govern Powerful New Tech - Press Conference | United Nations

UN chief António Guterres appealed on Monday for far-reaching, worldwide controls on Artificial Intelligence, as increasingly powerful AI chips that are designed for civilian use shift to the battlefield, where “killer robots” are already the norm. Addressing the inaugural UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance in Geneva, the Secretary-General also insisted on the need for greater accessibility for the billions of people unable to access the revolutionary tech. He insisted that any future agreement must be “worthy of global trust” and put safety first – and especially children’s - to protect them from digitally-generated manipulation and abuse. Narrowing the digital gap Other priorities for global checks and balances on AI should include locked-in access to the self-learning tech for developing countries, while all AI data centres should be powered by renewable energy by 2030, the UN chief stressed. Although AI “sits at the heart of our common future”, it needs to be one where “machines can inform, but humans must decide, and answer”, Mr. Guterres told the summit gathered in Geneva, echoing calls for AI rules that he first made to the General Assembly in 2017. In the three years since AI went mainstream, it has had a revolutionary impact across economies and societies, for better and for worse. Ahead of this, the UN has been leading international efforts to shape controls on the tech, culminating in Monday’s inaugural Global Dialogue on AI in Geneva. The meeting involves companies, researchers, technical experts and civil society to discuss how to put humanity at the core of the transformative technology. A second Dialogue is scheduled for May 2027 in New York. "AI is too consequential to be shaped by a few. We need a conversation that is global, inclusive and grounded in evidence," insisted Amandeep Singh Gill, UN Special Envoy for Digital and Emerging Technologies. ‘Great equalizer’ Used well and shared widely, AI “could compress decades of development into years” and become “the great equalizer of the 21st century”, the UN Secretary-General told delegates. But before this can happen, the technology should be tested thoroughly for safety and legal responsibility assigned: “When countries align on how to test systems, measure risk and assign responsibility, safety travels with the technology,” he said. “When they do not, a patchwork of incompatible rules raises costs, divides the world – and protects no one.” Children’s safety and wellbeing should be priority in any future governance accord, Mr. Guterres continued, as he called for nations to adopt an AI Child Safety Pledge. “No child should be a guinea pig for unregulated AI…We do not let medicine reach a child until it is proven safe. We test every toy; yet AI has reached our children – their learning, their friendships, their most private questions, before anyone asked what it would do to them.” What’s the Child Safety Pledge? Under the UN child safety pledge, AI developers would need to prove: • That the tech is safe – no company should deploy an AI system accessible to children without child-specific safety testing and independent oversight; • Zero tolerance for sexual abuse – no company should allow its AI to generate sexual images of children; every company must detect, report, and remove them; • When a child shows signs of distress, “the system must stop and connect them to real human support”, the UN chief said. “When a child is harmed, the answer must never be “the algorithm did it,” the UN chief said. Human rights a priority As second priority on AI controls, the UN chief stressed that human rights are not negotiable. “AI must never strip away dignity or entrench discrimination. And in every high-stakes decision – in justice, in healthcare, in policing – machines can inform, but humans must decide – and answer,” he said. Public funding in AI ‘a rounding error’ In a call for greater public investment in AI, the Secretary-General noted that private funding for AI infrastructure is approximately $500 trillion, while public support for AI capacity in developing countries remains “a rounding error”, by comparison. To help close this gap, the UN chief announced that more than 20 countries had supported his initiative for a UN-supported Global Network for Exchange and Cooperation on AI Capacity Building. “We cannot allow the digital divide to harden into an AI divide and the AI divide to become a development gap, a security gap, and a sovereignty gap,” he said.


