Global crises
Late-2000s financial crisis since 2007 - Since 2008 Great Recession, period of general economic decline observed in world markets beginning around the end of the first decade of the 21st century - 2008-2013 Timeline of the Great Recession - Effects of the Great Recession - 2010-present European sovereign debt crisis - The Great Recession in Europe is part of the Great Recession worldwide, which began in the USA - World economy
Since March 2020 daily increase in death rates and expansion of worldwide crisis: 8 March 2020: Economies struggle due to latest Chinese coronavirus developments worldwide, as death toll has surged above 3,500 worldwide,
with 105,000 cases recorded in 95 countries and territories -
9 March 2020: New week of the Chinese coronavirus crisis is beginning with another unexpected consequence, an oil price crash driven by the outbreak of relatively unrestricted economic warfare between Saudi Arabia, Russia and the West, as the green revolution in Western and other countries poses an existential threat to the Russian economy, as nations also are shutting borders, ceasing trade and, particularly damaging in an era of global supply chains, locking down supplies within their borders -
9 March 2020: World markets plunge on back of Chinese coronavirus-driven recession fears. as global stock markets suffering their biggest falls since the 2008 financial crisis while the oil price crashed amid panic selling because of the double threat of a coronavirus-driven global recession and an oil price war -
Since March 2020 Russia–Saudi Arabia oil price war -
30 March 2020: Asian shares with fresh losses as countries reported surging numbers of infections from the coronavirus in many parts of the world
January 2023 'Global Risks Report' on the edge of a low-growth, low-cooperation era and eroding climate action: 11 January 2023: As 2023 begins, the world is facing a set of risks that feel both wholly new and eerily familiar. We have seen a return of 'older' risks – inflation, cost-of-living crises, trade wars, capital outflows from emerging markets, widespread social unrest, geopolitical confrontation and the spectre of nuclear warfare – which few of this generation’s business leaders and public policy-makers have experienced. These are being amplified by comparatively new developments in the global risks landscape, including unsustainable levels of debt, a new era of low growth, low global investment and de-globalization, a decline in human development after decades of progress, rapid and unconstrained development of dual-use (civilian and military) technologies, and the growing pressure of climate change impacts and ambitions in an ever-shrinking window for transition to a 1.5°C world. Together, these are converging to shape a unique, uncertain and turbulent decade to come, according to World Economic Forum
Since Paleolithic Era - between 500,000 and 10,000 BC - economic history of the world, as the primary socio-economic unit was the band (small kin group). Communication between bands occurred for the purposes of trading ideas, stories, tools, foods, animal skins, mates, and other commodities. Economic resources were constrained by typical ecosystem factors, including density and replacement rates of edible flora and fauna, competition from other consumers (organisms) and climate. Throughout the Upper Paleolithic, humans both dispersed and adapted to a greater variety of environments, and also developed their technologies and behaviors to increase productivity in existing environments. The following eras and periods - Mesolithic, Neolithic, Bronze and Iron ages etc. - show proven gradual domestication of plants and animals and the formation of settled communities at various times and places. The Neolithic shows that exchange and trade became necessary, as 21st century's historians argue that the first object or physical thing specifically used as general equivalent in the exchange was probably cattle - Timeline of international trade
Capitalist mode of production - Capitalism based on private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit - Criticism of capitalism
Wage labour - Wage slavery refers to a social relation where a person's livelihood depends on wages or a salary, especially when the dependence is total and immediate
Direct and indirect consequences of colonialism and colonization - History of colonialism - History of European colonialism
Poverty by country - List of countries by GDP - List of countries by percentage of population living in poverty - List of countries by unemployment rate
Diseases of poverty
World food, hunger crises and and 21st century 'Global Hunger Index': 2022 saw a rapid increase in food prices and shortages of food supplies, food and hunger crises around the world listed by continent and country by 'Wikipedia'. The crises follow food security and economic crises during the covid-19 pandemic and the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. The Food and Agriculture Organization, as well as other observers of the food commodities markets, warned of a collapse in food supply and price increases. Much of the concern is related to supply shortages of key commodity crops, such as wheat, corn, and oil seeds, which could cause price increases. -
Global Hunger Index, a tool that measures and tracks hunger globally as well as by region and by country. The GHI is calculated annually, and its results appear in a report issued in October each year. The 2021 Global Hunger Index indicates a critical hunger situation described as arising from the devastating combination of the climate crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic, and increasingly severe and protracted conflicts. Progress toward achieving the SDG 'Zero Hunger by 2030', which was already far too slow, has stagnated or even, in some countries, seen reversals
Use of starvation as weapon in Syria, and 2013 Assad regime's 'starvation until submission campaign': 30 October 2013: Assad regime's 'starvation until submission campaign', blocking food and medicine from entering and people from leaving besieged areas of Syria, causing starvation and death, according to residents and medical staff
Starvation as a weapon of war the new normal due to lack of action and punishment
December 2017 global call to world's presidents 1,000 days since the escalation of war in Yemen: 19 December 2017: A global call to USA's president Trump, UK's PM May, and France's president Macron, as December 2017 marks 1,000 days since the escalation of a war that has turned the Middle East’s poorest country into the world’s largest humanitarian crisis, leaving Yemen ravaged by preventable diseases and on the verge of a historic famine, and as after 1,000 days of war Yemen can't wait, as USA, UK, and France are permanent members of the UN Security Council and at the same time major weapons suppliers to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, bearing a special responsibility to use the full extent of their leverage to press their partners in the region to end the crisis and to become the brokers of peace, despite Iranian regime's connections with Yemeni Houthis
Women's rights by region (continent) - Women's rights by country - Women's suffrage
Infant mortality - List of countries by infant mortality rate - Child mortality
Children's rights - Child neglect, a deficit in meeting a child's basic needs, including the failure to provide adequate health care, supervision, clothing, nutrition, housing as well as their physical, emotional, social, educational and safety needs
October 2017 reports on children in armed conflicts: 5 October 2017: Millions of children caught in conflict, victims and targets of despicable harm, as children from countries such as Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iraq, Somalia, South Sudan, Syria and Yemen, suffer an unacceptable level of violations by parties to conflict,
according to UN's 2016 Annual Report on Children and Armed Conflict -
1 novembre 2017: Trois quarts des enfants âgés entre 2 et 4 ans, environ 300 millions de filles et de garçons dans le monde sont victimes de violences domestiques, selon Unicef
August 2018 4,360 incidents of attacks hitting 1,356 schools in Syria since 2011: 8 August 2018: SNHR said in a report that there were 4,360 incidents of attacks hitting 1,356 schools in Syria since 2011, which caused about half of them to go out of service, documenting the deaths of 528 civilians as a result of attacks on schools and educational institutions,
as the Assad regime attacked 996 schools, the Russian forces are responsible for attacking 169 schools and the international coalition forces are responsible for attaching 87 schools -
According to SNHR 224,948 Syrian civilians including 29,017 children killed since March 2011
Refugee women and children, facing many of the same issues in refugee camps as they do in urban slums and rural villages, broad issues such as inequality and abuse are seen universally - Refugee camps - Mental health of refugee children
Refugee crises - Refugee - Refugees by nationality - Right of asylum - List of countries by refugee population - Refugee camp - Refugee camps
1933-1945 NSDAP ruled German empire's wars, refugee crises and the Holocaust: Between Germany's NSDAP rise to power in 1933 and Germany's surrender in 1945, more than 340,000 Jews emigrated from their country, but after Germany annexed Austria in March 1938 and particularly after the German November pogroms 1938 nations in western Europe and the Americas feared an influx of refugees, placing limits on immigration and often turning back desperate people -
MS St. Louis German ocean liner trying to find homes for 908 Jewish refugees from Germany in 1939, but after denied entry to Cuba, Canada, and the USA, the refugees were finally accepted in various European countries, and historians have estimated that approximately a quarter of them died in German death camps during World War II -
'Exodus 1947' was a ship that carried 4,515 Jewish emigrants from France to British Mandatory Palestine in July 1947, mostly Holocaust survivors, but the British Royal Navy seized the ship in a battle and deported all its passengers back to Europe and Germany detaining refugees in camps likened to German concentration camps
April 1942: April 1942 - remembered 18 April 2017: Allies of World War II Soviet Union, United Kingdom and USA, that together opposed the Axis powers' aggression and war crimes, knew of Holocaust in 1942, 2 years before previously assumed, UN documents prove, shedding damning light on refusal to take in refugees. The Holocaust was decided in January 1942 after German empire's 'Blitzkrieg' war - based on some technical 'innovations', tanks and warplanes - against the Soviet Union was stopped -
1919–1939/45 German empire's military evolution, 'Blitzkrieg', leading military commanders Guderian and Rommel, its war on the Eastern Front 1941–1944 and the disastrous end -
The Holocaust, also referred to as the Shoah, was a genocide during World War II in which Nazi Germany, aided by its collaborators, systematically murdered some six million European Jews, around two-thirds of the Jewish population of Europe, between 1941 and 1945, and in which Jews were targeted for extermination as part of a larger event involving the persecution and murder of other groups, including in particular the Roma, ethnic Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, as well as political opponents, 'incurably sick', homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses
18 June 2021 global displacement hits new record high with 82.4 million in 2020: 18 June 2021: Global displacement hits new high, as the number of people forcibly displaced by conflict, violence and persecution reached a record 82.4 million (48m IDP, 26.4m refugees) in 2020, according to the latest annual 'Global Trends' report released today by UNHCR, as even during a year in which over 160 countries closed their borders at the peak of the pandemic, the world’s population of forcibly displaced people grew by nearly 3 million, a 4% increase from 2019 and the ninth year in a row the figure has risen -
June 2021 Global forced displacement at end-year 2020, as Syria comes first with 6,8 million displaced citizens, mostly refugees (92%), as Venezuela comes second followed by Aghanistan, South Sudan and Myanmar -
UNHCR reported a whole of 91.9 million forcibly displaced people including people of concern in 2020
2016 drowned two-year-old boy off Greece’s Agathonisi island: 3 January 2016: A drowned two-year-old boy becomes Europe's first known refugee casualty of 2016 after the crowded dinghy he was travelling in hit rocks off Greece’s Agathonisi island -
26 January 2016: UN warns 2.5 million Syrian children will become refugees by the end of 2016 -
29 January 2016: Refugees are not a crisis, we are human beings, activists in the UK say in a letter, underlining that the world must work together to solve crises also by fighting against racism, murder and war -
4 February 2016: Increasingly intensive Russian airstrikes are pushing tens of thousands of Syrians from Aleppo towards the Turkish border, as Europe is struggling to respond to the existing refugee crisis -
7 February 2016: It was Bashar Assad, his allies and Islamic State terrorists who butchered their families and took their homes, but the USA, Britain and European countries left Syrian refugees in Turkey to face their fate -
9 February 2016: Russian airstrikes in Syria send thousands of more refugees arriving at the Turkish-Syrian border -
16 avril 2016: De violents combats, impliquant tous les protagonistes de la guerre en Syrie, poussent sur les routes des milliers de civils dans le nord -
20 June 2016: As a record 65 million men, women and children are forced from their homes by war and persecution last year, UN refugee agency sounds alarm over failure of nations to find collective solutions -
26 October 2016: A record number of people have died or gone missing while attempting to cross the Mediterranean sea, making 2016 the deadliest year for refugees and migrants trying to reach Europe, according to UNHCR's William Spindler
February/March 2022 neighboring countries of Ukraine, number of refugees who have entered them: Countries bordering Ukraine which have received
more than 10,000 Ukrainian refugees until 19 March 2022 according to UNHCR figures, including Poland (2,050,392 refugees), Romania (527,247 refugees), Moldova (362,514 refugees), Hungary (305,518 refugees), and Slovakia (245,569 refugees),
as UNHCR said on 19 March 2022 the entirety of Ukrainian refugees since February includes 3,389,044 citizens -
17 March 2022: Czech Republic on the verge of its capacity to handle more refugees, equipped to take in the number of refugees that corresponds with 2% of the population, or over 200,000 people, as PM Petr Fiala said that there are currently 270,000 refugees in Czechia who have fled 'hostilities'
Since 15 April 2023 ongoing refugee crisis after the outbreak of the 2023 Sudan conflict: Since 15 April 2023 ongoing refugee crisis after the outbreak of the 2023 Sudan conflict. By 2 May 2023, an estimated 100,000 people have fled the country, while over 300,000 to 400,000 people have been displaced within the country. Thousands more were reported to have been displaced, mainly residents of Khartoum. On 24 April 2023, several countries including Chad and South Sudan reported several thousand civilians, some coming by bus or car or on foot in severely dangerous conditions. The vast majority of these civilians entered the neighboring country of Chad with the UN reporting most of these people came from Darfur and Khartoum, but thousands more moved to other countries. By 24-28 April 2023, The Guardian and the UN had reported 20,000 civilians in Chad, at least 20,000 to 30,000 in South Sudan, 40,000 and at least 25,000 more waiting in Egypt or at the border, 3,500 to 4,000 (including 1,400 Turkish nationals) in Ethiopia and hundreds to the Central African Republic. Several people were reportedly stuck or displaced across the country due to the increase in violence and a humanitarian crisis which had affected 16 million civilians across the whole country.
