Nikki Haley

The news came a few days ago: “UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned member states that the organization is facing “troubling funding issues as a result of delayed dues payments that will force reductions in non-staff costs.”
But who really cares? Any Trump tweet or football result is more important to our media and politicians. The members of the UN still give the world’s military about 340 times more than the UN for its core budget.

Palestine, Israel, and the UN: A PassBlue Interview
 
 
[Prefatory Note: I am posting an interview with Dulcie Leimbach, the wonderfully

EU Foreign Affairs and Security Representative Federica Moghereini has declared that the Israeli Nationalist Law, passed on the 19th, acts as a hinderance to a viable long term peace arrangement in the region.
Al-Monitor reports:

Nikki Haley, the US Ambassador to the United Nations, has a long history of opposing Palestine at the UN, whether in the General Assembly or through the Security Council, and of supporting Israel’s lethal actions against Palestinians on the Gaza Strip, most notably during the recent massacres which took place during the Great March of Return, during which many dozens were killed and thousands more i

Richard Falk, who was the UN special rapporteur on human rights in Palestine, from 2008 to 2014, speaking in the Human Rights Council, June 2013. Falk said the current discourse from the United States on the Israeli-Palestinian fight has abandoned all pretenses of “impartiality” and clarified that Palestinian interests are “irrelevant.” Jean-Marc Ferré/UN Photo

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, second from left, arriving to brief the press during his visit at UN headquarters in New York. Nikki Haley, the American ambassador to the UN, is with him, July 20, 2018. They emphasized to the UN Security Council the need to enforce its sanctions on North Korea. MANUEL ELIAS/UN PHOTO

The OPCW issued an interim report that states no traces of any nerve agents have been found at the site of a suspected chemical attack in the Syrian city of Douma.

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
 

If Washington backed NGOs can’t participate in counter terrorism deliberations and plans, then the US has no use for the UN Counterterrorism Office under those circumstances, and therefore is withdrawing its pledge of $2 million to the Office’s fund.

For the first time in 67 years, the United States will not lead the United Nations migration agency. Isaacs is considered to hold opinions which run counter to the purpose of the agency, including his perspectives on Islam and climate change, which both happen to be major factors impacting the migration of peoples around the globe.