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US blocks UN global ceasefire resolution, objecting to indirect reference to World Health Organization
May 18, 2020 15:17International diplomats were stunned and frustrated after the U.S. again blocked a United Nations resolution to call for a global ceasefire during the coronavirus pandemic. The U.S. objected to any mention of the World Health Organization (WHO) in the resolution.
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UN must stop illegal settlements in Palestine
May 11, 2020 17:13Several options are open to the UN to pressure the Zionist regime into ditching new settlement plans though. The onus must be on boycotts and sanctions. UN member states individually and collectively express their frustration with Israel’s policy of occupation, but so far that frustration has not coalesced into a determination to take action like for example economic sanctions.
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Cutting WHO’s funding is reckless and deadly
Apr 26, 2020 19:37By halting funding to the World Health Organization (WHO), US President Donald Trump is deliberately endangering the lives of millions of people around the world, particularly those most at risk during this historic pandemic in war-torn regions. A global health emergency demands a global response, not politics. The World Health Organization provides vital international assistance and coordination.
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Trump’s defunding of the WHO threatens to make the pandemic worse
Apr 19, 2020 19:06If US President Donald Trump were serious about containing the coronavirus pandemic, he would be proposing large grants to bolster public health systems and disease containment strategies globally. Instead, all-too-predictably, as U.S. death rates from the virus soar, he seeks to score cheap political points with his base by castigating and now defunding the World Health Organization.
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United Nations supports frontline COVID-19 response
Apr 13, 2020 15:28As the coronavirus pandemic spreads to more than 200 countries and territories, killing more than 100,000 people, the United Nations is redoubling its support for frontline responders who are working around the clock to save lives.
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Public attempt to control fake news about the coronavirus
Mar 06, 2020 20:05Dr. Mike Ryan, Head of the WHO's Health Emergency Program, at a WHO briefing on the coronavirus earlier this month said "We need a vaccine against misinformation." China is the world's most populous country has the largest market of Internet users globally: 21% of the world's 3.8 billion Internet users, so fake news can spread quickly online. A 2018 study from Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that "false news spreads more rapidly on the social network Twitter than real news does."
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With human rights under attack, UN chief unveils blueprint for positive change
Feb 28, 2020 17:10The UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said human trafficking affects “every region of the world”, leaving women and girls “enslaved, exploited and abused”, unable to realize their potential. He said journalists and civil society are also under threat, with activists jailed, religious groups and minorities – including indigenous peoples, migrants and refugees – persecuted under “overly broad definitions of national security.”
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World leaders urged to 'step back from precipice' of ecological ruin
Feb 23, 2020 14:15A statement, which was released through non-profit thinktank Aspen Institute reads “The loss and degradation of nature jeopardizes human health, livelihoods, safety and prosperity. It disproportionately harms our poorest communities while undermining our ability to meet a broad range of targets set by the United Nations’ sustainable development goals. We must rise above politics and ideology to unite the global community around the urgent cause of protecting our planet and way of life.”
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UN expert describes detention of Chelsea Manning as “amounting to torture”
Jan 06, 2020 16:24The year 2019 has been a nightmare for whistleblower Chelsea Manning and her supporters. While US President Donald Trump cleared three members of the United States Army who reportedly murdered Afghani civilians, Manning is, once again, confined for acting in accord with her own principles.
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How UN resolution 2334 accelerated Israeli regime’s colonization in the West Bank
Dec 23, 2019 16:32“The US managed to turn international consensus regarding the illegality of the Israeli regime occupation of Palestine into an opportunity for Tel Aviv to disown any commitment, not only to the UN, but to the so-called two-state solution, and the "peace process", as well”, says Dr. Ramzy Baroud, journalist, author and editor of The Palestine Chronicle.