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The Australian
February 23, 2018
Major General Jim Molan, an Australian seconded to the US armed forces in April 2004, was in charge of planning and carrying out the assault … the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Jean Ziegler, accused the Coalition of committing a war crime by using 'hunger and deprivation of water as a ...
Merinews
February 15, 2018
Consultative Counsel of Human Rights member speaks out against 1988 massacre in Iran ... One of the key speakers was Professor Jean Ziegler, who is a member of the Consultative Committee of the Council for Human Rights, which is a subsidiary organ of the Council for Human Rights in the United ...
Deutsche Welle
March 24, 2017
Global 3000. The fight against capitalism: Jean Ziegler. They're still out there, the real revolutionaries rallying others to fight against capitalism. As the film "Jean Ziegler, the Optimism of Willpower" is released, we meet the combative Swiss sociologist.
The Australian
February 23, 2018
Major General Jim Molan, an Australian seconded to the US armed forces in April 2004, was in charge of planning and carrying out the assault … the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Jean Ziegler, accused the Coalition of committing a war crime by using 'hunger and deprivation of water as a ...
Merinews
February 15, 2018
Consultative Counsel of Human Rights member speaks out against 1988 massacre in Iran ... One of the key speakers was Professor Jean Ziegler, who is a member of the Consultative Committee of the Council for Human Rights, which is a subsidiary organ of the Council for Human Rights in the United ...
Herald Sun
February 7, 2018
Di Natale's source is even worse than Britain First. That “UN special rapporteur” is Swiss academic Jean Ziegler, a radical who once claimed genocidal Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe had “history and morality with him”. Ziegler not only helped launch the “Moammar Gaddafi Prize on Human Rights” in ...
Newsweek
December 22, 2017
Befitting the U.N. HRC's absurd composition, the first person to fill the position, the Swiss sociologist Jean Ziegler was the co-foU. ... including a statement from the U.S. State Department that “this appointment clearly contradicts the United Nations ideals of respect for human rights and human dignity.”.
Deutsche Welle
March 24, 2017
Global 3000. The fight against capitalism: Jean Ziegler. They're still out there, the real revolutionaries rallying others to fight against capitalism. As the film "Jean Ziegler, the Optimism of Willpower" is released, we meet the combative Swiss sociologist.
teleSUR English
October 17, 2017
An anti-Trump leaflet believed to come from North Korea by balloon is pictured in this undated handout photo released by NK News on October ...
teleSUR English
October 16, 2017
by Jean Ziegler and Sofia Monsalve ... What we saw was a multifaceted and multidimensional crisis, which led to a human rights disaster.
teleSUR English
October 11, 2017
The United Nations expects the Guatemalan government will renew the Head of the International Commission Against Impunity, Cicig, Ivan ...
teleSUR English
October 10, 2017
On Monday, the United Nations implemented a first-ever all-port ban on four vessels found violating sanctions put in place against North Korea ...
teleSUR English
October 10, 2017
Guatemala Revokes UN Anti-Corruption Head's Visa ... or Cicig, only months after the UN-backed anti-graft body opened an investigation ...
teleSUR English
October 6, 2017
The United Nations military force of 2,370 soldiers formally ended its operations in Haiti Thursday during a ceremony attended by President ...
teleSUR English
September 28, 2017
The Venezuelan ambassador in the United Nations Human Rights Council speaks for sovereignty and against interference. | Photo: teleSUR.
teleSUR English
September 25, 2017
UN 'Still Stinks of Sulfur' Says Venezuela Foreign Minister Arreaza .... on in respect to police and human rights abuses detailing abuses against ...
teleSUR English
September 20, 2017
by Jean Ziegler and Sofia Monsalve ... Iran's President Hassan Rouhani told U.N. member nations that his country has not ... double standards at the 72nd General Assembly of the United Nations. ... Meanwhile, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas condemned Israeli human rights violations against ...
