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AFP: US drone strikes may break international law: UN
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"The problem with the United States is that it is making an increased use of drones/Predators (which are) particularly prominently used now in relation to Pakistan and Afghanistan," UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Executions Philip Alston told a press conference.
Omar Barghouti: Dissolve the Palestinian Authority
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Add Sticky NoteWe simply cannot afford to give up on the UN, though. Human rights organizations and international civil society must continue to help the Palestinian struggle to pressure the UN, at least its General Assembly, to adopt and act upon the recommendations of the Goldstone report at all levels.
- Actually, the UN should be dissolved too. - on 2009-10-06
Translator collapsed during Khadafy's rambling diatribe
When I first heard of this, I thought it was joke! This is really hilarious, and yes I had wondered before how translators in general deal with Qaddafi's rantings.
UN report accuses Israeli military of negligence in Gaza war | World news | guardian.co.uk
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Add Sticky NoteIt said: "The board concluded that IDF actions involved varying degrees of negligence or recklessness with regard to United Nations premises and to the safety of United Nations staff and other civilians within those premises, with consequent deaths, injuries, and extensive physical damage and loss of property."
- "Negligence or recklessness"?!!! A7a! A7a! What about "intentional and deliberate" instead?! - on 2009-05-05
Al Jazeera English - Middle East - UN says Egypt pig cull real mistake
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The United Nations has called Egypt's move to cull 400,000 pigs as a precaution against swine flu "a real mistake".
BBC NEWS | Americas | CIA torture exemption 'illegal'
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The UN special rapporteur on torture, Manfred Nowak, says the US is bound under the UN Convention against Torture to prosecute those who engage in it.
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Add Sticky NoteMr Obama on Thursday said he would not prosecute under anti-torture laws CIA personnel who relied in good faith on Bush administration legal opinions issued after the 11 September attacks.
- Good faith my ass! Torture is institutionalized and has been perfected, tried by the CIA since the 1950s. These fuckers are sadists who are no different than Mubarak's gestapo - on 2009-04-19
Al Jazeera English - Europe - UN admits 'losing war on drugs'
Legalize and regulate it ya zebala instead of wasting your resources in a useless fight..
Al Jazeera English - Africa - 'Women at risk' amid economic woes
The UN says that at least one in three women will be beaten, coerced into sex or otherwise abused in her lifetime and one in five women will be a victim of rape or attempted rape.
BBC NEWS | Europe | Italy pressed by UN over migrants
The UN's refugee agency says it is increasingly concerned for the welfare of nearly 2,000 migrants at a detention centre on a southern Italian island.
UN human rights official: Gaza evokes memories of Warsaw Ghetto - Haaretz - Israel News
There is evidence that Israel committed war crimes during its 22-day campaign in the Gaza Strip and there should be an independent inquiry, UN investigator Richard Falk said Thursday.
Al Jazeera English - Middle East - UN releases Gaza attack photos
The United Nations has released images of white phosphorus munitions raining down on one of its compounds during Israel's war on Gaza.
"الأونروا" تنفي سرقة المساعدات التي تصل غزة وبيعها في الأسواق
أكد سامي المشعشع، الناطق بلسان وكالة الأمم المتحدة لغوث وتشغيل اللاجئين الفلسطينيين (الأونروا)، على أن المساعدات العربية للشعب الفلسطيني تصل إلى الوكالة التي تقوم بدورها بتوزيع هذه المساعدات على السكان في غزة، نافياً بذلك إشاعات عن سرقة هذه المساعدات.
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