Internally displaced persons, peopple forced to flee their home but who remain within their country's borders, often referred to as refugees, although they do not fall within the legal definitions of a refugee, as at the end of 2014, it was estimated there were 38.2 million IDPs worldwide, the highest level since 1989, the first year for which global statistics on IDPs are available
2007-2014 IDPs and people in IDP-like situations by country/territory: 2007-2014 UNHCR registered IDPs and people in IDP-like situations by country/territory, as at the end of 2014, it was estimated there were 38.2 million IDPs worldwide, as the countries with the largest IDP populations were Syria (7.6 million), Colombia (6 million), Iraq (3.6 million), the D.R. Congo (2.8 million), Sudan (2.2 million), South Sudan (1.9 million), Pakistan (1.4 million), Nigeria (1.2 million) and Somalia (1.1 million
Causes of refugee crises include war and civil war, human rights violations, environment and climate crises, economic hardship
2008-2016 list of refugees and total population of concern by UN region: 2008-2016 list of refugees and total population of concern by UN region, including 21,288,728 people in Africa in 2016, 31,168,078 people in Asia in 2016, 8,061,269 people in Latin America in 2016, and 6,210,994 people in Europe in 2016
Outline of war -
List of ongoing armed conflicts -
Causes of war -
War,
history of war and types of war -
Lists of wars by date - time is the same for all, but not lifetime
Ethnic conflict
Nationalism and its history -
Nation -
Nation state -
Types of nationalism
Chauvinism, an exaggerated nationalism and a belligerent belief in national superiority
Imperialism, originating from the Roman 'imperium', a policy of extending a state's power and influence through colonization, use of military force and other means, originating from the Roman 'imperium', which means the conquest and rule over large territories for the purpose of slave hunting and submission
Military history, as essential subjects of military history study are the causes of war, the social and cultural foundations, military doctrine on each side, the logistics, leadership, technology, strategy, and tactics used, and how these changed over time
Dictatorship, an authoritarian form of government, characterized by a single leader or group of leaders -
Military dictatorship, a dictatorship wherein the military exerts complete or substantial control over political authority, and a dictator is often a high ranked military officer
Military dictatorships, neo-fascism and neo-Nazism in the 20th and 21st century: Military dictatorships in the 20th and 21st century -
Neo-fascism since World War II -
Neo-Nazism consists of post-World War II militant social or political movements seeking to revive and implement the ideology of Nazism
History of weapons, as humans have developped and used weapons in warfare, hunting, self-defense, law enforcement, and criminal activity for thousands of years, using different materials from stone and wood to different metals, chemicals and modern synthetic materials such as plastics
Will, parts of the mind along with reason and understanding, as since Aristotle actions divided into three categories including voluntary acts, non-voluntary actions, involuntary or unwilling acts -
A so-called 'general will' ('volonté générale'), the supposed 'will of the people as a whole', a term used by Jean-Jacques Rousseau in the preparation of the French Revolution since 1789, then in Article Six of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (Déclaration des droits de l'Homme et du citoyen), as following thinkers argued that Rousseau's account of the general will will inevitably lead also to the 'Reign of Terror', the ending of the French Revolution -
In the 19th century the following thinker Karl Marx argued that 'in the analysis of economic forms neither microscopes nor chemical reagents are of assistance. The power of abstraction must replace both'
Arms industry depending on decisions and production processes -
Weapons by country -
Since 19th/20th century development of modern physics and chemistry linked with industrial revolution and history of technology -
History of military technology and world wars -
Modern military technology
Forces of self-destruction and weapons of mass destruction:
Weapons of mass destruction -
Chemical weapon, chemical agents and poison gas -
Chemical warfare -
Biological warfare -
Weapons of mass destruction by country
1928 no real change in Germam empire: 11 June 1928: Sir W. Davison asks the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he has obtained any explanation from the German Government with regard to the large quantities of phosgene poison gas found to be stored in Hamburg contrary to the express terms of the peace treaty, as disclosed by the recent explosion of a tank containing the gas, with consequent serious loss of life, and what action is being taken in the matter -
1928: Aus ist's mit den bösen Kriegen, sagt der Völkerbund, Friedenstauben munter fliegen um das Erdenrund, Es ertönt in jedem Land Friedensmusik, Und geächtet und verbannt ist jetzt der Krieg, Nur zum Spaß macht man Gas, weil's noch keiner kennt, Panzerkreuzer sind das beste Friedensinstrument,
Tankgeschwader, Fliegerbomben - nur für den Sport, Niemand denkt mehr an den Massenmord
Forces of self-destruction and nuclear weapons:
Nuclear weapon and
Nuclear warfare -
Nuclear weapon design -
List of nuclear weapons -
List of states with nuclear weapons -
Nuclear weapons debate
Since early 20th century timeline of nuclear weapons development: Timeline of nuclear weapons development since early 20th century
Since 1945 nuclear weapons tests by USA, Soviet Union/Russia, the United Kingdom, France, China, India, Pakistan, South Africa, Israel and North Korea: 1945-2017 number of nuclear weapons tests by state (USA, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, China, India, Pakistan, South Africa, Israel and North Korea) -
List of nuclear test sites -
List of nuclear weapon test locations -
Historical nuclear weapons stockpiles and nuclear tests by country -
Nuclear weapons by country
2016 distribution of nuclear weapons: 13 June 2016: At the start of 2016 nine states, the USA, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, China, India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea, together possessed a total of approximately 15,395 nuclear weapons, Russia and the USA still account for more than 93% of all nuclear weapons, as both Russia and the USA have extensive and expensive nuclear modernization programmes under way, according to SIPRI
Nuclear proliferation
2015 tactics to trivialize proliferation risks: 28 May 2015: Myth of a peaceful nuclear technology and tactics to trivialize the proliferation risks,
as the use of civil facilities and materials in nuclear weapons research or systematic weapons programs has been commonplace and has occurred in at least the following countries Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Egypt, France, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Libya, North Korea, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Romania, Russia, South Africa, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Taiwan, UK, USA, and Yugoslavia
Since 1950s list of nuclear close calls including incidents that could lead to, or could have led to at least one unintended nuclear detonation/explosion, as these incidents typically involve a perceived imminent threat to a nuclear-armed country which could lead to retaliatory strikes against the perceived aggressor, and as the damage caused by international nuclear exchange is not necessarily limited to the participating countries
Nuclear terrorism refers to any person or persons who detonate a nuclear weapon as an act of terrorism (meaning illegal or immoral use of violence for a political or religious cause), as in legal terms nuclear terrorism is an offense committed if a person unlawfully and intentionally 'uses in any way radioactive material … with the intent to cause death or serious bodily injury; or with the intent to cause substantial damage to property or to the environment; or with the intent to compel a natural or legal person, an international organization or a State to do or refrain from doing an act', according to the 2005 UN International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism
Vulnerability of nuclear plants to deliberate attack, of concern in the area of nuclear safety and security, as nuclear power plants, civilian research reactors, certain naval fuel facilities, uranium enrichment plants, fuel fabrication plants, and even potentially uranium mines are vulnerable to attacks which could lead to widespread radioactive contamination, as the attack threat is of several general types including commando-like ground-based attacks on equipment which if disabled could lead to a reactor core meltdown or widespread dispersal of radioactivity, and external attacks such as an aircraft crash into a reactor complex, or cyber attacks
Social production and reproduction, products, dual-use technology, and so-called AI: 'Dual-use' Technologien, Produkte als Resultat industrieller und technischer Revolutionen, Computer und EDV als verlängerter Verstand von Menschen mit Sprache(n), und sogenannte 'Künstliche Intelligenz' (ein Widersinn oder besser Oxymoron) und deren militärische Nutzungen
August 2019 survey of the tech sector’s stance on lethal autonomous weapons: 19 August 2019: Synesis (Belarus), AerialX (Canada), SenseTime and Yitu (China), EarthCube (France), Roboteam (Israel), BlueBearSystems and Montvieux (United Kingdom), Amazon, Anduril, Intel, Microsoft, Oracle and more (all USA), are named among the world's 'highest risk' tech companies that might be putting the world at risk through killer robot development, according to new global report from PAX, grading 50 companies from 12 countries, all working on big tech, hardware, AI software and system integration, pattern recognition, autonomous and swarming aerial systems, ground robots, as 'anything that's currently a weapon, people are working on autonomous versions, whether it's tanks, fighter aircraft, or submarines' (August 2019 survey of the tech sector’s stance on lethal autonomous weapons)
List of countries by past and projected military expenditure - Weapon development - Defence and military equipment companies by country - Firearm manufacturers by country - 3D printed firearms - List of notable 3D printed weapons and parts
2001/2005 Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, as of November 2015 it has 114 parties, including 113 states and the European Union, Australia, Canada, China, Germany, Iceland, Japan, Luxembourg, Monaco, Seychelles, United Kingdom have signed the protocol but have not yet ratified it, three of the top four arms manufacturers in the world — the USA, Russia, and France — did not sign the protocol -
2013/2014 Arms Trade Treaty, a multilateral treaty that regulates the international trade in conventional weapons, 92 states have ratified the treaty, and a further 41 states have signed but not ratified it
2013 arms trade treaty blocked by Iran, North Korea, Syria and not signed by China, Russia, USA: 29 March 2013: Iran, North Korea and Syria block UN arms trade treaty -
2 April 2013: By a vote of 154 in favor, 3 against (Iran, North Korea and Syria) and 23 abstentions (Russia, China, India, Indonesia etc.), UN adopts landmark treaty to regulate multibillion-dollar global arms trade -
3 June 2013: More than 60 countries sign arms trade treaty on first day, but not China, Russia and the USA
2015 arms spending rises: 16 March 2015: After Chinese arms sales surged 143% in 5 years, China now the world’s third-largest arms trader, the USA remains the first exporting 31% of global arms in 2010-2014 and Russia exported 27%, SIPRI says -
13 April 2015: Arms spending up globally, except in USA and western Europe, as Russia’s neighbors, like Iran’s, boost defense budgets, SIPRI says -
18 décembre 2015: Pour 2015, les budgets de défense en hausse dans le monde, les dépenses globales atteignent quelque 1650 milliards de dollars, selon un rapport
2017 global arms trade rises: 20 February 2017: Global arms trade reaches highest point since cold war era, as Middle East almost doubles weapons imports, as USA and Europe remain the main suppliers, as China joins top-tier exporters,
as India was the world’s largest importer of major arms, and as arms imports by states in Asia and Oceania accounted for 43% of global imports in 2012–2016, according to SIPRI -
24 avril 2017: La Russie avec 69,2 milliards de dollars a repris en 2016 à l'Arabie saoudite, malgré la crise économique qu'elle traverse, la troisième place mondiale en matière de dépenses militaires, derrière les Etats-Unis et la Chine, selon SIPRI -
13 September 2017: North Korea singled out alongside Saudi Arabia and Iran as one of the world’s most secretive major exporters of small arms, including Kalashnikovs, rockets and machine guns, according to the Small Arms Survey Trade Update 2017 -
11 December 2017: Sales of arms and military services by the world’s largest arms-producing and military services companies totalled $374.8 billion in 2016, 1.9% higher compared with 2015 and representing an increase of 38% since 2002, according to SIPRI
2018 global transfer of major weapons systems SIPRI report: 12 March 2018: Global transfer of major weapons systems between 2013 and 2017 rose by 10% compared with the precedent period, as the USA, Russia, France, Germany, China and the UK remain the world's biggest weapons exporter, as India, which receives most of its arms from Russia, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE and China were the world’s top five importers, and as 'based on deals signed during the Obama administration, USA arms deliveries in 2013–17 reached their highest level since the late 1990s',
according to SIPRI
March 2020 USA and France dramatically increase major arms exports: 9 March 2020: USA and France dramatically increased major arms exports during the past five years, when USA, Russia, France, Germany and China were the largest exporters and the flow of arms to the Middle East, facing brutal and endless wars, has increased, as war crimes committing Russia came to Syrian with its own arms, as Saudi Arabia, India and Egypt are the largest arms importers, and as in 2019, when foreign military involvement in Libya was condemned by the UN Security Council, the UAE had major arms import deals ongoing with Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, the UK and the USA, says SIPRI
7 December 2020 arms sales in 2019 8.5% more than in 2018: 7 December 2020: Sales of arms and military services by the sector’s largest 25 companies totalled US$361 billion in 2019, 8.5% more than in 2018, as largest companies have a geographically diverse international presence, Sipri says -
23 November 2020: Swiss banks have given loans and hold shares worth nearly $11 billion in companies like Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and General Dynamics, according to a study by independent researchers Profundo, as the Swiss National Bank SNB, UBS and Credit Suisse have the biggest exposure, and as Young Greens Party's Julia Kueng said 'an enormous amount of money comes from Switzerland into an industry which profits from death and destruction' -
List of wars, ongoing armed conflicts and deaths by country, including Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan, Iraq, Mexico, South Sudan, Libya, Ukraine
13 March 2023 surge in arms imports to Europe, while USA dominance of the global arms trade increases: 13 March 2023: Imports of major arms by European states increased by 47% between 2013–17 and 2018–22, while the global level of international arms transfers decreased by 5.1%. Arms imports fell overall in Africa (–40%), the Americas (–21%), Asia and Oceania (–7.5%) and the Middle East (–8.8%) - but imports to East Asia and certain states in other areas of high geopolitical tension rose sharply. The USA’s share of global arms exports increased from 33 to 40% while Russia’s fell from 22 to 16%, according to new data on global arms transfers published today by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute SIPRI -
13 March 2023: France is challenging Russia’s position as the world’s second biggest arms exporter behind the USA, while Britain’s share of the global market has dwindled, SIPRI analysis has found, as a steep increase in sales and future orders of arms to countries in Asia, Oceania and the Middle East over the last five years suggests French suppliers could surpass their Russian rivals within a decade, as France’s share of global defence exports stood at 11% in the period 2018-22, up from 7.1% in 2013-17, a 44% increase, and as India, Qatar and Egypt were the biggest clients, 'The Guardian' reports
Forces of self-destruction and non-combat military accidents: Non-combat military accidents - Military nuclear accidents and incidents - List of military nuclear accidents - Sunken nuclear submarines
Man-made disasters and violence by country: Man-made disasters by country - Violence by country - Wars by country - Lists of wars by country - War crimes committed by country - War crimes by country - Massacres by country - Terrorism by country - Terrorism committed by country
