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U.N. Passes Landmark Resolution Condemning Internet Shutdowns

July 4, 2016 Staff, www.accessnow.org ,
By Staff of Access Now - GENEVA — Today the United Nations Human Rights Council agreed by consensus to a resolution supporting human rights online, despite efforts by hostile states to eliminate key provisions in the text. The landmark document specifically condemns internet shutdowns and renews 2012 and 2014 resolutions that declared, unequivocally, that human rights apply online just as they do offline. “The U.N. has boldly spoken against the pressing problem of internet shutdowns. This unanimous statement by the world’s highest human rights body should give governments pause before they order blocking, throttling, and other barriers to information,”

Seeds Of Suicide

May 23, 2016 Vandana Shiva, www.asianage.com , ,
By Vandana Shiva for The Asian Age - May 22 has been declared International Biodiversity Day by the United Nations. It gives us an opportunity to become aware of the rich biodiversity that has been evolved by our farmers as co-creators with nature. It also provides an opportunity to acknowledge the threats to our biodiversity and our rights from IPR monopolies and monocultures. Just as our Vedas and Upanishads have no individual authors, our rich biodiversity, including seeds, have been evolved cumulatively.

WikiLeaks Reveals Macri’s Candidate For Top Post Is US Ally

May 23, 2016 Staff, www.telesurtv.net , ,
By Staff of Tele Sur - Argentine President Mauricio Macri nominated Foreign Minister Susana Malcorra as a candidate to become Secretary-General of the United Nations, Friday. In keeping with Macri's foreign and domestic appointments, Malcorra has a long history of working with the United States government to further their interests. Malcorra served as the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Field Support from 2008 until 2012. During this time, she worked very closely with then U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice.

International Coalition Urges UN To Appoint “Journalists’ Protector”

April 30, 2016 Staff, www.rsf.org ,
By Staff of Reporters Without Borders - 787 journalists killed since 2005. This coalition is urging the United Nations and its Member States to give this position the political weight, capacity for rapid action and legitimacy to coordinate UN efforts for the safety of journalists. More information #PROTECTJOURNALISTS The goal is to establish a concrete mechanism that enforces international law and thereby finally reduces the number of journalists killed every year in the course of their work.

With Signing Of Paris Treaty, Failures Of Governments Continue

April 23, 2016 Staff, www.foei.org ,
By Staff of FOEI - On 22 April 2016, representatives of over 130 nations are expected to attend the signing ceremony of the Paris Agreement at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. This brings parties one step closer towards ratifying the Agreement - with each nation turning their intended pledges to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (known as INDCs) into their agreed actual contribution to the climate effort.

Open Letter To UNFCCC Climate Secretariat & IPCC

April 20, 2016 Dr. Peter Carter and Howard Breen, www.urgentclimateandoceanrapidresponse.org ,
By Dr. Peter Carter and Howard Breen for Urgent Climate And Ocean Rapid Response - VICTORIA, British Columbia, 18 April 2016 / UCORR / - On the eve of the signing of the Paris Agreement by 130 countries in New York on 22 April 2016, Urgent Climate and Ocean Rapid Response (UCORR) calls on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and UN Climate Secretariat to declare a "Global State of Climate and Oceans Emergency" in collective response to the weak attempt by world leaders to avert climate collapse, in the face of the currently accelerating increases in global temperature and atmospheric carbon dioxide.

UN Seizes Letter Calling For End To Global Drug War

April 20, 2016 Staff, www.drugpolicy.org ,
By Staff of The Drug Policy Alliance - (New York, New York) – On the opening day of the 2016 United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on the World Drug Problem, the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) gathered more than 60 performers dressed in costumes from the era of U.S. alcohol prohibition to greet attendees at the entrance to the United Nations and hand them copies of the “Post-Prohibition Times,” a newspaper printout of aletter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urging him to set the stage “for real reform of global drug control policy.”

Movement To End The Drug War Hits The UN

April 18, 2016 Phillip Smith, www.alternet.org ,
By Phillip Smith for AlterNet - The United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on Drugs is set for UN Headquarters in Manhattan next week, and civil society and some European and Latin American countries are hoping to make limited progress in moving toward more evidence- and public health-based drug policies. But, knowing the glacial pace of change at the UN and well aware of how little of substance is likely to emerge from the UNGASS, some eyes are already turning to the post-UNGASS international arena.