Deutsche Welle
March 24, 2017
Global 3000. The fight against capitalism: Jean Ziegler. They're still out there, the real revolutionaries rallying others to fight against capitalism. As the film "Jean Ziegler, the Optimism of Willpower" is released, we meet the combative Swiss sociologist.
The Peninsula Qatar
December 31, 1999
For this, the UN Special Rapporteur Jean Ziegler was quoted describing the practice of biofuel production as a 'crime against humanity'.
Khaleej Times
September 15, 2017
... Al Zaabi, UAE Permanent Representative to the United Nations, UN, and ... by the Human Rights Council with the Special Rapporteur on unilateral ... and Jean Ziegler, Advisory Committee Member, we again stress that the ...
Tages-Anzeiger Online
August 30, 2017
Die Gewalt gehe in in Venezuela von beiden Seiten aus, sagt Jean Ziegler (aufgenommen am 21. Oktober 2015 in der UNO in Genf).
AgoraVox Italia
August 17, 2017
E' da un po' di tempo che la stampa e le TV nostrane offrono sempre ... pagato troppo poco (manco fosse "Noam Chomsky" o "Jean Ziegler"!).
B92
March 27, 2017
... his announced reduction in participation in international organizations, Ziegler warned that the US is the largest contributor to the UN with 26 ...
Deutsche Welle
March 24, 2017
... others to fight against capitalism. As the film "Jean Ziegler, the Optimism of Willpower" is released, we meet the combative Swiss sociologist.
Kashmir Reader
March 28, 2017
An official of UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food Grains, Jean Ziegler calls it a silent mass murder entirely due to manmade actions.
InSerbia News
March 28, 2017
When it comes to US President Donald Trump, and his announced reduction in participation in international organizations, Ziegler warned that the US is the largest contributor to the UN with 26 percent of the total budget, i.e., that the country ...
Deutsche Welle
March 24, 2017
They're still out there, the real revolutionaries rallying others to fight against capitalism. One of them is the Swiss sociologist, former politician, UN advisor and author Jean Ziegler. We caught up with him for an interview.
neues deutschland
March 22, 2017
Der Schriftsteller und Professor, der Schweizer Parlamentsabgeordnete und UNO-Mitarbeiter, der weltweit bekannte Globalisierungskritiker und Menschenrechtsaktivist Jean Ziegler hat sich von seinem ehemaligen Studenten Nicolas Wadimoff mit der ...
AlterNet
March 22, 2017
Within the UN system it was mostly the two successive Special Rapporteurs on the Right to Food, Jean Ziegler and Olivier de Schutter, who pushed for a more radical and systemic critique.
Expatica Switzerland
March 6, 2017
The first session of the United Nations' Human Rights Council in 2017 is taking place against a particularly bleak backdrop, with rising populism in some of the world's most established democracies.
ReliefWeb
February 28, 2017
Kate Gilmore, United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, acting as the panel moderator, said the panel would focus on how best to ensure that human rights were better integrated into peacebuilding processes, how best to ensure that human ...
OMCT World Organisation Against Torture
February 21, 2017
As the most important event on cinema and human rights worldwide, it brings together 300 guests from 62 different countries between March 10th to the 19th 2017, and offers 134 events at the heart of Geneva during the main session of the United Nations ...
Luzerner Zeitung
February 15, 2017
... Thun bis zu seiner bis heute dauernden Arbeit im Beratenden Ausschuss des Menschenrechtsrats der UN. Aktuell liegt ihm vor allem der Kampf gegen die sogenannten Geierfonds, mit denen schuldenbelastete Staaten ausgenommen werden, am Herzen.
Independent Australia
January 23, 2017
Unlike the Canadian Government, which reported the location, target and date of all airstrikes conducted in both Iraq and Syria, human rights lawyer Kellie Tranter received a chilling response to her F.O.I. request from the Australian Government ...
Vicenza Più
January 21, 2017
Non andate a Gaza a curare i palestinesi con i farmaci forniti da Israele e sappiate anche che Israele cura i bambini ed adulti palestinesi, non solo quelli dell'Anp ma anche quelli di Gaza (nella foto un ospedale israeliano in cui si curano ...
