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4/4/2012 | Israel, Radical Islam, UN
Int’l Criminal Court Decision on ‘Palestine’ Is a Victory for Israel and a Defeat for Amnesty International
CNS News
A decision by the International Criminal Court rebuffing the Palestinian Authority’s attempt to have Israel put on trial for war crimes is a setback not only for the P.A. but also for a so-called “lawfare” campaign waged by some non-governmental organizations (NGOs).
One of those NGOs, Amnesty International, called Tuesday’s decision by the ICC prosecutor’s office “dangerous” and charged that it opened the tribunal to charges of political bias.
Organizations that supported Israel’s position, on the other hand, argued that it was the P.A. that had sought to politicize the court in The Hague by seeking its decision on jurisdiction in the first place.
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U.S. Chastises U.N. Human Rights Council for Skewed Focus on Israel
CNS News
As the U.N. Human Rights Council entered the final days of a month-long session with four resolutions targeting Israel on the table, the U.S. representative urged the body Monday to end its “biased and disproportionate focus on Israel.”
The Geneva-based HRC has long been criticized for the amount of time and effort it expends on Israel in general – it was a key reason given by the Bush administration for shunning the council after it was set up in 2006 – but the trend is most glaringly evident each session when its agenda comes around to “item seven.”
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U.N. Body Dealing With Women’s Rights Criticizes Israel, But Not Iran or Syria
CNS News
The U.N. Human Rights Council on Monday heard a report detailing Iranian human rights violations, including abuses against women, but just three days earlier another U.N. body – one dealing with women’s rights – ended its annual session with a measure condemning neither Iran nor its ally Syria, but Israel.
For the second consecutive year, the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) wrapped up its gathering in New York with only one country-specific resolution, which accused Israel of “systematic violation” of the human rights of Palestinian women.
No place was found on CSW’s agenda to discuss the deadly crisis in Syria or the plight of women in Iran.
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US Votes in Favor of Watered-Down Measure; Syria Retains Seat on U.N. Human Rights Panel
CNS News
UNESCO’s executive board Thursday passed by a 35-8 vote a resolution that condemned Syria but sidestepped the issue of its membership of its human rights panel. The U.S. ambassador voted in favor of the watered-down measure while saying the U.S. was “profoundly disappointed that this resolution does not call for the outright removal of Syria” from the committee.
“It is deeply disappointing that the Obama administration supports the toothless Syria resolution that the board adopted, instead of standing firm and demanding Syria’s expulsion,” Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee said in response. “It is even worse that the administration continues to push to gut U.S. law and resume U.S. funding to UNESCO, despite UNESCO’s reckless, anti-peace, anti-Israel decision to admit a non-existent state of ‘Palestine.’”)
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UN Textbooks for Palestinian Children ‘Explosively Anti-Semitic, Anti-American and Anti-Israeli'
CNS News
The textbooks used to educate Palestinian children who live in refugee camps came under fire at a briefing on Wednesday on Capitol Hill where experts said lessons of intolerance and hatred toward Jews and Israel fill the books’ pages.
Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.), chairman of the House subcommittee on Human Rights and co-chairman of the Bi-Partisan Coalition for Combating Anti-Semitism, told CNSNews.com that U.S. donations to the United Nations Refugee and Works Agency (UNRWA) make the federal government accountable for what is in the books.
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U.S. Funding on the Line As UNESCO Mulls Membership for ‘Palestine’
CNS News
The United Nations’ cultural agency has begun a high-level conference that will decide on an application for membership for “Palestine” – a move that could lead to a legally-mandated severing of U.S. funding.
Unless intensive lobbying results in the Palestinian Authority (P.A.) withdrawing its request, the application is expected to achieve the required two-thirds majority in a vote by the General Conference of the Paris-based U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
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‘We Must Stand Up for the Rights of Gays And Lesbians Everywhere,’ Obama Tells U.N.
CNS News
In his speech to the U.N. General Assembly Wednesday, President Obama called for “open societies” that “empower their citizens,” including homosexuals and women.
“No country should deny people their rights because of who they love, which is why we must stand up for the rights of gays and lesbians everywhere,” Obama said one day after the United States started allowing homosexuals to serve openly in the U.S. military.