Terrorism and terrorism by country: History of Terrorism - Terrorism by country - Terrorism committed by country - Terrorism is, in the broadest sense, the use of intentionally indiscriminate violence as a means to create fear and terror among masses of people to achieve a religious or political aim, and is used in this regard primarily to refer to violence during peacetime or in war against non-combatants (mostly civilians and neutral military personnel), while the terms 'terrorist' and 'terrorism' originated during the French Revolution of the late 18th century and its 1793-1794 period 'Reign of Terror', called 'La Terreur' in France
Since August 1914 German bombing of cities during World War I and later: Since August 1914 German bombing of cities during World War I -
April 1937 bombing of Guernica, an aerial bombing of the Basque town of Guernica carried out by Franco's allies, the Nazi German Luftwaffe's Condor Legion and the Fascist Italian Aviazione Legionaria, causing hundreds of civilian victims -
World War II bombing of cities conducted by Germany -
1940-1941 German bombing campaign against British industrial targets, towns, and cities including Birmingham, Belfast, Bristol, Cardiff, Coventry, Glasgow, Hull, Liverpool, Manchester, Portsmouth, Plymouth, Sheffield, Southampton, killing more than 40,000 civilians beginning with raids on London during the Second World War
German empire's WWI, NSDAP ruled German empire's war crimes in World War II, creation of the UN: German empire's World War I war crimes (including Chemical weapons in warfare, in Belgium, Bombardment of English coastal towns, Unrestricted submarine warfare), NSDAP ruled German empire's war crimes in World War II, massacres and war crimes by location in Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Croatia, Czechoslovakia, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Ukraine, as 'Wikipedia' is listing also a timeline of German crimes in this period, that led to the creation of the 'United Nations'
Terrorist incidents in the 1930s, in the 1940s and 1939-1945 World War II: Terrorist incidents in the 1930s -
Terrorist incidents in the 1940s -
1939-1945 Axis powers' World War II (German, Italian and Japanese empires) -
Genocide, the intentional action to destroy a people (usually defined as an ethnic, national, racial, or religious group) in whole or in part -
Mass murder, the act of murdering a number of people, typically simultaneously or over a relatively short period of time and in close geographic proximity and the desire to kill -
September 1939 bombing of Frampol occurred during the German invasion of Poland in 1939, when the town of Frampol, without military value, but with a population of 4,000 people was bombed by German bombers under General von Richthofen on 13 September as a practice run for future missions and as German fighter pilots trained strafing techniques on refugees who were trying to flee from the city
10 May 2021 at least 11 people killed, dozens injured including women and children by roadside bomb in Zabul: 10 May 2021: At least 11 people have been killed and dozens injured including women and children after a roadside bomb struck a bus in Afghanistan’s southern Zabul province -
10 May 2021: At least 40 people were killed in 10 provinces of the country and over 50 more were wounded in the last 24 hours, as chairperson of the 'Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission' Shahrzad Akbar said 'we repeat our call to the negotiating sides to return to the talks and expedite their efforts to end violence',
based in Kabul pursuant to the Bonn Agreement in December 2001, UN General Assembly resolution 48/134, and article 58 of the Afghan Constitution -
19 September 2021: Stay home, female Kabul government workers told by new Taliban mayor of Kabul, ordering female municipal employees to stay home unless their jobs cannot be filled by a man, as in a separate development, the Afghanistan 'Independent Human Rights Commission' said it had been unable to fulfil its duties since the Taliban's takeover, adding in a statement that its buildings, vehicles and computers had all been taken over by the Taliban
8 October 2021 dozens killed in suicide bombing by ISIL affiliate at Kunduz mosque: 8 October 2021 Kunduz mosque bombing claimed by ISIL, as over 50 people were killed and another 100 were injured, but according to an estimate by the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, more than 100 people were killed and wounded -
Islamic State – Khorasan Province, an affiliate of ISIL active in South Asia and Central Asia, as ISKP is active in Afghanistan, also including Pakistan, Tajikistan and India, where they claimed attacks, as well as Sri Lanka, the Maldives and Bangladesh where individuals have pledged allegiance to it. The group was created in January 2015 by disaffected Taliban in eastern Afghanistan, although its membership includes individuals from various countries notably Pakistan, Bangladesh, India and Myanmar
Since 1974 Abu Nidal terrorist organization: Since 1974 Abu Nidal Organization, designated as a terrorist organization by the USA, the United Kingdom, Japan, Israel and the European Union, strongly linked with Nidal's personal agenda as the group carried out hijackings, assassinations, kidnappings of diplomats, and attacks on synagogues, 90 attacks during the period 1974-1992 - Since 1972 list of attacks attributed to Abu Nidal
Since 1979 rise of mujahideen fighters and Taliban: After the Soviet Union, asked for support in Afghanistan, became highly critical of Karmal's leadership because of the rise of violence and crime during his administration, the country - interested in reform especially under Mikhail Gorbachev - was able to depose Karmal and replace him in 1987 with Mohammad Najibullah,
but Islamic mujahideen fighters engaged in war with those Soviet forces, after Pakistan's Zia-ul-Haq sent Akhtar Abdur Rahman to Saudi Arabia to garner support for the Afghan opposition against Soviet forces, while later USA's CIA and Saudi Arabian General Intelligence Directorate funnelled funding and equipment through the Pakistani Inter-Service Intelligence Agency to the Afghan mujahideen, as the about 90,000 Afghans, including Mohammed Omar, were trained by Pakistan's ISI during the 1980s, as then British professor Carole Hillenbrand concluded that the 'Taliban' have arisen from those USA-Saudi-Pakistan-supported mujahideen, saying 'the West helped the Taliban to fight the Soviet takeover of Afghanistan', and as in the 1990s Sunni Islamic fundamentalists and military organization 'Taliban' waged war against and within that country -
2/3 December 1989 Malta summit ends Cold War, then hailed as the most important since 1945 when Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt agreed a post-war plan for Europe at Yalta, and as Mikhail Gorbachev and George H. Bush met face-to-face for the first time against a backdrop of fast-moving change in Eastern Europe -
16 April 1992: After president Bush - and Ronald Reagan before him - chose Afghanistan as one of its test cases in foreign policy, administration officials exhibited no exuberance as the bloody Afghan conflict reached its endgame, and as the promising administration appealed Thursday to USA-armed Afghan rebels and terrorists to act with restraint as they drew to within a rifle shot of their goal of controlling the capital of Kabul and seizing president Najibullah -
Nach seinem Sturz im April 1992 fand Afghanistans Präsident (seit 1987) Mohammed Nadschibullah (6. August 1947 - 27. September 1996),
und im Februar 2017 anerkannt als Politiker mit der Chance Afghanistan zu befrieden, Asyl im Hauptquartier der Vereinten Nationen in Kabul, bis ihn 1996 die von außen unterstützten und aufgerüsteten Taliban abholten, folterten und kastrierten, bevor sie ihn schließlich öffentlich hängten - die Herrschaft der Taliban begann
List of designated Terrorist groups and/or organizations - Iran and state-sponsored terrorism
Since 1984 Iranian Mullah regime added to USA list of state sponsors of terrorism: On 19 January 1984 Iran was added to the list, according to Country Reports on Terrorism 2013, as Iranian Mullah regime continued its terrorist-related activity, including support for Palestinian groups in Gaza, for Hezbollah, also increasing its presence in Africa and smuggling arms to Houthi separatists in Yemen and Shia oppositionists in Bahrain, as the Iranian Mullah regime uses the 'Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force' and its regional proxy groups to implement foreign policy goals, to provide cover for intelligence operations, and to create instability in the Middle East, as the IRGC-QF is the regime’s primary mechanism for cultivating and supporting terrorists abroad, including Syria as a crucial causeway in its weapons supply route to Hezbollah, after since 2011 Iran continues to provide arms, financing, training, and the facilitation of Iraqi Shia fighters to the Assad regime’s brutal crackdown -
State Sponsors of Terrorism USA list
List of airliner shootdown incidents in the history of commercial aviation by decade
Since 17 July 2014 flight MH17 shootdown by Putin regime: Cause of MH17 crash -
28 September 2016: Dutch-led joint investigation team including representatives from Australia, Malaysia, Ukraine, and Belgium states that there is 'irrefutable evidence' that a Russian Buk 9M38 missile downed the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 in 2014, killing all 298 people on board, also concluding that the Buk missile system was brought across the border from Russia and later transported back escorted by several other vehicles and by 'armed men in uniform', according to witnesses, photographs, video, damning intercepted telephone calls, radar data, forensic examinations, tests and reconstructions
State crime, Crimes against humanity, War
War crimes of dictator Assad's armed forces in Syria since 2011 - Casualties of Assad's war against the Syrian people -
2016 devastation of 4 years of Assad's, Russian and Iranian war against Syrians: 4 February 2016: Drone footage of Homs in western Syria, the country's third largest city, shows the devastation of four years of Assad's, Russian and Iranian war against Syrians -
11 February 2016: Fatalities caused by dictator Assad's, Russian and Iranian war against Syrians, directly and indirectly, amount to 470,000, according to the Syrian Centre for Policy Research,
a far higher total than the figure of 250,000 used by the United Nations until it stopped collecting statistics 18 months ago
29 July 2021 Syria's Assad regime attacks former opposition in Daraa province, Russian airstrikes: 29 July 2021: Bashar al-Assad has attacked a former opposition stronghold with missiles and artillery shelling in an attempt to crush a simmering insurrection, in an unprecedented development in Syria’s decade-long war, as Deraa al-Balad and its surrounds, a district of Deraa city in the southern province of the same name, was targeted with heavy weaponry in tandem with a ground push on three axes from two Syrian army divisions and allied Iran-backed militias early on Thursday morning, in a large offensive which continued throughout the day -
29 July 2021: SOHR activists have documented a spike in the death toll of the massacre committed by regime forces in al-Yadoudah town in Daraa countryside, as five civilians, a woman and her little son and three other children, were killed in rocket fire by regime forces on the town, near Daraa city -
29 July 2021: SOHR activists have documented the death of eight civilians due to regime rocket fire on populated residential neighbourhoods in Daraa province. -
29 July 2021: Russian fighter jets renewed their airstrikes this afternoon, targeting positions in Ihsim and Mar’ian in Jabal al-Zawiyah in southern Idlib with over 5 airstrikes, which resulted in the injury of at least one man and caused material damage
List of barrel bomb attacks in Assad's war against the Syrian people - List of massacres during Assad's war against the Syrian people - Use of chemical weapons in Assad's war against the Syrian people
Since September 2015 Russian military intervention in Syria perpetuating Assad's dictatorship, turning the tide of war in Assad’s favor - Since September 2015 Russian regime's war crimes and attacks on civilians in Syria - Since September 2015 Russian–Assad regime hospital bombing campaign - Casualties of Assad's war against the Syrian people since 2011
March 2018: 26 March 2018: The 'United Nations' has come under fire for sharing the coordinates of hospitals in the Damascus suburb of eastern Ghouta with Russia, only for one of them to be bombed days later, according to 'The Telegraph' -
26 March 2018: Syrian Coalition's Mohammed Yahya Maktabi said that the mass forced displacement taking place in the Damascus suburb of eastern Ghouta is a 'war crime' as he condemned Russian’s major role in these crimes, adding that regime forces, the Iranian militias, and Russian air force are killing civilians, targeting popular markets, residential areas and public facilities and bombing hospitals, medical centers, and rescue workers -
27 March 2018: As more than half million people killed in seven years of brutal ground and aerial bombing by the Assad regime and its allies, and as Syrian children have taken the biggest share in the horrible death toll, the unstoppable roar of Russia's warplanes has caused a heart attack for Lojain Said, taking the life of the schoolgirl who lived in the northwestern town of Jisr al-Shughour, the Civil Defense rescue group says
April 2019: 8/9 April 2019: Suspected Russian long-range missiles hit the town of Jisr al-Shughour in rural Idlib, according to Syrian Civil Defense, as local observatory reported that the source of the missiles is the Russian warships stationed in the Mediterranean,
wounding 12 civilians, including 10 children and a woman, and destroying a large amount of civilian property and infrastructure -
9 April 2019: The ongoing bombing campaign by the Assad regime and Russia has so far killed no fewer than 244 civilians since February 2, according to aid group -
17 April 2019: SNHR said that it had documented nearly 457 attacks in Syria by the Assad and Russian forces using cluster munitions, 24 of which occurred following the Sochi Agreement in September 2018 -
23 April 2019: Continuing Russian and Iranian-backed terror attacks, Assad regime and allied forces shell places and carry out raids on areas in Hama and Idlib province, amid aerial bombardments by Russian warplanes -
26 April 2019: Russian warplanes renew their airstrikes today evening on Sahl Al-Ghab and Jabal Shashabo leaving wounded and people stuck under the rubble in Al-Amqiyyah village -
27 April 2019: Warplanes and helicopters carried out a new round of shelling, as Russian warplanes reportedly killed 15 civilians in the countryside of Idlib and Hama -
27 April 2019: After killing 15 civilians, the Russian warplanes continue their escalation within 'Putin-Erdogan' areas and carry out more raids, as Assad regime forces continue shelling targeting southern countryside of Idlib, southern countryside of Aleppo and Hama province
July 2019: 7 July 2019: At least 544 civilians have been killed and over 2,000 people injured since a Russian-led assault on the last rebel bastion in northwestern Syria began two months ago,
according to rights groups and rescuers -
12 July 2019: Assad and Russian forces have escalated their airstrikes in northwestern Syria, especially in Idlib and its countryside, killing and injuring dozens of civilians including children as well as knocking out six vital civilian centers since Thursday morning -
13 July 2019: After they killed 2 families, the Russian warplanes renew their bombardment on the countryside of Hama and Idlib, and bombardment by the regime’s warplanes on a village east of Idlib leaves about 11 casualties and wounded -
13 July 2019: It rose to 14, the number of casualties documented by SOHR following a massacre carried out by Russian warplanes targeting agricultural lands in the vicinity of Khan Shaykhun, as aerial and ground bombardment by regime’s forces south of Aleppo continues -
13 July 2019: Two months of intensive airstrikes by Syrian government forces and their Russian allies, coupled with a fierce ground assault on rebel-controlled Idlib province, have killed hundreds of people and caused massive displacement while achieving little to no gain for Assad's and Putin's murderous regime -
14 July 2019: Russian warplanes renewed their airstrikes on the Hama countryside, where they carried out more raids also targeting Maarrat al-Nu’man water pumping station and water reservoir as part of the systematic policy by the Russians and Assad regime to target vital and public facilities -
22 July 2019: Assad/Russian air strikes on a popular market and residential neighbourhoods killed at least 20 people and wounded dozens on Monday in an attack on Maarat al-Numan, a densely populated opposition-held city in southern Idlib province, rescuers and residents said -
22 July 2019: It rose to 23 (19 citizens including 2 children, a woman and a member of the Civil Defense, and 4 unidentified people), the number of casualties who were killed as a result of airstrikes carried out by Russian warplanes on a local market in Maarrat Al-Nu’man city
