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China, UN

No, the UN Did Not Report China Has ‘Massive Internment Camps’ for Uighur Muslims

NOVANEWS By Ben Norton and Ajit Singh Grayzone Project Note to readers: please click the share buttons above   Media outlets from Reuters to The Intercept falsely claimed the UN had condemned China for holding a million Uighurs in camps. The claim is based on unsourced allegations by two independent commission members, US-funded outfits and a shadowy opposition group. Numerous major media outlets, from Reuters to The Intercept, have claimed that the United Nations has reports that the Chinese government is holding as many as 1 million Uighur Muslims in “internment camps.” But a close examination of these news stories, and of the evidence behind them — or the lack thereof — demonstrates that the extraordinary claim is simply not true. A spokesperson from the UN Office of the Hig...
Iran, UN, USA

Iran Asks UN Court to Lift US Sanctions ‘Besieging’ Its Economy

NOVANEWS Lawyers says sole aim of Trump administration's renewed measures are to bring their country 'to its knees' By Middle East Eye Note to readers: please click the share buttons above  Iran opened a lawsuit on Monday demanding the UN’s top court, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), order the suspension of renewed US sanctions which it says are devastating its economy. The Islamic Republic says US President Donald Trump‘s decision to reimpose sanctions over its nuclear programme aims to bring it “to its knees” and is in breach of a 1955 friendship treaty. Sanctions had been lifted under a 2015 multilateral agreement in return for Iran committing not to pursue nuclear weapons. In May, Trump announced that the US would abandon the deal. Then last month, his administrati...
Saudi Arabia, UAE, UN

UN Condemns Likely Saudi and UAE ‘War Crimes’ in Yemen

NOVANEWS Report also condemns Houthi recruitment of child soldiers, but does not explore role of the US and UK in supplying arms to Saudi-led coalition By Middle East Eye Note to readers: please click the share buttons above   A group of UN experts has said that Saudi and Emirati forces may have committed war crimes in Yemen. A report launched on Tuesday by the Group of Eminent Experts on Yemen (YemenGEE) established in 2017 by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, concluded that individuals in the governments of Yemen, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) could be prosecuted for acts that amount to international crimes “subject to determination by an independent and competent court”. The report comes as US officials have expressed concerns over recent deadly air...
UN, USA, Yemen

UN Report on Yemen Ignores US Responsibility for War

NOVANEWS By Stephen Lendman Global Research   Note to readers: please click the share buttons above   Post-9/11, Washington launched a drone war on Yemen as part of the “global war on terrorism” – largely killing defenseless civilians, supporting terrorists, not combatting them. The Bush/Cheney regime began what Obama and Trump escalated.  US-backed full-scale Saudi/UAE-led aggression on the country began in March 2015. Operating covertly, US special forces aid the blockade and slaughter, along with CIA/Pentagon intelligence and logistical support, along with direct US involvement in conflict on the ground – responsible for the world’s severest humanitarian crisis. The campaign against Houthi fighters aims to restore US-appointed puppet president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi to power ...
Syria, UN

UN Chief Sides with Aggressors in Syria

NOVANEWS By Stephen Lendman Global Research Note to readers: please click the share buttons above   With rare exceptions, UN secretaries general serve US-led Western interests, supporting aggression by failing to denounce it, disgracing the office they hold, breaching UN Charter principles. Since installed as UN secretary general by Washington in January 2017, former Portuguese prime minister Antonio Guterres said nothing about US-led aggression in Syria or anywhere else. He failed to denounce US-led terror-bombing, the rape and destruction of Raqqa, Syria and Mosul, Iraq – massacring countless thousands of defenseless civilians, turning both cities to rubble on the phony pretext of combating ISIS Washington created and supports. He said nothing about US-led destruction of vital...
UN

UN Sustainable Development Goals by 2030

NOVANEWS Doomed Prospects for Achievement of UN Sustainable Development Goals by 2030: Funds Squandered on Military-Industrial Complex Are Indispensable for Success Criminal UN Security Council Authorized Military Actions and Sanctions are Gross Violation of Sustainable Development Goals and Obliterate all Hope For Attainment of SDGs By Carla Stea Global Research, August 28, 2018 Note to readers: please click the share buttons above   On October 21, 2015 the United Nations General  Assembly adopted Resolution 70/1:  The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, declaring that “We are determined to end poverty and hunger, in all their forms and dimensions, and to ensure that all human beings can fulfil their potential in dignity and equality and in a healthy environment.”  These 17 ...
Palestine Affairs, UN, ZIO-NAZI

UN chief suggests deploying UN-mandated armed forces to protect Palestinians

NOVANEWS United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres holds a joint press conference with Prime Minister of Palestine Rami Hamdallah in Ramallah, West Bank on 29 August 2017 [Issam Rimawi/Anadolu Agency] The protection of Palestinian civilians could be improved by the deployment of UN-mandated armed forces or unarmed observers, a beefed-up UN civilian presence or expanded UN assistance, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres wrote in a report on Friday. The United Nations General Assembly requested the report in a resolution adopted in June that condemned Israel for excessive force against Palestinian civilians and denounced the firing of rockets from Gaza into Israeli civilian areas. The resolution asked for proposals to ensure “the safety, protection and well-being of the P...
UN, USA

As UN Rights Chief Warns Trump's Press Attacks 'Close to Incitement of Violence,' Newspapers Ready Coordinated Response

NOVANEWS Trump's anti-media rhetoric could "set in motion a chain of events which could quite easily lead to harm being inflicted on journalists just going about their work." by: Julia Conley The UN human rights chief has called President Donald Trump's attacks on press freedom "close to incitement of violence." (Photo: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images) Amid international outcry over President Donald Trump's treatment of the news media, more than 100 newspapers are planning to publish editorials this Thursday pushing back against his repeated claims that journalists are "the enemy of the people" and defending their right to cover his administration and actions. Denouncing Trump's "dirty war on the free press," the Boston Globe wrote to dozens of news outlets acro...
Human Rights, UN

Former UN Special Rapporteur on US Withdrawal From the Human Rights Council

NOVANEWS Secretary of State Mike Pompeo looks on as Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley speaks at the US Department of State in Washington, DC, on June 19, 2018.ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP / GETTY IMAGES BY: Daniel Falcone Truthout In this interview, professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University Richard Falk discusses the US’s withdrawal from the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) and explains the overall impacts of the Trump foreign policy to date, something Noam Chomsky has referred to as the “Me First Doctrine.” Falk explains how the US “completely ignores the normative primacy in the 21st century of the right of self-determination,” in light of the withdrawal. Falk asserts that “this combination of warmongering militarism and exc...
Gaza, Palestine Affairs, UN, USA, ZIO-NAZI

The UN Is Silent Amid Nazi Aggression in Gaza; Is It a Defunct Agency?

NOVANEWS The UN Is Silent Amid Israeli Aggression in Gaza; Is It a Defunct Agency? By Global Research News Global Research, June 05, 2018 . Israel Bombs Gaza Hours After Funeral of Murdered 21-year-old Paramedic By Morning Star, June 04, 2018 Israeli warplanes blitzed the Gaza Strip today as the country continued to punish Palestinians for daring to hold peaceful demonstrations near the fence that seals off the territory. Israeli Oncologists’ Letter: Let Gaza Cancer Patients Out! By Physicians For Human Rights In Israel, June 04, 2018 The physicians have decided to act given the growing difficulties they have been experiencing over the past year in providing continuous treatment to cancer patients arriving at their clinics from the Gaza Strip. This is due to the tightening of th...