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30Mar

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Gaza, Human Rights, Palestine Affairs, UN, ZIO-NAZI

Emergency U.N. Security Council Session on Bloodbath in Gaza

NOVANEWS By Stephen Lendman Global Research Late Friday, Security Council members met in emergency session – in response to Israeli violence in Gaza. Nearly all SC members called on both sides to show restraint, ignoring Israeli mass murder, the session lasting a scant 66 minutes – from 7:42 – 8:48PM, accomplishing nothing for long-suffering Palestinians, especially besieged and attacked Gazans. According to UN Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affair Taye-Brook Zerihoun, Israeli forces attacked peaceful Palestinian demonstrators with live fire, adding: “The developments in Gaza today are again a painful reminder of the consequences of a missing peace between Israel and Palestine and the need to step up our efforts in support of a peaceful resolution of the conflict.” UN...

23Mar

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The UN: Instrumental or Normative?

NOVANEWS The UN: Instrumental or Normative? [Prefatory Note: A greatly modified version of this post was published in Middle East Eye on March 12, 2018, under the title, “The UN: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow.”] A Renewed Crisis of Confidence During the Cold War, the UN frequently disappointed even its most ardent followers because it seemed paralyzed by the rivalry between East and West whenever a political crisis threatened world peace. Giving the veto power to the five permanent members of the Security Council almost assured that when ideological and geopolitical views clashed, which was virtually all the time, during the first 40 years after 1945, the UN would watch unfolding war-threatening events and violent encounters between ideological adversaries from the sidelines. Then in 1...

3Mar

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Human Rights, UN

The United Nations is turning a blind eye to child rape within its own ranks

NOVANEWS Google 'UN sexual abuse' and see just how much comes up and for how long it comes up. See for how long Kofi Anan, Ban Ki Moon and now Antonio Guterres have been saying 'something must be done' Andrew MacLeod Saturday 25 March 2017 The UN has been criticised for not acting swiftly enough on the issue of abuse AFP The United Nations is raping children. The facilitation of these child rapes is in part funded by the UK taxpayer. You think this is “fake news”? Well let’s go right to the top and check the facts. Earlier this month, UN Secretary General António Guterres in releasing the 2016 UN annual review said that there were 145 cases of sexual exploitation and abuse involving troops and civilians across all UN peace missions in 2016 alone. The United Nations Secreta...

2Mar

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Human Rights, Pakistan & Kashmir, UN, USA

UN Calls for Release of 'Tortured' Pakistani From Guantanamo

NOVANEWS Guantanamo Bay prisoner sin 2007. | Photo: Reuters. The CIA has long been accused of using torture tactics against prisoners. A UN working group has called for the release of a Pakistani man imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay since 2006, saying his detention violates international human rights. RELATED: 'Guantanamo Bay Braced For New Prisoners': US Admiral Ammar Al-Baluchi, a Kuwaiti-born Pakistani citizen also known as Abdul Aziz Ali, was accused of paying money to the 9/11 hijackers, conspiring alongside his uncle, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detentionsaid Wednesday that holding Al-Baluchi in the detention camp is “arbitrary, breaches international human rights law and has no legal basis.” The group, a part of the UN Human R...

16Jan

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UN, USA, ZIO-NAZI

UN Must Stop Trump and Netanyahu From Attacking Iran

NOVANEWS UN Must Stop Trump and Netanyahu From Attacking Iran and Waging Nuclear War in the Middle East By Hans Stehling Global Research In deliberate contempt of the United Nations and the international community, the Netanyahu government in Israel has advanced plans to attack Iranian cities and nuclear power centres by colluding with Trump to use American naval and air forces to deploy submarine-launched cruise missiles (SLCM) operating from the Gulf of Oman, plus the use of F35-delivered, devastating nuclear bombs to destroy the government of the sovereign state of Iran and install a puppet administration under US-Israeli control. They apparently intend to attack the key nuclear research sites of Teheran, Bushehr, Arak, Bonab, Ramsar, Fordo, Natanz and Isfahan amongst ot...

