#Audio of Irish Navy and Italian coastguard discussion relating to search and rescue mission off Libyan coast
▻https://www.thesun.co.uk/video/news/audio-of-irish-navy-and-italian-coastguard-discussion-relating-to-search-a
#responsabilité #conversation #marine_italienne #Italie #Irlande #sauvetage #mourir_en_mer #sauvetage #SAR #gardes-côtes #convention_de_Hambourg #migrations #mer #Méditerranée #asile #réfugiés #Libye
ça rappelle fortement cette autre conversation audio, que j’ai aussi signalée sur seenthis :
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Probablement utile de relire l’article de @reka sur @visionscarto :
"Migrations, sauvetage en mer et droits humains"
Secourir les êtres humains en pleine mer est un principe humanitaire fondamental, une obligation. C’est ce que Navi Pillay, haut-commissaire aux droits humains à l’ONU [entre 2008 et 2014], croyait bon de rappeler aux gouvernements de nombreux Etats ainsi qu’aux capitaines de certains navires, qu’elle accusait violemment d’ignorer les appels au secours de naufragés en difficulté. Mme Pillay pouvait bien être en colère. Car ces naufragés sont parmi les personnes les plus vulnérables de la planète : des « migrants-voyageurs », souvent embarqués sur des rafiots menaçant de sombrer à chaque instant.
►https://visionscarto.net/migrations-sauvetage-en-mer
#Méditerranée #asile #migrations #mer_Méditerranée #droits_humains #réfugiés #droit_de_la_mer #droit #sauvetages #mourir_en_mer
An interview with #Navi_Pillay
A refusal to shrink from difficult confrontations is a recurring theme in Navi Pillay’s career. During her six years as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights she took on the then Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa for failing to investigate the deaths of over 100,000 people in the last weeks and months of the country’s civil war, which ended in 2009 after 26 years. In response, the Sri Lankan government said that South African-born Pillay lacked objectivity because of her Tamil ancestry. An Indian diplomat told Pillay that her campaign to end caste discrimination was unfair because it humiliated India on a world stage. A Syrian ambassador called her a “lunatic”. Some western countries (including the UK) complained when she pointed out their failures to uphold certain human rights. “They said I should be focusing on distant countries where thousands of people are killed,” she said. “In other words, developing countries.”
Sur le #viol et les #viols_de_guerre :
This was after all how she was able to challenge the law on sexual violence in conflict, by listening to the testimony of rape survivors and drawing on the work of experts.
“I got a great deal of help from academics on creating this new jurisprudence, the gender jurisprudence. I felt in my heart that we have to render justice. That is what we are there for, to render justice and so if a woman complains about a brutal rape, we have to pay attention.”
VisionsCarto.net | Migrations, sauvetage en mer et droits humains
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Secourir les êtres humains en pleine mer est un principe humanitaire fondamental, une obligation. C’est ce que Navi Pillay, haut-commissaire aux droits humains à l’ONU [entre 2008 et 2014], croyait bon de rappeler aux gouvernements de nombreux Etats ainsi qu’aux capitaines de certains navires, qu’elle accusait violemment d’ignorer les appels au secours de naufragés en […]
’Racist’ Australia compared to Apartheid South Africa by UN Human Rights commissioner | Daily Mail Online
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The United Nations’ top human rights watchdog has attacked Australia’s tough refugee policies and the treatment of outback Aborigines, saying there was a strong undercurrent of racism in the country.
According to UN Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay, long-standing policies of locking up asylum seekers had ’cast a shadow over Australia’s human rights record’, and appeared to be completely arbitrary.
’I come from South Africa and lived under this, and am every way attuned to seeing racial discrimination,’ she said.
For U.N. Leader on Human Rights, Finish Line Looks Blurry
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/14/world/europe/for-un-leader-on-human-rights-finish-line-looks-blurry.html
The United States never invited her, despite her asking to visit several times in hopes of taking up “the many issues that trouble us,” she said, specifically drone strikes and targeted killings.
“That does not show the United States in a good light,” Ms. Pillay said. To preserve its authority in the world, she said, America cannot exempt itself, or its allies, from the standards it invokes to chastise other countries.
Such bluntness appears to have cost Ms. Pillay in other ways. She acknowledges the American backing that she received for some of the causes she pursued in the Human Rights Council. But in 2012, when her first, four-year term as commissioner ended, she did not receive a full second term. Diplomats cited by the news media at the time said that American displeasure with her criticism of Israel had been a factor in that decision.
