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Candidates for UN’s Top Job Urge Its Renewal and Bolstering Human Rights

Candidates for UN’s Top Job Urge Its Renewal and Bolstering Human Rights

Published by Sam Flores

GENEVA, June 9 (Reuters) – Several candidates running ⁠to ⁠be the next head of ⁠the United Nations called for a strengthening of human rights and respect for ​international law and bolstering the organisation through reforms during a debate in Geneva on Tuesday. Four of the five ‌candidates to succeed Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, ‌who completes his second five-year term at the end of this year, laid out their visions ⁠for the ⁠role at a time when the U.N. faces a severe financial crisis ​triggered by cuts from major humanitarian donors. The organisation is also contending with $4 billion in unpaid U.S. arrears, multiplying conflicts, and widespread violations of international law. Maria Fernanda Espinosa, a former foreign affairs minister and defence minister in Ecuador, said ​the crisis required an energetic leader.  “This moment calls for a renaissance Secretary-General, a Secretary-General capable of ⁠restoring ⁠the U.N.’s moral authority,” she ⁠said, proposing establishing ​an early action hub to address conflicts as they emerge. ERODING TRUST IN INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS  Rebeca Grynspan, a ​former vice president of ⁠Costa Rica who described herself …

The UN’s Architecture To Annihilate The West

The UN’s Architecture To Annihilate The West

Published by Jenni Sidey

Authored by Amil Imani via AmericanThinker.com, The United Nations functions as a predatory cartel dedicated to the systematic liquidation of national borders. Its agenda demands the total eradication of the nation-state to pave the way for a centralized, unelected global tyranny. The 2018 Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration serves as the executioner’s blade for national sovereignty. This document transforms migration from a matter of domestic policy into a universal human right, stripping citizens of their power to decide who enters their lands. It creates a legal framework that criminalizes dissent against mass migration under the guise of hate speech suppression. The UN mandate forces governments to promote migration and eliminate all forms of discrimination against migrants, a directive that effectively prioritizes foreign nationals over the rights and resources of their own taxpayers. This policy transforms the fundamental duty of the state from protecting its citizens to serving a globalist movement of people. The UN Population Division openly plots the demographic overthrow of Western populations. Their Replacement Migration report outlines a cold, calculated strategy to …

UN’s failure to stop Iranian attacks sending ‘dangerous signal’: Qatar | US-Israel war on Iran News

UN’s failure to stop Iranian attacks sending ‘dangerous signal’: Qatar | US-Israel war on Iran News

Published by Sam Flores

Qatar’s envoy to UN condemns Iranian drone, missile strikes across the Gulf as ‘clear violation of international law’. Listen to this article | 4 mins info Qatar has called on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to take immediate steps to halt Iranian attacks on countries across the Middle East, warning that a failure to act sends a “dangerous signal”. Sheikha Alya Ahmed bin Saif Al Thani, Qatar’s ambassador to the UN, on Wednesday condemned Iran’s missile and drone strikes on targets across the region as “a clear violation of international law and the UN Charter”. Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list “The continued targeting of our territory by the Islamic Republic of Iran does not reflect good faith, and impacts deeply the foundation of understanding upon which bilateral relations between our countries have been built,” she told reporters at the UN headquarters in New York. “The Security Council must act [and] fulfil its responsibility. Failure to respond would send a dangerous signal that attacks against uninvolved neighbours carry no consequences,” she said. Her comments …

Ex-refugee and former Iraqi president takes over UN’s refugee agency

Ex-refugee and former Iraqi president takes over UN’s refugee agency

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Bahram Salih, the new head of the UN’s refugee agency says that he knows the pain of being ripped from all one knows. The former Iraqi president has just taken over the UNHCR and headed to Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya on his first official trip. About 300,000 people from across the region live there after having been uprooted from their homelands by conflict or climate crises. FRANCE 24’s Bastien Renouil spoke to Salih during his trip. Keywords for this article Source link

Landmark Myanmar Rohingya genocide case opens at UN’s top court

Landmark Myanmar Rohingya genocide case opens at UN’s top court

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THE HAGUE: A landmark case accusing Myanmar of committing genocide against minority Muslim Rohingya opened at the United Nations’ top court on Monday (Jan 12). It is the first genocide case the International Court of Justice will hear in full in more than a decade. The outcome will have repercussions beyond Myanmar, likely affecting South Africa’s genocide case at the ICJ against Israel over the war in Gaza. Myanmar has denied accusations of genocide. “The case is likely to set critical precedents for how genocide is defined and how it can be proven, and how violations can be remedied,” Nicholas Koumjian, head of the UN’s Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar, told Reuters. The predominantly Muslim West African country of Gambia filed the case at the ICJ – also known as the World Court – in 2019, accusing Myanmar of committing genocide against the Rohingya, a mainly Muslim minority in the remote western Rakhine state. Myanmar’s armed forces launched an offensive in 2017 that forced at least 730,000 Rohingya from their homes and into neighbouring Bangladesh, …