An Israeli airstrike on the Jabaliya refugee camp in Gaza that killed at least 195 could amount to a war crime, the UN’s Human Rights Office said in a statement.
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TOP UN OFFICIAL STEPS DOWN AFTER CALLING ISRAEL’S ACTIONS IN GAZA A ‘TEXTBOOK CASE OF GENOCIDE’
Israel’s heavy-handed reaction to Hamas’s surprise attack last month fits the “textbook” definition of genocide, an outgoing top UN official said.
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WORLD ON THE BRINK OF ECONOMIC CRISIS
The global economy is increasingly marked by low investment and low growth, financial speculation, declining real incomes, rising social inequality, and greater domination by giant multinational corporations, according to the newest UN Trade and Development Report.
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ZELENSKY SHOULD HAVE STAYED HOME
Most Americans do not understand how the United Nations functions, or does not function as the case might be, preferring to think of it as some kind of debating society where the 193 member nations representing the world community can vent over issues that they rarely have control over.
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AI DEVELOPERS URGE REGULATIONS PROTECTING “MENTAL PRIVACY”
At a 13 July conference, the UN’s Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) launched an effort to frame a set of ethical standards around “neurotech,” the use of computers to connect with and analyze the human mind.
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DEGROWTH: HOW ‘CLIMATE-CORP’ IS PUTTING SMALL FARMERS OUT OF BUSINESS AND DESIGNING FOODS TO MEET RADICAL CLIMATE GOALS
From cars to food: many have noticed a distinct shift in attention of radical climate activists lately.
Food is squarely on the table as a subject of “unsustainable” so-called greenhouse gas emissions such as carbon and methane.
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WORLD FOOD PRICES SET RECORD IN 2022
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO’s) food price index, which tracks costs of the world’s most common commodity foods, jumped 14.3 percent last year to bring food prices to their highest on record.
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UN COMMITTEE TO ISRAEL: STOP STEALING PALESTINIAN LAND
A top United Nations committee voted last week in favor of a draft resolution seeking the opinion from the International Court of Justice on Israel’s occupation of Palestinian lands, which was called a “diplomatic and legal breakthrough.”