Human rights commissioners are appointed by the United Nations secretary general, subject to approval by the General Assembly, but major powers have a decisive say.
A Gaza, la guerre des bombes et celle des mots… | Le blog A Lupus un regard hagard sur Lécocomics et ses finances
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A Gaza, la guerre des bombes et celle des mots…
Accusations de l’ONU : La haut-commissaire de l’ONU aux droits de l’homme, Navi Pillay, a accusé jeudi Israël de défier délibérément le droit international dans sa guerre contre le Hamas palestinien à Gaza.
Bilan supérieur à « Plomb durci ». Le nombre de Palestiniens tués lors de l’offensive israélienne à Gaza a dépassé jeudi celui atteint pendant l’opération « Plomb Durci » en 2009. Selon les services d’urgences de Gaza, au moins 1.442 Palestiniens ont péri depuis le début de l’opération le 8 juillet, dont 44 tués par des frappes israéliennes et 13 ayant succombé à leurs blessures pour la journée de jeudi. Quatorze personnes ont été tuées jeudi soir dans une frappe israélienne sur une maison du camp de réfugiés de Nousseirat, au centre de la bande de Gaza. Par ailleurs, plus de 8.200 Palestiniens ont été blessés en 24 jours d’offensive israélienne.
Durant l’opération « Plomb Durci » qui avait commencé fin décembre 2008 et qui avait duré trois semaines, 1.440 Palestiniens avaient péri et plus de 5.300 avaient été blessés, selon des sources médicales et associatives palestiniennes.
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Côté israélien, 56 soldats sont tombés au front lors de l’opération actuellement en cours tandis que 10 soldats avaient péri lors de l’opération « Plomb Durci » en 2008-2009.....
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Lors d’une conférence de presse, Mme Pillay a condamné les attaques menées par l’armée israélienne à Gaza contre des maisons, des écoles, des hôpitaux et des centres de l’ONU. « Aucune d’entre elles ne semble être accidentelle. Elles semblent être un acte de défi délibéré vis-à-vis des obligations résultant du droit international » que doit respecter Israël, a-t-elle dit.
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For a little pressure on Israel - The Hindu
▻http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/for-a-little-pressure-on-israel/article6250154.ece?homepage=true
VIJAY PRASHAD
Despite the massacres of entire families, U.S. President Obama has made no major public address to caution Israel
Sixteen days into the Israeli offensive on Gaza, on July 23, the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva held a hearing. Pressure from the League of Arab States has been severe. A few days before, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) held an emergency session on Gaza. The Jordanian delegation, on behalf of the Arabs, carried a resolution for a ceasefire around the United Nations building to no avail. It had two points that Israel would not accept — it did not sanction Hamas by name, and it called for the end to the stranglehold on Gaza. Israel, which continues to occupy Gaza despite the withdrawal of its troops in 2005, has obligations as an occupying power. In 2005, it signed an Agreement on Movement and Access, but has never allowed this to come into effect. Israel controls the borders of Gaza, sealing in the almost two million people on to 140 square miles of land. With absent movement on the Jordanian resolution in the UNSC, the momentum shifted to the Human Rights Council.
The debate in Geneva was very emotional. The U.N. agencies in Gaza have been deeply impacted by the Israeli war, with their buildings taking fire and their personnel in grave danger (with three U.N. teachers killed). Kyung-wha Kang of the U.N.’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs suggested that the attack on hospitals and school was “a flagrant violation of international law,” while the mechanism to warn civilians of bombardment creates “terror and trauma” in an occupied territory where there is no safe haven. Civilian homes are not a target, said the U.N. High Commissioner Navi Pillay, also pointing out that the entire situation was “dreadful and interminable.” The most telling moment in Commissioner Pillay’s statement came when she said this was the “third serious escalation of hostilities” in her six years on the job. As in 2009 and 2012, she said, “it is innocent civilians in the Gaza Strip, including children, women, the elderly and persons with disabilities, who are suffering the most.”
