Category: Human Rights

The US has pulled out of the United Nations Human Rights Council, calling it a “cesspool of political bias”. The “hypocritical and self-serving” body “makes a mockery of human rights”, said US envoy to the UN Nikki Haley. Formed in 2006, the Geneva-based council has been criticised for allowing countries with questionable human rights records…

The Ukrainian government says it fears that many more civilians may have been killed by Russian forces in towns around Kyiv, before they retreated further east. It follows the discovery of many dead civilians in the city of Bucha. Ukrainian human rights workers believe that hundreds more people may be buried in a mass grave…

Professor Mehmet Ulubasoglu New global research shows serious storm events lead to the deterioration of democracy in small island nations as political agents seize window of opportunity. MELBOURNE, VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA, November 18, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ — Island nations are more vulnerable to acts of government oppression in the wake of major storms, with foreign disaster aid…

“Several human rights groups have called on UN members to think again. One, UN Watch, said it was like making a gang of arsonists responsible for the fire brigade.” (BBC Radio 4, October 13, 2020.)
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WITH GOD ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE” — THE WORD OF GOD DENISON, TX, UNITED STATES, November 18, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ — This “Free Book” for our “Beloved American People” is over 750 pages long, with many pictures, and explains what has happened to the “Dream” that is “America” and how “We The People” can fully heal…

Whale scientist Nan Hauser describes how she believes a humpback whale saved her from a shark, and what happened when the same whale came back. Subscribe: #BBCEarth #CloseEncounters Watch more: Planet Earth Blue Planet Planet Earth II Planet Dinosaur Close Encounters: Birth of a Colony Being saved by a whale, finding an extinct frog, and…

The Science of Skills, Super Skills promotes social and emotional skills development as an effective tool in drug use prevention Positive parenting and kind, active and respectful listening to children is key to ensuring their safe, healthy development On World Children’s Day, UNODC highlights the importance of positive parenting and listening to children through its…

Zachor Legal announces the publication of our new peer-reviewed law review article that answers the timely question: Who are the colonizers in the Middle East? A review of history and Marxist terminology shows that if there are settler-colonialists in the Middle East, it is those who refer to themselves as Palestinian Arab Muslims, not Israeli…

Catastrophic climate change outcomes, including human extinction, are not being taken seriously enough by scientists, a new study says. The authors say that the consequences of more extreme warming, which is possible if no action is taken, are “dangerously underexplored”. They argue that the world needs to start preparing for the possibility of what they…