Eventbrite has removed a San Francisco State University-sponsored event featuring Leila Khaled a member of US-designated terrorist organization Popular.
The second, adopted with 162 votes in favor, four against and nine abstentions, was about “calling upon Israel to ensure the expedited and unimpeded import of all necessary construction materials into the Gaza Strip and to reduce the burdensome cost of importation of Agency supplies … .”
The third, adopted with 160 votes in favor, five against and 12 abstentions, “reaffirms that the Palestine refugees are entitled to their property and to the income derived therefrom, in conformity with the principles of equity and justice … .”
The fourth, adopted with 76 votes in favor, 14 against and 83 abstentions, “deplores those policies and practices of Israel that violate the human rights of the Palestinian people and other Arabs of the occupied territories, as reflected in the report of the Special Committee covering the re
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On 10 December, the world celebrates and commends the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) by the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in 1948, and the commitment of all States to adhere to their legal and moral obligations to promote and respect the fundamental and inalienable rights of all human beings.
The year 1948, marked the adoption of the UDHR and also saw the forcible expulsion of thousands of Palestinians from their homes, lands, and property during the Nakba or ‘catastrophe.’ Since then, the Palestinian people, living on both sides of the Green Line, and in the diaspora as refugees and exiles abroad, continue to live the ongoing reality of Israeli settler-colonialism, population transfer, apartheid, and dispossession.
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2020 has been a tumultuous year for human rights.
Like a mirror held to our faces, COVID-19 has unveiled our deepest inequities: Older people, women, Indigenous peoples, Black and racialized communities, refugees and migrants, low-income and homeless people, and those living with disabilities have borne the brunt of the pandemic.
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The failure to respect the land and resource rights of Indigenous peoples in Canada once again led to confrontation and violence, notably in Wet’suwet’en Territory at the beginning of the year and the Treaty-protected Mi’kmaq lobster fishery more recently.
What are the key differences between a mental asylum and the United Nations General Assembly (“UNGA”)?
This is by no means the first generic question of its kind. Similar ones have been raised before, in other contexts with respect to other entities.
In the present context, my answer is
First, unlike the UNGA, the folks staffing and running the mental asylum are sane, and
Second, unlike the mental asylum, you cannot keep the members of UNGA within safe bounds so as not to allow them to harm others.
The matter at hand
The matter at hand concerns the UN General Assembly (“UNGA”), the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (“CEIRPP” /the “Committee”)