A ceasefire
In Gaza, meanwhile, the sounds of bombardment continue. Negotiations persist in Cairo and Doha to create a pathway to a ceasefire, while Israel, obdurate, continues to pound the Gaza Strip. In an unguarded moment on Fox News, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry expressed his frustration with Israel. He hastily caught himself. The U.S. has no appetite to force Israel to silence its guns. Hamas’ Khaled Meshaal, speaking from Doha, said that he would accept a ceasefire only if it came alongside an end to the embargo. This is the pillar of the Jordanian resolution, which, it is clear, the Israelis will not tolerate. The Palestinians do not want a ceasefire without some improvement of their situation. Fatah, the other major faction of the Palestinians, takes the same position as Hamas. Yasser Abed Rabbo, the likely successor to Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas, said, “Gaza’s demand to lift the siege is the demand of the entire Palestinian people and not just one particular faction.” This is a position with which the government of India concurs. All factions in Palestine and the Arab League agree that the blockade must be lifted for a genuine ceasefire. If this is their minimum requirement, it is unlikely that there will be a ceasefire deal. No amount of U.S. pressure can convince Israel to the rationality of that demand.
Fifty thousand Palestinians went on the streets of the West Bank through the night of July 24, signalling to the Israelis that they are ready for a third intifada
Indications of any U.S. pressure are not evident. Despite the massacres of entire families, U.S. President Obama has made no major public address to caution Israel. Instead, the White House tells the press that Mr. Obama continues to talk to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to offer U.S. support, as the U.S. Congress voted unanimously to fully back the Israeli war effort.
Ms Pillay asked the Council, “What must we finally do to move beyond a ceasefire that will inevitably be broken again in two or three years?” A first step, she noted, is accountability — “ensuring that the cycle of human rights violations and impunity is brought to an end.” To that end the Human Rights Council called for the creation of an independent international commission of inquiry to investigate “all violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law” in all of Occupied Palestine “particularly in the Gaza Strip.” After Operation Cast Lead (2009), the U.N. empanelled the Goldstone Commission, whose report castigated Israel for the use of dangerous weapons (such as white phosphorus) and for targeting Gaza’s civilian infrastructure. Under intense U.S. pressure, including on India, the Goldstone Commission’s report went into cold storage.
Out of the 47 members in the Council, 29 voted to create a Commission, 17 abstained and one voted against it. The sole ‘No vote’ came from the U.S., showing how little appetite there is in Washington to pressure Israel not only to a ceasefire but to be held accountable for its methods of war. The members of the European Union abstained, as did several African states. The ‘Yes’ countries included members of the Arab League and Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, South American states, some African countries, and the entire BRICS bloc (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa). India’s Ambassador to the U.N. Asoke Mukerji said that India is “deeply concerned” about the civilian casualties — over 700 Palestinians dead, several thousand of them injured (as opposed to one Israeli civilian dead). Dilip Sinha, India’s ambassador to the Human Rights Council, was more graphic, bemoaning the “heavy air-strikes in Gaza and the disproportionate use of force resulting in the tragic loss of civilian lives.”
India’s position
The Indian government’s reticence to hold a debate in Parliament and its refusal to put any pressure on Israel for its war with a statement is now of no consequence. The U.N. vote shows two things. First, that India’s drift into the U.S. orbit is not complete. It has commitments to the BRICS states. South Africa — with vivid memories of apartheid — would be unwilling to soft-pedal on the issue of Palestinian rights. Nor would Russia, which sees this as an easy way to pressure the U.S. The BRICS, therefore, will retain India in the pro-Palestine camp. Second, despite the desire of the Indian establishment to create an enduring relationship with Israel, the grotesque actions of Tel Aviv are a constraint. India continues to believe in the possibility of the creation of Palestine with stable borders, including Jerusalem as its capital.
None of this is accepted by Israel, whose own policy vis-à-vis the Palestinians is incoherent. Fifty thousand Palestinians went on the streets of the West Bank through the night of July 24, signalling to the Israelis that they are ready for a third ‘Intifada’. Israel is in no mood for concessions. The only outcome is more terrible violence.
“All these dead and maimed civilians should weigh heavily on all our consciences,” said Ms Pillay. They certainly did not seem to bother the U.S.’ Ambassador Samantha Power, who is otherwise the champion of humanitarian intervention. Her preferred cocktail of Responsibility to Protect (R2) and “no fly zones” was not in evidence.
Nor did it bother the U.S. Ambassador to the Human Rights Council, Keith Harper — a Native American lawyer who knows a great deal about the occupation of a people. The U.S. sat silent and pushed the red button. This is not a red light of caution to Israel. For Tel Aviv, this is a green light.
