{"id":35832,"date":"2026-05-29T20:27:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T18:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=35832"},"modified":"2026-05-29T20:50:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T18:50:17","slug":"un-blacklists-israel-russia-over-conflict-sexual-violence","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/un-blacklists-israel-russia-over-conflict-sexual-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"UN blacklists Israel, Russia over conflict sexual violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations (UN) this Friday added Israel and Russia to its blacklist of countries credibly suspected of committing sexual violence in conflict zones, following a rise of over 100% in verified global cases.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The annual report contains harrowing descriptions of abuses by Israeli and Russian forces, joining Hamas, which was already blacklisted.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While listing does not trigger automatic sanctions, it causes severe reputational damage and bars repeated offenders from UN peacekeeping operations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In response, Israel accused the UN of making a factually disconnected, political decision and announced it is severing all ties with the office of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres until a successor is appointed later this year. UN representatives stated that an invitation to investigate allegations in Israel was ultimately suspended due to the ongoing war in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":34848,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-35832","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"UN this Friday added Israel and Russia to its blacklist of countries credibly suspected of committing sexual violence in conflict zones","published_date":"2026-05-29 20:26:50","news_description":"UN this Friday added Israel and Russia to its blacklist of countries credibly suspected of committing sexual violence in conflict zones","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/35832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/35832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35833,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/35832\/revisions\/35833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=35832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}