In a reference to women, Obama said, “no country can realize its potential if half its population cannot reach theirs.”
Obama noted that the United State this week signed a new Declaration on Women’s Participation. “Next year, we should each announce the steps we are taking to break down economic and political barriers that stand in the way of women and girls. That is what our commitment to human progress demands.”
Elsewhere in his speech, the president mentioned poverty that punishes children. “We must act on the belief that freedom from want is a basic human right,” he said.
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Senior Palestinian official: UN bid is only alternative to violence
Haaretz.com
Senior Palestinian negotiator Nabil Shaath said Wednesday that the Palestinians' statehood bid at the United Nations is the only alternative to violence, stressing that the UN move will give the Palestinians the change to promote their rights.
"The UN is the only alternative to violence," Shaath said during a press conference on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly."It will be very costly to us and the Israelis. Our new heroes are Gandhi, Mandela and Martin Luther King."
Shaath also said that the Palestinians plan to give the UN Security Council time to mull its statehood bid, which they are due to submit on Friday, before turning to the UN General Assembly.
"President [Mahmoud] Abbas doesn't want [people] to suspect we are not serious by pleading to two committees," Shaath said. "We will give some time to the Security Council to consider first our full membership request before heading to the General Assembly."
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U.N. Reform Advocate Questions What U.S. Is Getting for Its $7B Contribution
CNS News
House Foreign Affairs Committee chairwoman Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen acknowledged Tuesday that legislation aimed at making U.S. funding to the United Nations contingent on reforms lacks bipartisan support but said it was important to make a stand for “the principles that we believe in.”
As she prepares to mark up her bill in committee, Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) faces mounting opposition from the Obama administration and advocacy groups supportive of deeper U.S. engagement with the U.N.
The U.N. Transparency, Accountability, and Reform Act (H.R. 2829) also lacks the support of a single House Democrat. The number of co-sponsors has climbed from 57 on Aug. 30 – the day the bill was introduced – to 74 as of Tuesday; all 74 are Republicans.
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Republican Bill to Force Major Changes at the UN
Bloomberg
House Republicans are planning to introduce today legislation that seeks to force major changes at the United Nations, using as leverage the U.S.’s 22 percent contribution to the world body’s operating budget.
The bill by Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the Republican chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, would require the UN to adopt a voluntary budget model in which countries selectively fund UN agencies rather than according to a set formula. It would end funding for Palestinian refugees, limit use of U.S. funds to only purposes outlined by Congress and stop contributions to peacekeeping operations until management changes are made.
The legislation represents the leading edge of Republican moves against the world body at a time when the Obama administration is increasingly building its foreign policy around multilateral institutions, making the alliance-based approach central to its stance on Libya. The bill may advance in the Republican-controlled House but is likely to hit opposition in the Senate and from President Barack Obama.
Ros-Lehtinen had UN reform on her agenda even before the Florida congresswoman gained leadership of the committee in January, calling the New York-based body a “stew of corruption, mismanagement and negligence” in July 2010.
8/2/2011 | Gun Control, UN
Bipartisan opposition to U.N. gun control proposal
OneNewsNow
A gun-rights advocate finds it very telling that 12 Democratic senators oppose an Obama-backed United Nations gun-control treaty.
According to the U.S. News and World Report, the 12 Democrats joined 45 Republicans in an effort to halt progress on the Obama-backed U.N. effort that could bring international gun control to the United States and put severe restrictions on U.S. gun owners.
The U.N. Arms Trade Treaty, which was opposed by the Bush administration, would regulate the international trade of arms, including firearms used by hunters and sportsmen.
Larry Pratt (GOA)"The treaty would call for the complete registration of every firearm in America and the confiscation of firearms that are not on the approved list of suitable for civilian use," reports Larry Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners of America.
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UN document would give 'Mother Earth' same rights as humans
Canada.com
Bolivia will this month table a draft United Nations treaty giving "Mother Earth" the same rights as humans — having just passed a domestic law that does the same for bugs, trees and all other natural things in the South American country.
The bid aims to have the UN recognize the Earth as a living entity that humans have sought to "dominate and exploit" — to the point that the "well-being and existence of many beings" is now threatened.
