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UN High Commissioner On Human Rights Calls For Action To Avoid Climate Apartheid

July 16, 2019 Staff, Ohchr.org Create! Human Rights, United Nations, Yemen

We are deeply alarmed by the imposition of the death penalty on 30 people by the Specialised First Instance Criminal Court of the de facto authorities in Sana’a. The 30 men – most of whom are academics, students and politicians affiliated with the Islah party that has been critical of the Houthis – were sentenced to death on Tuesday. The UN Human Rights Office has received credible information suggesting that many of those convicted were subjected to arbitrary or unlawful detention, as well as torture and other ill-treatment in custody.

Not In My Name: Academics Publicly Attacking Un Torture Rapporteur

July 12, 2019 Staff, Contraspin.co.nz Resist! Sexism, Sexual Violence, United Nations

I am a survivor of rape, gang rape and the abusive police process I was subjected to when I reported it and I am fed up with watching sexual violence being used as a cover for political attacks on Julian Assange, his colleagues and his supporters. I am not alone. Numerous other survivors have reached out to me tonight expressing the same sentiment and we deserve to be heard. Today, members of what is supposedly a women’s advocacy group published an open letter addressed to UN top brass, from the Secretary-General on down, complaining about an article written by UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Nils Melzer...

‘Weaponizing Human Rights’: UN Chief Bachelet’s Venezuela Report Follows US Regime Change Script

July 10, 2019 Anya Parampil, Thegrayzone.com Educate! Latin America, Regime Change, United Nations, Venezuela

When United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet traveled to Venezuela earlier this year, she met with an array of citizens who lost family members to right-wing violence in the country. Among them was Inés Esparragoza, whose 20-year-old son, Orlando Figuera, was doused with gasoline and lit on fire by an opposition mob during violent anti-government riots, known as guarimbas, in May 2017. “He was stabbed, beaten and cruelly burnt alive,” Esparragoza declared before Bachelet in March. “Simply because of the color of his shirt, the color of his skin, and because he said he was Chavista.”

Venezuela Urges UN To Intervene Against US Sanctions

July 8, 2019 Staff, Thequint.com Resist! Sanctions, United Nations, US Imperialism, Venezuela

Caracas, July 6 (IANS) The Venezuelan government has urged the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, to intervene against the US trade and financial sanctions which are undermining the South American nation's economy. Addressing a session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, Venezuelan Vice Foreign Minister William Castillo said on Friday that the sanctions met the body's definition of "unilateral coercive measures" and should be lifted, reports Xinhua news agency. "In keeping with the UN's resolutions on unilateral coercive measures, (we) demand the immediate end to the blockade," urged Castillo.

Unilateral Sanctions And International Law

July 2, 2019 Alfred de Zayas, Human Rights Corner Educate! Human Rights, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Sanctions, United Nations

The world order established by the UN Charter takes precedence over other international and regional treaties and imposes positive and negative obligations on member states, including the United States of America and the European Union. This is stipulated in Article 103 of the Charter, the supremacy clause. The question arises whether in the light of the UN Charter unilateral coercive measures could be considered compatible with modern international law?

US Sanctions On Venezuela Illegal Under UN, OAS And US Law

June 29, 2019 Staff, Telesurenglish.net Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, OAS, Sanctions, United Nations, Venezuela

The application of unilateral economic sanctions is an explicit violation of international law protected under the United Nation’s (U.N.) and Organization of American States’s (OAS) charters, human rights stipulations, and even national United States (U.S.) law. Despite that truth, they have become U.S. President Donald Trump’s favorite tool to assert his foreign policy goals around the world. Since 2017, the Trump administration has imposed 150 sanctions on individuals and entities in Venezuela via executive orders and by invoking the so-called Kingpin Act.

Peace Prevails In Nicaragua

June 20, 2019 Jorge Capelan, Tortillaconsal.com Resist! Latin America, Nicaragua, United Nations

June 14, Nicaragua was elected member of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations (ECOSOC). This honor was probably based on Nicaragua’s development and poverty reduction over the last decade. This council of 54 countries from all regions of the world, created in 1945, is one of the six main organs of the UN and is responsible for two major tasks: Promoting sustainable development and following up on the results of the major UN conferences and summits. 184 of the 193 member nations of the United Nations (190 voters) considered our country a worthy representative of Latin America in that forum.

US Sanctions In Venezuela: Help, Hindrance, Or Violation Of Human Rights?

June 16, 2019 Tanya L. Zakrison and Carles Muntaner, The Lancet. Educate! health, Sanctions, United Nations, Venezuela

The impact of the US sanctions on the Venezuelan population cannot be overstated. More than 300 000 Venezuelans are at risk due to a lack of lifesaving medications and treatment. An estimated 80 000 HIV-positive patients have had no antiretroviral therapy since 2017. Access to medication such as insulin has been curtailed because US banks refuse to handle Venezuelan payments for this. Thousands to millions of people have been without access to dialysis, cancer treatment, or therapy for hypertension and diabetes. Particular to children has been the delay of vaccination campaigns or lack of access to antirejection medications after solid organ transplants in Argentina. Children with leukaemia awaiting bone marrow transplants abroad are now dying. Funds for such health-assistance programmes come from the PDVSA state oil company. Those funds are now frozen.

