Posts Tagged ‘rapporteur’

UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine: Israel has turned all of Palestine into ‘an open-air prison’ to further annexation plans

Francesca Albanese’s June report to the UN Human Rights Council says Israel uses physical, bureaucratic, military, and surveillance means to “de-Palestinianize” the occupied territory, threatening “the existence of the Palestinians as a people.” Source

UN Special Rapporteur facing smear campaign for calling out Israeli settler-colonialism and apartheid 

The new UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Francesca Albanese, has recently come under attack by a host of pro-Israel actors, including the supposedly free Israeli press.  Source

UN Special Rapporteur says Israel is committing ‘pitiless’ apartheid in new report

UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the occupied Palestinian territories Michael Lynk is the latest human rights expert to declare Israel an Apartheid state.  In a 19-page report submitted to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on Tuesday, Lynk said that the situation in the occupied Palestinian Territory (oPt) has moved beyond occupation and […]

UN Special Rapporteur Urges US To Lift The Blockade Against Venezuela

Above photo: Alena Douhan, UN Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of unilateral coercive measures. AFP. NOTE: Sign the petition calling on the Biden administration to end the economic war at SanctionsKill.org/petition. And join us on Saturday, February 27 at 4:00 pm Eastern/1:00 pm Pacific for a training on the new Sanctions Kill toolkit. Click […]

UN rapporteur says US and allies’ sanctions on Venezuela driving humanitarian ‘calamities’ & hampering its fight against Covid-19

A UN special rapporteur on human rights has called for an immediate end to US and allied sanctions on Venezuela, saying they’ve had a “devastating” humanitarian toll and cut the flow of medical supplies amid the Covid-19 crisis. A preliminary report from Alena Douhan – UN special rapporteur on “the impact of unilateral coercive measures” […]

UN rapporteur urges sanctions on Israel for driving Palestinians ‘back to the dark ages’

Last week there was a significant development in the international response to the Israeli occupation when the UN rapporteur for human rights in the occupied territories came out with a harsh report saying the world was too passive about the occupation. The “duration of this occupation is without precedent or parallel in today’s world,” the […]

The Zio-con Who Bought Disaster to Libya is Doing it Again

By Gilad Atzmon Bernard-Henri Lévy (BHL), the ultra Zionist who declared that ‘as a Jew’ he liberated Libya, is again campaigning for more immoral interventionist wars. He insists that the current terror in Europe comes from Syria and Iraq. His solution- let’s drop more bombs on Muslim and Arab cities- as if we haven’t been […]

Iraqi Army Launched Anti-ISIL Offensive in Al-Anbar Province

nsnbc : The Iraqi Army launched a major offensive to recapture major strategic areas and cities in the country’s Al-Anbar province from the self-proclaimed Islamic State. The province,  bordering Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Syria, is a key asset for the insurgents southern logistics system. Iraqi troops in Mosul (archives). Iraqi Army Major General Ali Ibrahim […]

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