The wording may yet evolve, but the general structure is meant to mirror Bolivia's Law of the Rights of Mother Earth, which Bolivian President Evo Morales enacted in January.
That document speaks of the country's natural resources as "blessings," and grants the Earth a series of specific rights that include rights to life, water and clean air; the right to repair livelihoods affected by human activities; and the right to be free from pollution.
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Without Reforms, U.S. Funding for U.N. ‘Will Be in Jeopardy,’ Republicans Warn Obama
CNS News
The battle over funding for the United Nations is heating up in Congress, as U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon each visited Capitol Hill this week, pressing the U.N.’s biggest contributor to pay up, in full and on time.
The flurry of activity comes amid congressional initiatives aimed at withholding or cutting back on funding for the U.N.
H.R.1, a House-passed appropriations bill for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2011, includes significant cuts to international affairs spending. The Senate has not taken up that Republican-authored bill, however.
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Judge’s Retraction Could Unravel Campaign to Send Israel to International Court
CNS News
A judge’s startling retraction of the most damaging aspects of a U.N. report he authored accusing Israel of war crimes could begin the unraveling of a process that the Palestinian Authority had hoped would land Israel before the International Criminal Court.
But first Judge Richard Goldstone will have to request that the U.N. Human Rights Council (HRC), which commissioned the fact-finding mission that resulted in his 575-page report, withdraw it.
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House Foreign Affairs Chairman: U.S. Must Withdraw from U.N. Human Rights Council
CNS News
The chair of the U.S House Foreign Affairs Committee said Monday she will introduce legislation that makes U.S. funding for the United Nations contingent on reform. It also calls for the U.S. to withdraw from the Human Rights Council.
Describing the Obama administration’s attempts to reform the HRC as a failure, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen said the U.S. should quit the HRC and “explore credible, alternative forums to advance human rights.”
The Florida Republican’s statement came as the Geneva-based HRC began the final week of a month-long session in which it will adopt up to six resolutions condemning Israel.
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U.N. Body Condemns Israel’s Treatment of Palestinian Women, but Ignores Plight of Women in Iran and Libya
CNS News
A U.N. policy-making body dedicated to “gender equality and the advancement of women” adopted a resolution accusing Israel of holding back the advancement of Palestinian women, but it took no action on the emergency in Libya or the legally enshrined discrimination faced by women in Iran.
The only country-specific resolution passed by the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) at its recent session in New York was one condemning Israel over the Palestinian issue.
Libya is a member of the 45-country CSW, and Iran has just taken up a seat on the body for the next four years.
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Obama Administration Responding to 228 Proposals -- Including Some From Libya, Cuba, North Korea -- on Human Rights in the U.S.
CNS News
The United States’ human rights record will be back in the spotlight at the U.N. Human Rights Council next week, when the U.S. delegation provides its response to more than 200 recommendations made by other governments, ranging from liberal democracies to the repressive regimes ruling Libya, Iran, Cuba, North Korea and China.
The recommendations cover a broad range of issues, from combating “Islamophobia” to scrapping Arizona’s controversial immigration law, Senate Bill 1070.
March 18 marks the final step in the process known as the United States’ first universal periodic review (UPR), an examination supervised by the Human Rights Council that every U.N. member state is expected to undergo every four years.
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Iran scorns French warning of war
BBC NEWS
A warning by France's foreign minister that the world should prepare for war over Iran's nuclear programme has drawn a furious response in Iranian media. France was aping the US and its new president had "taken on American skin", the official Iranian news agency said. On Sunday Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said: "We have to prepare for the worst, and the worst is war." Iran's nuclear programme is to be debated in Vienna, Austria, at the UN nuclear watchdog's annual conference. Iran denies it is trying to acquire nuclear weapons, and says it only wants nuclear power to generate electricity for civilian purposes. But it has repeatedly rejected UN demands to give up the enrichment of uranium, which the US and other Western states fear is being diverted to a nuclear weapons project. 'Inflammatory' Mr Kouchner said negotiations with Iran should continue "right to the end", but that an Iranian nuclear weapon would pose "a real danger for the whole world".
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