3 February 2020 Russian and Assad regime continue to murder civilians as Turkey retaliates: 3 February 2020: Over 220 regime and Russian airstrikes pound Aleppo and Idlib countryside since early morning, as SOHR documented a spike in the number of civilians who were killed today as a result of aerial bombardment on Aleppo countryside, and as 4 children and 3 females among 9 civilians were killed after targeting by regime jets to a vehicle carrying displaced people in Jam’eyyat Al-Rahal -
3 February 2020: Russian and Assad regime airstrikes in Idlib killed at least 11 civilians, as 9 of the civilians were killed by strikes carried out by Russia while two were killed by Assad regime, according to Syrian civil defense group -
3 February 2020: Russian and Assad regime airstrikes in Idlib killed at least 11 civilians, as 9 of the civilians were killed by strikes carried out by Russia while two were killed by Assad regime, according to Syrian civil defense group -
3 February 2020: Turkish, Assad regime troops killed as regime forces face off in Idlib, and as Erdogan says initial information shows some 30 Assad regime soldiers 'neutralized in operation' involving F-16 warplanes on some 40 targets in Hama, Latakia and Idlib province -
3 February 2020: Turkish soldiers killed as battle for control of Idlib escalates, amid Russian airstrikes, which have already driven 700,000 civilians to the Turkish border
9/10 February 2020 Russian and Assad regime continue to murder civilians as UN remains silent: 9 February 2020: SOHR documented today a massacre of 9 citizens including a woman, as the Russian warplanes bombed Kafr Noran town in the western countryside of Aleppo, also documenting the death of at least 3 people in Russian airstrikes targeting Orem al-Soghra area, also documenting the death of 4 citizens including a child by barrel bombs on al-Atareb in the countryside of Aleppo, while two citizens were killed in Sheikh Ali village in Aleppo countryside by the Russian murderous warplanes, as Assad regime killed two citizens by bombing and groundshelling in Idlib province -
10 February 2020: Russian air strikes Monday killed at least five civilians in the last major opposition bastion in northwestern Syria -
10 February 2020: Death toll of Russian jets’ massacre rises to 9 in Abyan, west of Aleppo, including 6 children, 2 women and a man, including displaced persons, while Russian raids left at least 20 people injured, including 7 children and 2 women -
10 February 2020: With full Turkish support, Turkish-backed factions and Turkish troops begin intensive rocket attack on Assad regime forces positions, east of Idlib, as Turkish forces also targeted with heavy artillery Jab al-Ramlah airstrip in Hama countryside, and as intensive aerial bombardment continued by Assad's and Russian jets and helicopters in western and southwestern rural Aleppo
20-22 August 2021 Russian airstrikes: 20 August 2021: Russian warplane targeted with six raids posts of the factions in Ain Shaib area in Idlib countryside for the second day on row -
21 August 2021: In renewed airstrike Russian jets attack positions in the 'de-escalation zone', bringing the number of airstrikes since early August to 41 -
21 August 2021: 15 children and one woman among 18 civilians killed in 11 days, amid military escalation by Russian and regime forces, as SOHR documented the death of a little girl affected by the injury she had in yesterday’s bombardment by regime forces on Kafr Nuran town, as the girl’s little brothers had been also injured in that bombardment, as the kids were visiting their father’s grave -
22 August 2021: SOHR that Russian fighter jets have executed several airstrikes with high-explosive missiles on the outskirts of Kansafra, Mar’yan and al-Mawzarah towns in the southern countryside of Idlib, as airstrikes coincided with frequent flights by Russian reconnaissance drones, and as Assad regime forces shelled, with heavy artillery, the villages of Kherbet al-Naqous, al-Sarmaniya, Qulaydeen, al-Qaherah, al-Ankawi, al-Daqmaq and al-Zaqoum in Sahl al-Ghab in the north-western countryside of Hama
Since 1 January 2022 ongoing Russian airstrikes on North-West Syria: 1 January 2022: SOHR documented the death of a woman and two children and the injury of ten others, including children, in airstrikes by Russian fighter jets which hit makeshift tents of displaced people from Aleppo countryside in the countryside of the northern city of Jisr Al-Shughur, West of Idlib as Russian fighter jets also have bombed more than 12 areas near Idlib and Jabal Al-Zawiyah south of Idlib -
2 January 2022: Russia fighter jets target Jericho city in third day of growing escalation in Putin-Erdoghan area,
as Russia escalates aerial bombardments with ten Russian raids targeting various areas in Idlib -
3 January 2022: Amid the continuous Russian escalation for the fourth consecutive day, SOHR documented ten raids by Russian fighter jets on Al-Bara region, Jabal Al-Zawiyah in south Idlib, and more raids -
3 January 2022: Civilians, including children, injured amid Russian airstrikes also targeting poultry farm NW of Idlib -
4 January 2022: SOHR reports that four Russian fighter jets have targeted areas in Al-Barah town and its surroundings in Jabal Al-Zawiyah in south Idlib countryside, as the attacks left wounded people and material damages
Since 2011 Iranian involvement in Assad's war against the Syrian people perpetuating Assad's dictatorship - Casualties of Assad's war against the Syrian people - List of Iranian assassinations - Torture and mistreatment of prisoners in Iran
8 January 2020 Ukrainian UIA flight 752 passenger plane shot down by Iranian regime's terrorist organization with two Russian-made missiles shortly after takeoff from Tehran Khomeini airport in Iran - 8 January 2020: Ukrainian passenger plane Boeing 737-800 soon after taking off from Tehran crashed, killing all 176 citizens from Afghanistan, Canada, Iran, Sweden, Ukraine and United Kingdom on board - 9 January 2020: Canada's PM Justin Trudeau said that Canadian officials have intelligence from their own sources and Canada's allies that shows Ukraine International Airlines flight 752 was shot down by an Iranian surface to air missile - 9 January 2020: Iran shot down plane with two Russian-made missiles, USA official says
11 January 2020 Iranian and Russian crimes and 'certainty': 11 January 2020: After the supporting and MH17 experienced Russian Putin regime pushed back against Bellingcat and intelligence assesments that Iran shot down the plane with a Russian made surface-to-air missile, after telling the world 'with certainty' that a missile had not caused the crash, but knowing 'with certainty' all facts of its crime, not closing the country’s main international airport and its airspace, Ukraine president now demands punishment and compensation after Iranian regime admitted downing the plane and killing all 176 people on board,
as Iranians protest against regime in Tehran, calling for 'supreme leader' to resign, saying 'down with dictator', as anger mounts over government’s conduct, as angry civilians are using social media to express their outrage, and as police said to use force to quell protests
Terrorist group Hezbollah's involvement in the Syrian Civil War - Syrian Civil War spillover in Lebanon - Hezbollah serves a strategic arm of Iran in Syria and Lebanon
2 February 2018: North Korea has supplied weapons to Syria since 2012, including more than 40 shipments between 2012 and 2017 to Syria’s 'Scientific Studies and Research Centre', which oversees the country’s chemical weapons programme, according to a report by independent UN monitors - 4 August 2018: North Korea is cooperating militarily with Syria, has been trying to sell weapons to Yemen’s Houthis, and has not stopped its nuclear and missile programs in violation of UN sanctions continuing to defy Security Council resolutions through a massive increase in illicit ship-to-ship transfers of petroleum products, as well as through transfers of coal at sea during 2018, according to a UN report
Since January 2018 Turkish military intervention in Syria
Since 2014 Russian military intervention in Ukraine
2014/2016 flight MH17 shootdown by Putin regime: 28 September 2016: Dutch-led joint investigation team including representatives from Australia, Malaysia, Ukraine, and Belgium states that there is 'irrefutable evidence' that a Russian Buk 9M38 missile downed the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 in 2014, killing all 298 people on board, also concluding that the Buk missile system was brought across the border from Russia and later transported back escorted by several other vehicles and by 'armed men in uniform', according to witnesses, photographs, video, damning intercepted telephone calls, radar data, forensic examinations, tests and reconstructions -
Cause of MH17 crash
Since February/March 2014 Russian regime's annexation of Crimea, after unmarked Russian soldiers began to take control of the Crimean Peninsula using a Russian naval base in Sevastopol, establishing checkpoints
Since October 2021–2022 Russo-Ukrainian crisis and December/January escalation: Since March 2021 and then since October 2021–2022 Russo-Ukrainian crisis and December/January escalation when over 100,000 Russian troops were again massed near the border of an independant European country
Reactions to 2021–2022 Russo-Ukrainian crisis of many states, international organizations and civil society groups: Reactions to 2021–2022 Russo-Ukrainian crisis, as many states, international organizations and civil society groups have reacted to the crisis between Russia and Ukraine that began in 2014,
when the European country Ukraine defended its independence, after self-important Yanukovych and his 'Party of Regions' on behalf of Russia's Putin regime tried to create a 'controlled democracy' in Ukraine, tried to destroy the opposition, but sparked the 2014 Euromaidan protests in Kyiv and a renewed Ukrainian revolution in the traditional colors blue and yellow used as a symbol of Ukrainian lands since 12th century,
established in the July 1410 Battle of Grunwald,
and as a national flag officially used since the 1848 'Springtime of the Peoples' across the continent of Europe, defeated by Austrian, emerging German, and already existing Russian empire, as Russia's relative stability was attributed to the revolutionary groups' inability to communicate with each other
Since December 1994 Budapest Memorandum, 2014 illegal annexation of Crimea by Russia: 5 December 1994 Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances signed at the OSCE conference in Budapest to provide security assurances by its signatories relating to the accession of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine to the 'Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons'. The memorandum was originally signed by three nuclear powers: the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom, and the United States. China and France gave somewhat weaker individual assurances in separate documents, including security assurances against threats or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan, as - as a result Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine gave up their nuclear weapon but Russia then alone controlled the codes needed to operate the nuclear weapons, as in 2009, Russia and USA released a joint statement that the memorandum's security assurances would still be respected after the expiration of the START Treaty, and as - after the illegal annexation of Crimea by Russia in 2014 - Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and USA stated that Russian involvement was a breach of its Budapest Memorandum obligations to Ukraine
7 February 2022 USA and EU 'in unity’ in response to Russia-Ukraine tensions: 7 February 2022: USA and EU ‘in unity’ in response to Russia-Ukraine tensions, USA Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, as president Joe Biden to meet German chancellor at White House while France’s Emmanuel Macron is to meet Russian regime's Putin - responsible for the crisis - in Moscow, 'The Guardian' reports live
17 February 2022 Russia still building forces on Ukraine border, says top Nato official: 17 February 2022: Russia still building forces on Ukraine border, says top Nato official, following deploymdng of 7,000 more troops to border, USA official claims, as Ukraine accuses Russia of cyber-attack on banks and defence ministry, marking day of unity against fears of a Russian invasion, and as western leaders prepare for security conference in Munich this weekend, 'The Guardian' reports with live news -
17 February 2022: Russia trying to create a pretext for its invasion? Questions from the media at a press conference in Kyiv, as BBC also reports with live updates
19 February 2022 Putin will impose Nato his will: 19 February 2022: Leaders of Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine order full military mobilisation, as Russia's Rostov region bordering Ukraine declared a state of emergency, citing growing numbers of people arriving from separatist-held areas in Ukraine after they received evacuation orders, as Russian regime’s Putin and Belarusian regime's Lukashenko, a close ally of Putin, took part in major military drills along Ukraine’s borders from a situation centre in the Kremlin on Saturday, as Nato's Jens Stoltenberg says Russia makes demands that it knows NATO cannot fulfill, adding now 'we have a Russia which is openly contesting core values for European security and then demonstrating their will to use force or the threat of force to get their will', further adding 'for the first time we now see Beijing joining Moscow in calling on NATO to stop admitting new members', 'Al Jazeera' reports with live updates -
Enlargement of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the military alliance of 28 European and 2 North American countries that constitutes a system of collective defense. In October 2020 Ukraine's president Zelenskyy stated that Ukraine needs a NATO Membership Action Plan, as NATO membership will contribute to Ukraine's security and defense. In April 2021, following a Russian troop buildup near the Ukraine border,
Zelenskiy repeated this request to receive peace
19 February 2022 Putin regime's Chief of General Staff pointed out 'guaranteed defeat of the enemy': 19 February 2022: Russian Putin regime said later on the day that its military successfully test-launched hypersonic and cruise missiles at sea and land-based targets during 'exercises', as Putin sat observing the 'war games' on screens along with neighbouring Belarus' dictator Lukashenko, from what the Kremlin described as a 'situation centre', saying 'all the missiles hit their targets, confirming their performance objectives', adding the drills included Tu-95 bombers and submarines, and as Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov made a reference to nuclear launch codes, saying 'such test launches, of course, are impossible without the head of state. You know about the famous black suitcase and the red button'. Two ballistic missiles were launched – one from a site in northwest Russia and the second from a submarine in the Barents Sea – hitting targets thousands of kilometres away in the far east peninsula of Kamchatka, the Kremlin said, claiming that the exercises are part of a regular training process, denying they signal an escalation in the standoff with independant - since 1991 - Ukraine, but in a Russian footage aired by RIA Chief of General Staff Valery Gerasimov told Putin 'the main purpose of the exercise is to train the strategic offensive forces’ actions aimed at delivering a guaranteed defeat of the enemy', as according to reporting 'Al Jazeera' Russian e.g. can use militarily 1511 attack aircraft, Ukraine 98
20 February 2022 'can’t keep offering olive branch’ to Russia over Ukraine as killed people will never resurrect: 20 February 2022: Ukrainian president Zelenskyy is willing to meet Russian regime's Putin to seek a serious 'peaceful settlement', after former KGB agent since more then 20 years is terrifying the global community with poisonings including Plutonium, Novichok, with other forms of assassinations against opponents in Russia and abroad, with wars and war participations in Chechnya, in Syria, Africa, and since 2014 in Europe, and now in 2022 even threatening with nuclear weapons, with civilians in eastern Ukraine living amid destruction and shellings, hitting residential areas and 'kindergarten', as Russian military exercises in Belarus scheduled to end on Sunday will continue, Minsk regime has announced, pointing to an increase in tensions along the Ukraine border, saying Russian troops will not withdraw, as exiled Belarus opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya said the presence of Russian troops for extended military drills endangered her country’s sovereignty, stating 'the presence of Russian troops on our territory violates our constitution, international law, endangers the security of each Belarusian and the entire region', adding that her team would seek to have the deployment raised within the UN security council, according to 'Al Jazeera'
