18/03/2021
The 2011 Arms Embargo – Obliging States to Prevent the Direct or Indirect Supply of All Weaponry to Libya – “Remains Totally Ineffective”
Human Wrongs Watch
17 March 2021 (UN News)* — An arms embargo imposed on Libya by the Security Council in 2011 remains “totally ineffective” a UN Panel of Experts has said, adding that civilians, including migrants and asylum seekers, continue to suffer widespread rights violations and abuses.
In its final report, the Panel of Experts on Libya – established pursuant to resolution 1973 (2011) – said that throughout its mandate, the body identified “multiple acts” that threatened the peace, stability or security of the country, and increased attacks against State institutions and installations.
“Designated terrorist groups remained active in Libya, albeit with diminished activities. Their acts of violence continue to have a disruptive effect on the stability and security of the country”, it said.
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18/03/2021
Arms: US, French and German Exports Rise, Russian and Chinese Exports Fall – Middle East Imports Grow Most, Driven Chiefly by Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Qatar
Human Wrongs Watch
(Stockholm) International transfers of major arms stayed at the same level between 2011–15 and 2016–20. Substantial increases in transfers by three of the top five arms exporters—the USA, France and Germany—were largely offset by declining Russian and Chinese arms exports. Middle Eastern arms imports grew by 25 per cent in the period, driven chiefly by Saudi Arabia (+61 per cent), Egypt (+136 per cent) and Qatar (+361 per cent), according to new data on global arms transfers published on by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).
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The trend in international transfers of major arms, 1981–202018/03/2021
International Aid Is the Latest Victim of Boris Johnson’s Culture Wars
Boris Johnson’s government is planning to slash the UK’s aid to war-torn countries | Hannah Mckay/Reuters/Alamy
18/03/2021
Are High-Ranking UN Jobs the Political Birthright of Big Powers?
Human Wrongs Watch
“The basic problem is that the 193-member General Assembly has deferred too many times, for too long, and on too many issues to the UN Security Council and the five permanent members (P-5) of the UN Security Council (UNSC)”.
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The UN General Assembly in session. Credit: UN Photo/Manuel Elias .
17/03/2021
Ten Problems with Biden’s Foreign Policy–and One Solution
Human Wrongs Watch
By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service*
The Biden presidency is still in its early days, but it’s not too early to point to areas in the foreign policy realm where we, as progressives, have been disappointed–or even infuriated.
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There are one or two positive developments, such as the renewal of Obama’s New START Treaty with Russia and Secretary of State Blinken’s initiative for a UN-led peace process in Afghanistan, where the United States is finally turning to peace as a last resort, after 20 years lost in the graveyard of empires.
By and large though, Biden’s foreign policy already seems stuck in the militarist quagmire of the past twenty years, a far cry from his campaign promise to reinvigorate diplomacy as the primary tool of U.S. foreign policy.
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17/03/2021
Decision Time on Afghanistan
Human Wrongs Watch
By Hilde F. Johnson, Norway’s Former Minister of International Development*
Achieving peace is not possible without engaging regional powers
Band-e Amir National Park located in the Bamyan Province of central Afghanistan | Image from Wall Street International.
15 March 2021 (Wall Street International)* — After 20 years of international allied engagement in Afghanistan, the country is in a worse state than ever. Despite the peace talks in Doha between the Government of Afghanistan and Taliban, the security situation has deteriorated significantly.
In addition, in the last few months, targeted killings of journalists, human rights activists, judges, and teachers have reached an unprecedented level. And many of them have been women.
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17/03/2021
Magellan, Inquisition and Globalisation
Human Wrongs Watch
– Globalisation’s beginnings are symbolised by Ferdinand Magellan’s near circumnavigation of the world half a millennium ago. But its history is not simply of connection and trade, but also of intolerance, exploitation, slavery, violence, aggression and genocide.
Sculpture of Enrique de Malacca <ahmadfuadosman.com>
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17/03/2021
Defeating the Global Elite’s Coup d’État: The Great Reset
Human Wrongs Watch
By Robert J. Burrowes*
Worldwide, international organizations such as the World Health Organization (WHO), governments and the corporate media, acting as agents of the global elite, continue their efforts to preoccupy the human population with measures supposedly being taken to address the non-existent virus labeled SARS-CoV-2.
Robert J. Burrowes
For just two of the most recent of the ever-lengthening list of documents and videos demonstrating non-existence of the virus, see ‘COVID-19: The virus does not exist – it is confirmed!’ and ‘Statement On Virus Isolation (SOVI)’.
Unfortunately, this lie is succeeding in distracting the vast bulk of the human population from the ongoing elite coup to take complete control – politically, economically, socially, spiritually and even physically – of the human population under the guise of the World Economic Forum’s ‘Great Reset’. See ‘The Great Reset’ and ‘Now is the time for a “great reset”’.
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17/03/2021
Five Things the World Is Saying about Ecosystem Restoration
15 March 2021 (UNEP)* — The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration – set to launch during World Environment Day on 5 June – aims to rally citizens, governments and corporations around one common goal: preventing, halting and reversing the destruction of natural spaces.
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