Of course we are.
Indonesia is a member of the U.N. Human Rights Council. Naturally, it flogs women. https://t.co/pdCTBqjeID
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) December 7, 2020
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I’ll take “Missed Opportunities under Stephen Harper for $500, Alex.”
No joke: #China joins U.N. Human Rights Council panel, where it will help select the U.N.'s next world monitors on freedom of speech, enforced disappearances & arbitrary detention—and on health. That's like making a pyromaniac into the town fire chief. https://t.co/DqFY90rd6I
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) April 3, 2020
Update: NYT Headline – 430,000 people have traveled from China to the US since Wuhan virus emerged, the vast majority before the Trump travel ban.
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UN peacekeepers in Haiti fathered babies then abandoned mothers to lives of poverty.
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The Guardian: “Venezuela wins UN human rights council seat. Brazilians hardest hit.”
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Iran, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Pakistan were among members of the UN’s 54-nation economic and social council, a principal organ of the world body, who voted to single out and condemn Israel yesterday as the only country in the world that violates women’s rights.
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h/t TH
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The United States and Israel officially quit the U.N.’s educational, scientific and cultural agency at the stroke of midnight, the culmination of a process triggered more than a year ago amid concerns that the organization fosters anti-Israel bias.
The withdrawal is mainly procedural yet serves a new blow to UNESCO, co-founded by the U.S. after World War II to foster peace.
The Trump administration filed its notice to withdraw in October 2017 and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu followed suit.
The Paris-based organization has been denounced by its critics as a crucible for anti-Israel bias: blasted for criticizing Israel’s occupation of east Jerusalem, naming ancient Jewish sites as Palestinian heritage sites and granting full membership to Palestine in 2011.
Israeli U.N. envoy Danny Danon said Tuesday that his country “will not be a member of an organization whose goal is to deliberately act against us, and that has become a tool manipulated by Israel’s enemies.”
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@HillelNeuer — OXFAM country director who sexually exploited underage Haitian earthquake victims was a consultant for the United Nations “Review of Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse by UN & NGO Personnel.”
Bumped for update: Justin Trudeau refuses to pull Oxfam’s funding despite sexual abuse allegations against the disgraced international aid organization.
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Left: UNRWA photo, Jan. 27. 2015, of girl in Syria
Right: Same UNRWA photo, May 29, 2017, but now she's "Aya from Gaza" oppressed by Israel pic.twitter.com/RwMJwwXvpM— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) June 2, 2017
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#Venezuela
Protesters killed: 37
Injured: 700
Political prisoners: 114@UN_HRC reaction:
Urgent sessions: 0
Resolutions: 0
Inquiries: 0— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) May 10, 2017
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U.N. Elects Saudi Arabia to Women’s Rights Commission, For 2018-2022 Term.
Turtle Swamp
President Trump’s administration has told the State Department to cut more than 50 percent of U.S. funding to United Nations programs, Foreign Policy reported.
The push for the drastic reductions comes as the White House is scheduled to release its 2018 topline budget proposal Thursday, which is expected to include a 37 percent cut to the State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development budgets.
It’s not clear if Trump’s budget plan, from the Office of Management and Budget, would reflect the full extent of Trump’s proposed cuts to the U.N.
[…] Richard Gowan, a U.N. expert at the European Council on Foreign Relations, said the alterations would spark “chaos” if true.
“[It would] leave a gaping hole that other big donors would struggle to fill,” he told FP, pointing to how the U.S. provided $1.5 billion of the U.N. refugee agency’s $4 billion budget last year.
Oh boo hoo.
Turtle Swamp
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Hates Israel, hates the west — he has all the right qualifications:
Pro-Palestinian legal expert Canadian Michael Lynk is the UN Human Rights Council's (UNHRC) new nominee to the post of special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories. [...] He will then be tasked with examining allegations of Israeli human rights abuses against the Palestinians.
h/t Adrian
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UN Watch’s Top 10 Worst U.N. Decisions of 2015
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The United Nations Foundation created by billionaire Ted Turner, along with a branch of media giant Thomson Reuters, is starting to train a squadron of journalists and subsidize media content in 33 countries–including the U.S. and Britain–in a planned $6 million effort to popularize the bulky and sweeping U.N.-sponsored Sustainable Development Goals, prior to a global U.N. summit this September. where U.N. organizers hope they will be endorsed by world leaders.
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Oh, NOW they’re concerned. The U.N.’s World Food Program says it is “extremely concerned” about images circulating on social media showing Islamic State labels affixed to its food aid boxes in Syria.
Flashback: Evidence of UNIFIL’s Assistance to Hezbollah
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The head of the United Nations inquiry into the 2014 Gaza conflict between Israel and Hamas announced on Monday that he was stepping down.
Canadian international law professor William Schabas sent a letter to the UN commission, citing Israeli allegations of bias over consulting work he did for the Palestine Liberation Organization, Reuters reported.
Via UN Watch with the rest of the story.
Why did William Schabas finally step down as chair of the UN inquiry on Gaza?
The latest revelation that he was paid by the PLO for legal advice in 2012 was the last straw, but the decision came in wake of a sustained campaign by UN Watch starting from the day of his appointment, which included videos of Schabas calling for the indictment of Israeli leaders, a formal UN Watch legal brief demanding his recusal that was submitted to the UN in an official filing, and UN Watch op-eds urging legal scholars to speak out against the absurd appointment of Schabas. Many did so.
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The League of Nations, established after World War I to maintain peace among countries, formally dissolved in 1946 after failing to stop World War II and numerous earlier conflagrations. Historians recognize that its de facto demise occurred long before its official death certificate was issued.
The United Nations, established after World War II to maintain peace among countries, has not formally dissolved. Historians of the future will recognize, however, that it is already de facto dead.
If only.