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Nina Larson

Top US officials including Jared Kushner (L), envoy Steve Witkoff, and Seceretary of State Marco Rubio face the Ukrainian delegation during discussions on a US plan to end the war in Ukraine at the US Mission in Geneva, on November 23, 2025. (Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)
November 24, 2025, 9:34 am
Washington, Kyiv report progress as peace talks swing toward Ukrainian demands
‘Redefined’ Trump proposal affirms that any agreement must ‘fully uphold’ Kyiv’s sovereignty, parties say; Ukrainians note draft now reflects most of their key priorities
By Nina Larson and Agnès PEDRERO
US President Donald Trump, joined by lawmakers and members of his administration, delivers remarks during a dinner with leaders of Central Asian countries in the East Room of the White House on November 6, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Andrew Harnik / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)
November 7, 2025, 3:08 pm
US officials, nonprofits cry foul as Washington snubs periodical UN rights review
United States set to become only the second country to skip its Universal Periodic Review, after Israel in 2013, though Jewish state participated 10 months later
By Nina Larson
Portraits of slain Iranians are displayed in an area of Esplanades des Invalides in Paris, France, on July 8, 2025, as part of a campaign by human rights groups focused on Iran to stop executions in in the Islamic Republic. (Delphine TOUITOU / AFP)
August 29, 2025, 8:44 pm
In ‘major increase,’ UN says Iran has executed at least 841 people this year
Human rights office says ethnic minorities disproportionately targeted and that at least 7 public executions have been staged since start of 2025, some reportedly in front of kids
By Nina Larson
Firefighters try to extinguish the flames in a forest in Avantas village, near Alexandroupolis town, in the northeastern Evros region, Greece, Monday, Aug. 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Achilleas Chiras)
March 19, 2024, 6:33 pm
UN warns planet ‘on the brink’ after data confirms 2023 was hottest year on record
Temperatures crept dangerously close to 1.5 Celsius above pre-industrial levels last year and glaciers suffered record ice loss, with trend expected to continue in 2024
By Nina Larson
Russian pastor Roman Vinogradov (L) plays a board game with some of the 12 Ukrainian children he and his wife are fostering outside the Siberian city of Novosibirsk on March 10, 2023. (Alexander Nemenov/AFP)
March 16, 2023, 10:56 pm
UN probe calls Russian forced transfers of Ukrainian children ‘a war crime’
A year into Commission of Inquiry, chairman Erik Mose says that so far they ‘have not found that there has been a genocide within Ukraine’
By Nina Larson
High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk addresses the assembly during a special session of the UN Human Rights Council on the situation in Iran, at the United Nations in Geneva on November 24, 2022. (VALENTIN FLAURAUD / AFP)
November 24, 2022, 12:39 pm
UN rights council urges Iran to end its deadly crackdown on protests
Panel holds urgent debate on call to investigate violations, with eye on prosecuting perpetrators in future, amid increasingly brutal response by authorities to demonstrations
By Nina Larson
Iranians mourn in front of the coffins of people killed in a shooting attack, during their funeral in the city of Izeh in Iran's Khuzestan province, on November 18, 2022. (ALIREZA MOHAMMADI/ isna/ AFP)
November 22, 2022, 3:59 pm
UN says Iran situation ‘critical’ as authorities intensify protest crackdown
With over 300 killed, including at least 40 children, since widespread demonstrations began 2 months ago, UN rights chief urges regime to ‘address people’s demands’
By Nina Larson
In this photo taken by an individual not employed by the Associated Press and obtained by the AP outside Iran, police stand outside the Sharif University of Technology during a student protest sparked by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in the custody of the country's morality police, in Tehran, October 7, 2022. (AP Photo)
November 22, 2022, 9:45 am
UN rights council eyes probe of Iran’s deadly crackdown on anti-regime protests
Draft resolution prepared by Germany and Iceland calls for investigation of ‘gender dimensions’ of alleged violations, but measure may struggle to get enough backing to pass
By Nina Larson
A member of an extraction crew works during an exhumation at a mass grave near Bucha, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, June 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
September 24, 2022, 1:15 am
UN says Russia committing war crimes on ‘massive scale,’ victims young as 4
Investigators find evidence of executions, beatings, electric shocks, rape and torture of children, but too soon to prove crimes against humanity
By Nina Larson
Israeli diamond magnate Beny Steinmetz, right, with his lawyer, Christian Luescher, arrive at a courthouse in Geneva, Switzerland, August 31, 2022. (Fabrice COFFRINI/ AFP)
September 5, 2022, 9:48 pm
Swiss prosecutors demand prison time for Israeli tycoon convicted of corruption
In closing statement at appeal hearing, defense lawyers for Beny Steinmetz claim accusations against their client in Guinea bribery case are ‘very weak’
By Nina Larson
Israeli diamond magnate Beny Steinmetz, left, with his lawyer Daniel Kinzer arrives at a courthouse in Geneva, Switzerland, August 29, 2022. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)
September 2, 2022, 8:43 am
‘I never corrupted anyone,’ Israeli diamond magnate tells Swiss court
Appealing conviction in massive bribery case, Beny Steinmetz says his company became victim of a local power struggle in Guinea
By Nina Larson
French-Israeli diamond magnate Beny Steinmetz comes back to Geneva's courthouse during his trial over allegations of corruption linked to mining deals in Guinea, on January 11, 2021, in Geneva. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP)
August 27, 2022, 12:24 pm
Israeli diamond magnate Steinmetz back in Switzerland to appeal corruption sentence
Hearing starts Monday, with Steinmetz’s new legal team to argue that lower court did not fully hear his arguments and misunderstood the situation
By Nina Larson
Displaced Ukrainians on a Poland-bound train bid farewell in Lviv, western Ukraine, March 22, 2022 (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
March 24, 2022, 12:12 pm
Over half of Ukraine’s children displaced after month of war, UN says
More than 1.8 million children have fled Ukraine as refugees, while another 2.5 million are displaced inside the war-ravaged country, according to UNICEF
By Nina Larson
A boy stands with a group of people fleeing Ukraine as they stand in a line after arriving at the border crossing in Medyka, Poland, on Monday, March 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
March 16, 2022, 6:44 pm
UN rushing to prevent human traffickers from capitalizing on Ukraine refugee exodus
Around half of more than 3 million people who have fled country since invasion began are children; International Organization for Migration warns that unaccompanied minors at risk
By Nina Larson
Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting with members of the Security Council via teleconference call at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow, Russia, on March 3, 2022. (Andrey Gorshkov/Sputnik/AFP)
March 9, 2022, 8:58 am
Putin’s nuclear threats ‘extremely dangerous’ blackmail, watchdog says
Head of International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons says Russian president’s warnings are meant to instill fear in the whole world and deter anyone from helping in Ukraine
By Nina Larson
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