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UN's Goldstone Sent 13-Year-Old Boy to Prison for Protesting Apartheid

Ashley Rindsberg | Posted 11.19.2009 | World

Read More: South Africa, Apartheid, Nelson Mandela, Goldstone Report, Human Rights, Gaza, UN Human Rights Council, Israel, New York Times, Goldstone, World News

Prior to his work for the international court, Goldstone cut his judicial teeth on the bench of South Africa's Supreme Court under the apartheid regime.

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Can Arab/Muslim Countries Criticize Israel Under the UN Anti-Blasphemy Resolution?

Ali A. Rizvi | Posted 10.30.2009 | World

Read More: Koran, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Palestine, Islam, Israeli Settlements, Bible, Gaza, West Bank, Judaism, Association for World Education, Pakistan, United Nations, Oic, Fgm, Canada, Arabs, Awe, Occupation, Female Genital Mutilation, Egypt, Torah, UN Human Rights Council, Quran, International Humanist and Ethical Union, Blasphemy, Zionism, Israel, Old Testament, Doru Costea, Sharia, Iheu, Avigdor Lieberman, Benjamin Netanyahu, Middle East, World News

How do the Arab/Muslim countries of the OIC plan to continue their criticism of the Israeli occupation and settlement expansion without, in a way, violating their own proposed resolution?

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UN Human Wrongs Council

David Harris | Posted 10.16.2009 | World

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Today's vote in the mistakenly-named UN Human Rights Council provided a window into those 25 member states who could not distinguish between a democratic state and a terrorist entity.

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UN Endorses Goldstone Gaza Report Accusing Israel Of War Crimes

Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 10.16.2009 | Home

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The United Nations Human Rights Council on Friday endorsed a report that accused both Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas of committing wa...

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Goldstone, Israel's Frankenstein Monster

Bradley Burston | Posted 10.15.2009 | World

Read More: War Crimes, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Palestinian Territories, Gaza, Goldstone Report, Benjamin Netanyahu, UN Human Rights Council, Israel, Bradley Burston, Un, Idf, Ehud Barak, World News

I put off reading the Goldstone report the same way I put off scheduling a colonoscopy. I now realize it was for many of the same reasons. You know it's going to be tremendously uncomfortable, you don't want to know what they're going to find, and the consequences could be life-threatening.

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The Vital Importance of Ending Impunity in Israel and Palestine

Navi Pillay | Posted 09.30.2009 | World

Read More: Human Rights Violations, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Hamas, West Bank, UN Human Rights Council, Richard Goldstone, Fact-Finding-Mission, World News

The blockade, and its effect of collective punishment, must stop. Causing such hardships for the civilian population of Gaza cannot possibly serve the interests of peace and security in the region.

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Goldstone Defends Gaza Report After "Barrage Of Criticism"

Al Jazeera. | Al Jazeera | Posted 09.29.2009 | Home

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A United Nations investigator has defended a report published earlier this month that accuses Israel and Palestinian fighters of war crimes following ...

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Obama Administration Has Lost Leadership On Human Rights, Say Activists

washingtonpost.com | Colum Lynch | Posted 11.22.2009 | World

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UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 21 -- From the beginning, the Obama administration has unabashedly embraced the United Nations, pursuing a diplomatic strategy t...

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The Goldstone Report: Three Strikes and You're Out!

David Harris | Posted 11.18.2009 | World

By the time the Goldstone mission "considered" Israel's entry into Gaza, the result was a foregone conclusion. Context? No way. Balance? Forget about it. The verdict? Already in

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Italy Hosts Child Soldiers Symposium

Jim Luce | Posted 07.28.2009 | World

Read More: U.N. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Tamil Tigers, Giulio Terzi, Sri Lanka, Paris Principles, Iraq, Italian Government, Sri Lanka Human Rights Commission, Rome Symposium on Children and Armed Conflict, U.N. Resolution 1612, Ban Ki-Moon, Warlords, U.N. International School, Sexual Violence, Early Mortality, Francis Deng, Uganda, Suicide Bombing, N.Y.U. School of Law, Poverty, Democratic Republic of Congo, Rome, Unicef, U.N. Security Council”, Child Soldiers, International Save the Children Alliance, Kofi Annan, Save the Children Italy, Radhika Coomaraswamy, u.n. Human Rights Council, Education, Prevention of Genocide, Columbia University, Illiteracy, U.N. General Assembly, Harvard University, Child Rape, Health, Colombo, Innocenti Research Centre, Yale University, United Nations’ Millennium Declaration, Afghanistan, Human Rights, Special Representative of the Secretary General, Special Court for Sierra Leone, U.N. Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, Convention on the Rights of the Child, Explaining the Tamil Tigers, Children and Young People Affected by Armed Conflict, World News

With the changing nature of armed conflict, the impact of war on children and young people has become more brutal than ever.

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US Joins UN Human Rights Council

AP | FRANK JORDANS | Posted 07.20.2009 | World

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GENEVA — The United States joined the U.N. Human Rights Council on Friday, a body widely criticized for failing to confront abuses around the wo...

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Human Rights Council Declares Maternal Death, Illness a Rights Violation

Jodi Jacobson | Posted 07.19.2009 | World

Read More: Abortion, Women's Rights, Contraception, Family Planning, Maternal Morbidity, Choice, UN Human Rights Council, Maternal Mortality, World News

Estimates of maternal morbidity vary from 16 to 50 million annually and include such profoundly disabling conditions as vesico-vaginal fistulae, a condition many consider a fate akin to living death

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US War Crime Probes Inadequate: UN Expert

AP | FRANK JORDANS | Posted 06.28.2009 | World

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GENEVA — An independent U.N. human rights investigator said Thursday that the United States is failing to properly investigate alleged war crime...

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US Wins First Seat On UN Human Rights Council

AP | EDITH M. LEDERER | Posted 06.12.2009 | World

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UNITED NATIONS — The United States won a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council for the first time Tuesday along with four countries accused of s...

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UN Rights Chief Claims Durban A Success, Slams Critics

AP | FRANK JORDANS | Posted 05.25.2009 | World

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GENEVA — The U.N.'s top human rights official hailed the global body's second racism conference as a success Friday, despite what she called a d...

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Fear, Loathing and the U.N. Human Rights Council

Neil Hicks | Posted 05.16.2009 | World

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The United States is in a unique position to seek to persuade its allies to behave more constructively on international human rights issues.

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Why We Approach the Durban II 'Anti-Racism' Conference with Trepidation

Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 05.08.2009 | World

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Despite cosmetic changes to the Durban conference, there is every reason to believe we are in for yet another hate fest. Let's hope that this farce will not generate new tragedies.

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Israel Committed Human Rights Violations In Gaza: UN Investigators

Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 04.23.2009 | World

Investigators reporting to the United Nations Human Rights Council Monday enumerated a number of human rights violations committed by Israel during it...

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Anti-Racism Conference Backed By UN Rights Chief

AP | ELIANE ENGELER | Posted 04.02.2009 | World

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GENEVA — The U.N. rights chief on Monday rejected fears that an upcoming U.N. conference on racism might be hijacked by critics of Israel and ur...

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UN Racism Conference: Obama Shifts Bush Boycott Policy

Bloomberg | Bill Varner | Posted 03.20.2009 | World

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Obama sent a delegation to negotiations that began today in Geneva, and the U.S. will consider attending the April 20-24 conference, according to the ...

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