(Vijay Prashad is Professor of International Studies at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.)❞
Suspension humanitaire des combats dans la bande de Gaza
▻http://www.lemonde.fr/proche-orient/article/2014/07/23/gaza-aucun-repit-dans-l-offensive-les-vols-vers-tel-aviv-toujours-bloques_44
Forte possibilité » de crimes de guerre
Navi Pillay, haute-commissaire des Nations unies aux droits de l’homme, a profité d’une réunion extraordinaire pour affirmer qu’il y avait une « forte possibilité que le droit international et humanitaire ait été violé » lors des bombardements israéliens et les tirs de roquette depuis la bande de Gaza, « d’une façon telle qu’ils pourraient constituer des crimes de guerre ».
#UN rights chief: “strong possibility” #Israel violating international law in #Gaza
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/un-rights-chief-strong-possibility-israel-violating-international
Israel may be committing war crimes in Gaza, where its punitive house demolitions and killing of children raise the “strong possibility” that it is violating international law, UN High Commissioner for #Human_Rights Navi Pillay said on Wednesday. Pillay, opening an emergency debate at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, also condemned the firing of rockets and mortars by Hamas into Occupied #Palestine. (Reuters)
Surveillance : un rapport de l’ONU accable les états
▻http://www.numerama.com/magazine/30023-surveillance-un-rapport-de-l-onu-accable-les-etats.html
La Haut-Commissaire des Nations Unies aux droits de l’Homme, Navi Pillay, a affirmé mercredi que l’ONU avait des « preuves fortes » d’une collaboration croissante entre les entreprises privées et les gouvernements, pour l’espionnage de la population, avec des méthodes de collecte de données qui dépassent le cadre autorisé par la loi.
Le rapport rappelle que le Pacte international relatif aux droits civils et politiques, ratifié par 167 états, dispose dans son article 17 que « nul ne sera l’objet d’immixtions arbitraires ou illégales dans sa vie privée, sa famille, son domicile ou sa correspondance » et que « toute personne a droit à la protection de la loi contre de telles immixtions ou de telles atteintes ». Le Haut-Commissariat estime qu’il est donc de la responsabilité des gouvernements de dire en quoi leurs programmes de surveillance massive ne seraient ni arbitraires ni illégaux.
Blocking aid to #Yarmouk camp may be war crime: #UN rights chief
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/18279
Syria’s repeated obstruction of aid convoys to the besieged Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in southern Damascus might be considered a war crime, UN rights chief Navi Pillay said Friday. “Impeding humanitarian assistance to civilians in desperate need may amount to a war crime,” Pillay, the UN high commissioner for human rights, said in a statement. Rebels control swathes of Yarmouk, but for months Syrian government forces have imposed a suffocating siege on the camp, where some 20,000 Palestinians live despite terrible shortages. read more
#UN: Growing #executions by Syrian rebels a war crime
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/18256
Rebels groups in #syria are committing a “soaring” number of executions in the country’s north that could amount to war crimes, the U.N. #Human_Rights office announced in a statement released on Thursday. “In the past two weeks, we have received reports of a succession of mass executions of civilians and fighters who were no longer participating in hostilities in Aleppo, Idlib and Raqqa by hardline armed opposition groups in Syria, in particular by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS),” the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said. read more
Centre d’actualités de l’ONU - Nigéria : Ban craint qu’une loi anti-mariage homosexuel n’alimente la violence
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15 janvier 2014 – Le Secrétaire général des Nations Unies, Ban Ki-moon, a déclaré mercredi partager la profonde préoccupation qu’a exprimée la veille la Haut-Commissaire des Nations Unies aux droits de l’homme, Navi Pillay, après l’adoption d’une loi interdisant le mariage homosexuel au Nigéria.
« La loi introduit un large éventail de délits, en violation des droits de l’homme et des libertés fondamentales, dont une peine de 14 ans de prison pour les couples de même sexe qui vivent ensemble ou qui cherchent à officialiser leur union par une cérémonie », relève le porte-parole du Secrétaire général dans une déclaration à la presse.
Centre d’actualités de l’ONU - La RCA, au bord d’un cycle de violences « incontrôlables », prévient Pillay
▻http://www.un.org/apps/newsFr/storyF.asp?NewsID=31466&Cr=RCA&Cr1=
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8 novembre 2013 – La Haut Commissaire des Nations Unies aux droits de l’homme, Navi Pillay, a lancé vendredi une mise en garde contre le cycle d’attaques et de représailles violentes qui risque de faire plonger la République centrafricaine dans un nouveau conflit.
