UN Archives - Page 18 of 26

30Jun

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Saudi Arabia, UN, USA

UN Secretary General Guterres ‘Has Hidden Behind Protocol’ over Khashoggi, No UN Investigation into Murder

NOVANEWS Agnes Callamard tells MEE that Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and other UN institutions should have been more proactive in aftermath of journalist's killing By Dania Akkad Middle East Eye UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres “has hidden behind protocol” rather than push for an investigation into the murder of Saudi journalistJamal Khashoggi, the UN special rapporteur who probed the killing has told Middle East Eye. Speaking on the sidelines of the 41st UN Human Rights Council, which she will address on Wednesday, Agnes Callamard said Khashoggi could be “a model case” for the UN to show that it takes targeted killings seriously. It could have acted as a mediator, allowing better coordination during the investigation of the brutal killing at the Saudi consulate in I...

1Jun

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UN to Launch Global Campaign Against Criminalization of Indigenous Peoples

NOVANEWS Millie Wahl stands in solidarity with the Native Nations Rise march on Washington, D.C., against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, on March 10, 2017.ALEX MILAN TRACY / ANADOLU AGENCY / GETTY IMAGES BY: Julie Mollins A new campaign to stop the criminalization of Indigenous peoples for protesting against governments and corporations in defense of their traditional lands aims to protect them from persecution, murder and imprisonment on falsified charges, said the U.N. special rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous Peoples on Thursday. Vicky Tauli-Corpuz said the idea for the Global Campaign Against the Criminalization and Impunity of Indigenous Peoples was inspired by research and interviews she conducted during the preparation of her 2018 report on ...

1Jun

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Trump Administration Guts UN Resolution to End Rape as a Weapon of War

NOVANEWS BY: Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! The Trump administration is under fire after the United Nations Security Council passed a resolution to end rape as a weapon of war on Tuesday that excluded any mention of sexual and reproductive health. The resolution was gutted after the U.S. threatened to veto the measure altogether unless language referencing reproductive health was taken out due to the Trump administration’s belief that the language was code for abortion. The watered-down measure also weakened references to the International Criminal Court, making it harder for women and girls to seek justice. We speak with Jessica Neuwirth, director of the Human Rights Program at Roosevelt House at Hunter College and the director of the Sisterhood Is Global Ins...

29May

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UN, United Kingdom, ZIO-NAZI

British blackmail to cripple Palestinians’ UN bid?

NOVANEWS “Promise not to prosecute Israeli war criminals, not to go for full UN membership, not to seek justice but submit to rigged talks, and we’ll support you” By Stuart Littlewood Britain’s Foreign Office, on its website, states loudly and clearly: The UK is committed to upholding international justice and all of our international obligations. Our core principle is clear. Those guilty of war crimes must be brought to justice whether they are Israeli or any other nationality. We are also committed to ensuring that UK systems are robust in meeting its international law obligations. Yet ugly rumours are flying that the British government twisted the arm of Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and told him the UK would support Palestine’s modest upgrade to “observer state” ...

3Feb

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UN, USA, Venezuela

UN Rejects Guaido, Favors Discourse With President Maduro

NOVANEWS UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaking at the UN headquarters in New York, USA, Jan. 28, 2019. | Photo: EFE Guterres reiterated his concern about the impact of the current Venezuelan crisis on the people. The United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres recognized, Friday, the representation of the Venezuelan Government - led by its Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza - while rejecting the interests of deputy of the National Assembly (AN), Juan Guaido, who unconstitutionally proclaimed himself "president in charge" on Jan. 23. RELATED:: Italy Rejects Guaido, Says Venezuela is a Sovereign State Stephane Dujarric, the spokesman for the U.N. secretary-general, confirmed that Guterres responded to a letter, which was sent by Juan Guaido asking the a...

24Dec

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Denouncing 7-Year-Old's Death, UN Rights Expert Demands US Halt Child Detentions

NOVANEWS "As repeatedly stated by a series of U.N. human rights bodies, detention of children based on their migratory status is a violation of international law." by: Andrea Germanos Activists project text and a picture of Jakelin Caal onto the home of CBP's Commissioner Kevin McAleenan in Virginia. (Photo: CREDO Action/Screenshot) A day after the 7-year-old girl's small body returned to Guatemala in a coffin, a United Nations human rights expert demanded an independent probe into the death of Jakelin Caal while she was in the custody of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)—and made a broader call for the U.S. to stop its international law-violating practice of detaining children on the basis of their migratory status. "The U.S. authorities must ensure that...

27Sep

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Five Ways the Trump Administration Has Attacked the U.N. and International Human Rights Bodies

NOVANEWS By pushing xenophobic policies that defy international law, the Trump administration is pitting the United States against the very system of multilateralism that our country worked so hard to create in the years after World War II by: Maya Finoh We can plainly see Trump’s hostility towards the international community. (Photo: White House/Flickr) On Tuesday, President Trump will make his second appearance at the annual opening of the United Nations General Assembly, where he will reportedly use the international spotlight to deliver a speech that centers on favoring U.S. “sovereignty” over our commitments to the global community.The world has now witnessed the human costs of Trump’s self-defeating “America First” policies: the inhumanity of family separa...

8Sep

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'Pariah' Status of Trump Solidified as UN Watchdog Reports Iran Continues to Comply with Nuclear Deal

NOVANEWS Inspectors revealed Iran is continuing to limit its uranium enrichment as newest round of sanctions take hold of Iranian public by: Julia Conley, staff writer President Trump, flanked by National Security Advisor John Bolton, at the NATO Summit on July 12, 2018, in Brussels, Belgium. (Photo: Sean Gallup via Getty Images) United Nations officials reported on Thursday that Iran is still complying with the 2015 nuclear deal it entered into with the Obama administration, three months after President Donald Trump announced he was withdrawing from the agreement. Trump's decision was among many in the past 19 months which have alienated the U.S. from the international community—and observers including National Iranian American Council (NIAC) founder Trita Pars...

7Sep

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Palestine Affairs, UN, USA, ZIO-NAZI

US cuts to UNRWA point to the dark future being readied for the Palestinians

NOVANEWS By Jonathan Cook in Nazareth The Trump administration’s decision to scrap all future aid payments to the main agency helping Palestinian refugees marks a new – and most likely disastrous – chapter in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The US State Department said on 31 August it would no longer continue its $360 million annual contributions to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), depriving it of a third of its budget. US officials described the organisation as “irredeemably flawed”. The move follows an announcement last week that Washington had slashed $200 million from other aid programmes for the Palestinians. About five million Palestinians – many languishing for decades in refugee camps across the Middle East – rely on the agency for esse...

31Aug

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Second UN Meeting on New Syrian Constitution Set for this Month

NOVANEWS By The Daily Star The Daily Star Note to readers: please click the share buttons above The U.N. peace envoy for Syria will host senior officials from a range of Western and Middle-Eastern countries next month for talks on drafting a new Syrian constitution, the U.N. said Tuesday. Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura has been tasked with setting up a committee to write a new constitution for the war-ravaged country. He is already set to host a meeting on Sept. 11-12 at the U.N.’s European headquarters in Geneva of senior officials from the main foreign powers backing the project, Syrian government allies Russia and Iran, as well as Turkey, which supports some opposition groups. And on Tuesday, U.N. spokeswoman Alessandra Vellucci said de Mistura had convened a one-day mee...