Source. Balkan Insight Among all criteria which may be of interest for the UN members, there is a strong international movement to elect for the first time a woman Secretary-General. That element in the complex election puzzle should not be ignored. The global trend in this aspect will have its […]
Elizabeth Wilmshurst By acting in defiance of the UN charter, as I warned when I was a Foreign Office lawyer in 2003, we put our reputation at risk. So it has proved ‘Lord Goldsmith, who as attorney general constitutionally had the last word, had given a provisional view that a […]
By AFP – Jul 01,2016 – JORDAN TIMES UNITED NATIONS — A much-awaited report by the Middle East quartet demands that Israel take urgent steps to halt the expansion of settlements in Palestinian territories, the UN envoy said Thursday. Nickolay Mladenov told the Security Council that ongoing Israeli construction […]
Quartet report on the frozen peace process is expected to be released this week, as the UN secretary general marks his last year in office. Barak Ravid Jun 28, 2016 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, speaks with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon during a joint press conference […]
By Anna Behrend AFP A slum in Phnom Penh, Cambodia (archive photo) The UN is celebrating: Hunger and poverty around the world are in decline according to data from the global body. But that success is not nearly as great if you scrutinize the numbers. The stink is unbearable, garbage […]
Rohingya families get their share of the food aid the Organization of Islamic Cooperation distributed through the group HUMANiTi Malaysia recently. (OIC photo via Arab News) JEDDAH: More than 1,100 Rohingya families displaced from their homes in Myanmar received food aid from the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) during […]
Source: Reuters BAGHDAD | BY STEPHEN KALIN Upcoming military offensives in Iraq against Islamic State, including an assault on the northern city of Mosul, could displace at least 2.3 million people, the United Nations humanitarian coordinator for Iraq said on Thursday. The prediction of such a vast humanitarian emergency creates […]
THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA: A MASS GRAVE The struggle to identify drowned migrants By Stefania Summermatter JUN 20, 2016 – 11:00 A drawing of the October 3, 2013 tragedy by a Lampedusa school child. (AFP) Three years after the migrant boat tragedy in Lampedusa, in which 366 people drowned, relatives are […]
Queen (of Jordan) urges world to listen to refugees ‘cast into unknown’ By JT – Jun 21,2016 – JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — Her Majesty Queen Rania on Monday called on the global community to listen to refugees, on the occasion of World Refugee Day. “The global refugee crisis has […]
MINORS NGO blasts Swiss policy on detaining migrant children JUN 16, 2016 – 16:58 The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child defines a child as every human being below the age of eighteen, unless the law applicable to the child states otherwise. The age of majority in Switzerland […]
AFP | Published — Wednesday 15 June 2016 UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, of Jordan, addresses his statement during the opening of the 32nd session of the Human Rights Council, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, on Monday. (AP) GENEVA: […]
Jun 13,2016 -JORDAN TIMES – Peter Sutherland In the last week of May, at least 1,050 migrants and asylum seekers died in the Mediterranean Sea, victims of the international community’s unwillingness […]
Your home may be in flames, your family enslaved, your torturers itching to pull out your fingernails – but above all you’ve got to ignore the ciggy packet in your pocket Robert Fisk @indyvoices 41 Syrians gathering at the scene of a double bomb attack outside the Sayyida Zeinab shrine AFP […]
Jun 09,2016 -JORDAN TIMES – Jonathan Power George Orwell, the author of “Animal Farm” and “1984”, was the first person to use the phrase “Cold War” in a 1945 newspaper article, written just after the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He argued that “the surface of the Earth is being […]
By Gaelle Sundelin – Jun 04,2016 – JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — Haider’s small hands struggle to find the edge of the brown scotch-tape roll. The 12-year old is not putting the final touches to some science project or building a kite. He is taping the window panes of his […]
Jun 02,2016 -JORDAN TIMES – RAMI G. KHOURI What is the value of law? What are the consequences of applying some laws selectively, by punishing some law-breakers and ignoring others? How does or should respect for law play a role in how countries deal with each other? Several cases these […]
ISTANBUL CONFERENCE Swiss aid official upbeat after humanitarian summit MAY 25, 2016 – 16:39 United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, second left, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, centre, pose at the closing ceremony of the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul (Keystone) While there was disappointment that leaders of the […]
May 21, 2016 JORDAN TIMES – JAVIER SOLANA Even amid the chaos and catastrophes caused by war, there are internationally recognised limits on combatants’ behaviour. And yet, recent deliberate attacks on refugee camps and hospitals, in Syria and elsewhere, demonstrate an absolute disdain for basic humanitarian norms. Indeed, […]
The shame of Abu Ghraib prison is part of a long tradition that goes back to the Crusades Robert Fisk @indyvoices Thursday 19 May 2016 2 comments Iraq, 7 May 2004 […]
By AFP – May 14,2016 -JORDAN TIMES Arab Israelis and other supporters wave Palestinian flags as they march during a protest to mark the right of return for refugees who fled their homes during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, at a village near Rahat in southern Israel, on Thursday. The […]