Posted on June 27th, 2008 by Marian Houk
Some interesting details on the Shebaa Farms issue from Nicholas Blanford in The National, an English-language paper published in Abu Dhabi :
“Securing the liberation of the Shebaa Farms has been a cornerstone of Fouad Siniora’s diplomacy since 2005 when he headed his first government. Mr Siniora said he believes that an Israeli withdrawal from the [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Israel, Lebanon, Middle East Peace Process, Shebaa Farms, Syria, UN Peacekeeping, United Nations
Posted on June 2nd, 2008 by Marian Houk
UN Secretary BAN Ki-Moon said, in a statement issued by his spokesman, that he was “deeply concerned at the recent announcement by the Israeli government to invite new tenders for construction in Israeli settlements in East Jerusalem … The Government of Israel’s continued construction in settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory is contrary to international [...]
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Posted on May 26th, 2008 by Marian Houk
The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva reported on Sunday evening that an independent High Level Fact-Finding Mission led by Archbishop Desmond Tutu (of South Africa) would be traveling to Gaza on 27 and 28 May – and entering from Egypt through the Rafah crossing.
The High Level Fact-Finding Mission to [...]
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Filed under: Egypt, Gaza, Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians, United Nations
Posted on April 1st, 2008 by Marian Houk
John Dugard, a South African international law professor and former anti-Apartheid activist, has taken strong if testy exception to Israel’s policies in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt), as the UN Human Rights Council’s Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights Situation there.
So, it was a little surprising to see that the Jerusalem Post sought him out [...]
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Filed under: Human Rights, International Law, Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians, United Nations
Posted on March 31st, 2008 by Marian Houk
Israel’s Prime Minister has sent about 20 messages to Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad in the last year, feeling out the possibility of resuming peace talks between the two countries, according to a report by correspondent Barak Ravid published on Sunday in Haaretz newspaper.
The source for the story was an unnamed “senior Israeli minister”, who told [...]
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Posted on March 10th, 2008 by Marian Houk
Quietly, some things are beginning to move, and to change.
Is Britain finally waking up to its responsibilities as former Mandatory Power for Palestine, which they abandoned by throwing in the towel and withdrawing when the going got tough in 1947-48?
Likud Party Member of the Knesset Moshe Feiglin was informed by the U.K. Home Office that [...]
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Filed under: Human Rights, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians, United Nations
Posted on March 7th, 2008 by Marian Houk
A spokesman for Louise Arbour, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, told journalists at a regular bi-weekly briefing in Geneva on Friday that “A short while ago, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour confirmed to the states attending the Human Rights Council here in Geneva that she will not be seeking [...]
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Posted on March 6th, 2008 by Marian Houk
I received this by email, from the Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights in Geneva, and shall reproduce it here in its entirety almost without comment, except to point out that this concerns the Iraqi base camp of the military units of the Iranian opposition Mujahedeen-e-Khalq, which has long been a thorn in [...]
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Filed under: Human Rights, Iran, Iraq, United Nations
Posted on February 29th, 2008 by Marian Houk
It is the first execution of Iraq’s former leaders that has been approved by Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, and two Iraqi vice presidents, apparently fulfilling all the legal requirements in the present Iraqi penal code in a way that the executions of (1) Saddam Hussein and (2) his half-brother Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti (whose head was [...]
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Posted on February 29th, 2008 by Marian Houk
Apparently, Cuba announced on 10 December - International Human Rights Day — its intention to sign the two most basic human rights treaties.
The two treaties — the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights — are both derived from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, or [...]
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