20 February 2022 'can’t keep offering olive branch’ to Russia over Ukraine as killed people will never resurrect: 20 February 2022: Putin regime had previously said the 30,000 troops it has in Belarus were simply carrying out readiness drills with its ally, but as 20 February arrived Putin and Belarusian dictator Lukashenko decided to 'continue inspections', citing increased military activity on their shared borders and an alleged 'escalation' in east Ukraine, as their decision and move is seen as a further tightening of the screws on independent but not respected Ukraine, already facing increased shelling from Russian-backed separatist and occupying rebels, the 'Kyiv Post' reports -
20 February 2022: Russia cannot restore the USSR, a country with closed borders, a planned economy, and public property, as Putin's Russia since late 1990s - after Gorbachev's failed perestroika since March 1984 encompassing a complex series of reforms to restructure society and the economy but opposed, obstructed by the USA supporting the Taliban - has little in common with that historical setup. It is a highly capitalistic state with robust oligarchic groups and endemic corruption, according to the 'Kyiv Post'
21 February 2022 Ukraine calls for urgent EU sanctions on Russia to avert invasion: 21 February 2022: Ukraine rejects 'fake' Russian claims about border incursion, Luke Harding reports from Kyiv, Ukraine’s neighbours bracing for millions of refugees if Russia invades, as Ukraine calls for urgent EU sanctions on Russia to avert invasion, and as on the other side leaders of two-self proclaimed 'people’s republics' formally asked Russian regime's Putin to recognise their independence in a coordinated appeal on Monday, a move that is set to further inflame the situation in eastern Ukraine, as in the afternoon two-thirds of 110 battalions now positioned within 50km of the border, and as in the evening 'The Guardian' (Andrew Roth) continues to report -
21 février 2022: C'était 'prématuré' de parler d’un sommet réunissant le régime russe et les États-Unis pour désamorcer la crise autour de l’Ukraine, après dans la nuit de dimanche à lundi, le gouvernement français avait pourtant annoncé que les deux états avaient 'accepté le principe d’un tel sommet' -
21 February 2022: USA's president Joe Biden is meeting his national security team about Russia and Ukraine, official said according to 'Al Jazeera' also reports with live updates, as Ukraine’s FM Kuleba said he would discuss de-escalation efforts with USA's Secretary of State Blinken on Tuesday
22 February 2022 Russia strongly condemned at UN after Putin orders troops into eastern Ukraine, and opposed: 22 February 2022: Russia strongly condemned at UN after Putin orders troops into eastern Ukraine, as Ukraine’s foreign minister appealed for strong sanctions as the only way of stalling further Russian encroachment, 'The Guardian' reports, also providing a live coverage of the Russia/Ukraine crisis -
22 February 2022: German Chancellor Scholz said that he halted the review process of Nord Stream 2 pipeline project with Russia in response to Moscow’s recognition of two breakaway regions in Ukraine, 'so there can be no certification of the pipeline and without this certification, Nord Stream 2 cannot begin operating', according to 'Kyiv Post' -
22 February 2022: Russian regime's Putin signed a 'decree' to officially recognise the breakaway, self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk 'People’s Republics' DPR and LPR in war-torn eastern Ukraine, as this political sparked fears of a wider military campaign on Ukrainian territory, perhaps beginning war against an indepencent European country, as many - also in Russia - outside the corridors of power are critical of regime's move,
and as Syria’s Assad regime 'supports' Putin’s decision to recognise the puppet states in eastern Ukraine as independent
February 2015 Houthi coup d'état and takeover -
Since 2004 Houthi insurgency in Yemen, a sectarian military rebellion pitting Zaidi Shia Houthis against the Yemeni military that began in Northern Yemen and has since escalated into a full-scale civil war -
Since 2015 Yemeni Civil War between factions claiming to constitute the Yemeni government following the Houthi coup d'état, along with their supporters and allies -
Human rights violations during the Yemeni Civil War since 2015
Since 4 April 2019 military campaign by Haftar's 'Libyan National Army' to capture the western region of Libya (Western Libya Offensive)
23/24 December 2019 Egypt, Russia, UAE, and France's support for warlord Haftar: 23 December 2019: Detained pro-Haftar pilot reveals new details about Egypt, Russia, UAE, and France's support, saying Russian Wagner Group mercenaries depend on Tarhouna operations room with air-defense and electronic warfare systems, where a group of French experts working on logistical support, surveillance and wiretapping -
24 December 2019: Mercenaries flock to Libya raising fears of prolonged war, as hundreds of fighters from Sudan are joining anti-government Libyan National Army
16 February 2020 'arms embargo has become a joke', UN's Stephanie Williams says: 16 February 2020: At Berlin Conference on Libya January 2020 reaffirmed 'arms embargo has become a joke', and the country’s financial position is deteriorating rapidly, UN's Stephanie Williams told a news conference in Munich,
monitoring unscrupulous violations by land, sea and air by the main perpetrators since April 2019,
including Haftar's militias, Russia, Egypt, France, UAE, and Saudi-Arabia, without any accountability
5 June 2020 blow to warlord Haftar, UAE's Khalifa, Egypt's el-Sisi, Russian regime's Putin, and France's Macron: 5 June 2020: In a blow to warlord Haftar, UAE's Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Egypt's el-Sisi, Russian regime's Putin, and France's Macron, UN-backed Libyan forces oust renegade general from Tripoli after his 14-month siege of the south of the city, now ending in failure when his forces retreated from the south of the city toward his heartlands in the south and the east of the country, as UN-recognised government's interior minister Bashagha hailed 'the beginning of the end of the entire dictatorship project', urging cities under Haftar’s control to rise up against him and spare themselves further conflict, amid remaining uncertainty that the extent of Haftar’s retreat may depend on the point at which newly arrived Russian fighter jets intervene to shore up his lines of defence
Civilian casualties occurs in a general sense, when civilians are killed or injured by non-civilians, mostly law enforcement officers, military personnel, or criminals such as terrorists and bank robbers, under the law of war, civilian casualties are civilians who perished or suffered wounds as a result of wartime acts -
War casualties
Since August 1914 German troops executed civilians in Europe: Since August 1914 German troops burned homes and executed civilians throughout eastern and central Belgium, including Aarschot (156 dead), Andenne (211 dead), Tamines (383 dead), and Dinant (674 dead), as the victims included men, women, and children -
German terrorism called 'Schrecklichkeit', the basis of German actions during their march through Belgium in 1914, followed later in France, the Russian-held area of Poland, and in Russia
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Since 1 September 1939 Germann bombing of Warsaw: Since 1 September 1939 Germann bombing of Warsaw in World War II refers to the aerial bombing campaign of Warsaw by the German Luftwaffe during the siege of Warsaw in the invasion of Poland in 1939, it also may refer to German bombing raids during the Warsaw Uprising in 1944, as during the course of the war approximately 84% of the city was destroyed due to German mass bombings, heavy artillery fire and a planned demolition campaign
2017 - January 2018 civilian casualties global survey: 8 January 2018: In a jump of 42% in a year, more than 15,000 civilians were killed by explosive weapons in 2017, a rise driven by airstrikes, which killed almost double the number of civilians in 2017 compared with the previous year, according to a global survey seen by the Guardian, also saying that the worst impacted countries were Syria, where civilian deaths increased by 55% to 8,051, Iraq, where there was a 50% increase, to 3,271, and Afghanistan, where 994 non-combatants died
Attacks on humanitarian workers and hospitals - Medical Neutrality refers to a principle of noninterference with medical services in times of armed conflict - Geneva Conventions comprise four treaties, and three additional protocols, that establish the standards of international law for humanitarian treatment in war - Duty to rescue
2016: 9 February 2016: An airstrike hit Tafas field hospital, some 12 km from the Jordanian border in southern Syria, that is supported by Médecins Sans Frontières, killing three people including a nurse and wounding six -
15 février 2016: Un hôpital à Hadiyé dans la région de Maaret al-Noomane, lié à MSF, a été bombardé, neuf personnes, dont un enfant, ont été tuées lors de frappes de l'aviation, vraisemblablement russe -
18 February 2016: Hospitals in opposition-held parts of Syria are refusing to share GPS coordinates with Russian and Syrian authorities because of repeated attacks on medical facilities and workers, Médecins Sans Frontières and humanitarian workers on the ground say -
23 February: Survivors of MSF Hospital targeted by warplanes in Maarat al-Nouman recount their stories -
9 May 2016: Attacks on hospitals and medical facilities by the regime and Russian forces continue unabated, as Assad’s jets on Sunday bombed a hospital in Kafrnaha in rural Aleppo which is supported by Doctors Without Borders destroying three ambulances and causing damage to the hospital building
July 2016: 24 juillet 2016: Des bombardements aériens, menés par la Syrie et la Russie, ont touchés les établissements dans les quartiers est de la ville, assiégés depuis le 17 juillet par le régime -
24 July 2016: Four makeshift hospitals and a local blood bank in Syria's battered Aleppo city have been hit by regime air raids in the past 24 hours, including the children's hospital in a besieged eastern neighbourhood, where the bombardment killed a two-day-old baby, according to a group of doctors -
26 July 2016: Russian warplanes fired vacuum missiles and cluster bombs at residential neighborhoods, hitting Atareb's main hospital and medicine stores and wounding 45 more people -
29 July 2016: An airstrike has hit a maternity hospital in a rebel-held area of Idlib province supported by Save the Children, killing two people and injuring several others including a woman, who was six months pregnant and who lost her leg, and several babies, when their incubators crashed to the floor in the attack -
31 July 2016: Four new-born babies reportedly killed after a recent triple airstrike, which aid workers said came from Syrian government warplanes, hit besieged Aleppo’s last children’s hospital run by a group of Syrian doctors, the Independent Doctors’ Association, and backed by the charity Unicef -
31 July 2016: It rose to 9 (including 3 citizens, a child, a pharmaceutical and the deputy director of Jassem hospital) the number of people who were killed when the warplanes bombed areas of Jassem in the countryside of Daraa, where one of the raids targeted the town’s hospital area,
as the Syrian Center for Policy Research puts the death toll from the six-year Assad war against Syrians at more than 470,000 people
March 2018: 26 March 2018: The United Nations has come under fire for sharing the coordinates of hospitals in the Damascus suburb of eastern Ghouta with Russia, only for one of them to be bombed days later, according to 'The Telegraph' -
26 March 2018: Syrian Coalition's Mohammed Yahya Maktabi said that the mass forced displacement taking place in the Damascus suburb of eastern Ghouta is a 'war crime' as he condemned Russian’s major role in these crimes, adding that regime forces, the Iranian militias, and Russian air force are killing civilians, targeting popular markets, residential areas and public facilities and bombing hospitals, medical centers, and rescue workers -
27 March 2018: As more than half million people killed in seven years of brutal ground and aerial bombing by the Assad regime and its allies, and as Syrian children have taken the biggest share in the horrible death toll, the unstoppable roar of Russia's warplanes has caused a heart attack for Lojain Said, taking the life of the schoolgirl who lived in the northwestern town of Jisr al-Shughour, the Civil Defense rescue group says
Economic warfare, involving the use of measures (e.g. blockade) of which the primary effect is to weaken the economy of another state - Commerce raiding, a form of naval warfare used to destroy or disrupt logistics of the enemy on the open sea by attacking its merchant shipping, rather than engaging its combatants or enforcing a blockade against them - International maritime incidents, including shipwrecks by war, ship bombings, ships sunk by aircraft, submarines and mines
Economic terrorism or financial terrorism - contrary to 'economic warfare' which is undertaken by states against other states, 'economic terrorism' would be undertaken by transnational or non-state actors
'Attrition' warfare is a military strategy consisting of belligerent attempts to win a 'war' by wearing down the enemy to the point of collapse through continuous losses in personnel (human victims) and material
19th-21st centuries examples and crimes (including 1914-1945 German empire's war crimes): 19th-21st centuries examples in history determining the path, noted by wikipedia, include the 1812 French invasion of Russia (called a textbook example how elements of attrition warfare interfered with Napoleon's military logistics and won the war without a decisive battle), example of 'attrition' warfare on the Western Front during German empire's WWI including the 1916 Battle of Verdun (completely inconsiderate, ruthless against ambushed foreign and own victims in large numbers), and more German war crimes 1914-1918 until empire's defeat because of the superiority of Allied Powers, since 1917 including the USA, also opposing empire's unrestricted submarine warfare, as more examples include the 1936-1939 Spanish Civil War, the tonnage war in the Atlantic and Pacific during Axis Powers' World War II until 1945, the Air battle for Great Britain in World War II after the bombing of London, the static battles in World War II, including Soviet urban defense during the Battle of Stalingrad (not listed the 1941-1944 Siege of Leningrad), the Battle of Tabu-dong, and the final two years of the Korean War, the Vietnam War (Body count), the 'Long War' during the Provisional IRA's armed campaign against the British Army during 'the Troubles', the Israeli–Egyptian War of Attrition from 1967–1970, the Soviet–Afghan War, the later phases of the Iran–Iraq War, the War in Afghanistan 2001–present, the Sri Lankan Civil War after 2005, the 2011 Libyan civil war , the Kurdish–Turkish conflict 1978–present, since 2011-present Syrian Civil War (Assad's and allies' war against the Syrian people), in particular the Battle of Aleppo 2012-2016
War profiteering, as war initially had the objective of territorial expansion and resource gathering, states may also profit politically, economically and strategically, replacing governments that do not fulfill its interests by key allied governments - War profiteer, a persons or organization that profits from warfare or by selling weapons and other goods to parties at war - Since 1914 war profits reached their highest levels in heavy industry in Germany, after beginning a long-lasting brutal war against peaceful neighbours and other industrialized countries
July 2019 Assad's war since 2011 and family's business: 12 July 2019: Who gains the most out of Syria's civil war, Israeli newspaper 'Haaretz' asks, saying that cousin of Bashar Assad, Rami Makhlouf, despite the sanctions imposed by the USA and some European nations and now thought to be the wealthiest man in Syria, manages the Assad family's business and is making his fortune in construction franchises, imports, newspapers and media, as well as Syriatel, a mobile service provider company, which he heads, also representing state-owned as well as private Iranian companies that received permission to invest in Syria, as circle of winners from the war encompasses not only Syrian businessmen but Iranian and Russian ones as well
United Nations's inability to prevent conflicts - since the 20th century the United Nations fail to prevent conflicts, wars and war crimes, tolerating and even supporting mass murder for example in Syria
1960 UN resolution 138 following Argentine complaint and German and CIA's fears over the transfer of Adolf Eichmann to Israel: In June 1960, after a complaint that the transfer of Adolf Eichmann to Israel from Argentina constituted a violation of the latter's sovereignty, UN Security Council declared in its resolution 138, approved by eight votes, that such acts could endanger 'international peace and security' and requested that Israel make the appropriate reparation in accordance with the UN Charter, but Israel held the view that the matter was beyond the Council's competence and should instead be settled via direct bilateral negotiations,
