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UN policies expand theatre of Yemen war into UAE
Jan 20, 2022 23:05The United Nations Organization is supposed to be strictly neutral and to spare no efforts in brokering peace between or among its member states without taking sides with any party. This appears fine on paper, especially on the UN Charter, but in practice the so-called World Body has long deviated from its goals and allowed itself to be used as a tool for serving the vested interests of some of its founding members, especially the US.
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Day of Deceit
Dec 02, 2021 20:40No matter what deceptive words UN officials and the politicians of the West use to try to lull Palestinians and their sympathizers into sleep, November 29 remains an indelible blot on the World Body. Actually, it is the day that has come to highlight the shortcomings of the UN and its member states as the Zionist occupiers grow more entrenched with each passing year, while trampling the basic rights of the Palestinian people under their feet.
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UN human rights envoy slams racist voter suppression in US
Nov 28, 2021 21:25A top human rights official at the United Nations has concluded that new voting restrictions pushed by conservatives in Texas and other states are diluting the political representation of people of color in the United States, where human rights protections are “far from comprehensive” and “even incoherent.”
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Toothless UN resolutions no solution for Palestinian plight
Nov 21, 2021 17:57The latest resolution of the United Nations General Assembly on the rights of Palestinians living in their Zionist-usurped homeland, although welcomed by all those sympathetic to the plight of a long-oppressed nation, is not expected to force the Israeli regime to honor it, let alone implement its clauses.
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Was Glasgow pact a win for climate? Time will tell
Nov 17, 2021 14:38Its ambition was clear: The U.N. climate summit was meant to secure a deal to give the world a chance to avert the worst impacts of climate change by capping global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels.
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In urgent appeal, UN hunger agency warns millions of people facing starvation
Nov 10, 2021 11:09The United Nations food agency has said that the number of people on the edge of famine across 43 countries had risen to 45 million, as acute hunger spikes around the world.
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West throws Palestinian rights groups to the wolves
Nov 04, 2021 20:19The eagerness of the EU and UN bodies to defer to the Israeli regime is further indication that Palestinian human rights workers will be thrown to the wolves.
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Climate optimism is an illusion, UN chief tells Cop26
Nov 03, 2021 09:42The UN Secretary General António Guterres said humanity stood on the brink of disaster and had been driven there by an addiction to fossil fuels and its “brutal” treatment of the natural world. Further global heating – with temperature rises already at 1.1C – would risk pushing the world past the point of no return.
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Humanity 'way off track': WMO says atmospheric carbon at level unseen in 3 million years
Oct 27, 2021 10:31Carbon dioxide concentrations reached a new record high in 2020, with comparable levels not seen for roughly 3 million years, the United Nations weather agency said.
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Colin Powell’s UN speech: A decisive moment in undermining US credibility
Oct 22, 2021 15:37Former US Secretary State Colin Powell will be most remembered for the act he most regretted, his 2003 presentation to the UN Security Council laying out US evidence of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, which turned out not to exist.