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UN report: Israel has established an ’apartheid regime’
By Ben White | 15 mars 2017
▻http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2017/03/report-israel-established-apartheid-regime-170315054053798.html

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A new United Nations report accuses Israel of having established “an apartheid regime that oppresses and dominates the Palestinian people as a whole”.

The publication comes amid renewed debate about whether, through its settlement policy and rejection of Palestinian self-determination, the Israeli government is creating - or even has already created - a de facto “one-state”, which critics warn would constitute a form of apartheid.

It urged governments to “support boycott, divestment and sanctions [BDS] activities and respond positively to calls for such initiatives”.

The report - Israeli Practices towards the Palestinian People and the Question of Apartheid - was commissioned and published by the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) and launched in Beirut.

John Reynolds, a lecturer in law at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, told Al Jazeera the report “breaks new ground in the context of the UN’s analysis of the situation in Palestine”.

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Israeli Practices towards the Palestinian People and the Question of Apartheid: Palestine and the Israeli Occupation, Issue No. 1
Issued in: 2017
▻https://www.unescwa.org/publications/israeli-practices-palestinian-people-apartheid-occupation
#Israël-Apartheid

UNHCR - Number of refugees fleeing South Sudan tops 1.5 million
▻http://www.unhcr.org/news/stories/2017/2/589dba9f4/number-refugees-fleeing-south-sudan-tops-15-million.html

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Sidah Hawa stares towards the horizon. The scorching sun filters through the sparse shade of the tree under which she sits. Her six children huddle close as she breastfeeds Asanti, her 18-month-old baby.

“I have suffered a great deal; these past few days have been really bad,” she says after a long silence. “I didn’t have enough food. I had raw cassava. This is what I fed my children. When they were tired, we rested then I gave them some water.”

Sidah, 30, recently arrived in Kuluba, a small dusty town in northern Uganda close to one of the many points along the border with South Sudan.

She is one of thousands of refugees streaming into Uganda since intense fighting broke out again in July last year following the collapse of a peace deal between the government and opposition forces.

#réfugiés #guerre #conflits #soudan_du_sud #soudan

U.S. Calls Urgent UN Security Council Meeting Over Iranian Missile Test
▻http://www.rferl.org/a/us-calls-urgent-un-security-council-meeting-iranian-ballistic-missile-test/28269158.html

The United Nations Security Council scheduled an urgent meeting for January 31 to discuss an Iranian ballistic missile test at the request of the United States.

“In light of Iran’s January 29 launch of a medium-range ballistic missile, the United States has requested urgent consultations of the Security Council,” the U.S. mission said late on January 30.

It was the first request made by the United States since new U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley took office last week.

U.S. officials said they would bring the latest test before the Security Council if they determined it violated a UN resolution barring Iran from developing missiles “designed to carry nuclear warheads.”

#Iran has regularly flaunted that restriction.

Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker condemned the latest missile test.

“No longer will Iran be given a pass for its repeated ballistic-missile violations, continued support of terrorism, human rights abuses, and other hostile activities that threaten international peace and security,” he said.

#Israel is also calling on the council to punish Iran for the tests.

#Etats-Unis

Les #Etats-Unis « vont montrer leur force » (ambassadrice américaine à l’ONU)
▻http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/2017/01/27/97001-20170127FILWWW00213-les-etats-unis-vont-montrer-leur-force-ambassadri

« Pour ceux qui ne nous soutiennent pas : nous notons vos noms », a menacé Nikki Haley, en s’adressant à des journalistes à l’ONU.