The Arab Group held a meeting at the #UN and is due to meet with the sec gen later today. The #Palestinian Ambassador to the UN, Riyad Mansour, is demanding that the international community put pressure on #Israel to stop its aerial bombardment and to work to allow humanitarian convoys to enter the #Gaza strip, where he says Palestinians are in danger of either being killed by bombardment or starvation.
@Pantangelini Accountable to the #UN, I guess. You can’t just break the #GenevaConventions without consequence, can you? Not sure if there’s an exemption for if you were the victim of such abuses first, but I could be wrong.
France seeks stronger EU stance on fossil fuel exit at COP28
The EU should publicly set out dates by which planet-warming oil, gas and coal should be phased out, in a bid to push for a global deal on eliminating fossil fuels at the upcoming COP28 UN climate summit, France has said.
The UN claims to be almost entirely climate neutral, yet that claim is based on buying millions of carbon offset credits that experts say do little to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, The New Humanitarian and Mongabay found in a year-long investigation.
Don’t mock the #UN! As we speak they are forming a committee to lower the international boiling point of water!
hachi (hachi@detroitriotcity.com)'s status on Friday, 07-Apr-2023 12:45:04 JST
hachiReminder that the UN Genocide Convention considers causing bodily and mental harm as a means of genocide, which means that by posting transphobic content and harassing trans people, you are taking part in trans genocide. Anyone being transphobic online is a genocide perpetrator by definition and should be treated as such.
Venezuela on behalf of 16 countries that either voted against or abstained (Belarus, Bolivia, Cambodia, China, Cuba, Eritrea, Equatorial Guinea, Iran, Laos, Mali, Nicaragua, North Korea, St Vincent, Syria, Venezuela and Zimbabwe): we’re for “a spirit of compromise”
Germany: “if Russia stops fighting, this war ends. If Ukraine stops fighting, Ukraine ends.”
A friend asked if I’d join their session at the World Summit on the Information Society Forum (“building back better and accelerating the achievement of the SDGs”).
I already had grave reservations about the UN after hearing a talk on the SDGs where they said “we should stand aside and let the tech companies solve big problems” but I thought, “let’s give it the benefit of the doubt.”
Guess who their main sponsor is? Yep, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.