UN: Kobani massacre looms
GENEVA: Thousands of people “will most likely be massacred” if Kobani falls to Islamic State fighters, a UN envoy said on Friday, as militants fought deeper into the besieged Syrian […]
Palestinian President Mahmood Abbas’s full speach at the United Nations General Assembly
Mr. President, At the outset, I wish to extend our sincere congratulations upon your election as President of the United Nations General Assembly this session and to express our gratitude […]
Palestinian President Mahmood Abbas's full speach at the United Nations General Assembly
Mr. President, At the outset, I wish to extend our sincere congratulations upon your election as President of the United Nations General Assembly this session and to express our gratitude […]
5 takeaways from Obama’s ISIS speech
http://www.cnn.com/video/api/embed.html#/video/us/2014/09/11/orig-jag-potus-on-isis.cnn By Z. Byron Wolf, CNN updated 9:46 AM EDT, Thu September 11, 2014 (CNN) — When President Obama announced his plan Wednesday night to launch air strikes in Syria against ISIS, he […]
5 takeaways from Obama's ISIS speech
http://www.cnn.com/video/api/embed.html#/video/us/2014/09/11/orig-jag-potus-on-isis.cnn By Z. Byron Wolf, CNN updated 9:46 AM EDT, Thu September 11, 2014 (CNN) — When President Obama announced his plan Wednesday night to launch air strikes in Syria against ISIS, he […]
Isis intent on ‘house of blood’: UN rights chief
Published: 08 Sep 2014 THELOCAL.CH The jihadist militants who have seized large swaths of Iraq and Syria are intent upon creating “a house of blood”, the UN’s new human rights […]
Isis intent on 'house of blood': UN rights chief
Published: 08 Sep 2014 THELOCAL.CH The jihadist militants who have seized large swaths of Iraq and Syria are intent upon creating “a house of blood”, the UN’s new human rights […]
UN human rights chief to accuse Australia on asylum seeker policy
theguardian: by Oliver Milman — In maiden speech, new high commissioner will point to a ‘chain of human rights violations’ in detention of asylum seekers Asylum seekers at the Manus Island detention centre in Papua New Guinea. Photograph: Eoin Blackwell/AAP The new United Nations high commissioner for human rights will use […]
9 Facts About the Israel-Palestine Conflict On Which We Can All Agree
Huff Post: by Qasim Rashid — Simply open your mouth on Israel-Palestine, and faster than you can blink you’ll be labeled either a heartless Zionist or a Hamas terrorist. Both extreme labels are equally fruitless. If we cannot find a middle ground in dialogue, how can we expect Israel and […]
A Muslim Reflection on Global Crisis
Source: The Huffington Post By Amaar Ahmad, Ph.D Electrical Engineering, Virgina Tech In this day and age, fortunately we also hear voices of reason that invite all nations towards peace. His Holiness, Mirza Masroor Ahmad, head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, has been inviting world leaders to resolve conflicts through dialogue. […]
Gaza: how international law could work to punish war crimes
Source: The Guardian UK By Geoffrey Robertson The security council will be vetoed, but now that Palestine is a state there’s another route to justice For three weeks, the world has […]
Palestinian children tortured, used as shields by Israel: U.N.
GENEVA (Reuters) – A United Nations human rights body accused Israeli forces on Thursday of mistreating Palestinian children, including by torturing those in custody and using others as human shields. […]
If we can have just war, why not just terrorism?
theguardian: by Giles Fraser — For decades now the United Nations has been unable to agree a definition of terrorism. Even our own supreme court recently concluded that there is no internationally agreed definition. The stumbling block has been that western governments want states and state agents to be exempt […]
Israeli PM vows there will be more air strikes on Gaza
theguardian: by Julian Borger and Peter Beaumont — Netanyahu shrugs off foreign criticism after top UN human rights official warns that air strikes could violate international law The UN’s top human rights official has called for an investigation into Israeli air strikes on Gaza, on the grounds that the targeting of […]
A new initiative by the Secretary-General to improve UN action to safeguard human rights around the world
UN.org: The need for early action, and the crucial role of responding early to human rights violations, is at the heart of the “Rights up Front” initiative. “Rights up Front” […]
Jordanian diplomat tapped to be new UN rights chief
Source: The Daily Star :: Lebanon News UNITED NATIONS, United States: Jordan’s ambassador to the United Nations has been nominated as UN high commissioner for human rights, to replace South […]
Op-Ed: Interfaith efforts teach tolerance, both global and local
The Connecticut Mirror: by Josiah H. Brown — Pope Francis – following his recent trip to the Holy Land – expects June 8 to welcome Israeli president Shimon Peres and Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas to a Vatican prayer meeting. Separately, like-minded action is afoot in our state. On June […]
Pakistan urged to end faith based killings
Legalbrief Today — Three independent UN human rights experts have urged Pakistan to adopt urgent legislation to put an end to faith-based killings and protect the country’s Ahmadiyya Muslim community, whose faith is currently outlawed, the Jurist states. The call follows a resurgence of violent attacks in Pakistan targeting Ahmadiyya Muslims, which have […]
U.S. restricts movements of Syria’s U.N. envoy Ja’afari
March 5, 2014 – 22:06 UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department announced on Wednesday that it has ordered Syria’s U.N. Ambassador Bashar Ja’afari to remain within a 25-mile (40-km) radius of New York City, similar to restrictions that apply to Iranian and North Korean envoys. A pro-opposition Syrian-American […]
Growing Inequality Mars 20 Years of Women’s Progress
Global Issues: by Jonathan Rozen — UNITED NATIONS, Feb 14 (IPS) – As the world moves closer to the 2015 end mark of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a new U.N. report illuminates how far global society has come, but also how far it still must travel to achieve its […]