as the capture of Eichmann caused alarm at the USA's CIA and West German Bundesnachrichtendienst, which had known for at least two years that Eichmann was hiding in Argentina, but did not act, fearing what Eichmann might say in his testimony about West German national security advisor CDU Hans Globke, who had coauthored several antisemitic Nazi laws, according to documents declassified in 2006, also revealing that both agencies had used some of Eichmann's former Nazi colleagues to spy on European countries
Since December 2017 supported by UN Russian regime sends more weapons to CAR despite embargo: 15 décembre 2017: Autorisée par l’ONU, la Russie s’apprête à livrer des armes à la Centrafrique, malgré l’embargo imposé au pays depuis 2013 -
23 décembre 2017: La Russie a obtenu du Conseil de sécurité de l’ONU une exemption à l’embargo sur les armes imposé à la Centrafrique -
Since 2014 Wagner Group, a Russian paramilitary organisation and Putin-linked military company, whose contractors take part in various conflicts, including operations in Assad's war against the Syrian people, in the War in Donbass against the Ukrainian people and since 2017/2018 in the Central African Republic -
29 September 2018: Russian journalists in Africa reportedly eliminated by Russia's military company PMC Patriot connected with Russian regime's 'Defense Ministry' -
24 October 2020: Russian Putin regime sends more military equipment to CAR, as regime has opened a representative office in the central African country, bringing ten more armoured vehicles after solidifying its presence in the CAR in recent years, sending weapons and contractors and political 'advisors', and has been growing its role on the continent overall as part of a renewed push for global influence of neo-Nazis
22 July 2018 UN now with an Assad supporting Guterres failed to prevent even one of Assad's, Russian and Iranian war crimes since 2011: 22 July 2018: Israel transported several hundred Syrian civil defense workers and their families from southwest Syria to Jordan overnight Saturday,
saying it had engaged in 'a humanitarian effort' at the request of the USA, some European countries and Canada, after many powerful countries and the United Nations - including a lot of subsidiary organs, organizations, and an Assad supporting Guterres - failed to prevent even one of Assad's, Russian and Iranian war crimes since 2011 -
24 July 2018: There remains an acute threat for several hundred Syrian rescuers trapped in the country’s south with no escape from approaching regime troops,
after Assad regime officials and Russians said the Syrian civil defense volunteers were 'a red line' who should be 'eradicated', and as during previous evacuations from fallen opposition areas elsewhere, civil defense volunteers were specifically targeted, pulled from buses, tortured and filmed making false confessions about being paid agents, also because they helped document atrocities by Assad's forces and allies
27 June 2019 UN's ability to write a letter: 27 June 2019: Following 8 years of a brutal war by Assad's, the Iranian and Russian regime against the Syrian people, facing daily war crimes such as killings of civilians, children and women, use of banned weapons including weapons of mass destruction, attacks on hospitals, schools, market places, torture and other atrocities, the United Nations are reacting ..., UN under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs Mark Lowcock, who told the Security Council he was 'not sure' hospitals that share coordinates of their location under a UN deconfliction system will be protected, has 'written to the Russian Federation to request information as to how the details provided through the deconfliction mechanism are used'
23 October 2019 Syrian Kurdish man set himself on fire outside the UN: 23 October 2019: Syrian Kurdish man, who resides in Germany, set himself on fire outside the UN refugee agency headquarters in Geneva, then tried to enter the UNHCR building, and was flown by helicopter to the specialised burns unit at the university hospital in Lausanne -
23 October 2019: Russian regime says oil sites in northeastern Syria should be controlled by Damascus, accusing the USA of betraying Kurds in Syria, but telling them to withdraw or be mauled, after Russian-Turkish agreement to continue Turkish illegal invasion of Syria -
23 October 2019: Syrian Assad regime inflicts 72 forms of torture on prisoners, report finds -
23 October 2019: Turkish forces target positions of the Kurdish forces in Maraanaz front in the northern countryside of Aleppo by artillery shells -
24 October 2019: Russian warplanes bomb the 'de-escalation' areas in conjunction with ground shelling and violent clashes in Latakia and Hama countryside -
24 October 2019: Assad regime’s helicopters and Russian warplanes target Kabani hills by barrel bombs and air raids -
24 October 2019: A Turkish bomb that struck a Kurdish community in northern Syria, left eight-year-old Sara with serious injuries, and her right leg was so badly damaged that it had to be amputated, as Sara's older brother, Hammoudi, was killed in the bombardment -
24 October 2019: The northern sector of Aleppo countryside witnesses renewed clashes between the Turkey-loyal factions and the Kurdish Forces, according to SOHR
14 March 2020 UN degenerated 'Human Rights' Council applauds Iranian criminal regime in periodic review: 14 March 2020: UN 'Human Rights' Council applauds Iranian regime in periodic review, as North Korean, Syria's Assad, Russia's Putin and Chinese Beijing regime praise Tehran's Mullahs for ‘protecting rights of vulnerable groups', ‘openness to dialogue’,
after the January 2020 Iranian shooting down of Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752, murdering 176 international passengers and crew members,
following the July 2014 Russian shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in Ukraine, murdering 298 international passengers and crew members, followed in February 2020 by Dutch trial, after prosecution formally charged four suspects amid Russian murderous regime's denials and threats against witnesses
31 May 2020 75 years after WWII study shows that 60% of today's wars have lasted for at least a decade: 31 May 2020: After World War II lasted 6 years, 75 years on wars without end and the question why there is no peaceful solution to so much global conflict, as a new study shows that 60% of the world’s wars have lasted for at least a decade, from Afghanistan to Libya, Syria to Congo DRC, and as endless conflicts appear to become normalised, with politicians, generals, governments and international organisations incapable, uninterested or profiteering -
Over 60% of armed conflicts ongoing for over ten years, shows 'International Institute for Strategic Studies' May 2020 Armed Conflict Survey
Use of torture since 1948, abuse, mistreatment, murder of prisoners and death in custody by country
Targeted killing, the premeditated killing of an individual or groups of individuals by a state, organization or institution outside a judicial procedure or a battlefield - An extrajudicial killing is the killing of a person by governmental authorities without the sanction of any judicial proceeding or legal process - Murder is the killing of another human being without justification - Homicides can be divided into many overlapping types, including murder, manslaughter, killing in war, euthanasia, and execution, depending on the circumstances of the death, and are treated differently in human societies
Since 1979/1980 Islamic Shia terrorism
Targeted killing in Russia and by the Russian regime since 1996, originating in the early modern age with the establishment of tsarist empire - History of Tsarist autocracy - the Tatar Yoke and the Sino-Mongol ideas and administrative system are credited with introducing some characteristics of an oriental despotism to Russia - after Ivan III (reigned 1462-1505) built upon Byzantine traditions and laid foundations for the tsarist autocracy which with some variations would govern Russia for centuries - Ivan the Terrible, the grand prince of Moscow from 1533 to 1547 and the first Moscow ruler who declared himself 'Tsar of all Russia' from 1547 to 1584
27 March 2022 murdered Putin rival Boris Nemtsov 'tailed' by agent linked to FSB hit squad: 27 March 2022: Bellingcat, The Insider and the BBC found evidence that Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov - who rose to prominence in the 1990s, served as PM under president Boris Yeltsin, and was widely tipped to be Yeltsin's successor - was shadowed on 13 trips before his 27 February 2015 murder. Boris Yeltsin supported former KGB agent Vladimir Putin's rise to power in the 1990s, and Mr Nemtsov was pushed to the margins of Russian politics. He became an effective campaigner, exposing corruption and denouncing Russia's 2014 attack on eastern Ukraine. On 27 February 2015, Mr Nemtsov was shot dead, just yards from the Kremlin, and just days before he was due to lead a protest against the war. 7 years later, the BBC - working with the investigative websites Bellingcat and The Insider - can reveal evidence that in the months running up to the killing, Nemtsov was being followed across Russia by Putin regime agent Valery Sukharev linked to a secret assassination squad.
North Korean politically motivated criminal actions, including international abductions, terrorism and targeted killings - Concentration camps in North Korea
Network of extralegal detention centers established by Chinese security forces and private security companies across the PR of China
23 October 2022 China’s reputation has deteriorated rapidly over the last four years: 23 October 2022: China’s reputation has deteriorated rapidly over the last four years, particularly in the west, and a large share of global opinion would back some form of international help for Taiwan if Beijing tries to take the island by force, according to a survey by he YouGov-Cambridge Globalism Project. The survey revealed a dramatic decline in China’s global standing since it was first run in 2019, with the percentage of respondents saying they felt China played a positive role in the world falling by as much as half in some countries. Pro-China sentiment has collapsed over the past four years from 46% to 24% in Poland, 36% to 17% in France, 30% to 13% in Germany, 32% to 11% in Denmark, 41% to 24% in Italy, 35% to 11% in the UK and 44% to 23% in India. It has fallen from 27% to 18% in the USA. While covid-19 partly informs this negative sentiment, with majorities of more than 80% convinced that the pandemic started in China, human rights abuses also appear to be an increasing focus
Attacks on press freedom in China intensify after 2019/2020 covid-19 outbreak: 20 March 2020: Beijing regime's attacks on press freedom in China intensify after the covid-19 outbreak since November/December 2019
Targeted killings in Pakistan, especially in Karachi and in Quetta, have been a rising form of violence and have contributed to security instability in the country
Wahhabism and targeted killings by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Political prisoners in Saudi Arabia - Torture in Saudi Arabia - Tiger Squad, a Saudi death squad that consists of approximately fifty members from the military and intelligence agencies and has a mandate to carry out covert operations and executions, allegedly created by Mohammad bin Salman to kill Saudi critics inside and outside of Saudi Arabia
November 2020 G20 Riyadh summit and community of corruption: 23 novembre 2020: Les organisateurs saoudiens interpellés sur l’affaire Khashoggi, un président américain au golf, des promesses sur l’accès aux vaccins …, ce qu’il faut retenir des deux jours d’un étrange sommet du G20 virtuel -
21–22 November 2020 G20 Riyadh summit, the fifteenth meeting of Group of Twenty in Riyadh, the capital city of Saudi Arabia -
23 November 2020: Saudi Arabia denies crown prince met with Netanyahu, or any Israeli,
after media reported that PM Netanyahu, Mossad chief flied to Saudi, held first known meet with crown prince, as meeting said held in presence of USA Secretary of State Mike Pompeo -
2 October 2018 assassination of Saudi dissident and journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul perpetrated by agents of the Saudi government -
Reactions to the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi, denounced by the majority of the international community, but not by G20
6 February 2013: Globalizing torture, USA's CIA secret detentions and extraordinary renditions following the terrorist attacks of September 11 in 2001 'aided by 54 countries'
Extrajudicial punishment is punishment for an alleged crime or offense carried out without legal process
Human rights abuses
Human rights abuses by country
Intelligence agencies by country
List of Secret police organizations - Death squads conduct extrajudicial killings or forced disappearances of persons for the purposes of political repression, genocide, or revolutionary terror, often conducted in ways meant to ensure the secrecy of the killers' identities
Since April 1933 NSDAP ruled Germany's 'Geheime Staatspolizei' Gestapo, SD and RSHA, GFP: Since April 1933 'Geheime Staatspolizei', abbreviated 'Gestapo', the official secret police of NSDAP ruled Germany and in German-occupied Europe, as the force was created by Hermann Göring in 1933 by combining the various security police agencies of Prussia into one organisation, as on 20 April 1934 oversight of the 'Gestapo' passed to the head of the SS Heinrich Himmler, who was also appointed Chief of German Police by Hitler in 1936 -
'Sicherheitsdienst des Reichsführers-SS', the intelligence agency of the SS and the NSDAP originating in 1931, as the organization was the first Nazi intelligence organization to be established and was considered a connected organization with the Gestapo since 1933 through integration of SS members and operational procedures, as the SD was administered as an independent SS office between 1933 and 1939, after which it was transferred to the authority of the Reich Main Security Office 'Reichssicherheitshauptamt' -
Geheime Feldpolizei, the secret military police of the German NSDAP 'Wehrmacht' until the end of the Second World War in May 1945
List of current secret police organizations
1988–1998 chain murders of Iran: 1988–98 chain murders of Iran, a series of murders and disappearances of certain Iranian dissident intellectuals who had been critical of the Mullah regime system, as the murders and disappearances were carried out by Iranian government internal operatives - referred to as 'chain murders' because they appeared to be linked to each other -, as the victims included more than 80 writers, translators, poets, political activists, and ordinary citizens, killed by a variety of means such as car crashes, stabbings, shootings in staged robberies, and injections with potassium to simulate heart attack, and as the pattern of murders did not come to light until late 1998 when Dariush Forouhar, his wife Parvaneh Eskandari Forouhar, and three dissident writers were murdered over a span of two months
Since 1971 Syrian Assad regime's 'General Intelligence Directorate': Since 1971 'General Intelligence Directorate', the most important civil intelligence service of Syria's regime of Hafez al-Assad and his son Bashar al-Assad, playing a leading role in suppressing opposition and quelling internal dissent -
'Political Security Directorate', divided into an Internal Security Department and an External Security Department, and active against the Syrian opposition -
Military Intelligence Division, the military intelligence service of Syria, with roots going back to the French mandate period 1923–1943, as its current organization was established in 1969, headquartered at the Defense Ministry in Damascus -
Since 1963 'Air Force Intelligence Directorate', an intelligence service of Syria, possibly the country's most powerful and owing its importance to Hafez al-Assad's role as the Air Force commander, as despite its name, it is mainly involved with issues other than air force intelligence, taking an active part in the suppression of opposition since the Muslim Brotherhood rebellion in the 1980s
Police brutality - History of police brutality, as police violence is legally defined as a civil rights violation where law enforcement officers exercise undue or excessive force against a subject, that includes, but is not limited to, bullying, physical or verbal harassment, physical or mental injury, property damage, and death
Surveillance - Mass surveillance - Global surveillance refers to the mass surveillance of entire populations across national borders and can be traced back to the 20th century and a United Kingdom and USA agreement - Phone surveillance - Telephone tapping - Phone hacking - Computer and network surveillance
Censorship - Political censorship - Censorship by religion
Internet censorship is the control or suppression of what can be accessed, published, or viewed on the Internet enacted by regulators, or on their own initiative, as internet censorship puts restrictions on what information can be put on the internet or not -
An Internet outage or Internet blackout is the complete or partial failure of the internet services, that can occur due to censorship, cyberattacks, disasters, police or security services actions -
