The ICJ ruling is a repudiation of Israel and its western backers
26/1/2024: Kenneth Roth, former executive director of Human Rights Watch, observes that enormous damage to the ‘rules-based order’ will be done if the US and UK fail to call on Israel to comply with the order of the International Court of Justice.
Source: The Guardian
UN world court calls for prevention of genocidal acts in Gaza
26/1/2024: The International Court of Justice has ruled that Israel should prevent acts of genocide and allow the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza. The UN Secretary-General has called on all parties to comply with the Court order.
Source: UN News
China set to dodge accountability at UN human rights review
24/1/2024: The UN Human Rights Council is about to begin the process of China’s Fourth Cycle Universal Periodic Review, amid a deeply hostile environment for minorities in China and an increasingly desperate Hong Kong population. The Chinese government has already expressed its resistance to the concept of universality, preferring a ‘Chinese path of human rights development.'
Source: East Asia Forum
Africa’s life-sustaining water towers have been overlooked
24/1/2024: African countries have lacked resources to monitor the continent's critical water systems and the wide-ranging impacts on them from pollution, climate change, and increasing demand. Global research on water scarcity tends to focus on the presence of snow and ice to identify water towers, thereby omitting Africa.
Source: African Arguments
India: Is poverty really decreasing?
23/1/2024: India claims that almost 250 million people have been lifted out of multidimensional poverty in the past nine years, according to a report by a government think tank.. However, experts have raised doubts about a lack of relevant data.
Source: DW
Concept of planetary boundaries modified for environmental justice
23/1/2024: The team that developed the planetary boundaries framework has merged the concept with social thresholds of tolerance, recognised in doughnut economics and the Sustainable Development Goals. The modified approach has been published in a scientific paper.
Source: Third World Network
Cameroon rolls out world’s first malaria vaccine
22/1/2024: Following a pilot phase in which more than two million children have been jabbed in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi, the RTS,S vaccine is being rolled out at scale across Africa, starting in Cameroon. Burkina Faso, Liberia, Niger and Sierra Leone are set to follow with large-scale vaccination programmes.
Source: The East African
Amnesty calls on Italian MPs to reject migration deal with Albania
22/1/2024: In November 2023, the Italian government signed an agreement for the construction of two centres on Albanian territory to detain people rescued or intercepted at sea by Italian state ships. This is part of a broader international trend to move border control and asylum processing to third countries: a policy that threatens the human rights of migrants, according to Amnesty International.
Source: Amnesty International
US and UK: give peace a chance in Yemen
17/1/2024: Recent military airstrikes by the US and Britain against the Houthis for their naval blockade in the Red Sea could undermine the peace process for the longstanding conflict within Yemen. Saudi Arabia and the Houthis, the main parties to the peace talks, have been edging towards a peace deal.
Source: PassBlue
A new order for global trade is taking shape
15/1/2024: The World Trade Organization was established to pursue the idea of unfettered global trade without distortions of subsidy by national governments. This model of globalisation is crumbling as major economies deploy subsidies to gain control over resources and technologies for the future green economy.
Source: DownToEarth