Tags Matching:

United Nations

• 
• Originally published 01/31/2017

  Defund and Quit the United Nations? The Campaign to Do so Has Moved into High Gear.

  Edwin Black

  This is the inside story of how it’s come about.

• 
• Originally published 10/14/2015

  Japan May Cut Unesco Funds Following Nanjing Massacre Listing

  Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga on Tuesday said Japan may cut its financial contribution to an agency of the United Nations after the organization added documents on the Nanjing Massacre to its International Memory of the World Register last week.

• 
• Originally published 04/06/2015

  Forty Years to the Zionism Equals Racism Resolution

  Dr. Yoav Tenembaum

  Forty years ago this year, the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) adopted a resolution equating Zionism with racism and racial discrimination.

• 
• Originally published 09/03/2013

  The Syrian Problem -- and an International Solution

  Lawrence S. Wittner

  Look to the United Nations. It's the legal thing to do.

• Originally published 06/03/2013

  Jay Winter: Raphael Lemkin, a Prophet Without Honors

  Jay Winter is a professor of history at Yale University. His latest book, René Cassin and Human Rights, with Antoine Prost, is just out from Cambridge University Press.When did the Second World War end? In the absence of a formal peace treaty in 1945, we celebrate on the dates of military surrender—V-E Day (May 8), or V-J Day (August 15). But in a sense, it would be better to see December 9-10, 1948, as when the war came to an end. It was then that the United Nations, sitting in plenary session in Paris, voted for two major advances in international law, which together said to the world: "Never again." The last joint operation of the war against the Axis powers was to establish a human-rights regime to affirm everything the Nazis tried to destroy.The first law was the Genocide Convention; the second was the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Their passage in a 24-hour period was an astonishing achievement. Consider the moment. The Berlin blockade had been under way for six months. The bloodbath attending the end of British rule in India was continuing. The Arab-Israeli war of 1948 had ended, for the time being. Mao's army was approaching Beijing. Eight months later, the Soviet Union would explode its first atomic bomb. The cold war was well and truly on.

• 
• Originally published 09/03/2013

  Stop Thinking of Only the "Arab World"

  Revolutionary Moments

  For now, most serious treatments of the Arab uprisings will remain inadequate from a historical perspective, including this one! The first objective is to avoid the outlandish or lazy analytical treatments that proceed from some idiosyncratic political or cultural essence, and/or those monist approaches that reduce outcomes to one variable.