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Palestine denounces UN for whitewashing Israeli crimes against Palestinian children
Jun 21, 2021 03:40The Palestinian Foreign Ministry has criticized the United Nations for leaving Israel off the annual blacklist of parties responsible for grave violations against children, saying ignoring the regime’s crimes would guarantee impunity for the child-killing entity.
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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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Myanmar crisis: UN resolution seeks halt to arms flow, fails to address Rohingya plight
Jun 20, 2021 04:02Months after Myanmar's military took power and plunged the Asian country into chaos and as the nation is facing an increasing risk of sliding into a civil war, the United Nations General Assembly has finally adopted a resolution, urging its member states to halt the flow of arms into Myanmar, a watered down version of an initial draft which called for a global arms embargo.
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Yemen’s Ansarullah slams UN accusations of violating children's rights as ‘disgraceful’
Jun 20, 2021 03:46Yemen’s Ansarullah has slammed UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres's decision to add the resistance movement to its annual blacklist of parties violating children's rights, describing the measure as ‘disgraceful’.
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UN chief Antonio Guterres sworn in for second term, vows to learn from pandemic
Jun 19, 2021 00:41UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was sworn in Friday for a second term as head of the world body, promising to draw on the lessons of the deadly COVID-19 pandemic.
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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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North Korea: World should not tolerate Zionist entity’s reckless terrorism
Jun 09, 2021 06:51North Korea has denounced the latest Zionist entity’s military aggression on the besieged Gaza strip, stating that Tel Aviv is massacring children and that the international community should not tolerate Israel's reckless sponsorship of terrorism.
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Some 350,000 people in famine in Ethiopia’s Tigray: UN document
Jun 10, 2021 06:48An analysis by a high-level UN-led committee has estimated that some 350,000 people are in famine conditions in Ethiopia's restive region of Tigray, as a result of a months-long armed conflict that triggered a refugee crisis and a humanitarian disaster there.
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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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Zarif defends Iran’s voting rights as Guterres set to get reelected as UN chief
Jun 09, 2021 09:55Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif wrote a letter to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres earlier this month, criticizing the United Nations’ decision to deprive Iran of its voting rights.