[Prefatory Note: The collaborative opinion piece below written by the Geneva jurist, Alfred de Zayas, and myself, is a reaction again the criticism directed at the UN High Commissioner of Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, about her recent mission to China. The complaint of Western governments, mainstream journalists, and some China experts was that the Chinese […]
The United Nations headquarters showcasing the Sustainable Development summit, September 2015. The essayist, an expert in governance and democracy, bemoans the growing participation of multinational corporations in UN system forums. CIA PAK/UN PHOTO
Global governance is slipping away from the United Nations.
Former UN special rapporteur Alfred de Zayas slams UN High Commissioner Bachelet’s report on Venezuela as a politicized collection of…
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US sanctions against Venezuela are like “going into microsurgery with a kitchen knife” and are holding an entire population hostage,…
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Former UN Special Rapporteur Alfred de Zayas criticized the human rights commissioner’s past reports on Venezuela, calling them “unprofessional” and…
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The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal and Anya Parampil spoke about Venezuela at a side event at a United Nations Human Rights…
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Iceland was elected by the United Nations General Assembly to fill the vacant seat, above, left in the Human Rights Council by the United States, after it resigned the Geneva-based body on June 19, 2018. JEAN-MARC FERRE/UN PHOTO
In the middle of last week, when the Trump administration was still unable to say how it “lost” more than 2,500 children torn from their asylum-seeking parents at the border with Mexico, Nikki Haley, the United States envoy to the United Nations, was telling a different story to a sympathetic group in Washington, D.C.
Interview with Daniel Falcone, June 21, 2018, initially published in TruthOut, July 3, 2018
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Questions on U.S. Withdrawal from UNHRC
#PermitPatty, growing ties and sovereign money + this day in history w/the start of the Korean War and our song of the day by Interpol on your Morning Monarchy for June 25, 2018.
