The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) has singled out Israel for allegedly violating women’s rights. The multinational body, which looks after UN’s economic and social work, voted 43 to 3 in support of a resolution condemning Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East, for violating women’s rights, the...
Last week, the former member of the Portuguese Socialist Party and the current United Nations Secretary General linked the response to the COVID19 pandemic to gender inequality.
President Donald Trump has withdrawn the United Stated from the United Nations-led World Health Organisation (WHO). The notification terminating U.S. involvement in the UN agency went out on Monday.
The Trump administration had halted funding for the UN health body in April on the grounds of “severely mismanaging and covering up the...
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has told Israel to “abandon” plans to apply sovereignty over parts of the Judea and Samaria region, news agency Reuters reported. The move “would constitute a most serious violation of international law,” the UN chief warned.
Do not let the United Nations fool you. Although it may have essentially closed its doors in favor of online meetings in the age of coronavirus, its obsessive anti-Israel bias is alive and well. Through its numerous bodies, the UN falsely paints Israeli policy, not COVID-19 itself, as the primary threat...
The UN Human Rights Council has issued a blacklist of over a hundred companies doing business in Israel’s Judea and Samaria region (also referred to as the West Bank).
The database published on Wednesday comprises mostly of Israeli firms, but also includes big international names such as Airbnb, Expedia, TripAdvisor,...
The U.N. annual climate conference in Madrid failed this weekend. It ran two days long because negotiators could not reach a consensus on how to move forward with carbon emission reductions or climate-based wealth distribution without the compliant United States.
The head of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for “Palestinian Refugees” (UNRWA) has been suspended amid ongoing investigations into widespread corruption under his watch.
Internal investigations “revealed management issues which relate specifically to the (UNRWA) Commissioner-General” Pierre Krahenbuhl, a statement issued by the UN said on Wednesday.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned UN employees the entity could run out of money by the end of the month.
The UN has a $230 million deficit.
The Netherlands and Belgium have joined Switzerland in freezing funds to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) amid reports of a major corruption and sexual misconduct scandal surrounding the organization.
The report included names of top UNRWA officials, such as Director-General Pierre Krähenbühl.
A leaked internal report implicated top officials from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in a major corruption scandal including sex crimes and abuse of power. The UN agency’s ethics office described the charges as “an extremely grave and significant reputational, operational and security risk to...
The United Nations once again established its reputation as a forum for smearing and delegitimizing the State of Israel. The UN’s Economic and Social Council passed a resolution condemning Israel as the only country in the world that violates women’s rights.
The 54-nation UN council passed the resolution by a margin of...
I noted last week that California Governor Gavin Newsom recently said the state was the “envy of the world.”
A longtime United Nations envoy would disagree. She recently visited the Bay Area and was astonished by what she saw.
Israel has refused to renew a visa for Omar Shakir of Human Rights Watch (HRW) to remain in Israel as a human rights worker, based on his long history of anti-Israel activism. This has caused a storm of controversy and lawsuits, leading to the fair question: Is Shakir entitled to a...
We have extensively documented how the supposedly “peaceful protests” at the Gaza-Israel border fence are, in reality, Hamas and Islamic Jihad military terror operations using some civilians as cover, including women and children.
The so-called ‘Great March of Return’ is turned on and off by Hamas as its needs require. See our prior...
