Counter-terrorism 'rhetoric' used to justify rise of surveillance technology: human rights expert

Some countries and private companies are using “counter-terrorism and security rhetoric” to justify a major increase in the deployment and use of cutting-edge surveillance technology, with no regulation, and at an “enormous cost” to human rights, said an independent UN expert on Tuesday. 

https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/03/1134552

Police overwhelmed, development stalled, as gang violence spirals in Haiti

Haiti’s protracted political and humanitarian crisis – marked by spiking levels of gang-related violence and a badly struggling national police force – are reversing crucial security and development strides made since the country’s devastating 2010 earthquake, the senior UN representative in Port-au-Prince told the Security Council on Tuesday. 

https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/01/1132797