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The owner and insurers of one of the world's largest container ships stuck in the Suez Canal face claims totaling... Craft pointed to a budget item for 2021 to fund a special event on the 20th anniversary of the UN’s anti-racism conference in Durban, South Africa, from which the US and Israel withdrew over objections of anti-Zionism. “Twenty years on, there remains nothing about the Durban Declaration to celebrate or to endorse,” Craft stated. “It is poisoned by antisemitism and anti-Israel bias. It encourages restrictions on the freedom of expression. It exists to divide and disc...

Photo Credit: US Dept of State / Ron Przysucha / Wikimedia / Public Domain Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo meets with US Ambassador to the UN Kelly Craft in New York, New York on March 6, 2020. The United States and Israel voted against the United Nations 2021 budget during the conclave of the world body’s General Assembly this week – a vote usually passed by consensus. Among the reasons cited by US Ambassador to the UN Kelly Craft for her nation’s opposition was a line in the UN budget to fund an event marking the 20th anniversary of the 2001 Durban Declaration and Prog...

In late Trump salvo, US rejects UN budget over Israel, Iran AFP 12/31/2020 AFP © Patrick Semansky Kelly Craft, seen here in September 2020 has voted against the UN budget in one of her last acts as US ambassador to the world body President Donald Trump's outgoing administration on Thursday fired a late salvo against the United Nations by voting against its budget, citing disagreements on Israel and Iran, but it found virtually no international support. Only Israel voted with the United States, with 167 nations in favor, as the General Assembly closed the year by approving...

Adjust font size: A student from Burkina Faso checks crop growth in the field at an agricultural experimental base in Quzhou county, north China's Hebei province, July 23, 2020. [Photo/Xinhua] On September 12, we celebrate the United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation, which expresses the solidarity among the peoples and the nations of the Global South.  The groundwork for this southern solidarity was laid during the Bandung Conference, which took place 65 years ago. Attended by 29 newly independent states from Asia and Africa, it was the first South-South meeting of its kind. Indonesi...

As the year 2020 is about to close, one of its positive achievements certain to make recorded history is its recognition of the truth regarding the black experience. The world opened its eyes in ways it failed to do in the past, to the painful truth surrounding the suffering of black people. During this year – exactly midway into the United Nations’ ‘International Decade for People of African Descent’ (2015-2024) – the mistreatment of people of African descent has become a focus. Wikipedia sums it up well: “The seeds of the International Decade for People of African Descent were s...