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Blair Peterson

UN human rights chief criticises security council over global conflicts | World news | ... - 0 views

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International Relations United Nations UN world news

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  • “These crises hammer home the full cost of the international community’s failure to prevent conflict,” Pillay said. “None of these crises erupted without warning.”
  • Pillay said Syria’s conflict “is metastasing outwards in an uncontrollable process whose eventual limits we cannot predict”. She also cited conflicts in Afghanistan, the Central African Republic, Congo, Iraq, Libya, Mali, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Ukraine and Gaza.
  • The resolution acknowledged that the United Nations has not always used the tools in its charter for preventing conflict. It prescribed several steps for improvement, focusing on addressing human rights violations earlier and recognizing that such abuses are often warning signs of looming conflicts.
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    • Blair Peterson
      Blair Peterson on 28 Aug 14
       
      What are the tools in the charter that can be used to prevent conflicts? Why have they decided to not use them in the past?
  • The resolution said little about the political differences that often paralyze the security council, where sharp divisions between veto-holding members Russia and the United States have often thwarted action on Syria and Ukraine.
  • “Short-term geopolitical considerations and national interest, narrowly defined, have repeatedly taken precedence over intolerable human suffering and grave breaches of and long-term threats to international peace and security,”
  • The human rights chief said the use of veto power on the security council “to stop action intended to prevent or defuse conflict is a short-term and ultimately counter-productive tactic”.
  • And she suggested building on the Arms Trade Treaty by requiring that, in countries where there are human rights concerns, governments accept a small human rights monitoring team as a condition of purchasing weapons.
Blair Peterson

On the UN and war in Gaza - Opinion - Al Jazeera English - 0 views

www.aljazeera.com/...r-gaza-201481712442826114.html

International Relations Israel Palestine Gaza

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  • President Mahmoud Abbas made no such call to the secretary general, but a group of distinguished scholars and NGOs told him in an open letter that he should either stand for law and justice or resign.
  • Over the last few decades, Israel has disregarded hundreds of resolutions, "censuring", "deploring", "urging against", "recommending against", or "condemning" its attacks, settlements, deportations, occupation, etc. 
  • In the jargon of UN diplomacy, it seems that a resolution that "urges" means "we aren't happy but won't move a finger"; "deplores", means "we don't approve, but you're free to continue with your mischief"; "condemns" means "we're very unhappy but won't do anything about it, nada"; and, "cease" means "if you don't stop we'll remind you if someone reminds us the next time around."
Blair Peterson

U.N. Sees Need for $1 Billion to Fight Ebola - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...-needs-more-money-un-says.html

Ebola Africa UN United Nations

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  • United Nations officials said Tuesday, estimating the cost of this effort at $1 billion.
gr323867

United Nations News Centre - There can be no military solution, Ban says as Israel laun... - 4 views

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united nations israel Palestine

shared by gr323867 on 28 Aug 14 - No Cached
  • Ban Ki-moon today voiced his regret that Israel has launched a ground offensive against Gaza, despite calls for restraint, and stressed that there can be no military solution to the conflict which flared up over a week ago.
    • gr323867
      gr323867 on 28 Aug 14
       
      The UN is against Israel's actions because it believes that a military solution will not help and a peaceful solution is necessary.
  • escalated
    • gr323867
      gr323867 on 28 Aug 14
       
      He seems to believe that violence leads to more violence.
  • I urge Israel to do far more to stop civilian casualties. There can be no military solution to this conflict.
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  • Militants in Gaza have since stepped up rocket attacks against Israel, and Israeli airstrikes on the enclave intensified.
    • gr323867
      gr323867 on 28 Aug 14
       
      Each side increases its amount of violence in response to the other.
  • He voiced support for international efforts, led by Egypt, for a sustainable ceasefire, and expressed hope that today’s humanitarian pause can lead to a “more durable calm.”
    • gr323867
      gr323867 on 28 Aug 14
       
      He endorses peaceful negotiations. 
  • gr323867 on 28 Aug 14
     
    Ban Ki-moon Supports a Peaceful Solution
Blair Peterson

United Nations News Centre - New UN envoys for Syria crisis heading to Damascus - 0 views

