Posted on February 26th, 2007 by Marian Houk
The BBC World Service had the first reports out of the Hague: “The UN’s highest court has cleared Serbia of direct responsibility for genocide in the 1990s Bosnian war. The International Court of Justice was ruling in the first case of a state charged with genocide. If Bosnia’s lawsuit had been successful it could have [...]
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Filed under: Former Yugoslavia, International Court of Justice - ICJ, The Hague
Posted on February 26th, 2007 by Marian Houk
The Financial Times reported last week that “The United Nations has vowed to press ahead with large-scale military operations against Haiti’s brutal ganglords, in a sign of UN peacekeepers’ growing readiness to fight in the places they have been sent to protect. After getting the green light from President René Préval in December, the UN [...]
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Filed under: Haiti, Human Rights, UN Peacekeeping, UN Security Council
Posted on February 25th, 2007 by Marian Houk
Otherwise, it’s back to the UN Security Council for tightened sanctions. Representatives of the five Permanent Members of the UN Security Council are meeting in London on Monday, together with Germany, to discuss how to respond to Iran’s refusal to stop its nuclear program, U.S. Secretary of State has offered to involve herself in direct [...]
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Filed under: Iran, UN Security Council, US in UN
Posted on February 25th, 2007 by Marian Houk
He used to grin and chuckle when called the future President, all those years when he was working in exile to bring independence to his people. At times, it seemed East Timor was a hopeless case, and he was working for a lost cause — all those years that he paced the corridors of the [...]
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Filed under: East Timor, Journalism and Journalists, UN History
Posted on February 24th, 2007 by Marian Houk
Let’s talk about Holocaust rememberance, shall we? Has the UN not, now, condemned (in its first resolution on this topic, adoped in November 2005, fully 60 years after the end of the Second World War, “all manifestations of religious intolerance, incitement, harassment or violence against persons or communities based on ethnic origin or religious belief, [...]
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Filed under: BAN Ki-Moon, UN Secretary-General
Posted on February 24th, 2007 by Marian Houk
The UN News Centre [the UN uses British English spelling] reports that “More than four years after ordering United Nations inspectors out and withdrawing from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) has invited the head of the UN atomic watchdog to visit for talks next month. ‘I see this [...]
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Filed under: BAN Ki-Moon, Disarmament, Donors, North Korea, UN Secretary-General
Posted on February 23rd, 2007 by Marian Houk
Here is a very wierd story, published in the Washington Post today. Are we to believe that this man and his likes were the ones who set up the UN Oil-For-Food program? And then the skimmed off the top? “South Korean businessman and influence peddler Tongsun Park was sentenced Thursday to five years in prison [...]
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Filed under: Corruption, Iraq, UN History, UN Secretary-General
Posted on February 23rd, 2007 by Marian Houk
The British newspaper The Guardian has this article published today: “Suspicion of UN troops grows in south Lebanon”, by Clancy Chassay in Maroun al-Ras – “Six months after a UN-brokered ceasefire ended Israel’s war with Hizbullah, scepticism about the role of 10,000 UN troops is growing in south Lebanon amid signs that the militant Shia [...]
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Filed under: Israel, Lebanon, UN Peacekeeping, UN Security Council, United Nations
Posted on February 23rd, 2007 by Marian Houk
You can find it at this address — and it’s still marked “restricted access”. http://eyeontheun.org/assets/attachments/documents/4559. _Iran_IAEA2007.pdf The last couple of paragraphs say the following: F. Transparency Measures 25. Iran has not agreed to any of the required transparency measures, which are essential for the clarification of certain aspects of the scope and nature of its [...]
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Filed under: Iran, UN Security Council
Posted on February 23rd, 2007 by Marian Houk
The headline, suggested Rina Rosenberg, Esquire, Co-Founder and International Advocacy Director of Adalah, an independent human rights organization in Israel, is: “there is no discrimination in Israelâ€, according to the State Party (represented, in this case, by Israel’s Ambassador to Geneva Yitzhak Levanon). The Country Rapporteur in the UN’s Committee on the Elimination of Racial [...]
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Filed under: International Law, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
