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02/18/2021 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 02/18/2021 12:34 Expedite Decolonization Imperative, Secretary-General Urges, as Special Committee Accepts Dominica’s Offer to Host Caribbean Regional Seminar Members Elect Bureau, Adopting Programme of Work, Timetable as 2021 Session Begins Expediting the decolonization process must be seen as an imperative, United Nations Secretary-General Antônio Guterres told the Special Committee on Decolonization today, emphasizing that a constructive relationship with administrating Powers and all involved is indispensable for progress on a ...

Cuba in vice presidency of the UN Committee on Decolonization Cuba in vice presidency of the UN Committee on Decolonization 18 de febrero de 2021, 16:35 United Nations, Feb 18 (Prensa Latina) Cuba was elected on Thursday to the vice presidency of the UN Special Committee on Decolonization, a position it assumes with the commitment to continue fighting to eradicate colonialism in any of its manifestations. Cuba's permanent representative to the United Nations Pedro Luis Pedroso said so on assuming the post, and thanked the members of the Committee for the trust placed in him. 'You may rest ass...

Rohingya's plight surrounding non-recognition is as old as the history of colonialism in South Asia and South East Asia. Their identity crisis has gone through clinical strategies and oppression forwarded by Myanmar government at different times. Historically, Rohingyas are designated as Kalar or Kula (lower class of people in a society) by the supremacist Buddhist believers. Undermining the Rohingya identity by disowning and calling them illegal immigrants is a part of 'Theravada Buddhism' that later turned into chauvinism in Myanmar. From 1784 to 1942, King Budapawa, Anglo-Burmese Wars, Jap...

There Is No Right to a State “LET’S BE CLEAR,”tweeted the Democratic Majority for Israel (DMFI) last month, “Arguing that the Jewish people is the only people in the world not entitled to self-determination is a form of antisemitism.” It’s a claim that in recent years has become ubiquitous in American Jewish establishment discourse. On the same day as DMFI’s tweet, Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO and national director of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), penned an op-ed declaring that “denying the Jewish people the same right to self-determination that you would extend to other peopl...

By Kester Kenn Klomegah Russia not only supported African countries in liberating themselves from the yoke of colonialism and attaining political independence but also facilitated in the UN General Assembly adopting in 1960 the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples. It’s a landmark document which states that all people have a right to self-determination and proclaimed that colonialism should be brought to a speedy and unconditional end. Russia has now embarked on fighting “neo-colonialism” which it considers a fortified barrier on its way to rega...