Le 26 octobre dernier, des milices d’autodéfense, connues sous le nom d’« anti-Balaka », ont attaqué et occupé Bouar, une ville située dans l’ouest du pays, près du Cameroun voisin. Cette attaque a déclenché des affrontements avec les forces issues de l’ex-Séléka, qui ont fait au moins 20 morts parmi les civils. Un enseignant a été tué par ces dernières, qui lui ont roulé dessus à plusieurs reprises avec un véhicule en raison de son soutien supposé aux milices anti-Balaka. Au moins 10.000 personnes ont été déplacées par ces combats.
Mass #surveillance: Navi Pillay urges respect for right to privacy and protection of individuals revealing human rights violations
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The situation of Edward #Snowden and alleged large-scale violations of the right of privacy by surveillance programmes raise a number of important international human rights issues which need to be addressed, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, said on Friday.
“While concerns about national security and criminal activity may justify the exceptional and narrowly-tailored use of surveillance programmes, surveillance without adequate safeguards to protect the right to privacy actually risk impacting negatively on the enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms,” Pillay said.
“Both Article 12 of the Universal Declaration of Human rights and Article 17 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political rights state that no one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with one’s privacy, family, home or correspondence, and that everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks,” said the High Commissioner.
“People need to be confident that their private communications are not being unduly scrutinised by the State,” the High Commissioner noted.
“The right to privacy, the right to access to information and freedom of expression are closely linked .The public has the democratic right to take part in the public affairs and this right cannot be effectively exercised by solely relying on authorized information,” Pillay said.
“Snowden’s case has shown the need to protect persons disclosing information on matters that have implications for human rights, as well as the importance of ensuring respect for the right to privacy,” Pillay said.
“National legal systems must ensure that there are adequate avenues for individuals disclosing violations of human rights to express their concern without fear of reprisals,” she added.
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“Without prejudging the validity of any asylum claim by Snowden, I appeal to all States to respect the internationally guaranteed right to seek asylum, in accordance with Article 14 of the Universal Declaration and Article 1 of the UN Convention relating to the status of Refugees, and to make any such determination in accordance with their international legal obligations,” Pillay said.
La Commission des droits de l’homme des Nations Unies demande à Israël de lever le blocus de Gaza, de mettre fin aux détentions arbitraires aux mauvais traitements et à la torture des détenus.
(sur BBC, mais pas trouvé en anglais)
ONU pide fin de bloqueo a Gaza - BBC Mundo - Últimas Noticias
▻http://www.bbc.co.uk/mundo/ultimas_noticias/2013/03/130318_ultnot_onu_palestinos_am.shtml
La Alta Comisionada de Naciones Unidas para los Derechos Humanos, Navi Pillay, instó a Israel a levantar el bloqueo a Gaza. También solicitó a las autoridades en el territorio que acaben con las detenciones arbitrarias, los malos tratos y la tortura de los detenidos.
La Commission demande également qu’Israël fasse cesser les attaques de la population palestinienne par les colons, qu’il enquête sur de tels faits et que les coupables soient jugés.
También solicitó a Israel que evite los ataques de los habitantes de los asentamientos contra la población palestina, que los sucesos sean investigados y los culpables sean juzgados.
The experts concluded that Israel’s “creeping annexation” of the West Bank had led to many rights violations, and brought up the possibility that future cases might be handled by the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
No U.S. delegate spoke on this issue. When the council turned to the wider issue of human rights in the Palestinian territories, U.S. ambassador Eileen Donahoe said that “the United States remains extremely troubled by this council’s continued biased and disproportionate focus on Israel.”
▻http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/u-s-shuns-un-debate-on-israeli-settlers-ahead-of-obama-visit-1.510284
▻http://www.lorientlejour.com/category/Derni%C3%A8res+Infos/article/805826/Israel%3A_des_experts_de_lONU_demandent_larret_immediat_de_la_colonis
« La mission demande à Israël de se conformer aux dispositions de l’article 49 de la quatrième convention de Genève, de cesser immédiatement et sans condition préalable la colonisation ainsi que d’initier un processus de retrait des colons », a déclaré la présidente de la mission, la Française Christine Chanet, devant le Conseil.
