By Mona Ali Khalil, PassBlue* UNITED NATIONS, Sep 7 2018 (IPS) – It is entirely the United States’ prerogative to cut off its voluntary contributions to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, or UNRWA. In her statements about why the Trump…
AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES UN’s Martin Griffiths says ‘going to make it happen’ at Geneva talks despite rebel no-show. The UN’s special envoy to Yemen expressed confidence even though the first day of peace talks between rebels and the internationally recognised Yemeni…
Al Jazeera Laser-guided missile transfer to Saudi Arabia stopped amid increasing concerns for slain Yemeni civilians. Spain put the brakes on a sale of hundreds of missiles to Saudi Arabia amid concerns about their use against civilians in the war in Yemen. The defence ministry…
by Kul Chandra Gautam (nepa-laya, Kathmandu, 2018) Book review by Valerie Julliand, UN Resident Coordinator in Nepal Kul Chandra Gautam’s extraordinary memoir resonates on so many levels, depending on one’s perspective. I trekked through its more than 500 pages as a…
Why are you invited? As human being inhabitant of the Earth you are invited to act against the commodification and privatization of any life form.
BY ISHAAN THAROOR* – The Washington Post The U.n. Relief and Works Agency, or UNRWA, has tended to the needs of Palestinian refugees for nearly seven decades. But if President Trump has his way, it will soon be out of business.
By Angela Dewan, Erin McLaughlin and Antonia Mortensen – CNN After their rendezvous on Tuesday in Milan, the staunchly anti-migrant Orban described Salvini as his hero for refusing to allow rescued asylum-seekers, stuck on a boat, to set foot on Italian soil unless the European…
By Thalif Deen* UNITED NATIONS, Aug 2018 (IPS) – Saudi Arabia, which has been accused of relentlessly bombing civilian targets in strife-torn Yemen and threatening executions of human rights activists, is fast gaining notoriety as a political outcast at the United Nations. UN…
Hanne Strong is a central element of a major initiative in a black moment for human rights and minorities, the Aniwa Gathering II, Fishkill , that will take place in New York between September 14 and 16 of this year. According to the pillars that support its basic principles…
By Sir Arthur Richard Jolly BRIGHTON, UK, Aug 28 2018 (IPS) – Kul Gautam’s memoir is everything which one hopes for from a good biography. There are difficulties all along the way, obstacles and challenges overcome and a vision pursued with extraordinary persistence in spite of…