Since 2009 usage of Internet 'kill switch' in Beijing regime's China, in the area of Iran's Mullah regime, and more countries
Cyberwarfare - Cyberterrorism - Information warfare - Cyberwarfare by country
Cyberwarfare by and in China
Cyberwarfare by Iran
Computer crime and cyberattacks - Computer security - Outline of computer security - Computer systems at risk - Computer vulnerability
Crime by country
Murder by decade and country: Murder by country - Murder by decade and country
Mass shootings by country: Mass shootings by country
Violence against children by country: Violence against children by country
Human trafficking by country: Human trafficking by country
Organized crime - Organized crime by country - Transnational organized crime
Arms trafficking
Human trafficking - Human trafficking by country
White collar crime - White-collar criminals by nationality
List of heads of state, policians, businesspeople named in the Pandora Papers: List of heads of state named in the Pandora Papers (including Jordanian king Abdullah II, Dominican Republic's president Luis Abinader, Azerbaijan's president Ilham Aliyev, Montenegro's president Milo Ðukanovic, Kenya's president Uhuru Kenyatta, Ecuador's president Guillermo Lasso, Gabon's president Ali Bongo Ondimba, Chile's president Sebastián Piñera, Republic of the Congo's president Denis Sassou Nguesso, Emir of Qatar Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky), former heads of state, former heads of government, heads of organizations, policians, businesspeople, football managers, players and more sport and entertainment professionals -
Heads of government and former heads of government, including Côte d'Ivoire's PM Patrick Achi, Czech Republic's PM Andrej Babiš, UAE's PM and emir of Dubai Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Lebanon's PM Najib Mikati, former PM of the UK Tony Blair, former PM of Italy Silvio Berlusconi, former Chief Executive of Hong Kong Tung Chee-hwa, former Chief Executive of Hong Kong Leung Chun-ying, former PM of Lebanon Hassan Diab
Financial crimes - Securities fraud - Insider trading - Binary option operations, fraud and regulations
Cheque, Cheque fraud, refers to a category of criminal acts that involve making the unlawful use of cheques in order to illegally acquire or borrow funds that do not exist within the account balance or account-holder's legal ownership - Check kiting, a form of check fraud, involving taking advantage of the float to make use of non-existent funds in a checking or other bank account. In this way, instead of being used as a negotiable instrument, checks are misused as a form of unauthorized credit - Bank fraud is the use of potentially illegal means to obtain hard currency, assets, or other property owned or held by a financial institution, or to obtain money from depositors by fraudulently posing as a bank or other financial institution, 'Überweisungsbetrug'
Beispiele von 'Komplementärwährungen' auf begrenzter, lokaler Grundlage, in Papua-Neuguinea (traditionelles Muschelgeld der einheimischen Bevölkerung, mit 'Fathom' als teilbarer oder zusammenfügbarer Einheit auf einigen Inseln), Japan, Deutschland (nach dem sog. Bethel-Euro, bis zur Euro-Einführung Bethel-Mark seit 1908, weitere regional begrenzte 'Regionalwährungen' d.h. lokale 'Gutscheinumläufe' auf der Grundlage von harter Währung mit Golddeckung im Nationalstaat, in Österreich, in Argentinien, in Brasilien ('alternative Währungen' sind regional in den Vierteln von brasilianischen Großstädten und in kleineren Städten im Landesinneren im Umlauf), Kuba, Südafrika (die selbstverwaltete Gemeinschaft von Orania in der Provinz Nordkap gibt seit 2005 die Komplementärwährung Ora heraus, die an den südafrikanischen Rand im Verhältnis von 1:1 gebunden ist und den Nutzern einen Preisnachlass auf alle in Orania gekauften Güter garantieren soll, wobei die Ora ist nur in Orania als Zahlungsmittel anerkannt ist - A local currency can be spent in a particular geographical locality at participating organisations, as a regional currency is a form of local currency encompassing a larger geographical area, while a community currency might be local used for exchange - Eine Regionalwährung, auch Regionalgeld oder Lokalwährung genannt, ist eine lokale 'Komplementärwährung', die innerhalb des lokalalen, regionalen Gebiets eines Landes - mit regulärer Geldwährung mit mit Bindung an Edelmetalle (Gold) und ihren verschiedenen ökonomischen systematisch zusammenhängenden Funktionen im Zirkulationsprozeß von Ware und Geld - zusätzlich, nicht alternativ als Zahlungs-, Investitions- und Schenkungsmittel zwischen Verbrauchern, Anbietern und Vereinen fungiert - Liste der sog. 'Regionalgelder' weltweit, nach Kontinent und Land, die laufend ergänzt werden kann dank Internet, daher laut 'Wikipedia' ohne Anspruch auf Vollständigkeit
Kritik von 'Kryptowährungen', auf der Grundlage von Scheinwährungen ohne jegliche Deckung seit weltweiter Nutzung des Internets, Softwarefehler, mangelhafte rechtliche Einordnung, Verteilung, Kursschwankungen und Kursmanipulationen, Ressourcen-Verbrauch, Spielfeld für kriminelle Aktivitäten, Lösegeldforderungen, Betrug, Geldwäsche und Steuerhinterziehung
Corruption - Corruption by country - Bribery
January 2020 Airbus to pay record £3bn in fines for 'endemic' corruption: 31 January 2020: Europe’s largest aerospace multinational Airbus is to pay a record £3bn in penalties after admitting it had paid huge bribes on an 'endemic' basis to land contracts in 20 countries, including including China, Russia, Japan, Kuwait, Brazil, Turkey, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Taiwan, Ghana etc., and after judges declared that the corruption was 'grave, pervasive and pernicious, as planemaker agreed to pay the penalties on Friday after reaching settlements with investigators in the UK, France and the USA to end inquiries that started four years ago
Political corruption -
Forms of political corruption include Bribery,
Cronyism,
Crony capitalism,
Electoral fraud or vote rigging,
Extortion,
Graft (politics) Influence peddling,
Kleptocracy,
Lobbying,
Nepotism,
Patronage,
Plutocracy,
and Slush funds -
Repression of political opponents and political repression,
Police corruption and general police brutality also considered political corruption
Overview of Corruption in the Media
August 1914 German massacres of hundreds of unarmed Belgian civilians in Dinant: On 21/22 August 1914 German infantry and pioneers advanced into Dinant, killing seven civilians and burning 15–20 houses, on 23 August 1914 the Germans massacred 674 unarmed Belgian civilians in Dinant, civilians were lined up against a wall and shot, including men over 70, women or girls, children under 14 and even babies, 1,200 houses were burned down and 400 people were deported to Germany as an area of Dinant was systematically looted and burned down by the Germans, also destroying public and historic buildings, including the collegial church and the town hall -
1914/1915 official report of massacres of peaceable citizens, women and children by the German army and testimony of eye-witnesses -
1915/1917 'Le sac de Dinant et le légendes du livre blanc allemand du 10 mai 1915', par M. Tschoffen, procureur du roi de l'arrondissement de Dinant -
12 May 1915 Bryce Report into German Atrocities in Belgium
During World War II USA's 'Commission on Freedom of the Press': During World War II 'Commission on Freedom of the Press' (Hutchins Commission), formed to inquire into the proper function of the media in a modern democracy and established as a response to criticism from the public and government over media ownership - Media bias - Media bias controversies - Media manipulation - Propaganda
Media bias - Media bias controversies - Media manipulation - Concentration of media ownership
Commercialization of social media, interactive computer-mediated technologies that facilitate the creation and sharing of information, ideas, career interests and other forms of expression via virtual communities and networks - Trustworthiness and reliability of social networks - Social network - Timeline of social media
Unsolicited advertisement, in the 21st century especially by means of Internet abuse: Unsolicited advertisement comprise all of - but are not limited to - advertising mail, traditional junk mail, spamming, e-mail spam, 'direct mailing', telemarketing nuisance calls, unsolicited goods, advertising and marketing purposes which are sent without request, as unsolicited advertising usually violates informational self-determination, when the addresses to which advertising material is delivered have not been explicitly communicated to the sender by the addressee, i.e. no opt-in was done. Whereas traditional postal advertisements produce huge amounts of waste paper and plastic waste, modern electronic forms consume bandwidth and data storage space, and especially stealing the time from human beings and users.
Specific unsolicited advertising issues: Attention theft by creating situations in which marketers serve advertisements to consumers who have not consented to view them and who are given nothing in return. Perpetrators seek to distract targets with their advertising content, thereby commandeering their attention. -
Specific attention theft issues include market research, invasion of privacy, false advertising etc. -
Targeted advertising and online advertising, increasing because companies aim to minimize wasted advertising by means of information technology. Most targeted new media advertising currently uses second-order proxies for targets, such as tracking online or mobile web activities of consumers, associating historical web page consumer demographics with new consumer web page access, using a search word as the basis of implied interest, or contextual advertising. -
Search engine marketing, as in 2007, USA advertisers spent US $24.6 billion on search engine marketing. In Q2 2015, Google (73.7%) and the Yahoo/Bing (26.3%) partnership accounted for almost 100% of USA search engine spend, as in October 2016, Google leads the global search engine market with a market share of 89.3%. Bing comes second with a market share of 4.36%, Yahoo comes third with a market share of 3.3%, and Chinese search engine Baidu is fourth globally with a share of about 0.68%.
Crowd manipulation: Crowd manipulation, the intentional use of techniques based on the principles of crowd psychology to engage, control, or influence the desires of a crowd in order to direct its behavior toward a specific action
'Herd behavior', apathy, indifference and dumbing down of people: Apathy, a lack of feeling, emotion, interest, or concern about something, a state of indifference, or the suppression of emotions such as concern, excitement, motivation, or passion -
'Herd behavior' in social and political contexts, following dumbing down of people by a governing power or market fads, aiming herd behavior of people, easily controlled -
'Herd behavior' is often a tool in marketing to increases in sales and even changes to the structure of society
So-called 'Psychological warfare': So-called 'Psychological warfare' as the term is used 'to denote any action which is practiced mainly by psychological methods with the aim of evoking a planned psychological reaction in other people'. Various techniques are used, and are aimed at influencing a target audience's value system, belief system, emotions, motives, reasoning, or behavior. It is used to induce confessions or reinforce attitudes and behaviors favorable to the originator's objectives, and are sometimes combined with black operations or false flag tactics. It is also used to destroy the morale of enemies through tactics that aim to depress troops' psychological states'
'Psychological warfare' in Central Powers' World War I 1914-1918: 'Psychological warfare' in Central Powers' World War I 1914-1918, as following German empire's aggression against Luxembourg, Belgium, France and Russia the UK established a commission in 1915 to document German atrocities committed against Belgian civilians. So the start of modern psychological operations in war is generally dated to World War I. By that point, Western societies were increasingly educated and urbanized, and mass media was available in the form of large circulation newspapers and posters. It was also possible to transmit propaganda to the enemy via the use of airborne leaflets or through explosive delivery systems like modified artillery or mortar rounds. At the start of the war, the belligerents, especially the British and Germans, began distributing propaganda, both domestically and on the Western front. The British had several advantages that allowed them to succeed in the battle for world opinion, they had one of the world's most reputable news systems, with much experience in international and cross-cultural communication, and they controlled much of the undersea cable system then in operation. These capabilities were easily transitioned to the task of warfare. The British also had a diplomatic service that maintained good relations with many nations around the world, in contrast to the reputation of the German empire's services, as the empire since August 1914 was globally known as aggressor
'Psychological warfare' in Axis Powers' World War II 1939-1945: 'Psychological warfare' in Axis Powers' World War II 1939-1945, when - after NSDAP ruled German empire's aggression against Poland (following its February 1938 ending of the Sino-German alliance with the Republic of China to enter into an alliance with 'Empire of Japan', following its aggression against Czechoslovakia on 17 September 1938, the beginning of the undeclared German-Czechoslovak war), Luxembourg, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, France (leading to the July 1940 'Berlin Field Marshal Ceremony'), North Africa, the Middle East, the Balkans and Greece, since 22 June 1941 the Soviet Union, since December 1941, then in 1942/1943 with the 'Battle of Stalingrad, after in May 1942 German empire's military defeated Soviet offensives in the Kerch Peninsula and at Kharkov in Ukraine, and then launching their main summer offensive against southern Russia in June 1942, to seize the oil fields of the Caucasus and occupy the Kuban steppe, while maintaining positions on the northern and central areas of the front. The Germans split Army Group South into two groups, as Army Group A advanced to the lower Don River and struck south-east to the Caucasus, while Army Group B headed towards the Volga River, and the Soviets decided to make their stand at Stalingrad on the Volga, and in mid-February 1943 the Germans launched another attack on Kharkov, creating a salient in their front line around the Soviet city of Kursk, but later in 1943 failed in Ukrainian battles, preparing NSDAP-regime's final defeat in May 1945
Disinformation in the 2021–2022 Russo-Ukrainian crisis: Disinformation in the 2021–2022 Russo-Ukrainian crisis distributed by governmental agencies of Russian Federation and the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) and Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) separatist areas of Ukraine in relation to the 2021–2022 Russo-Ukrainian crisis leading to planned Russian aggression and war since February 2022
Since late 20th century China's, Syria's and further information operations and information warfare: Since late 20th century Chinese information operations and information warfare - Other information operations and warfare, including Syria and other countries, according to 'Staatsform', traditions, capabilities
State media by country - L'audiovisuel public, in english public broadcasting, connecté avec l'état représente l'ensemble des stations de radio, chaînes de télévision et autres média électroniques dont la mission officiellement déclarée est le service public, lors que ces institutions sont en général détenues partiellement ou dans leur totalité par l'État ou toute autre institution publique connectée avec l'état - Audiovisuel public, in english public broadcasting, listed by continend and by country
16 March 2015 corruption in the media is killing ethical journalism: 16 March 2015: Corruption in the media is killing ethical journalism, European Federation of Journalists EJN says
Film and film industry promotion by television and radio
1935-1939 Walter Benjamin, Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit: Walter Benjamin, Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit, geschrieben 1935–1939, veröffentlicht 1980 in Gesammelte Schriften Band I, in deren Vorwort es auf den Seiten 475/476 heißt: 'Um neunzehnhundert hatte die technische Reproduktion einen Standard erreicht, auf dem sie nicht nur die Gesamtheit der überkommenen Kunstwerke zu ihrem Objekt zu machen und deren Wirkung den tiefsten Veränderungen zu unterwerfen begann, sondern sich einen eigenen Platz unter den künstlerischen Verfahrungsweisen eroberte.' Ein Vorgang, der sich in einer seit dem Nationalsozialismu (inkl. seiner Vorbereitung seit dem 19. Jahrhundert) in umfasseneder Spaltung, Entgegensetzung einerseits künsterischer und andererseits menschenverachtender Ideologiepoduktion (auf verschiedenen Stufen) fortsetzen sollte, in den verschiedenen Zweigen bildlicher, akustischer, literarischer Darstellung.