La mission d’experts demande également à Israël de « mettre fin à toutes les violations issues de la colonisation » ainsi qu’à « l’impunité », a souligné Mme Chanet.
La mission, composée de trois experts, a déjà fait part de ses recommandations dans un rapport publié le 31 janvier comparant la colonisation à un « système de ségrégation totale » et évoquant un éventuel recours devant la Cour pénale internationale (CPI).
L’accession de la Palestine au statut d’Etat observateur à l’ONU, suite à une décision de l’Assemblée générale du 29 novembre, donne en effet le droit aux Palestiniens de procéder à une saisine de la CPI, ce dont ils se sont jusqu’ici abstenus.
Le rapport des experts fait suite à une résolution du Conseil adoptée en mars 2012 mandatant « une mission internationale indépendante d’établissement des faits » pour étudier les effets des colonies de peuplement dans les territoires palestiniens.
Depuis la guerre des six jours de 1967, 250 colonies ont été créées, occupées par quelque 520.000 colons.
En dépit des demandes écrites de coopération auprès des autorités israéliennes, la mission n’a obtenu aucune réponse d’Israël et n’a pas pu se rendre dans les territoires.
Israël boycotte depuis mars 2012 les réunions du Conseil des droits de l’Homme et a rejeté le rapport, estimant qu’il ne ferait « que saper les efforts pour trouver une solution durable au conflit israélo-palestinien ».
A Genève, l’ambassadeur de la Palestine auprès de l’ONU, Ibrahim Khraishi, a estimé lundi que « la construction d’implantations dans les territoires (palestiniens, ndlr) ne permet pas la solution à deux Etats » et « permet une politique d’apartheid ».
Exceptés les Etats-Unis dont l’ambassadrice Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe a estimé que le Conseil « se concentre de manière excessive sur Israël », tous les autres pays ayant pris la parole — ainsi que l’Union européenne — ont dénoncé les colonies israéliennes.
Pour sa part, la Haut-Commissaire de l’ONU aux droits de l’Homme, Mme Pillay a dénoncé les actes de violence commis par les colons dans la quasi-impunité. L’ONU a ainsi comptabilisé 383 actes de violence commis par des colons entre le 16 novembre 2011 et le 29 novembre 2012, selon un rapport de la Haut-Commissaire sur la situation des droits de l’Homme dans les territoires palestiniens, publié le 6 mars.
UN: French anti-Muslim cartoons «malicious»
►http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/un-french-anti-muslim-cartoons-malicious
The UN’s human rights agency on Friday condemned French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo’s publication of cartoons mocking Prophet Mohammed amid tensions in the Muslim world over an anti-Islam film.
“Both the film and the cartoons are malicious and deliberately provocative,” said Rupert Colville, a spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay.
“In the case of Charlie Hebdo, given they knew full well what happened last week with the film, it seems doubly irresponsible on their part to have published these cartoons,” he told reporters in Geneva.
On ne va pas se gêner: U.S. pressing UN Human Rights Commissioner to put off West Bank settlements probe
►http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/diplomania/u-s-pressing-un-human-rights-commissioner-to-put-off-west-bank-settlements-
The Obama administration is trying to delay the establishment of a panel appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council to investigate the issue of Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
U.S. Middle East envoy David Hale met in Bern last week with UN Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay and asked her not to advance the matter in the near future.
Fresh violence rages in Libya - Africa - Al Jazeera English
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Nearly 300 people are reported to have been killed in continuing violence in the capital and across the north African country as demonstrations enter their second week.
Navi Pillay, the UN high commissioner for human rights, has warned that the widespread attacks against civilians “amount to crimes against humanity”, and called for an international investigation in possible human rights violations.
Witnesses in Tripoli told Al Jazeera that fighter jets had bombed portions of the city in fresh attacks on Monday night. The bombing focused on ammunition depots and control centres around the capital.
Helicopter gunships were also used, they said, to fire on the streets in order to scare demonstrators away.
Several witnesses said that “mercenaries” were firing on civilians in the city, while pro-Gaddafi forces warned people not to leave their homes via loudspeakers mounted on cars.
Residents of the Tajura neighbourhood, east of Tripoli, said that dead bodies are still lying on the streets from earlier violence. At least 61 people were killed in the capital on Monday, witnesses told Al Jazeeera.