"A group of researchers from Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom have created a dataset called “corpus of resolutions” that contains all resolutions, drafts, and meeting records of the United Nations (UN) Security Council, an international body that aims to ensure global peace and security."
In her intervention, Phyllis Bennis highlights the ongoing #Nakba faced by the #Palestinian people since 1948, juxtaposing it with the global advances in #HumanRights during the same period. She underscores the role of #SettlerColonialism & the complicit support of some states in perpetuating the crisis, particularly in #Gaza. Bennis calls for an immediate #ceasefire, emphasizing the deliberate nature of #EthnicCleansing & the dire #humanitarian situation
#icc vs #icj
"The ICC considers cases against individuals and as such has to be distinguished from the International Court of Justice, which rules on disputes between states, such as the case brought by South Africa against Israel in January 2024 under the 1948 Genocide Convention."
It's a clear sign of the antisemitism at the United Nations that they didn't blast this change out to every major news agency in the world.
"According to data published May 6, of the 34,735 people who have died in Gaza, more than 9,500 were women and more than 14,500 were children. Two days later, the United Nations reduced those figures to 4,959 women and 7,797 children killed while maintaining that the overall number of more than 35,000 deaths in Gaza remains unchanged."
This is notable because previously Australian politicians have been cowards and abstained from recognising Palestine as a country — for years, they merely talked-up the possibility of a two-state solution between Israel and mumble at some undefined time in the distant future.
It's also worth noting that Israel is so hellbent on continuing to commit genocide against Palestinian people that Gilad Erdan, Israel's Ambassador to the UN, shredded a copy of the UN Charter. He's so keen to deny Palestinian people human rights that he unilaterally symbolically destroyed human rights for everyone in the world.
“Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the U.S. ambassador to the #UnitedNations, will no longer speak at the University of #Vermont’s commencement ….
The cancellation appears to be a victory for a nearly week-old encampment of pro-[#Palestine] protesters on UVM’s … campus. Protesters had demanded that [she] be removed as the … commencement speaker, saying that [she] was complicit in vetoing 3 [#UN#ceasefire resolutions]” #protest
University of #Vermont encampment still up this morning with little appreciable #police presence. One of their demands strikes at the #Biden administration:
“And protesters called on #UVM to cancel this year’s commencement speaker, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the U.S. ambassador to the #UnitedNations. Protesters see her as complicit in the three U.S. vetoes of #ceasefire resolutions at the United Nations.” #protest#FreePalestine
“A United Nations team in the Gaza Strip visiting the site for a pier and the staging area for maritime aid operations had to seek shelter in a bunker "for some time" on Wednesday after the area came under fire, a UN spokesperson said on Thursday.”