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UN expert says illegal Israeli regime settlements amount to war crimes
Jul 15, 2021 15:54It is a tragic paradox that, while the Israeli regime settlements are clearly prohibited by international law, the international community has been remarkably reluctant to enforce its own laws.
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UN report calls for reparations for victims of systemic racist police violence in US
Jul 06, 2021 15:25After the killing of George Floyd and subsequent mass protests, the USHRN and the ACLU organized an international coalition that urged the HRC to establish a commission of inquiry to investigate systemic racism and police violence against people of African descent in the United States of America.
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'Epic failure of humanity': Global displaced population hits all-time high
Jun 20, 2021 12:18A report released recently by the United Nations Refugee Agency finds that more than 82 million people across the globe were forcibly displaced by war, persecution, the climate crisis, and other factors by the end of 2020, a record high that one international aid group called "an epic failure of humanity."
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World's most powerful imprison Julian Assange for his virtues—not his vices
Jun 15, 2021 13:39They came after Julian because he exposed the more than 15,000 unreported deaths of Iraqi civilians; because he exposed the torture and abuse of some 800 men and boys, aged between 14 and 89, at Guantánamo; because he exposed that Hillary Clinton in 2009 ordered US diplomats to spy on U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon and other U.N. representatives from China, France, Russia, and the UK.
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Refugees insist humanitarian organization UNHCR disregards their humanity
Jun 09, 2021 15:38There is clearly a global pattern that connects UNHCR involvement to unrest in refugee camps. The question is, why has this pattern been ignored for more than a decade?
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WHO’s COVID origin report is out, now the hard work begins
Apr 07, 2021 12:16Leaders of 23 countries and the World Health Organization (WHO) recently backed an idea to create an international treaty that would help the world deal with future health emergencies similar to the coronavirus pandemic that is ravaging the globe.
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WHO chief blasts 'grotesque' vaccine inequality as rich nations block speedy end of global pandemic
Apr 02, 2021 09:35As rich nations and pharmaceutical companies face sustained calls to share COVID-19 vaccine knowledge, the head of the World Health Organization has recently decried the "grotesque" global inequality of vaccine distribution.
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Top Saudi official issued death threat against UN's Khashoggi investigator
Mar 26, 2021 12:03A senior Saudi official issued what was perceived to be a death threat against the independent United Nations investigator, Agnès Callamard, after her investigation into the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
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Emboldened by Trump and Netanyahu, settler terrorism is spiking
Mar 07, 2021 14:14In 2020, the United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OCHA) recorded 772 incidents of settler violence. So far, in 2021, the OCHA has reported 152 acts of settler violence.
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UN head decries 'senseless and suicidal' destruction of nature as new report urges systemic solutions
Feb 25, 2021 06:30"Human well-being lies in protecting the health of the planet," said Secretary-General António Guterres. "It's time to reevaluate and reset our relationship with nature."