United Nations (UN)

United Nations: We Have ‘Two Years To Save The World’ From Climate Crisis

April 12, 2024 Cristen Hemingway Jaynes, EcoWatch. Educate! climate crisis, Governance, Sustainability Goals, United Nations (UN)

We are running out of time to take action on climate change, says Simon Stiell, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. In a speech titled “Two Years to Save the World,” Stiell emphasized that governments, development banks and business leaders must take steps to avert much more serious impacts of the climate crisis within that time frame, reported Reuters. “For those who say that climate change is only one of many priorities, like ending poverty, ending hunger, ending pandemics, or improving education, I simply say this...

Palestine Renews Attempts To Become Full Member Of The United Nations

April 11, 2024 Abdul Rahman, People's Dispatch. Resist! Palestine, Sovereignty, United Nations (UN), UNSC

Ignoring continued US threats, Palestine has revived its bid to become a full member of the United Nations after a gap of almost 13 years. The United Nations Security Council acted on the application and decided to refer the Palestinian application to a specialized committee on Monday, April 8. The president of the Council, Vanessa Frazier from Malta asked the committee of admission of new members to consider the bid on the same day after the Palestinian application received no objection from any member.

West Votes Against Rest Of World, Supporting Illegal Sanctions

April 9, 2024 Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy. Resistance Report Human Rights Council, Sanctions, Unilateral coercive measures, United Nations (UN), Western imperialism

In the United Nations Human Rights Council, the West voted against the rest of the world, supporting unilateral coercive measures, known popularly as sanctions, which violate international law. In the April 3 meeting of the Human Rights Council (HRC), a resolution was approved titled “The negative impact of unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights”. The measure condemned sanctions for their “far-reaching implications for the human rights of the general population of targeted States, disproportionately affecting the poor and persons in the most vulnerable situations”.

New United Nations Report Outlines The ‘Anatomy Of A Genocide’ In Gaza

April 3, 2024 Jonathan Ofir, Mondoweiss. Educate! Gaza, Genocide, Israel, Palestine, Report, United Nations (UN)

Last week, the UN Special Rapporteur on Occupied Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese issued a report titled “Anatomy of a Genocide,” concluding that there are “reasonable grounds to believe” that the threshold indicating the commission of the crime of genocide has been met. Such reports are not usually titled, but the title itself depicts the nature of what Albanese describes in her immaculate 25-page report. It not only outlines a textbook case of genocide, with clearly and widely expressed intent by leaders backed up by clear genocidal actions — it also describes how Israel has used the language and principles of International Humanitarian Law (IHL, the laws governing warfare) to conceal the act.

West Papua: The Torture Mode Of Governance

March 28, 2024 Julie Wark, Orinoco Tribune. Educate! Cold War, colonization, History, Indonesia, President Sukarno, Torture, United Nations (UN), War crimes, West Papua

Budi Hernawan said it ten years ago: “torture in Papua … has become a mode of governance.” It hasn’t stopped. It’s got worse. It’s got worse precisely because it’s a mode of governance accepted and blessed by the international “community” whose neoliberal politics of extraction means extermination of anything and anyone getting in its way. It’s got worse just now because Israel’s genocide, ecocide, starvation, and torture in Palestine isn’t only distracting attention from these practices in smaller and more remote places but also showing that it’s okay, it’s part of our system, you can do it with impunity because it’s all part of a bigger plan.

‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 163: Top EU Official Says Israel Failed To Prove Accusations Against UNRWA

March 18, 2024 Mustafa Abu Sneineh, Mondoweiss. Educate! Genocide, Israel, Palestine, Rafah, United Nations (UN), United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), Wars and Militarism

Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have spent their first week of Ramadan under Israeli bombardment and with little food and drink, which has led to the death of dozens of children from malnutrition and dehydration. In the past 24 hours, Israeli forces committed nine massacres in various areas of the Gaza Strip, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health on Telegram, killing at least 92 people and injuring 130. Thousands remain under the rubble of bombed buildings. For the 1.2 million Palestinians in Rafah, an Israeli ground invasion of the southernmost town of the Gaza Strip is imminent.

Kenya Halts Police Deployment To Haiti After Resignation Of Ariel Henry

March 14, 2024 Tanupriya Singh, People's Dispatch. Educate! Ariel Henry, CARICOM, Haiti, Kenya, Military Intervention, United Nations (UN)

Kenya has suspended a police deployment to Haiti to be part of a US- and UN-backed mission, shortly after the de facto prime minister and president of the Caribbean country, Ariel Henry, announced his decision to resign on March 11. Abraham Korir Sing’Oei, the principal secretary of Kenya’s foreign ministry, stated on March 12 that the deployment would be “contingent on the ground situation, and the critical ground situation is that there has to be an authority that can be the basis for a police deployment, that enjoys constitutional authority in Haiti”.

World Is Watching United Nation’s Response To Israel’s Crimes

March 12, 2024 Mona Ali Khalil, Consortium News. Educate! Genocide, International Court of Justice (ICJ), Israel, Palestine, United Nations (UN), War crimes

Minister Benjamin Netanyahu boasts that he single-handedly blocked a Palestinian State from becoming a reality even though it is recognized by more than 130 countries and enjoys the status of an observer state in the United Nations. In his 16 years in power, Netanyahu has ramped up illegal settlements, effectively annexing parts of the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem; funneled millions of dollars to prop up Hamas and undermine the Palestinian Authority; and concluded the Abraham Accords with four Arab governments willing to sideline the Palestinian cause: Bahrain, Morocco, Sudan and United Arab Emirates.

