Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — The United States on Wednesday [] vetoed a UN Security Council draft resolution that demanded an immediate and unconditional ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
19/11/2024
Annexation of Gaza Won’t Create Lasting Middle East Peace – UN Agency for Palestine Refugees
Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — The head of the UN agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA, confirmed on Monday [] that a large convoy of humanitarian aid was looted inside Gaza at the weekend, amid a near-total breakdown in law and order and harassment of the agency’s staff by Israeli soldiers.
09/11/2024
UN Arms Embargo on Israel: Dead on Arrival
Human Wrongs Watch
– When the United Nations imposes sanctions or penalizes a member state – be it the General Assembly or the Human Rights Council – the resolutions are “non-binding” and often remain unimplemented.
In Khan Younis, thousands of people are fleeing for their lives again. Credit: UNRWA
But the Security Council resolutions are “binding” – and still openly violated by countries such as North Korea—because all these UN bodies have no means of implementing these resolutions, nor a standing army to forcibly enforce them. But they only carry moral weight.
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09/11/2024
Gaza: Possible Atrocity Crimes Unfold
Human Wrongs Watch
”Children and women make up 70% of those killed by Israeli strikes in Gaza…”
08/11/2024
Looming Famine in Rakhine Signals Wider Crisis in Myanmar
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Rakhine is home to the mostly-Muslim Rohingya community
By Vibhu Mishra
(UN News)* — Up to two million people in Myanmar’s Rakhine state face the dire prospect of famine, amid a broader economic collapse and worsening humanitarian crisis triggered by the military’s 2021 overthrow of the democratically elected government.
08/11/2024
When the Truth Becomes a Lie: What Trump’s Election Means for the World as We Know It
Human Wrongs Watch
– On the day following the US election, UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres issued a brief statement commending the people of the United States for their active participation in the democratic process.
04/11/2024
Soul Suicide in the Ballot Box as Palestinians Are Butchered
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By Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service*
24 Oct 2024 – It’s been a long time but worth remembering, if you can, that when the Twin Towers and Building 7 at the World Trade Center collapsed on September 11, 2001, the whole world watched in horror.
Edward J. Curtin
The events of that day were repeated on television over and over and over again, to the point where they became afterimages lodged in people’s minds.
As a result, although the buildings were not brought down by the impact of planes (no plane hit Building 7) but by explosives planted in the buildings (see this and this, among extensive evidence), most people thought otherwise, just as they thought that the subsequent linked anthrax attacks were directed by Osama bin Laden when they were eventually proven to have originated from a U.S. military lab (thus an inside job), and, as a result of a massive Bush administration/corporate media propaganda campaign, most Americans supported the invasion of Afghanistan, the subsequent invasion of Iraq, and decades of endless wars that continue to this day, bringing us to the edge of nuclear war with Iran and Russia.
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04/11/2024
Gaza Polio Vaccine Campaign under Fire. Israeli Forces’ Airstrikes on Lebanon and Yemen. Dire Situation on Syria Border
Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — Attacks on a clinic and UN staff member were reported during a resumed polio vaccine campaign in besieged northern Gaza, Israeli forces continued airstrikes on Lebanon on Sunday and in Yemen, a new water project launched a “lifeline” for populations fleeing conflict, with updates from Syria.
02/11/2024
Lebanon: People Continue to Be Killed, Injured and Displaced by Airstrikes, Hostilities and Displacement Orders
Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — People in Lebanon continue to be killed, injured and displaced by airstrikes, hostilities and displacement orders, the UN aid coordination office, OCHA, said on .
02/11/2024
Gaza: ‘Lack of Access to Maternal and Newborn Care Is Elevating Health Risks for around 50,000 Pregnant Women and New Mothers…’
Human Wrongs Watch
By the UN Population Fund*
Occupied Palestinian territory
The war in Gaza has taken a catastrophic toll on women and girls. They have lost homes and loved ones and lack access to food, water, protection and health care. Many have been displaced at least once, moving from one unsafe place to another.
Shelters are overcrowded, and sanitation conditions are dire, exposing women and girls to violence, infection and disease.
© UNFPA Palestine
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