“U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon publicly acknowledged Thursday that he removed the Saudi-led coalition currently bombing Yemen from a blacklist of child killers — 72 hours after it was published — due to a financial threat to defund United Nations programs. … Continue reading
Category Archives: Human Rights
” US authorities are continuing the gravy train for many Washington bureaucracies, increasing insecurity around the world, according to retired US Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski . The more conflict the bigger the market place for arms, she adds. … Continue reading
“Last minute changes to new laws initially drafted in response to the Pike River Mine tragedy could impact constitutional rights, the New Zealand Law Society says. After three days of intense debate, the Health and Safety Bill could see its … Continue reading
“The American attitude toward Native Americans was that they were “in the way;” that they interfered with God’s plan to settle and civilize the New Land. Therefore, they had to be swept aside. Zionists similarly justified the ethnic cleansing of … Continue reading
“Israeli forces, on Tuesday night, broke into the home of the videographer who filmed an Israeli soldier executing a wounded Palestinian in cold blood, in Tel Rumeida, central Hebron, last week. The videographer, activist Imad Abu Shamsiyya, said that soldiers … Continue reading
” I have been filming in the Marshall Islands, which lie north of Australia, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Whenever I tell people where I have been, they ask, “Where is that?” If I offer a clue by … Continue reading
“Public beheadings at the “frightening” rate of almost a day this year, muffling dissent, widespread human rights abuses, and war crimes in Yemen have made Saudi Arabia synonymous with one of the most repressive regimes in the world, according to … Continue reading
“Israel is moving forward with plans to drill for oil in the occupied Golan Heights, despite warnings that the move violates international law. For the last year, Afek, an Israeli subsidiary of the US firm Genie Energy, has undertaken exploratory … Continue reading
“The Tantura massacre in May 1948, committed by Haganah forces just days after the declaration of the State of Israel, is not only one of the worst massacres of 1948, but its cover-up is also, in itself, a story, showing … Continue reading
“Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are cashed strapped this winter because Israel is withholding $240 million in tax revenue to the Palestinian Authority as punishment for joining the ICC. This is radical, though it’s not unusual and something we’ve come … Continue reading