“The Secretary-General is greatly concerned by the decision by the Russian Federation related to the status of certain areas of Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine.”
“He calls for the peaceful settlement of the conflict in eastern Ukraine, in accordance with the Minsk Agreements, as endorsed by the Security Council in resolution 2202 (2015).
“The Secretary-General considers the decision of the Russian Federation to be a violation of the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine and inconsistent with the principles of the Charter of the United Nations.
“The United Nations, in line with the relevant General Assembly resolutions, remains fully supportive of the sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of Ukraine, within its internationally recognized borders.
“The Secretary-General urges all relevant actors to focus their efforts on ensuring an immediate cessation of hostilities, protection of civilians and civilian infrastructure, preventing any actions and statements that may further escalate the dangerous situation...
...in and around Ukraine and prioritizing diplomacy to address all issues peacefully.”
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BREAKING: A global coalition of 25 human rights groups announced today that its prestigious international human rights award for 2022 will go to @EnesFreedom, the NBA athlete and activist risking his career for taking on China’s persecution of the Uyghurs. genevasummit.org/25-human-right…
Freedom will receive the 2022 @GenevaSummit Courage Award on Wednesday, April 6th, addressing a ceremony to be attended by U.N. ambassadors, human rights activists and journalists from around the world attending the 14th annual Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy.
Freedom was chosen for his heroic efforts to sound the alarm on China’s brutal human rights abuses.
Co-organizer of the conference include UN Watch, Liberal International, Human Rights Foundation, the World Uyghur Congress and more than 20 other human rights groups.
“The UNHRC has appointed to lead its controversial investigation on Israel an individual who calls Israel an ‘apartheid state,’ backs the campaign to boycott and sanction Israel, and signs statements lobbying governments to punish the Jewish state.”
“Yet despite the submission by a Geneva-based non-governmental organization of a 30-page document backing its assertion that Navi Pillay is not fit to head the HRC’s first open-ended investigation targeting one country, the council’s president on Wednesday defended the choice.”
“HRC president Federico Villegas said in response to queries that the council head, when selecting members of investigative bodies, ‘places the utmost importance on examining the independence and impartiality of each member in order to ensure the objectivity of the body.’”
Human rights activist Mohammed Ashraf Abed, a member of the Islamic Resistance Movement's al-Qassam Brigades, was killed today while building a tunnel of peace. alqassam.ps/arabic/%D8%AA%…
“Al-Qassam Brigades mourned the martyr Al-Qassami / Muhammad Ashraf Abed (23 years), from the Taybeh mosque in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, who today rose to Al-Ula as a martyr, God Almighty, following the collapse of a tunnel for resistance.”
And the battalions said: “He dedicated himself to Allah, striving until he met Allah for that. And the blood of our martyrs will remain a beacon on the path to liberating Palestine and a fire that burns the occupiers until they are defeated from our land, Allah willing.”
Navi Pillay, the impartial Chair of the UNHRC inquiry, condemned "Israel’s occupation and apartheid regime."
She campaigned for countries to "ban arms trade and military-security cooperation with Israel" and to "suspend free trade agreements with Israel." mcusercontent.com/36542688e35393…
Navi Pillay lobbied for governments to:
• "Adopt a UN resolution to implement targeted and lawful sanctions on Israel, including a military embargo."
• "Activate the UN Special Committee on Apartheid to address Israel’s regime over the indigenous people of Palestine."
Report: Syria's Assad regime has such a tight grip on aid groups’ access to the country that it has become normal for relatives of senior Assad regime officials to have jobs within United Nations bodies.
The report found that Mohamad Hamsho, a businessman close to both the army elite and the dictator’s brother Maher al-Assad, had won U.N. procurement contracts to strip metals in areas retaken by the government and rework them for sale at his Hadeed Metal Manufacturing Company.
.@UNDP contracted the “Aleppo Defenders Legion”, a pro-regime militia that forcibly displaced Syrians, to clear rubble and rehabilitate the city they helped destroy.
The UN did zero human rights due diligence when giving out millions of dollars in contracts to serial abusers.
BREAKING: The head of a new UN inquiry into last spring’s Hamas-Israel war was accused today of making prejudicial statements on the issues under investigation, compromising her impartiality, and was asked to resign in a legal brief filed today by UN Watch.unwatch.org/head-of-un-pro…
According to a 30-page complaint submitted today by UN Watch, Navi Pillay, a former South African judge and UN human rights chief, violated UN rules by failing to disclose numerous of her prior statements that directly prejudge matters before the inquiry. unwatch.org/wp-content/upl…
Many of the utterances in question occurred mere weeks before she was appointed by the UN Human Rights Council this summer, leaving little room to imagine how Pillay could envisage the issues any differently so soon afterwards.