Posted on November 30th, 2007 by Marian Houk
The World Health Organization has just announced sanctions — very light ones — against the NYTimes for breaching a news embargo.
It is surprising, because hardly anybody who wants news coverage would dare do anything against the NYTimes. In fact, it is far more normal for UN spokespersons to deliberately leak advance copies of important UN [...]
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Filed under: Journalism and Journalists, United Nations Agencies and Programmes
Posted on November 30th, 2007 by Marian Houk
This teacher could have received 40 lashes, but was sentenced instead to 15 days in jail — while demonstrators are calling for her execution. Her crime? Officially, that she allowed her students to name a class teddy bear “Muhammad”. Scholars can debate whether this is in any way an offense against [...]
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Filed under: Sudan
Posted on November 30th, 2007 by Marian Houk
Are they serious? The U.S. proposed a draft UN Security Council resolution aimed at enshrining and endorsing the Annapolis Joint Understanding signed by Israeli and Palestinian negotiators — and then they withdrew it, because Israel objected!
Israel reportedly does not want the UN Security Council involved…
Israeli officials have also complained that they were not informed [...]
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Filed under: Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians, US in UN
Posted on November 30th, 2007 by Marian Houk
When the U.S. does something, it tries to go all the way. Now, we learn, the U.S. is asking the UN Security council to endorse the Annapolis “Joint Understanding” — agreed between Israeli and apparently more recalcitrant Palestinian negotiators just eight minutes before the opening of the conference this week.
The U.S. is probably the [...]
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Filed under: Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians, Quartet, UN Security Council, US in UN
Posted on November 30th, 2007 by Marian Houk
“…one of my mentors pointed out an interesting fact to me. He told me that in life there are different types of journalists - those who are very good at getting the story but terrible at putting it together and those who are the opposite. ‘If you get a journalist who can get [...]
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Filed under: Journalism and Journalists
Posted on November 29th, 2007 by Marian Houk
Just after returning from the Annapolis conference, the UNSG BAN Ki-Moon said he would appoint Dutch diplomat Robert H. Serry as his “Envoy to the Quartet”. In addition, BAN said that Serry would be the “United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and his Personal Representative to the Palestine Liberation Organization [...]
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Filed under: BAN Ki-Moon, Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians, Quartet, Register of damages due to The Wall
Posted on November 29th, 2007 by Marian Houk
Just a day after the acquital of Iran’s former nuclear negotiator on charges of spying, the AP has reported from Tehran that “President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad threatened Wednesday that his government would expose details of conversations between a former Iranian nuclear negotiator whom the president had labeled a spy and foreigners he was accused of colluding [...]
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Filed under: Iran
Posted on November 29th, 2007 by Marian Houk
UNSG BAN Ki-Moon told delegates at the Annapolis conference that he was “very pleased and moved to be a part of this historic meeting”. He pledged “the full support of the United Nations family for the renewed effort”, adding that “[f]or 60 years, the Organization has provided the broad parameters for peace, first in [...]
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Filed under: BAN Ki-Moon, Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians, Quartet
Posted on November 28th, 2007 by Marian Houk
The AP reported yesterday that “Iran’s Supreme Court ordered a new investigation Tuesday into the case of an Iranian-Canadian photojournalist whose death in a notorious Tehran prison severely strained relations with Canada. Zahra Kazemi was arrested in July 2003 while taking photographs outside Evin prison during student-led protests against the ruling theocracy. She [...]
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Filed under: Iran
Posted on November 28th, 2007 by Marian Houk
Reuters is reporting that “Families of Srebrenica massacre victims have cleared a legal hurdle in their lawsuit against the Dutch state and the United Nations, which they argue allowed the killing of thousands of Muslims, their lawyers said. A court in the Hague ruled the case could proceed, dismissing pleas by public prosecutors that [...]
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Filed under: Former Yugoslavia