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syria International Relations refugees crisis

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  • lso sent 3 million people fleeing to neighbouring countries in search of refuge and left a further 6.5 million displaced inside their war-torn homeland.
Blair Peterson

United Nations News Centre - No 'back to school' for millions of children affected by c... - 0 views

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syria International Relations refugees crisis

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  • n Syria, nearly three million children, half the school population, are now not attending classes on a regular basis.
smenegh Meneghini

BBC News - Ebola crisis: Why is the UN response taking so long? - 4 views

www.bbc.com/...world-africa-29654974

International Relations Ebola response logistics

shared by smenegh Meneghini on 23 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • But it is only now, four or six months later, that the great machine of the so-called "international community", the United Nations, is lumbering into action.
  • Imagine trying to set up and run a medium sized multinational company. But then imagine trying to set it up in countries with very bad roads and electricity supply, dodgy telecommunications and mostly badly-educated populations
  • To establish your "multinational company" you have to do some mundane tasks. You have to bring in people from all over the world. Then you have to feed and house them. You have to get them cars and desks and telephones. You have to make sure each bit of the machine knows what the other bits are doing. And that's before your aid workers can move to the front line and actually do their job.
  • smenegh Meneghini on 23 Oct 14
     
    Continue reading the main story Ebola has only really hit the big international headlines in the last few weeks. During that same period, readers may well have also heard about the various aid agencies which are helping out. So, a not unreasonable impression may have formed - that there's a big problem, but it's being dealt with.
Blair Peterson

allAfrica.com: Sierra Leone: WFP And World Bank Scale Up Government Logistical Capacity... - 0 views

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International Relations Ebola World Bank

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  • This follows a memorandum of understanding between the Government of Sierra Leone and the UN Agencies to implement the US$ 28 million World Bank-funded Ebola Response Project, of which US$ 9.5 million was allocated to WFP to deliver food and non-food items.
  • The World Bank partnership with government and the UN Agencies is part of concerted efforts to stop the rapid spread of Ebola Virus Disease in Sierra Leone. It seeks to scale up the country's logistical and operational capacity and mitigate the economic impact on affected communities.
Blair Peterson

BBC News - Ebola crisis: Five ways to break the epidemic - 0 views

www.bbc.com/...world-us-canada-29242842

International Relations Ebola

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  • The aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has urged other countries to "deploy their civil defence and military assets, and medical teams, to contain the epidemic".
  • "As soon as their family member shows more severe symptoms, like bleeding, they will seek to bring them in a treatment centre anyway," says Brice de la Vigne, MSF's director of operations.
  • Senegal, where many UN agencies and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have their regional offices, is expected to become a logistical hub.
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  • "If the CDC (Centre for Disease Control and Prevention) hadn't sent 50 experts to Nigeria, they would not have it under control," Dr Maughan says.
  • "We are working with the authorities in Mali to get all the 86 health centres and hospitals we sponsor there ready," says Alexis Smigielski, head of the Dakar-based medical charity Alima.
  • The WHO has also indicated that people who have survived can now provide blood to treat patients who are sick.
Blair Peterson

New U.N. rights boss warns of 'house of blood' in Iraq, Syria | Reuters - 0 views

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Syria International Relations conflict

shared by Blair Peterson on 08 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • The Council has an independent investigation into war crimes by all sides in Syria, where more than 190,000 documented killings have occurred during the conflict that began in March 2011, according to a report by Pillay last month.
saniyajoshi

BBC News - Ukraine conflict: EU weighs more sanctions on Russia - 0 views

www.bbc.com/...world-europe-31000692

sanctions russia

shared by saniyajoshi on 27 Jan 15 - No Cached
  • EU leaders have asked their foreign ministers to consider imposing further sanctions on Russia in response to the continued fighting in Ukraine.
  • 5,000 people have been killed in fighting since the rebels seized swathes of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions last April, according to UN estimates. More than a million people have been displaced.
  • Ukraine.
    • saniyajoshi
      saniyajoshi on 27 Jan 15
       
      Does Ukraine really want to be a part of Russia? Why? 
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