To Save Israel, US Destroys International System It Built

March 10, 2024 Ramzy Baroud, Consortium News. Educate! Genocide, International Law, Israel, Palestine, United Nations (UN), US Imperialism

In a conversation in 2020, Princeton Professor Emeritus Richard Falk told me that historically, colonized nations that have won the battle for legitimacy have always won their freedom. Palestine is unlikely to be the exception. The Gaza war, however, is confronting the world with an unprecedented challenge, specifically to governments’ relationship with international law and their obligations to international institutions, such as the United Nations, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the International Criminal Court (ICC) and others.

The Nobodies Are Worth More Than The Bullet That Kills Them

March 1, 2024 Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Educate! Algeria, Gaza, Genocide, Israel, Palestine, United Nations (UN)

On 20 February, United States Ambassador to the United Nations (UN) Linda Thomas-Greenfield had the terrible job of vetoing Algeria’s resolution for a ceasefire in Gaza. Amar Bendjama, the Algerian Ambassador to the UN, said that the resolution he tabled had been shaped by conversations amongst the 15 members of the UN Security Council. He was nonetheless asked to delay the resolution, but his country refused. ‘Silence is not a viable option’, he replied. ‘Now it is the time for action and the time for truth’. When the International Court of Justice (ICJ) order on 26 January suggested that Israel’s actions in Gaza amount to a ‘plausible’ genocide, Algeria vowed to take immediate action through the UN Security Council.

‘Western Dominance Has Ended’, EU Foreign-Policy Chief Admits

February 27, 2024 Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy. Educate! Europe, European Union (EU), Gaza, General Assembly, Global South, Sahel, Ukraine, United Nations (UN)

Europe’s top diplomat has acknowledged that the “era of Western dominance has indeed definitively ended”. Josep Borrell, the European Union’s high representative for foreign affairs, wrote this in a blog post on the official website of the EU’s diplomatic service on February 25. “If the current global geopolitical tensions continue to evolve in the direction of ‘the West against the Rest’, Europe’s future risks to be bleak”, he warned. The wars in Ukraine and Gaza, along with the anti-colonial uprisings in Africa’s Sahel region, have “significantly increased this risk” of Europe becoming geopolitically irrelevant, Borrell said, lamenting that “Russia has managed to take advantage of the situation”.

‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 142: UN Experts Call For Arms Embargo

February 25, 2024 Mustafa Abu Sneineh, Mondoweiss. Educate! Embargo, Israel, Palestine, United Nations (UN), Weapons Embargo

In the past 24 hours, Israeli forces bombed several Palestinian neighborhoods in Deir Al-Balah, Rafah and north Gaza, killing and injuring tens of people. Israel’s warplanes launched bombs on a vast open area near the Egyptian border with Rafah, in southern Gaza, where thousands of Palestinians are sheltering. A video shows Palestinians fleeing from the bombs close to Egypt’s fortified wall to keep displaced people at bay from entering the Sinai Peninsula. All of the 1.4 million Palestinians who sought refuge in Rafah cannot enter Sinai except those who obtained a travel permit.

United States Kills Fourth United Nations Call For Peace In Gaza

February 22, 2024 Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy. Resistance Report Canada, Gaza, Hague, International Court of Justice (ICJ), Israel, Joe Biden, Palestine, Rafah, UN Security Council, United Nations (UN), US Imperialism

The United States has since October voted against four United Nations Security Council resolutions that called for peace in Gaza. Top UN officials have called for a ceasefire, but the US government has stood in their way, facilitating further violence. In January, the highest UN judicial authority, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), ruled that Israel must abide by the Genocide Convention and stop killing Palestinians. But Tel Aviv ignored the Hague’s decision and killed thousands more Palestinian civilians. By vetoing a fourth Gaza-related Security Council resolution on February 20, and by continuing to provide weapons to Israel, the US government has helped Israel violate an ICJ order.

‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 138: US Vetoes Another Ceasefire Resolution

February 21, 2024 Mustafa Abu Sneineh, Mondoweiss. Educate! Ceasefire, Gaza, Israel, Palestine, United Nations (UN), US Imperialism, World Health Organization (WHO)

The U.S. vetoed an Arab-backed resolution in the UN Security Council on Tuesday, which called for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. This is the fourth time Washington has used its power to block the Security Council from bringing an end to the Israeli war on Gaza since October. The resolution was put to vote by Algeria despite the U.S. being expected to strike it down. The U.S. ambassador to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, said that Washington was “concerned” the resolution would jeopardize efforts ushered by Egypt and Qatar to bring a deal to pause the fighting and exchange hostages between Israel and Hamas movement.

Palestine Tells Top UN Court Israel’s Occupation Is Illegal

February 20, 2024 David Kattenburg, Mondoweiss. Resist! Apartheid, Israel, Palestine, United Nations (UN)

Acquisition of territory by force, persecution, racial discrimination and apartheid, denial of self-determination – these are the crimes Israel has committed against the Palestinian people, Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki told the International Court of Justice this morning, in the Dutch administrative capital, The Hague, on the first day of Advisory Opinion hearings on the legality of Israel’s prolonged occupation of the Palestinian territories. “For over a century, the inalienable right of the Palestinian people to self-determination has been denied and violated – their very existence negated,” al-Maliki told the court, flanked by Palestine’s 25-member delegation, many of them draped in keffiyehs.

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