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AI: UN Chief Calls for Global Rules to Govern Powerful New Tech - Press Conference | United Nations

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UN chief António Guterres appealed on Monday for far-reaching, worldwide controls on Artificial Intelligence, as increasingly powerful AI chips that are designed for civilian use shift to the battlefield, where “killer robots” are already the norm. Addressing the inaugural UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance in Geneva, the Secretary-General also insisted on the need for greater accessibility for the billions of people unable to access the revolutionary tech. He insisted that any future agreement must be “worthy of global trust” and put safety first – and especially children’s - to protect them from digitally-generated manipulation and abuse. Narrowing the digital gap Other priorities for global checks and balances on AI should include locked-in access to the self-learning tech for developing countries, while all AI data centres should be powered by renewable energy by 2030, the UN chief stressed. Although AI “sits at the heart of our common future”, it needs to be one where “machines can inform, but humans must decide, and answer”, Mr. Guterres told the summit gathered in Geneva, echoing calls for AI rules that he first made to the General Assembly in 2017. In the three years since AI went mainstream, it has had a revolutionary impact across economies and societies, for better and for worse. Ahead of this, the UN has been leading international efforts to shape controls on the tech, culminating in Monday’s inaugural Global Dialogue on AI in Geneva. The meeting involves companies, researchers, technical experts and civil society to discuss how to put humanity at the core of the transformative technology. A second Dialogue is scheduled for May 2027 in New York. "AI is too consequential to be shaped by a few. We need a conversation that is global, inclusive and grounded in evidence," insisted Amandeep Singh Gill, UN Special Envoy for Digital and Emerging Technologies. ‘Great equalizer’ Used well and shared widely, AI “could compress decades of development into years” and become “the great equalizer of the 21st century”, the UN Secretary-General told delegates. But before this can happen, the technology should be tested thoroughly for safety and legal responsibility assigned: “When countries align on how to test systems, measure risk and assign responsibility, safety travels with the technology,” he said. “When they do not, a patchwork of incompatible rules raises costs, divides the world – and protects no one.” Children’s safety and wellbeing should be priority in any future governance accord, Mr. Guterres continued, as he called for nations to adopt an AI Child Safety Pledge. “No child should be a guinea pig for unregulated AI…We do not let medicine reach a child until it is proven safe. We test every toy; yet AI has reached our children – their learning, their friendships, their most private questions, before anyone asked what it would do to them.” What’s the Child Safety Pledge? Under the UN child safety pledge, AI developers would need to prove: • That the tech is safe – no company should deploy an AI system accessible to children without child-specific safety testing and independent oversight; • Zero tolerance for sexual abuse – no company should allow its AI to generate sexual images of children; every company must detect, report, and remove them; • When a child shows signs of distress, “the system must stop and connect them to real human support”, the UN chief said. “When a child is harmed, the answer must never be “the algorithm did it,” the UN chief said. Human rights a priority As second priority on AI controls, the UN chief stressed that human rights are not negotiable. “AI must never strip away dignity or entrench discrimination. And in every high-stakes decision – in justice, in healthcare, in policing – machines can inform, but humans must decide – and answer,” he said. Public funding in AI ‘a rounding error’ In a call for greater public investment in AI, the Secretary-General noted that private funding for AI infrastructure is approximately $500 trillion, while public support for AI capacity in developing countries remains “a rounding error”, by comparison. To help close this gap, the UN chief announced that more than 20 countries had supported his initiative for a UN-supported Global Network for Exchange and Cooperation on AI Capacity Building. “We cannot allow the digital divide to harden into an AI divide and the AI divide to become a development gap, a security gap, and a sovereignty gap,” he said.


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Body found on Horn Island during search for missing 18-year-old Nolan Wells

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Global Dialogue on #artificialintelligence

At first Global Dialogue on AI Governance, UN chief, António Guterres warns about the risks of artificial intelligence AI's growing autonomy while calling for billions of people left behind to get equal access.


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They survived the genocide in Srebrenica. Now they guard its memory.

In July 1995, over 8000 Bosniak Muslim men and boys were murdered in Srebrenica by Bosnian Serb forces in a killing recognized by international courts as genocide. Today, three survivors work at the Srebrenica-Potočari Memorial — keeping the record against those who deny it happened. This is the opening of The Memory Keepers of Srebrenica, a short documentary produced by the United Nations to mark the commemoration of the Srebrenica genocide. Full film on the United Nations YouTube channel on 9 July. #Srebrenica #Potočari #Shorts #SrebrenicaMemorialCenter


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