🌐 UN Warns Active Wars Reach WWII Highs Threatening Global Stability

• Global Conflict Risk: UN Rights Chief Volker Türk warns over 60 active wars involve state actors—the highest count since World War Two. The escalation threatens international law, driving displacement, public health crises, and severe economic and environmental fallout worldwide. • Regional & Economic Instability: Resurgent US-Iran hostilities are destabilizing the Gulf, posing major spillover risks to energy supply chains and crude oil prices. Meanwhile, the Ukraine war (now in its 5th year) faces escalating strikes on critical energy infrastructure. • Technology & Policy Action: Türk renewed urgent calls for an international ban on lethal autonomous weapons (drones operating without human control) and pushed for peace negotiations aligned with the UN Charter. Governments were urged to back the International Criminal Court and enforce domestic accountability. • Impact on Sri Lankan Economy: Global energy shocks and geopolitical tensions pose key risks to national resilience, directly affecting apparel & textiles logistics, petroleum import costs, and local tourism connectivity.