Tag: UN

Of those over 1,000 deaths, more than 560 were in Gaza and the West Bank, 130 in Sudan, 60 in South Sudan, 25 in Ukraine and 25 in [the Democratic Republic of the Congo].

It’s a massive subsidy to Equinor, the Norwegian oil company behind the Bay du Nord offshore oil project.

If any entity requires immediate disarmament and deradicalization, it is Trump and his so-called Executive Board.

Over 100 countries increased their military budgets, with the top ten spenders alone accounting for 73 percent of the total.

Independent UN experts say Israeli authorities are carrying out genocidal acts in Gaza, warning states that failure to act amounts to complicity.

As Israel touts limited pauses in its assault on Gaza, humanitarian groups decry continued attacks, worsening famine, and blocked aid as part of a deliberate campaign of suffering.

This obligation, the UN’s International Court of Justice said on July 23, is grounded in existing environmental and human rights treaties.

I’m thinking, of course, about climate change.

The report presents the human rights argument for decisive political action to reduce the devastating impacts of the climate crisis.

Palestinians seeking food at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation sites are being killed and injured in rising numbers, as Israel enforces a siege that aid experts and survivors say is deliberately fueling chaos, displacement, and starvation.