Archive for January 31st, 2025

31/01/2025

Is It High Time to Phase Out Int’l Laws, Conventions, Accords, Summits…? 

Human Wrongs Watch

By Baher Kamal*

On 10 December 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a Declaration setting out, for the first time, the fundamental human rights that should to be universally protected.

Born from the atrocities of World War II, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was the world’s first comprehensive statement of universal human rights.

UN Photo/Greg Kinch | An early draft of Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

“All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights,” states the Declaration’s Article 1.

Indeed, it enshrines “the inalienable rights that everyone is entitled to as a human being – regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, language, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.”

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31/01/2025

Dreams of Returning Home Dashed by Reality in Gaza City

Human Wrongs Watch

© UNICEF/Eyad El Baba | Displaced Palestinians walk along a street in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.
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Tess Ingram, Communications Manager for UNICEF Middle East and North Africa, is in the northern city where she witnessed people moving through the streets on donkeys, in cars, or by bicycle.
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There’s a lot of people with shovels trying to remove rubble, and of course you can see people setting up makeshift shelters or tents on what I’m guessing used to be their homes,” she told UN News.

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31/01/2025

Genocide 2.0—Trump’s Plan for Cleansing Gaza

Human Wrongs Watch

ATLANTA, USA, Jan 31 2025 (IPS)* Either the new US President, Mr. Trump, is ignorant of international law or thinks he’s so brilliant that he doesn’t care about it.
Either way, he seems to have stumbled into proposing an extension of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s clearly documented crime of genocide by suggesting that somebody “clear out” the people in Gaza, in effect advocating the ethnic cleansing of the territory.
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Families begin their journey back home from the south of Gaza to Gaza City and the northern areas. 30 January 2025. Credit: UNICEF/Eyad El Baba

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