Women, Peace and Security: Study Submitted by the Secretary-General Pursuant to Security Council Resolution 1325
People Daily (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
The White House warned Sunday that the Iranian government's plans to build 10 new uranium enrichment plants were "serious violation" of UN Security Council resolutions. "If true, this would be yet another serious violation of Iran's clear obligations under multiple UN Security Council resolutions, and another example of Iran choosing to isolate itself,"...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
The White House warned Sunday that the Iranian government's plans to build 10 new uranium enrichment plants were "serious violation" of UN Security Council resolutions. "If true, this would be yet another serious violation of Iran's clear obligations under multiple UN Security Council resolutions, and another example of Iran choosing to isolate itself,"...
Human Security Gateway: All Updates (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
... the UN had been engaged in Afghanistan throughout those years, mostly through General Assembly resolutions on the ‘Situation in Afghanistan’ and through the establishment of Good Offices missions in Pakistan and Afghanistan, the post-2001 period marked an intensified engagement by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). From then on, three streams of resolutions...
Global Security (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
Russia backs a draft resolution at the IAEA calling on Iran to comply with IAEA conditions, a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency's Board of Governors said on Friday.
Britannia Radio (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
UN RESOLUTION 242 By Professor Paul EidelbergNovember 26, 2009NewsWithViews.comDr. Zalman Shoval, former Israel ambassador to the US, who currently heads the Prime Minister’s forum of US-Israel Relations, perpetuates an old and widespread error in his Jerusalem Post article of November 19, 2009. He refers to UN Security Council Resolution 242, which, he says, “is the...
Open Democracy (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Having closely followed the recent developments in UN legislation about Women, Peace and Security, such as Security Council Resolution 1820 and 1888 both relating to sexual violence in war, I was amazed, and a little embarrassed, to learn that women in Britain have just as much reason to need peace and security as those in war torn countries abroad. In fact, because it is so hidden and...
Yourish.com (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
The AP released a brief story on the Lebanese government affirming Hezbullah’s defiance of UN Security Council Resolution 1701 to disarm. This version holds too much of the truth in it. Prediction: Mention of 1701 will be dropped to the bottom of the next version, and weasel words will be added. Lebanon’s new government has endorsed [...]
Antony Loewenstein (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
Rami G. Khouri writes in Lebanon’s Daily Star with a suggestion to break the Middle East impasse: I have a suggestion. The Netanyahu move does not meet the legitimate demands of the Palestinians, the Obama administration, Security Council resolutions or international law and conventions, yet we should not merely dismiss it and remain diplomatically frozen. Israel [...]
YID With LID (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
... administration in the position of the enemy of our nation and our peoples.” Security Council resolution 1701 of 2006 requires “the disarmament of all armed groups in Lebanon, so that … there will be no weapons or authority in Lebanon other than that of the Lebanese state.”Nasrallah also indicated that Hezbollah, would not comply with U.N. Security Council...
Michael Goldfarb - The Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Last week, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs hailed the fact that Russia and China supported an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) resolution criticizing Iran’s continued noncompliance with multiple United Nations Security Council resolutions, saying in a statement that Friday’s vote...
Labourlist (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
... eyes capable of winning UN approval was Iraqi compliance with numerous mandatory UN Security Council resolutions demanding that Iraq must rid itself of Weapons of Mass Destruction (nuclear, chemical and biological). However, it is now clear that in both Blair’s and Bush’s eyes, it was almost inconceivable that Iraq would comply with the resolutions so long as Saddam...
SWJ Blog (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
... to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) and for its refusal to comply with UN Security Council resolutions directed at Iran’s nuclear program. Iran responded by announcing a plan to greatly expand its uranium enrichment capacity, with plans to add 10 additional enrichments sites. Even though Russia and China joined Europe, the United States, and a majority of other countries...
Labourlist (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
... spent on school books than the secret service. The legality of the war was covered by UN Security Council Resolutions 678 and 1441 and Saddam’s regime had long been in material breach of both resolutions by March 2003. But for many of the war’s opponents its legality was a red herring – I notice that pretty much the same people are opposed to the (completely UN-sanctioned...
Israel & Palestijnen Nieuws Blog (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
... Press VIENNA - The U.N. nuclear agency's board censured Iran on Friday, with 25 nations backing a resolution that demands Tehran immediately mothball its newly revealed nuclear facility and heed U.N. Security Council resolutions calling on it to stop uranium enrichment. Iran remained defiant, with its chief representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency declaring...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Legality is partly a matter of dates, and a 'smoking gun' legal note was written before the key UN security council resolution When the Mail on Sunday claims it has found the " smoking gun " that shows Tony Blair lied over the legality of the Iraq war, it is a good idea to read the small print with great care, to check the facts that can be checked, and then count the spoons....
