It is a pity that some groups and individuals are urging palm oil importers in India to refrain from buying the commodity from Malaysia.
The Solvent Extractors Association of India, India’s top vegetable oil trade body is one such outfit. Apparently, this boycott is a sort of “punishment” for Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s remarks on Kashmir at the United Nations General Assembly on 27th September 2019.
The Indian government has reportedly protested against Dr Mahathir’s criticism of Indian action in Kashmir. However so far it has not voiced support for the call to boycott Malaysian palm oil.
28 October 2019 (UN News)* —Pervasive deteriorating facts on the ground in Israeli-Palestinian conflict, “are pushing us every further” from achieving a viable two-State solution, the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process told the Security Council on Monday [28 October 2019].
UN Photo/Loey Felipe | Nickolay Mladenov, UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, addresses the Security Council via video-link.
With the spotlight on Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Special Envoy Nicolay Mlandenov detailed “new dangerous flashpoints” emerging in the region, under rapidly shifting developments in the Middle East as a whole, which have snowballed into a growing threat to international peace and security.
Courageous insight on a vital issue that European politicians and the UN fear to evoke.
Anthony Judge
Deadly silence
It is curious to note how systematically international authorities and political leadership have avoided any discussion of future migration from Africa — beyond the immediate future.
This includes the careful crafting by statistical agencies — typically in the habit of offering estimates on other matters through to 2050, or even to the end of the century.
This peculiar situation is reviewed in detail in a separate document.
October 2019 (FAO)* — “There used to be a lot of wildlife here in my father’s and grandfather’s time: deer, tapir, capybara and peccaries,” explains Asaph, a traditional hunter from the Wapishana indigenous tribe in the Rupununi region of Guyana. “There are still some animals in the Kanuku Mountains, but they are harder to find.”
Michael Lynk said that Israel’s mission in Geneva does not respond to the requests to visit Palestinian territories.
The UN rapporteur sent a report to the UN General Assembly stating the Israeli occupation in Palestine is the longest occupation one in the world. | Photo: UN
24 October 2019 (teleSUR)* — Special rapporteur of the United Nations Organization on human rights in Palestine Michael Lynk condemned Israel for preventing him Thursday from traveling to the Palestinian territories, violating thus established procedures and protocols.
25 October 2019 — Protests in cities across the world in recent days show that “people are hurting and want to be heard” by political leaders who must now address a “growing deficit of trust”, said the UN chief on Friday [25 October 2019].*
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OHCHR Regional Office for Centra Hundreds of people take to the streets of Managua, Nicaragua, demanding justice for victims of the violent crackdown on protests
Speaking to correspondents at UN Headquarters in New York, António Guterres said that although “every situation is unique” there are common underlying factors which constitute “rising threats to the social contract” between citizens and the political class.
The rights group said the demolitions left 238 Palestinians including 127 minors without a home.
Israel claims demolishing the family homes of alleged militants deters violence, while the Palestinians see it as a form of collective punishment. | Photo: Reuters (posted here fromteleSUR).
24 October 2019 (teleSUR)* — At least 140 Palestinian homes in east Jerusalem have been demolished so far this year by the Israeli authorities according to the rights organization B’Tselem who said Thursday that the figure was the highest since it began keeping records in 2004.
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The rights group added the demolitions left 238 Palestinians including 127 minors without a home.
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 22 2019 (IPS)* – Sub-Saharan African migrants who risk perilous sea crossings to Europe are often assumed to be illiterate, jobless chancers in desperate bids to flee stagnation and rampant corruption in their home countries. But a survey of some 2,000 irregular African migrants in Europe found them to be more educated than expected, while many of them were leaving behind jobs back home that paid better-than-average wages.
“A coup is underway, carried out by the right-wing with foreign support…what are the methods of this coup attempt?”
President Evo Morales. | Photo: Bolivian presidency
23 October 2019 (teleSUR)* — Bolivia’s leftist President Evo Morales gave a press conference early Wednesday [23 October 2019] morning in which he warned that a right-wing coup attempt is being carried out so as to stop the full counting of votes, and annul the result of Sunday’s elections if it gives Morales a first-round victory.
By UN News* — The international community has a responsibility and legal obligation to compel Israel to end its 52 year-long “occu-annexation” of Palestinian territory and remove barriers preventing Palestinian self-determination, a UN independent human rights expert told the General Assembly on Wednesday [23 October 2019].
World Bank/Natalia Cieslik | Children walk on road in Gaza, where the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) maintain food assistance to over one million Palestine refugees.
Michael Lynk made the call in his latest report on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian Territory: the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip.
It is a pity that some groups and individuals are urging palm oil importers in India to refrain from buying the commodity from Malaysia.
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