Equal Times
January 17, 2017
Furthermore, as Swiss sociologist Jean Ziegler observed, the United States, which alone finances about 22 per cent of the United Nations budget, controls recruitment to all the UN's high level posts by means of its intelligence agency, the CIA. This ...
Equal Times
January 17, 2017
Furthermore, as Swiss sociologist Jean Ziegler observed, the United States, which alone finances about 22 per cent of the United Nations budget, controls recruitment to all the UN's high level posts by means of its intelligence agency, the CIA. This ...
L'Occidentale
December 31, 2016
UN Watch, organismo con sede a Ginevra che fa le pulci alle Nazioni Unite, ha steso anche quest'anno la top ten dei "dieci peggiori momenti" vissuti all'Onu nel 2016. ... E ancora, il minuto di silenzio in memoria di Fidel Castro, altro notissimo ...
The Jewish Voice
December 20, 2016
UNESCO negated its mandate to protect world heritage by adopting a resolution which used Islamic-only terms for Jerusalem's Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism, denying thousands of years of Jewish and Christian heritage, religion and culture.
Expatica Switzerland
November 27, 2016
... that people were fascinated by his personality." But Jean Ziegler, a former Swiss politician and member of the UN Human Rights Council, described Castro as someone with an "extraordinary human warmth" who had proved that "one can change the world".
swissinfo.ch
November 27, 2016
... that people were fascinated by his personality." But Jean Ziegler, a former Swiss politician and member of the UN Human Rights Council, described Castro as someone with an "extraordinary human warmth" who had proved that "one can change the world".
swissinfo.ch
November 26, 2016
The former Cuban leader, Fidel Castro, a towering 20th century political figure has died at the age of 90. Switzerland and Cuba have had special ties for more than 50 years and many Swiss intellectuals felt inspired by Castro.
Le News
November 24, 2016
Most everyone in Switzerland has heard of Jean Ziegler. This brilliant professor of sociology, member of parliament, controversial writer and U.N. appointee to various human rights councils is a man who is either revered by his followers or reviled by ...
Asia Property Report
October 20, 2016
A ranking United Nations official exhorted the General Assembly to abolish tax havens amid a growing backlash against illicit financial flows in the wake of damning document leaks.
The Daily Princetonian
October 13, 2016
It wasn't a Kanye West concert or a hot-ticket showing of "Hamilton;" it was the opening of the 71st session of the General Assembly of the United Nations. Or, more .... And despite objections from US Ambassador Samantha Power, the Council re-elected ...
Vox
October 11, 2016
And a former UN special envoy on food, Jean Ziegler, said that the diversion of corn and wheat to bio-fuels is a human rights crime. His argument was quite simple: If you're taking that corn and wheat and turning it into bio-fuels, that creates a ...
Greentech Media
October 11, 2016
And a former UN special envoy on food, Jean Ziegler, said that the diversion of corn and wheat to bio-fuels is a human rights crime." "And of course we haven't even mentioned soy, where more than 80 percent of the global soy crop is fed to farm animals.
Public Finance International
October 7, 2016
United Nations human rights experts have urged governments to eliminate tax secrecy and offshore tax evasion after a fresh tax leak named the directors of several secretive firms in the Bahamas.
UN News Centre
October 6, 2016
6 October 2016 - In the wake of the recent disclosure of leaked Bahamas tax haven data, United Nations human rights experts today urged governments to work together on liquidating offshore tax avoidance and establishing tougher financial regulations ...
swissinfo.ch
September 30, 2016
La Svizzera ritrova un mandato nel Comitato consultivo dell'Onu. Il Consiglio dei diritti dell'uomo di Ginevra ha nominato stasera il giurista Nils Melzer nel Comitato sulla tortura. Jean Ziegler ha fatto parte del Comitato consultivo per il diritto ...
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