‘End Drug War’ Caravan Visits 5 Countries On Way To UN

April 4, 2016 Laura Krasovitzky and Ted Lewis, www.alternet.org ,
By Laura Krasovitzky and Ted Lewis for AlterNet - Starting in Honduras on March 28th, the Caravan for Peace, Life and Justice will travel through El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico and the United States with the goal of reaching New York City on the eve of the United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on Drugs beginning on April 19. Made up of a diverse group of people including victims of the drug war, families who have lost relatives to violence or incarceration, human rights defenders, journalists, faith leaders, activists and others...

U.N. Calls Out U.S. For Lack Of Reparations To African-American

March 21, 2016 Salim Muwakkil, www.inthesetimes.com , , ,
By Salim Muwakkil for In These Times - The contemporary discussion on reparations for African Americans was instigated by Ta-Nehisi Coates in an award-winning essay in the June 2014 issue of The Atlantic. Reparations were also the most salient recommendation of a United Nations working group that recently toured the United States to assess the condition of black America. At the end of its fact-finding mission, the group concluded it was “extremely concerned about the human rights situation of African Americans.”

Time To End Illegal Detention Of Journalist Julian Assange

February 12, 2016 Kevin Zeese, www.PopularResistance.org , ,
By Kevin Zeese for Popular Resistance. On February 5, the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention - the international tribunal that determines whether governments are complying with their human rights obligations – ruled that Assange has been detained unlawfully by Britain and Sweden. The UN experts “called on the Swedish and British authorities to end Mr. Assange’s deprivation of liberty, respect his physical integrity and freedom of movement, and afford him the right to compensation.” The US through its allies may be able to hold Julian Assange even though it violates international law, but they will never be able to protect their secrets from anonymous disclosures. The illegal detention of Assange will have the opposite effect that the US and its allies want – it will not stop leaks; it will encourage them. The technology for anonymous leaks is improving. People in government will be even more justified to leak the truth as they realize they are working for a government that violates the law.

UN Panel To UK & Sweden: End Julian Assange’s ‘Deprivation Of Liberty’

February 6, 2016 Owen Bowcott and David Crouch, www.theguardian.com , , ,
By Owen Bowcott and David Crouch for The Guardian - The WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been arbitrarily detained by the UK and Sweden for more than five years and should be released immediately with compensation, according to a United Nations report. As anticipated, the finding by the Geneva-based UN working group on arbitrary detention criticises legal action against Assange by both European governments and blames them for preventing him from leaving the Ecuadorian embassy in Knightsbridge, central London.

Assange Finds Surprising Ally – But It May Not Be Enough

February 5, 2016 Gregory Katz and Jan M. Olsen, www.heraldextra.com ,
By Gregory Katz and Jan M. Olsen for Daily Herald - LONDON (AP) — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has found a surprising ally — a little known United Nations panel that has decided he has been unfairly detained in Britain while seeking to avoid extradition to Sweden to answer allegations of sexual misconduct. But it's not clear if the findings of the five members of the U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, to be officially announced in Geneva Friday, will lead to a change in Assange's legal status.

Endless War Crimes In Yemen Slowed By Ceasefire

December 20, 2015 William Boardman, www.readersupportednews.org , , ,
By William Boardman for Reader Supported News. The first lie about Yemen’s dirty war in the world of official journalism is that the fighting there has been a “nine-month conflict” and that “the conflict started in March,” as the New York Times put it on December 17. This is simply not true in any meaningful sense. What started in March was a savage, one-sided air war backed by the US, all too similar to the Nazi-backed one-sided air war in Spain in the thirties that gave the world “Guernica” (back when the Nazis and the Saudis were chummy). Yemen’s civil war has already lasted decades, on and off. And Yemen has an even longer history of conflict (all of which the Times knows, without letting perspective clarify its reporting).

Philippines: Funeral At The Climate Justice March

November 27, 2015 Dakila Media, www.popularresistance.org , , ,
By Dakila Media. Quezon City, Philippines - Thousands of Filipinos marched for climate justice today, November 28, and converged at the Quezon City Memorial Circle. Broad groups of social movements, religious groups, trade unions, farmers, urban poor and NGOs took part in the Climate March carrying climate related issues – energy transformation; right to food, land and water; justice and reparations for affected people; protecting our common home (from Laudato Si); jobs and just transition; and carbon emissions reduction. For the artist-activist group Dakila, the climate march is crucial in ensuring that the world listens to the voice of the Filipino youth who fears for their very own survival when no deal is sealed at the COP21 in Paris. Youth members of Dakila, differing from the general festive theme of the assembly, held a funeral march carrying with them images of their own gravestone inscribed with their own epitaph.
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