WTO : DG critiques Trump tariffs as "unilateral", acknowledges US criticisms (PRIV)
(D. Ravi Kanth, Geneva)
The World Trade Organization Director-General, Ms. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has described the Trump administration's imposition of reciprocal tariffs as "unilateral", while simultaneously conceding that "several of the criticisms" leveled by Washington over the WTO's failure to deliver outcomes sought by the US "are valid."

UN : Turk denounces "glorification of violence", erosion of international law (PRIV)
(Kanaga Raja, Penang)
The "glorification of violence" is being coupled with a troubling erosion of international law, and around the world, the long-established rules of war "are being shredded", with virtually no accountability, Mr Volker Turk, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, has warned.

UN : Call for efforts toward Afghanistan "at peace with itself & its neighbours" (PRIV)
(Kanaga Raja, Penang)
The United Nations deputy human rights chief on 8 September underscored the need to "work for a future Afghanistan that is at peace with itself and its neighbours and where the human rights of all Afghans are fully respected."