Tag: United Nations

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2009-05-29 "[C]limate change is not something waiting to happen. It is impacting seriously the lives of many people around the world.”
The migration of people from newly uninhabitable areas presents a security issue that needs to be addressed by the United Nations Security Council.
“This is one of the reasons why I've described climate change as all encompassing.
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This threat to our health, this threat to food production, this threat to security. It raises political tensions, it will have people on the move -- and they are on the move -- and many more which will bring tensions.”
-- Kofi Annan, Global Humanitarian Forum's president, former U.N. Secretary-General, speaking to CNN's Becky Anderson in London
2009-04-13 The United Nations Security Council adopted a presidential statement condemning the April 5 rocket launch by the DPRK and demanding the country "not conduct any further launch", saying it is "in contravention of Security Council resolution 1718" and urging the early resumption of the six-party talks.
2009-01-27 "The reckless and cynical use of civilian installations by Hamas and indiscriminate firing of rockets against civilian populations are clear violations of international humanitarian law."
-- John Holmes, United Nations Humanitarian Affairs Chief, told the UN Security Council
2009-01-26 "We have clear evidence," he said. "In our report that we sent to the United Nations, we made it clear that former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld clearly authorized torture methods and he was told at that time by Alberto Mora, the legal council of the Navy, 'Mr. Secretary, what you are actual ordering here amounts to torture.' So, there we have the clear evidence that Mr. Rumsfeld knew what he was doing but, nevertheless, he ordered torture."
-- Manfred Nowak, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture, during an interview with CNN's Rick Sanchez
2009-01 The chief UN aid official for Gaza, John Ging, has appealed to the international community to protect Gaza’s civilians, calling it a “test of our humanity”.
2009-01 -- According to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
2008-12-09 "Preventive action must be taken immediately to offset the persisting and wide-ranging violations of the fundamental human right to life, and in view of the emerging situation that is producing a humanitarian catastrophe that is unfolding day by day.
Israel still maintains its Gaza siege in its full fury, allowing only barely enough food and fuel to enter to stave off mass famine and disease
Such a policy of collective punishment initiated by Israel to punish Gazans for political developments within the Gaza Strip constitutes a continuing flagrant and massive violation of international humanitarian law."
-- Richard Falk, the UN's Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories, in a statement
2008-12 East Timor remains on the brink of anarchy and could easily slide back into violence
The country's dysfunctional police force, divided political leadership and weak economy has left it vulnerable to rapid political collapse
-- According to a report by the UN's Department of Peacekeeping Operations
2008-11-24 Israel's treatment of the Palestinians was like "the apartheid of an earlier era.
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We must not be afraid to call something what it is" since the UN passed the International Convention against the crime of apartheid.
-- According to Miguel D'Escoto Brockmann, UN General Assembly president, remarks at an annual debate marking the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
2008-11-21 Haaretz reported that Karen Abu Zayd, United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) commissioner-general said Gaza faces a humanitarian "catastrophe" if Israel maintains its blockade. She called the current closure the gravest since the early days of the Second Intifada eight years ago. "It's been closed for so much longer than ever before....and we have nothing in our warehouses....It will be a catastrophe if this persists, a disaster."












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