UN Women Is Criticized for Appearing to Take Sides on Decriminalizing ‘Sex Work’

By Barbara Crossette, PassBlue - NEW YORK (IDN) – A group of civil society organizations is warning that a growing global movement to decriminalize and rebrand prostitution as “sex work” could lead to more, not less, violence against the world’s most vulnerable women and girls.
The critics are petitioning UN Women, which is leading a review of the results of the 1995 Fourth World [...]

Germany is for Nacional Security Zone in Syria

By Maximiliane Koschyk and Austin Davis (DW) - The current situation in Syria “requires a stronger European initiative,” said Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer in an interview with DW. A deployment of German troops to the region, however, must be decided by parliament.
  Germany calls for international safe zone in Syria

Germany’s proposal for the establishment of an internationally controlled security zone [...]

UN’s 75th Anniversary Shadowed by Right-Wing Nationalism, Widespread Authoritarianism & Budgetary Cuts

By Thalif Deen – UNITED NATIONS  - When the six much-ballyhooed high-level UN meetings concluded late September, there were mixed feelings about the final outcomes.
And civil society organizations (CSOs), who were mostly disappointed with the results, are now gearing themselves for two upcoming key climate summit meetings: COP25 in Santiago, Chile in December and COP26 [...]

Peter Handke Was a Wrong Choice by Nobel

By Susan Shapiro and Kenan Trebinčević - The Swedish Academy just blew it big time. Again. After postponing last year’s award due to a #MeToo rape scandal, they promised to mend their male-oriented, Eurocentric ways. Awarding the Nobel in literature and more than $915,000 to the genocide-denying accused misogynist Peter Handke makes it the noxious prize. [...]

Why Peter Handke Shouldn’t Get His Nobel Prize

(WEBPUBLICAPRESS) NEW YORK – In a series of public disagreements arguing why Austrian writer Peter Handke shouldn’t receive 2019 year Nobel prize for literature one of the best comes from British Guardian, quoting many against. Here is how they put it rightly so:
” Twenty years before Peter Handke would become a Nobel laureate, he won another [...]

In a War – Turkey Benefit from Trump’s Retreat

By David Philips – Turkish war planes and artillery are attacking Kurdish positions in North and East Syria; Turkey’s foot soldiers, the Free Syrian Army (FSA), are massing at the border poised to attack. Terrorism is resurgent under Turkey’s protection. The FSA is a terrorist gang with a sordid history of atrocities and ties to [...]

Warning – UN May Soon Run Out of Money

By Thalif Deen – UNITED NATIONS  - The UN’s smoldering cash crisis, which has threatened staff salaries and payments to vendors, has triggered strong reactions and rattled the over 6,400 staffers who work in the 39-storeyed Secretariat building in New York.
The proposed cuts in spending, which also cover about 37,500 UN staffers worldwide, excluding over [...]

Hungary Applauds Trump Policy Supports Christian Middle East Minorities

By John J. Metzler - UNITED NATIONS — Sustained and increasing attacks on Christian minorities from the Middle East to West Africa are often tragically overlooked by the mainstream media, underscoring an aura of hypocrisy and double standards towards the free practice of religion.  Yet, some are  pushing back to this indifference and demanding that the systematic harassment [...]

Many Women UN Ambassadors But Not Parity

By Thalif Deen |New York | UNITED NATIONS  - New York’s diplomatic community has continued to be enriched by a record number of women Permanent Representatives (PRUNs)—50 in all, as of October 2 – compared with about 15 to 20 back in the 1980s and early 1990s.
Circle of Women Ambassadors
But the history-making number is still short of [...]

Who is Josep Borell – New EU Diplomacy Chief

By Chase Winter (DW) - Tapped to be EU foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell will have to navigate international turbulence and divisions within the 28-member bloc as he aims to make Europe more united and assertive on the international stage.

Spain’s Josep Borrell has come a remarkably long way since growing up as the son of a [...]