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• U.N. Human Rights Chief to Leave, Citing ‘Appalling’ Climate for Advocacy
  20 December 2017, by siawi3

  “After reflection, I have decided not to seek a second four-year term. To do so, in the current geopolitical context, might involve bending a knee in supplication; muting a statement of advocacy; lessening the independence and integrity of my voice — which is your voice.”

• USA: “The current travel ban is really a Muslim ban”: Arab Feminists Re-Frame Peace and Security
  13 March 2017, by siawi3

  The 61^st Session of the CSW (CSW61) begins today at the United Nations in New York, against a backdrop of much political tension around immigration issues, refugee rights and other human rights concerns set in motion by a Trump presidency. As part of launching its first public event, FAR organized its first panel discussion on peace and security right before CSW61, entitled, “Women’s Struggles in the Middle East.”

• UN : L’Unesco adopte une résolution controversée sur Jérusalem et ravive les tensions israélo-palestiniennes
  19 octobre 2016, par siawi3

  C’est une résolution qui risque de remettre le feu aux poudres au Proche-Orient. Malgré le tollé en Israël, l’Unesco a officiellement adopté ce mardi une résolution sur Jérusalem-Est portée par des pays arabes au nom de la protection du patrimoine culturel palestinien.

• Syria: Security Council strongly condemns attacks against schools and shelling of the Russian Embassy - Russia Voted Off U.N. Human Rights Council
  29 October 2016, by siawi3

  Ouster is seen as backlash to Russia’s Syria policy

• L’ONU limoge le commandant des casques bleus au Soudan du Sud après un rapport accablant
  1er novembre 2016, par siawi3

  Le commandant des Casques bleus au Soudan du Sud a été limogé ce mardi à la suite de la publication d’un rapport accablant sur leur incapacité à protéger les civils lors des violences de juillet à Juba.

• Belgique : Premier procès contre l’OTAN pour crimes de guerre
  27 octobre 2016, par siawi3

  En juin 2011, une frappe de l’OTAN vise des civils en Libye dans une attaque criminelle et délibérée. 17 personnes dont trois enfants sont tuées. L’affaire est portée en justice en Belgique.

• Mali: Islamist rebel gets 9 years imprisonment for Timbuktu destruction
  27 September 2016, by siawi3

  War crimes judges on Tuesday sentenced a former Islamist rebel who admitted wrecking holy shrines during Mali’s 2012 conflict to nine years in prison, in the first such case to focus on destruction of cultural heritage. When the ICC’s prosecutor opened its Mali investigation in 2012, “there were different classes of crimes, including murder, torture, execution, pillaging, rape” . “I think Malians find it ironic that the only crime that’s been prosecuted is for this attack against protected objects category.”

• Fukushima ‘’hors de contrôle’’ : l’océan Pacifique touché de plein fouet
  7 août 2016, par siawi3

  Insignifiante pour l’opinion publique, la question entourant les radiations nucléaires qui ont suivi la catastrophe de Fukushima en 2011 est apparemment une affaire classée pour les autorités locales ainsi que pour la communauté internationale, au moment même où les experts tirent la sonnette d’alarme pour avertir d’un danger qui menace l’humanité tout entière.

• UN investigators call for release of Concordia professor Homa Hoodfar Hoodfar has been imprisoned in Tehran’s Evin prison since June
  16 September 2016, by siawi3

  Twenty former United Nations special human rights investigators added their voices on Wednesday to the growing calls for Iran to release a jailed Canadian-Iranian academic. They raised Homa Hoodfar’s case as the UN continued its general assembly in New York. The former rapporteurs said Hoodfar’s academic work poses no threat to Iranian security and that she should be released immediately.

• Israeli hysteria over UN vote is solidifying country’s new status, as a rogue state
  29 December 2016, by siawi3

  President Obama’s decision to allow passage of a UN Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlements as illegal has done more to change the shape of the conflict than any other action in the last ten years.

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