United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said on Wednesday he is alarmed at the increasing number of journalists being targeted because of their work. ”Most alarmingly, in seeking to shed light on the plight of others, journalists themselves become targets,” he said.

Rape is weapon of war and the world fails to treat it as a crime, two United Nations agencies said on Wednesday as the Security Council called for justice for women and girls who are victims of violence. To mark International Women’s Day on Thursday, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said that violence against women and girls continued in every continent, country and culture.

Detainees at a United States military prison camp in Guantánamo Bay need to be charged or released and the jail shut down, human rights groups said on Wednesday ahead of the fifth anniversary of the camp’s opening in Cuba. Global vigils have been planned by Amnesty International to mark the anniversary on Thursday and urge closure of prison.

The United Nations Security Council voted unanimously on Saturday to impose financial and weapons sanctions on North Korea for its claimed nuclear test in a resolution that Pyongyang immediately rejected. The US-drafted resolution said the reclusive communist state’s action was a ”clear threat to international peace and security”.