The Tamil People: “Unsung Victims”

Alfred de Zayas Tamil women holding a protest in Jaffna soon after the civil war to remember family members who disappeared. Most are still waiting for answers Photograph: Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters The Tamils of the island of Sri Lanka (Ceylon) belong to that category of victims of major human rights violations who only few in the…

Black Market in Broad Daylight

Lauren Smith U.S. school kids, hospital patients, and prison inmates share food poisoning, while food liquidators boast they turn “trash into treasure.” [This article is the second part of a series on human rights abuse by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) and the Miami Federal Detention Center (Miami FDC). Part One was on its deadly…

Global Afrikan Congress Began Sankofa International Conference on Reparations in Barbados August 4 to 6 2022

Yoselina Guevara López The Global Afrikan Congress (GAC) began this Thursday, August 4, in Barbados, an International Conference on Reparations, under the theme Sankofa “repair the damage, repair the imbalance, justice must be done”.  The event is being held at the Roy Marshall Teaching Complex of the University of the West Indies (UWI) in Cave…

Global Divide: 76% of Humanity (& Nearly All Poorer Nations of Color) Did Not Vote to Kick Russia Off the UN Human Rights Council

Roger Stoll “In general, in a deep conflict, the eyes of the downtrodden are more acute about the reality of the present.” – Immanuel Wallerstein (The Modern World System, Introduction, p. 4) Introduction On April 7 the UN General Assembly (UNGA) passed a resolution intended to signal support for the US/NATO effort in Ukraine. This…

China Votes Against Russia’s Suspension from the UN Human Rights Council

We publish here the text of the statement made by Chinese Ambassador Zhang Jun at the Emergency Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly, held on April 7th, where the Russian Federation’s membership of the UN Human Rights Council was suspended. In explaining his country’s negative vote, Ambassador Zhang reiterated China’s respect for international…

Why Can’t Venezuela Vote at the UN?

Mision Verdad Many may be wondering why Venezuela, a strategic ally of the Russian Federation, didn’t vote against Russia’s suspension from the UN Human Rights Council as the vote took place on Thursday in the General Assembly. Organización Sures, a Venezuelan NGO dedicated to the defense of human rights from critical and emancipatory visions, clarifies the reasons…

UN Suspends Russia from UN Human Rights Council, Venezuela Not Allowed to Vote

Alba Ciudad The UN General Assembly voted on Thursday, April 7, to suspend Russia from the UN Human Rights Council. The move follows accusations against the Russian military of killing civilians in the Ukrainian city of Bucha. The accusations were repeatedly denied by Moscow and have not been independently verified. The resolution was approved with…

Russia’s Exclusion from the Human Rights Council Sets a Dangerous Precedent

Explanation of vote by Deputy Permanent Representative Gennady Kuzmin before UNGA vote on a draft resolution on suspension of Russia’s rights of membership at the UN Human Rights Council Mr.President, This is not the right moment for being theatrically pathetic in the manner of the Ukrainian representative, so I will speak to the point. The…

Russia’s Suspension from the Human Rights Council Exposes the ‘Deep Erosion’ of the UN System

Ekaterina Blinova The UN General Assembly (GA) on 7 April voted 93 to 24 to suspend Russia’s membership in Human Rights Council (UNHRC), with 58 countries abstaining from the vote. It is the first time a permanent member of the UN Security Council has been banned from any UN body. What’s behind the move and…

The UN Votes in Favor of Suspending Russia from the Human Rights Council

Statement by the Russian Foreign Ministry on the early termination of the Russian Federation’s membership in the UN Human Rights Council 07-04-2022 The Russian side considers the resolution adopted on April 7 in New York by the UN General Assembly to suspend the Russian Federation’s membership in the UN Human Rights Council as an unlawful…

US, Canada, Australia Advised to Reflect on Violations of Indigenous People’s Rights

Global Times The US, Canada and Australia are advised to reflect seriously on their wrongdoings in history, immediately amend laws and change policies that violate indigenous people’s rights, investigate the crimes and hold the perpetrators accountable, Jiang Duan, minister of the Chinese mission to the UN in Geneva, said at a side event during the…

Shameful Racism against Refugees Fleeing the Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Yoselina Guevara The current conflict between Russia and Ukraine has not only highlighted the fragility of peace on the pandemic-ravaged continent, it is also underlining the grim racist tinge that many Europeans and people of European descent tend to have. The numbers of refugees fleeing armed clashes on Ukrainian territory are staggering, close to 1.5…

UN Human Rights Council Abandons Yemen

Charles Pierson The UN Human Rights Council has quashed an ongoing investigation into possible war crimes in Yemen.  The HRC rejected a draft resolution on October 7 which would have continued the mandate of the UN Group of Eminent Independent and Regional Experts on Yemen (GEE) to investigate war crimes and human rights violations in…

Dismantling the Report of the UN Independent Fact-Finding Mission to Venezuela

Misión Verdad Human Rights and Alliance of Civilizations Hall at the UN headquarters in Geneva. Photo: UN The recent publication of a report issued by the Independent Mission to Determine the Facts in Venezuela of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) was positioned, in the media and international opinion, due to its remarks on…

UN Confirms Serious Human Rights Violations During Protests in Chile

UN Human Rights Office report on Chile crisis describes multiple police violations and calls for reforms GENEVA (13 December 2019) – The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, in a report on Chile published on Friday, says that during the recent mass protests and state of emergency the police and army failed…

The Bachelet Report Will Be Another Instrument to Intensify Regime Change

Misión Verdad The report by the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, published on July 4, is the first to be conducted under the direction of former Chilean President Michel Bachelet. After the visits made by her technical team in March and the last one at the end of June, with…

Office of the U.N. High Commisioner for Human Rights Receives a Letter from President Maduro Rejecting the Report on Venezuela

The Permanent Representative of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to the United Nations (UN) with headquarters in Geneva, Ambassador Jorge Valero, delivered the letter sent by president Nicolás Maduro to the Office of the High Commissioner of the United Nations for Human Rights. Through the letter, which was received by the Alternate High Commissioner Kate…

The UN a League of Assassins: The Decline of Everything That Has Been

Ricardo Arturo Salgado Bonilla For many weeks, Honduras has been in a convulsive situation. Several dead and wounded at the hands of the repressive forces of the state, political prisoners, militarization of the country, military entry to the campus of the National Autonomous University of Honduras, shooting students. In addition, days of brutal repression against…