...how threats, violence and harassment against LGBTQ people have become more common under the Taliban’s rule. A few weeks after Taliban forces overtook Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, in August, a 20-year-old...
26 Jan 2022
...The UN Human Rights Council in Geneva voted narrowly last May to form the Commission of Inquiry. The Western democracies on the committee objected to the fact that the commission’s...
26 Jan 2022
...to local leader Hassan Chibok. “They were shooting sporadically after they rounded the community,” Chibok said. “Some could not have access to escape, so they abducted 17 girls.” Eight of...
25 Jan 2022
...your commitment to put the Council’s “disproportionate focus on Israel” at the top of the Biden Administration’s agenda for reforming the Council when the U.S. announced it would rejoin the...
25 Jan 2022
...around the world that violate human rights, including those investigating Israel, but none have a permanent agenda item at the UNHCR.” https://www.jns.org/congress-members-call-for-defunding-of-un-commission-of-inquiry-into-israel/ 1.25.2022.Congress_members_call_for_defunding_of_UN_Commission_of_Inquiry_into_Israel.docx Congress members call for defunding of U.N....
25 Jan 2022
...General Assembly is expected to be immediately restored with the payment,’ the ministry added…” https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-korea-un-dues/31667106.html 1.24.2022.South_Korea_Pays_Iran.docx South Korea Pays Iran’s U.N. Dues With Frozen Assets, Restoring Voting Rights 2022-01-24 18:58:31...
23 Jan 2022
https://www.timesofisrael.com/palestinian-family-evicted-from-east-jerusalem-home-to-appeal-to-icc/ 1.23.2022.Palestinian_family_evicted_from_East_Jerusalem_home_to_appeal_to_ICC.docx 2022-01-24 18:23:59...
23 Jan 2022
...any worse, think again. In December 2021, the General Assembly committed to funding the UNHRC’s ‘Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel,’ which was...
23 Jan 2022
...ground. The current UN General Assembly session recently approved yet another investigation of human rights abuses allegedly committed by Israel. This latest exercise takes the form of an open-ended ‘commission...
22 Jan 2022
...and the Taliban takeover in August. The U.N. Development Program (UNDP) reported in November that a ‘colossal’ failure of the banking system could be imminent. UNDP conceded that efforts to...
21 Jan 2022
...of antisemitic messaging spreading online. Mendoza also pointed to radicalization in Muslim communities in the U.K., particularly in Blackburn, an industrial town in Lancashire, England, where Akram’s Pakistani parents raised...
21 Jan 2022
...the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp — as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.” https://www.timesofisrael.com/un-general-assembly-adopts-israeli-resolution-aimed-at-combating-holocaust-denial/ 1.20.2022.UN_General_Assembly_adopts_Israeli_resolution_aimed_at_combating_Holocaust_denial.docx U.N. General Assembly adopts Israeli resolution aimed at combating Holocaust denial 2022-01-20...
20 Jan 2022
Statement by Israeli Ambassador Gilad Erdan Introducing U.N. General Assembly Resolution, “Holocaust denial” 2022-01-20 17:07:03 https://estatements.unmeetings.org/estatements/10.0010/20220120/4z6gq3RSYM0S/gdgyhdHVlXHC_en.pdf...
20 Jan 2022
1.19.2022.igwg.19th.report.pdf 2022-10-26 19:44:48 https://undocs.org/A/HRC/49/89...
19 Jan 2022
...post. A security and defence committee formed under Sudan’s ruling council commended security services for their “restraint” and protection of civilians, paying tribute in a statement to a police officer...
19 Jan 2022