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What a difference 35 years make
Jerusalem :: Israel | 8 days ago
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In an October 1974 cable to Democratic Senator Henry "Scoop" Jackson, following passage of his legislation helping Soviet Jews emigrate, Israel's Foreign Minister Yigal Allon wrote that "your efforts in this matter manifest once again your deep understanding...
Tags: Israel, UN Human Rights Council, Richard Goldstone, Goldstone Report, Judge Goldstone, US Congress, Jackson, Minnesota, Gaza Conflict, war crimes, Jerusalem, Islam and antisemitism, United Nations Human Rights Council, Gaza War, Hamas, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Gaza, Israel-Gaza conflict, Politics
Key members criticise UN rights council
London :: United Kingdom | 12 days ago
Credibility More than a third of the members of the UN Human Rights Council, including Britain, France, India, Nigeria and the United States, have criticised the body in a report seen by AFP on Wednesday. The report by 17 of the 47 member states in the Council, as...
Tags: UN Human Rights Council, United Kingdom, London, Human Rights Commission, United Nations Commission on Human Rights, United Nations, Politics, Human rights, International organizations, United Nations Human Rights Council
Displaced Sri Lankans Increasingly Returning Home From Camps – UNHCR
Colombo :: Sri Lanka | 25 days ago
Credibility About 90,000 Sri Lankans displaced by the conflict between Government forces and Tamil separatists have returned to their homes in the past three months, and the pace of returns has begun to accelerate, the United Nations refugee agency reported on Friday.
Tags: Sri Lanka, UN Human Rights Council, foreign minister, State of Emergency
Committee compiles draft report on human rights
Doha :: Qatar | about 1 month ago
Credibility The National Committee assigned for preparing the State�s Human Rights Report for the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) at the UN Human Rights Council has compiled the report and is working to get the final official nod. This was disclosed by Sheikh Khalid...
Tags: The National Committee, UN Human Rights Council, Human Rights Office
UN: Useless Nation or United Nuts?
It seems that the United Nations Human Rights Council is writing a report and it doesn't have to do with the Speech Jihad. Is it on genocide in Sudan? Perhaps China or Chad or those other paragons of human rights. No, its a report about the feelings...
Tags: UN, UN Human Rights Council, burqa, transgender, antiterrorism, sex slaves, Martin Scheinin
Cotler: Israel should probe Gaza war
Jerusalem :: Israel | about 1 month ago
Credibility Israel could set a legal precedent and diminish the threat of international criminal prosecution for war crimes by setting up an independent commission of inquiry into Operation Cast Lead, Canada's former justice minister Irwin Cotler told The Jerusalem...
Tags: Arab-Israeli, Israel Into, Gaza Strip, war crimes, Judge Richard Goldstone, UN Human Rights Council, Bernard Kouchner, Goldstone Report, Hamas, IDF
The tide is changing, and the sky is clearing, for the Palestinians, at last
Look around you, or peep into the world’s window. Do you notice that the world has changed? Yes, it has. The unthinkable has happened. In fact, a series of events unimaginable only a year ago have occurred. Even though one of these astonishing events...
Tags: Peace in the Middle East, UN Human Rights Council, The International Criminal Court
Just what did Goldstone expect?
Jerusalem :: Israel | about 1 month ago
Credibility It is difficult to think of a figure of the international stature and reputation of Richard Goldstone, with his rich experience as an international criminal prosecutor and investigator of human rights situations, as being naive or unrealistic. It is all...
Tags: Israeli, Gaza Strip, war crimes, Judge Richard Goldstone, UN Human Rights Council, UN's Human Rights Council, United Nations Security Council
Arab-Israeli attorney backs Goldstone Report in Geneva
Jerusalem :: Israel | about 1 month ago
Credibility UN Human Rights Council in Geneva Photo: AFP Fatma Alajou, who represents Israeli human rights group, tells Human Rights Council, 'Israel has not been investigating its own conduct since second intifada.' Speaking to Ynet, she says, 'Israeli legal...
Tags: Sharon Roffe-Ofir Arab-Israeli, war crimes, UN Human Rights Council, Goldstone Report, Geneva Photo, Gaza Strip
Deputy FM: Goldstone supporters won't teach Israel morality
Jerusalem :: Israel | about 1 month ago
Credibility Israel will not be given a lesson in morality by those countries that backed the decision." (Roni Sofer)
Tags: Israel, UN Human Rights Council, Roni Sofer, Goldstone Report, Benjamin Netanyahu
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