United Nations
Don’t look away. Israel’s response is textbook ethnic cleansing.
By Omar Suleiman — October 31, 2023
(RNS) — A leaked document shows Israel sees the war as an opportunity to push Palestinians into Egypt.
Protesters occupy New York’s Grand Central to demand cease-fire in Gaza
By Fiona André — October 28, 2023
New York (RNS) — The event was organized by Jewish Voice for Peace, an anti-Zionist organization created in 1996 that also occupied Congress a week ago, asking for an immediate cease-fire between Israel and Hamas.
UN warns Gaza blockade could force it to sharply cut relief missions as Israeli bombings rise
By Najib Jobain, Lee Keath, and Samy Magdy — October 25, 2023
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The U.N. says about 1.4 million of Gaza’s 2.3 million residents are now internally displaced, with almost 600,000 crowded into U.N. shelters.
With humanitarian aid blocked at Egyptian border, Gaza draws closer to total collapse
By Najib Jobain, Samya Kullab, and Joseph Krauss — October 16, 2023
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Over 1 million people — about half of Gaza's population — have left their homes in a little over a week.
Vatican presses world leaders at UN to work on rules for lethal autonomous weapons
By Jennifer Peltz — September 27, 2023
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — AI is a growing interest for the U.N., as for national governments, multinational groups, tech companies and others.
We are defeating global poverty. Congress could set us back.
By David Beckmann — September 25, 2023
(RNS) — Far-right Republicans are insisting on deep cuts in domestic and international poverty programs — though we have ample evidence both are working.
Love and compassion: How women can address the climate crisis
By Ellen Bernstein — September 19, 2023
(RNS) — Possibilities open up when we think about the warming Earth with love, not fear.
After Quran burnings, UN rights body calls for more action to combat religious hatred
By Associated Press — July 12, 2023
GENEVA (AP) — After the vote, Ambassador Khalil Hashmi of Pakistan insisted the measure “does not seek to curtail the right to free speech,” but tries to strike a “prudent balance” between it and “special duties and responsibilities.”
Muslims across Pakistan hold anti-Sweden protests to denounce burning of Islam’s holy book
By Munir Ahmed — July 10, 2023
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Anger has grown in Muslim countries since last Wednesday when a man, identified in Swedish media as an Iraqi Christian immigrant, burned a Quran outside a mosque in Stockholm on the festival of Eid al-Adha.
Azza Karam resigns as secretary general of Religions for Peace
By Adelle M. Banks — June 21, 2023
(RNS) — She was elected secretary general at the 10th World Assembly of the global coalition in Lindau, Germany, in 2019, marking the first time a woman and a Muslim was chosen to lead the organization that was founded in 1970.
US, allies push for UN rights body debate on Xinjiang abuses
By Jamey Keaten — September 26, 2022
(AP) — Human rights groups have accused China of sweeping a million or more people from Muslim minority groups into detention camps.
The world needs to make China pay for its maltreatment of the Uyghurs
By Omar Suleiman — September 3, 2022
(RNS) — It's time to challenge China's economic hegemony to force its compliance on human rights.
UN court to rule on jurisdiction in Rohingya genocide case
By Mike Corder — July 22, 2022
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Lawyers representing Myanmar argued in February that the case should be tossed out because the world court only hears cases between states and the Rohingya complaint was brought by Gambia on behalf of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.
UN slams killings, rights abuses under Afghanistan’s Taliban
By Rahim Faiez — July 21, 2022
ISLAMABAD (AP) — The report said as many as 700 people have been killed and 1,400 wounded since mid-August 2021, when the Taliban overran the Afghan capital of Kabul.
The UN’s positions on Israel are not gospel. Why do Christians cite them?
By David Michaels — July 7, 2022
(RNS) — How can we explain important church groups’ preoccupation with, and stridency on, Israel?