UN Recognizes Venezuela Among Top Nations For Right To Housing

June 8, 2019 Staff, Telesurenglish.net Educate! Housing, Latin America, United Nations, Venezuela

The United Nations has recognized Venezuela as one of the top countries for guaranteeing people’s right to housing at the first UN-Habitat Assembly taking place in Kenya’s capital of Nairobi. Venezuela’s Minister for Habitat and Housing Ildemaro Villarroel announced the statement Tuesday via his Twitter account. UN-Habitat is the U.N.'s highest decision-making body on the subject of sustainable urban development and housing. During the first day's sessions of the assembly, which runs from May 27 until May 31, the Venezuelan government made a presentation on the scope of its social program since it was first conceived.

UN Torture Report: ‘Demonized’ Assange Has Faced ‘Psychological Torture’

June 2, 2019 Joe Lauria, Consortium News. Educate! Julian Assange, Torture, United Nations, Wikileaks

The UN special rapporteur on torture has issued a stinging rebuke to the United States, Great Britain, Sweden and Ecuador for “deliberately” exposing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to years of “cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment,” which can only be described as “psychological torture.” “In 20 years of work with victims of war, violence and political persecution I have never seen a group of democratic States ganging up to deliberately isolate, demonise and abuse a single individual for such a long time and with so little regard for human dignity and the rule of law,” Nils Melzer said...

Assange Suffering ‘Psychological Torture’: UN Expert

June 1, 2019 Staff, Timeslive.co.za Educate! Julian Assange, Torture, United Nations, Whistleblowers, Wikileaks

Julian Assange has been subjected to drawn-out "psychological torture", a UN rights expert said on Friday, accusing the United States, Britain, Ecuador and Sweden of "collective persecution" of the WikiLeaks founder. The United Nations special rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, Nils Melzer, also warned that if London agrees to an extradition request from Washington, Assange risked the death penalty. Melzer visited the Australian whistleblower in a London prison on May 9, nearly a month after his arrest at Ecuador's embassy where he had been holed up for seven years.

US Threats To Dismantle Palestinian Refugee Agency Trigger Protests

June 1, 2019 By Thalif Deen, Ipsnews.net Resist! Palestine, Protests, United Nations, US Imperialism

UNITED NATIONS, May 28 2019 (IPS) - As it relentlessly pursues its strongly pro-Israeli policy – along with its disdain for multilateralism – the Trump administration continued to display its hostility towards the United Nations and its humanitarian agencies at a meeting of the UN Security Council focusing on the recent escalation of violence in Gaza. The administration’s three hardline objectives were best reflected as they converged on a single political crossroad...

Risk Of Nuclear War Highest Since WWII

May 26, 2019 Tom Miles, Reuters. Educate! Nuclear Ban Treaty, Nuclear Weapons, United Nations, Wars and Militarism

GENEVA - The risk of nuclear weapons being used is at its highest since World War Two, a senior U.N. security expert said on Tuesday, calling it an “urgent” issue that the world should take more seriously. Renata Dwan, director of the U.N. Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR), said all states with nuclear weapons have nuclear modernization programs underway and the arms control landscape is changing, partly due to strategic competition between China and the United States. Traditional arms control arrangements are also being eroded by the emergence of new types of war, with increasing prevalence of armed groups and private sector forces and new technologies that blurred the line between offense and defense, she told reporters in Geneva.

Rotten Tomatoes For News + Banning Our Plastic Dumps

May 24, 2019 Eleanor Goldfield, Occupy.com Resistance Report Climate Change, Media Literacy, United Nations

Try as we might, we can't hide from climate change. And now, thanks to a legally binding UN resolution, the US can't hide from its own heaps of trash. Next up, media literacy is a vital skill set – indeed, it shapes how we see every other issue. And now, there may be a way to build media literacy and hold journalists accountable by taking a page from Yelp and Rotten Tomatoes.

Next Stop, The UN: Embassy Protectors And Other Groups To Stage UN General Assembly Protest

May 22, 2019 By Alexander Rubinstein, Mintpressnews.com Resist! Protests, United Nations, Venezuela

WASHINGTON — Following the illegal seizure by U.S. authorities of the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington, the group of activists who lived in the building for 37 days — protecting it from such a seizure at the request of the democratically elected government of Venezuela — is escalating tactics. In many ways, the fight of the Embassy Protection Collective revealed the extreme tactics the U.S. government is willing to resort to in order to achieve its foreign policy objectives — only in this situation they were weaponized against American citizens as opposed to foreign, usually black and brown, nations.

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