United Nations

Articles

• Gay Libyan slams his country’s UN hate rant
  27 February 2012, by siawi3

  A leading gay activist in Libya has responded to his country’s delegate who told a planning meeting of the UN Human Rights Council that gays threatened the continuation of the human race.

• UN Reports Sharp Rise in Syrian Refugees
  1 February 2013, by siawi3

  The U.N. refugee agency reports a sharp rise in the number of Syrian refugees in neighboring countries. The UNHCR says it now has registered more than 700,000 refugees, with most of the newly arrived crossing into Lebanon and Jordan. Countries in the region are reporting the presence of hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees who have not come forward to be registered and to receive assistance.

• The audacity of vetoing hope
  11 October 2011, by siawi3

  The Palestinians see statehood as opening the way for negotiations between equals, writes legal scholar.

• Des “amis” qui n’en sont pas
  5 October 2011, by siawi3

  Pour contrer la demande d’adhésion de la Palestine à l’ONU, le gouvernement israélien a décidé de mener une campagne de propagande musclée pour convaincre les communautés juives de diaspora que cette initiative constitue une menace existentielle pour Israël.

• UN: Looking at the discrimination between business and civic sectors
  26 October 2015, by siawi3

  United Nations Special Rapporteur Maina Kiai will appear before the UN General Assembly on Oct. 27 to present his latest report, which compares States’ treatment of businesses and civil society, with an eye towards elevating conditions for the latter.

• Retour à la situation en Syrie : Annan, la Turquie et l’équation kurde
  26 janvier 2014, par siawi3

  Seul de toute la diplomatie internationale, Kofi Annan, ancien secrétaire général des Nations unies, mettra un bémol aux concerts de critiques des médias occidentaux sur les responsabilités de la guerre de Syrie. Il reprochera aux Occidentaux, dans la recherche d’une solution, de mettre à l’écart l’Iran, un des acteurs clés de la zone, de tout faire porter à la Russie en termes de responsabilité, occultant le jeu des autres fournisseurs d’armes pro-occidentaux (Qatar, Arabie saoudite, Turquie, Jordanie), déplorant enfin la réaction de l’opposition off-shore au protocole de Genève, en juin 2012.

• A Lesson in Word Choice for the United Nations
  22 March 2018, by siawi3

  Right now, the United Nations (UN) and member organizations are using the term ‘forced sex’ instead of rape on their social media feeds. This is a dangerous word choice because not only is it incorrect, these words are a dereliction of responsibility to those who have experienced and survived rape. In using the term ‘forced sex’ the UN has allowed rape culture to redefine violence against women. The UN and the affiliated organizations must eliminate this incorrect terminology and start being accountable to survivors of rape and not the counter culture that seeks to destroy their legitimacy. ‘Forced sex’ is rape and it is inappropriate for a global governing body to mince words when describing an act of violence against women.

• The Isolation of Julian Assange Must Stop
  5 April 2018, by siawi3

  We call on the government of Ecuador to allow Julian Assange his right of freedom of speech. The Ecuadorian government has installed an electronic jammer to stop Assange communicating with the outside world via the internet and phone. As if ensuring his total isolation, the Ecuadorian government is also refusing to allow him to receive visitors. Despite two UN rulings describing his detention as unlawful and mandating his immediate release.

• International criminal tribunal for the former Yugoslavia Bosnian Croat war criminal dies after taking poison in UN courtroom
  1 December 2017, by siawi3

  The 1992-95 war in Bosnia, in which 100,000 people died and 2.2 million were displaced, mainly pitted Bosnian Muslims against Bosnian Serbs, but also saw brutal fighting between Bosnian Muslims and Bosnian Croats after an initial alliance fell apart. Praljak is not the first defendant to die in ICTY custody at The Hague. The former Croatian Serb leader Milan Babić killed himself at the nearby Scheveningen detention centre in 2006. Another Croatian Serb, Slavko Dokmanović, was found hanging from the door of his cell in 1998.

• TPIY/Pays-Bas : l’Etat néerlandais jugé partiellement responsable du massacre de Srebrenica
  1er décembre 2017, par siawi3

  L’enclave de l’est de la Bosnie était sous la protection de l’ONU lorsqu’elle fut prise, le 11 juillet 1995, par les forces serbes, qui assassinèrent alors près de huit mille garçons et hommes musulmans.

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