27/05/2018
By Uri Avnery*
19/05/2018
ON BLOODY MONDAY this week, when the number of Palestinian killed and wounded was rising by the hour, I asked myself: what would I have done if I had been a youngster of 15 in the Gaza Strip?
Uri Avnery
My answer was, without hesitation: I would have stood near the border fence and demonstrated, risking my life and limbs every minute.
How am I so sure?
Simple: I did the same when I was 15.
I was a member of the National Military Organization (the “Irgun”), an armed underground group labeled “terrorist”.
Palestine was at the time under British occupation (called “mandate”).
In May 1939, the British enacted a law limiting the right of Jews to acquire land. I received an order to be at a certain time at a certain spot near the sea shore of Tel Aviv in order to take part in a demonstration. I was to wait for a trumpet signal.
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27/05/2018
25 May 2018 — While commending efforts by the French government to combat terrorism, a United Nations rights expert has raised concerns about the effect recent counter-terrorism laws are having on fundamental human rights there, including freedom of movement, religion and association.
Fionnuala Ni Aolain, the UN Special Rapporteur on the protection of human rights said she was particularly concerned that tough new security laws passed last November, may disproportionately stigmatize and further marginalize Muslim citizens.
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25/05/2018
25 May 2018 — Praising efforts by African countries to alleviate poverty and build more stable societies, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres pledged his on-going support for ending conflict and building peace across the continent.
World Bank/John Hogg | A textile factory in Lesotho. (file) | UN News Centre
“To promote peace, the UN will continue to support prevention,” he added.
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25/05/2018
The escape of three patients infected with the Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) from the hospital where they were being treated is “not unexpected”, the World Health Organization (WHO) on 25 May 2018 said, underlining the need to step up efforts to explain the dangers of the deadly disease to affected communities.
WHO/Oka | Blood samples are processed as part of a ‘mobile laboratory’ in Mbandaka, Democratic Republic of the Congo, on 22 May 2018.
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25/05/2018
By Robert J. Burrowes*
DAYLESFORD, Australia, 25 May 2018 — I would like to tell you something about human depravity and illustrate just how widespread it is among those we often regard as ‘responsible’. I am going to use the Democratic Republic of the Congo as my example.
Robert J. Burrowes
As I illustrate and explain what has happened to the Congo and its people during the past 500 years, I invite you to consider my essential point: Human depravity has no limit unless people like you (hopefully) and me take some responsibility for ending it.
Depravity, barbarity and violent exploitation will not end otherwise because major international organizations (such as the UN), national governments and corporations all benefit from it and are almost invariably led by individuals too cowardly to act on the truth.
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25/05/2018
The hydraulic extraction of natural gas, commonly known as fracking, produces cleaner energy than oil and coal, but it is not necessarily in the best interests of the world’s poorest countries, UN development experts on 24 May 2018 said.
UN Photo/Gill Fickling | South Africa’s reliance on coal is clear to see. Hydraulic extraction of natural gas has been seen as a greener option. Natural gas produces cleaner energy than oil and coal.
A new report by UNCTAD, the UN Conference on Trade and Development, describes natural gas as a useful “bridge fuel” for States aiming to move towards more environmentally-friendly renewable power sources.
But it has disadvantages too, not least the fact that its main component is methane gas, which has a global-warming potential 28 times higher than the carbon dioxide found in other fossil fuels.
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25/05/2018
By Richard Falk*
Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service — 21 May 2018
GRIEF
Richard Falk
How can one not feel intense grief for the young Palestinians who out of despair and fury joined the Great March of Return, and so often found death and severe injury awaiting them as they approached the border unarmed!!?
This was not a gratuitous event, or something that happened spontaneously on eitherside.
After 70 years of Palestinian suffering, with no end of torment in sight, to show the world and each other their passion was what would be seen as normal, even admirable, demonstrating a spirit of resistance that endured after decades of repression, violence, humiliation, and denial of the most fundamental of rights.
After 70 years of Israeli statehood, this violent confirmation of our worst fears and perceptions, seals a negative destiny for Israel as far as the moral eye can see.
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24/05/2018
Gaza is on the verge of collapse and its people becoming increasingly desperate, a United Nations envoy told the Security Council on 23 May 2018, urging international action to avoid another war, alleviate suffering and empower more responsible government within the enclave.
@OCHA oPt | Humanitarian Coordinator calls for urgent support to address the immense humanitarian impact of recent violence in the Gaza Strip
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“In this Chamber, Council members have often spoken of the need to prevent war; and the Secretary-General has put preventive diplomacy at the heart of his agenda. It is time for our words to be tested in Gaza,” Nickolay Mladenov, Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process told the Council by video teleconference from Jerusalem.
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24/05/2018
The United Nations chief on 24 May 2018 announced a bold new vision for global disarmament, to help eliminate nuclear arsenals and other deadly weapons from a world that is just “one mechanical, electronic and human error away” from destruction.
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe | Secretary-General António Guterres makes remarks during the high-level debate to mark the 15th anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations Convention against Corruption.
“But seven decades on, our world is as dangerous as it has ever been,” he warned.
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24/05/2018
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) remains on an “epidemiological knife-edge” regarding the spread of deadly Ebola disease, despite the quick response by authorities and international partners to the threat, the World Health Organization (WHO) on 23 May 2018 said.
UNICEF/Naftalin | Health workers prepare to treat suspected Ebola patients in Bikoro Hospital in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Speaking in Geneva at the World Health Assembly, Dr Peter Salama, WHO Deputy Director-General, who heads up emergency preparedness and response, said that there were several reasons why the current outbreak — which has claimed 27 lives since it was declared on 8 May — has yet to be contained.
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