12Jan

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UN issues report condemning rampant U.S. poverty

NOVANEWS By Eric Buerk “There is no magic recipe for eliminating extreme poverty, and each government must make its own good faith decisions. But at the end of the day, particularly in a rich country like the USA, the persistence of extreme poverty is a political choice made by those in power. With political will, it could readily be eliminated.What is known, from long experience and in light of the government’s human rights obligations, is that there are indispensable ingredients for a set of policies designed to eliminate poverty. They include: democratic decision-making, full employment policies, social protection for the vulnerable, a fair and effective justice system, gender and racial equality and respect for human dignity, responsible fiscal policies, and environmental justice. C...

28Dec

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Palestine Affairs, UN, USA, ZIO-NAZI

The U.N. General Assembly Rebukes the Trump Administration

NOVANEWS Almost all of the world’s most powerful states supported the resolution and voted against the U.S. U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley. Credit: Flickr/Creative Commons/U.S. Mission Photo/Eric Bridiers By Daniel Larison As expected, the U.N. General Assembly delivered a clear rejection of the U.S. recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital: THE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF THE WORLD’S NATIONS DELIVERED A STINGING REBUKE TO THE UNITED STATES ON THURSDAY, DENOUNCING ITS DECISION TO RECOGNIZE JERUSALEM AS ISRAEL’S CAPITAL AND IGNORING PRESIDENT TRUMP’S BOMBASTIC THREATS OF REVENGE. IN WHAT AMOUNTED TO A COLLECTIVE ACT OF DEFIANCE TOWARD WASHINGTON, AMBASSADORS OF THE 193-MEMBER GENERAL ASSEMBLY VOTED 128 TO 9, WITH 35 ABSTENTIONS, TO APPROVE A NONBINDING RESOLUTI...

21Dec

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Palestine Affairs, UN, USA

Nations of the World at UN Humiliate Trump with Massive Vote for Palestinians

NOVANEWS By Juan Cole Informed Comment The Arab and Muslim worlds exulted Thursday over their massive victory at the United Nations General Assembly, which passed a resolution condemning the Trump administration’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Despite his crude threats to cut off US aid to countries who bucked him only 9 countries actively backed Trump up here. And if you look hard, they are more Pacific postage stamp islands for the most part than what most people would think of as, like, you know, countries. Trump’s sycophants included Palau, Nauru, Micronesia (FS), and Togo. 128 countries voted a straight “no!” in Trump’s face, including France, Britain, Germany, Spain, Italy, Greece, China, Russia, Brazil, South Africa, Indonesia, India, Turkey etc. ...

12Dec

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Iran, UN, Yemen

UN experts do not confirm Iran link to Yemen missiles

NOVANEWS UN experts, who examined the debris from missiles fired from Yemen at Saudi Arabia earlier in the year, have not confirmed that the projectiles were “Iranian-made” as claimed by the Riyadh regime and the US. The missiles were fired by Yemeni Houthi fighters at the Saudi capital on July 22 and November 4 in retaliation for Riyadh’s deadly raids against the country. United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a confidential report obtained by AFP on Monday that the world body’s team, which visited Riyadh last month to scrutinize the alleged evidence, had not yet established a link between them and the Islamic Republic. Saudi Arabia, which accuses Iran of arming Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement against the kingdom, claims the missiles, which it says were fired at...

11Dec

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UN, USA, ZIO-NAZI

US and Nazi regime ‘Isolated’ at UN Security Council Meeting on Jerusalem

NOVANEWS U.S. Ambassador Zionist Nikki Haley at the United Nations Security Council on December 8, 2017. | Photo: AFP In an emergency meeting convened by the United Nations Security Council on the crisis prompted by Zionist Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the Nazi state capital, the U.S. stood isolated as other members unanimously condemned the decision. The meeting was called by Bolivia, Uruguay, Italy, Senegal, Egypt, France and the United Kingdom on Friday. Bolivian Ambassador Sacha Llorenti offered the strongest words of condemnation. Llorenti is known for his outspoken support of the Palestinian people, having debated the issue at the U.N. wearing a Keffiyah: a black-and-white scarf that has become a symbol of Palestinian resistance. “While there are two parties in t...