By Baher Kamal & The Like
Being-in-the-world implies changing, moving, and the continuity of change is fundamental, since human development is a continuation of denied theses, affirmed antitheses, syntheses constituting new theses, antitheses, etc.
The Trump administration’s Stephen Miller-inspired immigration policy of coercively tearing children from their parents is rightly receiving a hefty load of criticism, even from some of the more traditional Republicans.
UN Photo/Elma Okic | A wide view of the Human Rights Council.
Trump has gone a little further than his predecessors but his attitude is not fundamentally different from theirs.
Not only has the US had a long-running dispute with the UN in general, over its budget contribution and the body’s alleged hostility towards Israel, it has also sought to undermine the role of the Human Rights Council in particular, long before Trump was elected.
A former US representative to the UN founded the NGO UN Watch in 1993 to campaign against the UN’s perceived anti-Israeli bias.
This World Refugee Day, we are spotlighting the plight of the Rohingya people with the ONLINE PREMIERE of our Standing with Rohingya Women short film. This five minute film follows our February delegation to Bangladesh with Nobel Peace laureates Tawakkol Karman, Shirin Ebadi, and Mairead Maguire, in partnership with Bangladeshi women’s right organization Naripokkho.
Our delegation visited the refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar to investigate the situation of the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, particularly the violence against Rohingya women— including high levels of sexual violence.
20 June 2018 – TRANSCEND Media Service — “Agricultural Terrorism” is a kind of “concept” that one finds when looking at Channel Seven of the settler colonialists (Now on: The settlers), and at some websites of those settlers.
Dr. Walid Salem
The alleged concept describes the Palestinian attacks against the Settlers agricultural lands by burning tires, igniting fires, and the so called “Weaponized Kites” like those flying from Gaza to the South of Israel creating arsons there.
The most important is the “retaliation” proposed and practiced by the settlers, and their Government in Israel.
20 June 2018 – TRANSCEND Media Service — In the 9 Apr 2018 TMS Editorial, ‘Challenges for Resolving Complex Conflicts’, I pointed out four conflict configurations that are paid little attention by conflict theorists.
In this one I would like to discuss a fifth conflict configuration that is effectively ignored by conflict theorists (and virtually everyone else).
This conflict is undoubtedly the most fundamental conflict in human society, because it generates all of the violence humans perpetrate and experience, and yet it is utterly invisible to almost everyone.
International reaction to the United States decision to withdraw from the UN Human Rights Council continued on Wednesday 20 June 2018 with the President of the Geneva-based assembly confirming that the election of a new Member State would take place “as soon as possible” to fill the vacant seat.
UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferre | Vojislav Šuc, President of the Human Rights Council.
Speaking hours after the US move, Vojislav Šucsaid that the poll would take place once US “notification of withdrawal is formally received”.
Protecting refugee children is “a test of our shared humanity,” two top United Nations officials on 20 June 2018 said.
20 June 2018 (UN Women)* — Right now, nearly 66 million people around the world are displaced from their homes due to conflict, persecution and natural disasters.
Pasca Kole, a refugee woman from South Sudan, with her daughter whom she gave birth to shortly after arriving in Pagirinya Settlement in Uganda. Photo: UN Women/Aidah Nanyonjo
We need to break away from traditional response strategies that are no longer adequate to support the reality facing refugees today.
The average length of displacement is now 17 years or more, which means that those affected will spend a significant portion of their lives as refugees.
20 June 2018 (UNHCR)* — Today, World Refugee Day, is a time for solidarity with refugees – and with the communities that welcome them. As conflicts emerge, recur, persist and deepen, 68.5 million people are uprooted around the world. Nine out of 10 are in their own countries or countries next door, and the impact is massive – on refugees themselves, and on the communities that open their doors to them.
HC World Refugee Day video statement
Now, more than ever, taking care of refugees must be a global – and shared – responsibility. It’s time to do things differently.
