U.N. Chief Fails to Condemn Hamas in Response to Hostage Murders
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has been criticized for responding to the callous killings of Israeli and American hostages in Gaza on Friday with a message that failed to even mention, let alone condemn, the Hamas terrorists who kidnapped and killed them. I will never forget meeting with Hersh Goldberg Pollin's parents and the other hostage […]
Taliban Claims U.N. Will Help Fund ‘Small Business’ Loans in Afghanistan
The ruling Taliban-controlled Afghanistan state news agency reported on Monday in a now-deleted article that the United Nations Political Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) was working to “facilitate small-scale projects through loan clauses.” In a separate article, still available on its website, state news agency Bakhtar reported that UNAMA head Roza Otunbayeva said broadly that UNAMA […]
Taliban Bans U.N. Human Rights Envoy from Afghanistan for ‘Propaganda’
The Taliban announced on Wednesday that they had banned the UN special rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan, Richard Bennett, from entering the country. The Taliban claimed Bennett was banned because he lacked “professionalism” and was spreading “propaganda”. Taliban Foreign Ministry spokesman Abdul Kahar Barki said Reuters reported on Wednesday that the Taliban regime was […]
U.N. Report Finds 23.7 Million Afghans Dependent on Humanitarian Aid
Three years after the Taliban took power, 48 percent of Afghanistan’s population lives below the poverty line, 12.4 percent are “food insecure” and 23.7 million people are dependent on foreign aid, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Tuesday. United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said […]
U.N. Counter-Terrorism Official Warns Islamic State Is Gaining Power in Africa
Vladimir Voronkov, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Counterterrorism, told the Security Council on Thursday that the Islamic State and its affiliates are expanding their influence in West Africa and the Sahel. Voronkov said ISIS remains intent on carrying out terrorist attacks around the world. Voronkov Warned If current trends continue, ISIS may soon have “effective control” […]
Israel Rejects Biased U.N. Court’s Non-binding Ruling on ‘Occupied’ Territories’
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The U.N.’s highest court ruled Friday that Israel’s presence in occupied Palestinian territory is “illegal” and called on Israel to end its presence and immediately halt settlement construction, in an unprecedented, sweeping condemnation of Israel’s control over land it captured 57 years ago. In its non-binding opinion, the International Court […]
Israel Identifies One Hundred ‘Terrorist Operatives’ Working for U.N. Relief Agency
The Israeli Foreign Ministry informed the UN last week that 100 “terrorist operatives” had been identified as employees of UNRWA, the UN relief agency for the Palestinian people. Israel has called on the UN to fire these officials without delay. The letter from Israeli Ambassador Amir Weisbrod to UNRWA Director-General Philippe Lazzarini was sent on […]
U.N. Chief Decries ‘Lethal Weather’ Unleashed by Climate Change
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has blamed summer heat waves caused by climate change for claiming “hundreds of lives”. “Heat waves have claimed hundreds of lives around the world so far this year,” lamented the UN’s alarmist chief. “We cannot accept a future in which the wealthy remain protected in air-conditioned spaces while the rest of […]