2016: 11 May 2016: 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games corruption claims bring scandal back to the IOC -
18 July 2016: Wada's devastating and damning report into Russian sport has found that the country’s government, security services and sporting authorities colluded to hide widespread doping across 'a vast majority' of winter and summer sports -
25 July 2016: IOC’s decision against imposing a ban on the Russian Olympic contingent is a declaration of bankruptcy in the fight against doping, the winners are those who cheat, journalist says, who exposed the systematic doping in Russian athletics, adding that in the end the IOC kowtowed to the Russian regime -
31 July 2016: 13 national anti-doping organisations, including those from the USA, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands and Japan have given a damning verdict on the IOC’s 'hasty and ill-conceived' response to state-sponsored doping in Russia and accused its leaders of being open to political and commercial influence at the expense of clean sport -
1 August 2016: Rio Olympic boxing tournament hit by corruption allegations -
4 August 2016: Wada-commissioned lawyer Richard McLaren accuses IOC of misrepresenting his doping report and findings, which were never designed to prove individual doping cases, but is about state-sponsored systemic doping over a period of four years across the majority of Olympic sports, manipulation of results, swapping of samples, preparation of wash-up schemes
Censorship by country - overview collecting information on censorship, Internet censorship, Freedom of the Press, Freedom of speech, and Human Rights by country and presents it in a sortable table, together with links to articles with more information, as in addition to countries, the table includes information on former countries, disputed countries, political sub-units within countries, and regional organizations -
Censorship by types, by media -
Censorship by country
Censorship of Wikipedia: Censorship of Wikipedia has occurred in several countries, including China, France, Iran, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, the United Kingdom, Uzbekistan, and Venezuela, as some instances are examples of widespread internet censorship in general that includes Wikipedia content, and others are indicative of measures to prevent the viewing of specific content deemed offensive
Platform Weaponization, a form or type of information warfare and psychological warfare involving the unaccounted for potential or actual actions that result in outside agents leveraging a technology platform to serve ends that run counter to those of the intended use for the system
Dans le domaine des sciences sociales, la brutalité se réfère à la rudesse et à la violence qui peuvent s'exprimer dans un caractère ou un comportement
Crimes against humanity, acts that are deliberately committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack or individual attack directed against any civilian or an identifiable part of a civilian population, the first prosecution for crimes against humanity took place at the Nuremberg trials, and have since been prosecuted by other international courts -
Genocide, the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, cultural, religious or national group, defined in Article 2 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide of 1948 as 'any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the groups conditions of life, calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; [and] forcibly transferring children of the group to another group'
1490-1914 genocides in Americas: 1490-1914 genocides in Americas, including since the early 1500s colonialism and genocide in the Americas by England, France, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain, later Great Britain and the USA, also responsible for the,
California Genocide, the violence, relocation, and starvation that led to a decrease in the indigenous population of California as a result of the USA occupation of California
Genocides in the 20th and 21th century (from 1914-1918 World War I)
1933-1945 genocides and war crimes by Germany and in Nazi-occupied Europe: 1933-1945 genocides and war crimes by Germany and in Nazi-occupied Europe, including The Holocaust, Romani genocide, racial policy of Nazi Germany, Nazi crimes against the Polish nation, Generalplan Ost, World War II casualties of the Soviet Union, World War II persecution of Serbs, Nazi eugenics, Action T4, Child euthanasia in Nazi Germany, persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany, and persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses in Nazi Germany
1939-1945 war crimes of the Wehrmacht: Since 1871 the 'Imperial German Army' inherited much of the traditions and concepts of the Prussian Army, which was its largest component army -
1871-1919 Imperial German Army, the unified ground and air force of the German Empire (excluding the maritime aviation formations of the Imperial German Navy), command and military role in foreign policy decisions -
'Wehrmacht', the unified armed forces of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1945 -
During World War II, the Germans' combined armed forces (Heer, Kriegsmarine and Luftwaffe) committed systematic war crimes, including massacres, mass rape, looting, the exploitation of forced labor, the murder of three million Soviet prisoners of war, and participated in the extermination of Jews
Racism -
Racism by country -
'White supremacy' racist ideology centered upon the sight, that 'white' people are superior in certain characteristics, traits, and attributes (in fact the means of violence mainly developed in Europe since many centuries and now worldwide) to people constituting the majority of the world's population -
'White supremacy' by continent
Since 16th century slavery, forced labour and ongoing culture shock: African origins and regions of Africa African Americans, who were forced into slavery after being captured, as major ethnic groups that the enslaved Africans belonged to included the Hausa, Bakongo, Igbo, Mandé, Wolof, Akan, Fon, Yoruba, and Makua, among many others. and although these different groups varied in customs, religions and language, what they had in common was a way of life which was different from that of the Europeans after their centuries of wars since anciemt times, as originally a majority of the future slaves came from these villages and societies, however, once they were sent to the Americas and enslaved, these different peoples had European standards and beliefs forced upon them, causing them to do away with tribal differences and forge a new history and culture that was a 'creolization' of their common past, present, and European culture -
Slavery and culture shock -
Cultural 'assimilation' -
'Americanization'
1802-1804 resistance to slavery, repression and French atrocities in Haiti: In 1802, when it became apparent that the French under Napoleonic rule intended to re-establish slavery in Haiti black cultivators revolted in the summer of 1802, Leclerc's successor Vicomte de Rochambeau fought an even more brutal campaign, waged a near-genocidal campaign against the Haitians, killing everyone who was black, importing about 15,000 attack dogs from Jamaica, who had been trained to savage blacks and mulattoes, also drowning blacks -
In 2005 French historian Claude Ribbe accused Napoleon of having used sulphur dioxide gas for the mass execution of more than 100,000 rebellious black slaves when trying to put down slave rebellions in Saint-Domingue (now Haiti) and Guadeloupe, saying Napoleon was racist, instituted slavery, and was the first man in history that 'asked himself rationally the question how to eliminate, in as short a time as possible, and with a minimum of cost and personnel, a maximum of people described as scientifically inferior'
'White supremacy' by continent - White supremacy in Europe - White supremacy in North America - White supremacy in South America
February 2020 white supremacists increasingly collaborating across borders inspired by attacks and Putin's wars: 21 February 2020: White supremacists increasingly collaborating across borders, according to 'Global Project Against Hate and Extremism' and other, saying extremists forming alliances, working together, inspiring each other in growing international movement similar to jihadism, as the long-running wars by Russia's Putin regime - and involving it in other regions - in Syria and eastern Ukraine have created a fertile training ground for white supremacists, in recent years holding conferences in different countries including Russia -
20 February 2020: German terrorist Rathjen published online manifesto in January calling for eliminating entire countries, including Israel, Egypt, Morocco, Turkey, Iran, Indian, Pakistan, Vietnam and the Philippines,
before killing 10 citizens, including 5 Kurds, in the city of Hanau in Germany -
21 February 2020: Hanau attack part of pattern of white supremacist violence flowing from USA, according to 'The Guardian'
Neo-Nazism by continent - Neo-Nazism in Germany and Europe - Neo-Nazism in Asia - Neo-Nazism in North America - Neo-Nazism in South America - Neo-Nazism in Africa
December 2022 members of German far-right terrorist group arrested for allegedly planning a coup d'état: On 7 December 2022, 25 members of a far-right terrorist group were arrested for allegedly planning a coup d'état in Germany. The group, called 'Patriotic Union' which was led by a 'Council', is connected with Germany's far-right extremist Reichsbürger movement. The groups aim to reestablish a monarchist government in Germany in the tradition of the German Reich, with the government being similar to the German Empire. The 'Patriotic Union' reportedly wanted to provoke chaos and a civil war in Germany in order for it to take power. Over 3,000 police and special forces searched 130 locations throughout Germany and made several arrests, including Heinrich Prinz Reuss, a descendant of the House of Reuß, as well as former Alternative for Germany AfD MP Birgit Malsack-Winkemann. The group also included active military and police personnel. The operation against the group is considered to be the largest in Germany's history, and the Public Prosecutor General Peter Frank declared the group to be a terrorist organization. -
7 December 2022: German police raids target group accused of far-right plot to overthrow state, as a minor aristocrat, an ex-paratrooper and a former AfD MP among those detained in operation, 'The Guardian' Berlin correspondent Kate Connolly reports,
as German special forces stormed a house in the Berlin lakeside villa quarter of Wannsee and arrested a former MP of the far-right Alternative für Deutschland AfD, Birgit Malsack-Winkemann. Three minutes later, they entered the Waidmannsheil hunting lodge in Bad Lobenstein in Thuringia. Simultaneous raids took place in 30 other locations, including a car repair shop and a carpenters’ studio, as well as in the Austrian ski resort of Kitzbühel and the Italian city of Perugia.
Antisemitism - Antisemitism by country or region - Geography of antisemitism - Timeline of antisemitism, since Antiquity
10 November 1975 UN General Assembly's anti-Semitism marking the 37th anniversary of Nazi Germany's November 1938 'Kristallnacht': On 10 November 1975 by a vote of 72 to 35 (with 32 abstentions) UN General Assembly adopted resolution 3379, that 'determine[d] that Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination', with the support of the Arab- and Muslim-majority countries, many African countries, the Soviet bloc, and a few others including Portugal after its Socialist Party PS won the April 1975 election for the Constituent Assembly -
Throughout the 1970s and into the 1980s UN documents systematically denied the existence of the Jews, Israel ancient history, the Holocaust, and the notion that Jews deserve the same rights granted to other groups, as most infamous example of this trend was the passage of UN General Assembly's resolution 3379, which equated Zionism with racism on 10 November 1975, the first postwar 'ideology' to ever be condemned in the United Nations' history, as many observers noted that the resolution was passed on the 37th anniversary of November 1938 'Kristallnacht' in Nazi Germany, the pogrom historians agree marked the beginning of the Holocaust
21th century timeline of antisemitism: 21th century timeline of antisemitism - Geography of antisemitism
21 May 2021 Iran's regime says 'in the future the Zionists (Israel) can expect to endure deadly blows from within the occupied territories': 21 May 2021: Iranian Mullah regime's - which does not recognise Israel but supports the Islamist militants of Hamas, who rule the Gaza Strip, and after Hamas and the Islamic Jihad group fired hundreds of rockets into Israel before Friday's truce - leader urges Muslim states to back Palestinians militarily, financially, saying 'All influential elements of (Israel's) regime and the criminal (Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu must be prosecuted by international and independent courts', as regime's Foreign Ministry earlier said Palestinians had won a 'historic victory' over Israel, as Iran's Revolutionary Guards said 'The intifada (Palestinian uprising) has gone from using stones to powerful, precise missiles ... and in the future the Zionists (Israel) can expect to endure deadly blows from within the occupied territories', after leaders of Hamas and Islamic Jihad have praised Iran’s financial and military support, after regime's Khamenei last year hailed Tehran's supply of arms, saying Iranian regime had transformed the military balance of power between Israel and the Palestinians, and as regime now on Friday displayed an Iranian-made combat drone that it said had a range of 2,000 km, naming it 'Gaza' in honour of the Palestinians' struggle against Israel, state media reported
17 August 2022 Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas has accused Israel of committing '50 Holocausts': 17 August 2022: Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas has accused Israel of committing '50 Holocausts' at a joint press conference with Germany’s chancellor in Berlin. Abbas was asked by a German journalist whether he planned to apologise for the deadly attack by Palestinian militants on Israeli citizens at the 1972 Munich Olympics, the 50th anniversary of which is on 5 September, when the militant group Black September, which killed 11 Israeli athletes and one German police officer during the hostage-taking, was linked to Abbas’s Fatah party at the time. 'If we want to dig further into the past, yes, please, I have 50 massacres that were committed by Israel' Abbas said. 'Fifty massacres, 50 Holocausts, and to this day, every day, we have dead people killed by the [Israeli Defence Forces], by the Israeli army'.
21th century antisemitism in Europe and Germany: Antisemitism in Europe in the 21st century - antisemitism has increased significantly since 2000, with significant increases in verbal attacks against Jews and vandalism such as graffiti, fire bombings of Jewish schools, desecration of synagogues and cemeteries, taking place not only in Germany and France, where antisemitic incidents are the highest in Europe but also in countries like Belgium, Austria, and the United Kingdom, as physical assaults against Jews including beatings, stabbings and other violence increased markedly, in a number of cases resulting in serious injury and even death
Antisemitic attacks and incidents (21th century)
October 2018 Pittsburgh synagogue shooting: 27 October 2018 Pittsburgh synagogue shooting -
27 October 2018: Eleven people were killed and six wounded in a shooting at a synagogue in USA's Pittsburgh by gunman Robert Bowers, who reportedly walked in yelling 'all Jews must die'
Boycotts of Israel -
Antisemitic boycotts -
Boycotts of Israel by organizations
State ideologies -
List of political ideologies
Since 19th century 'Bonapartism', the political ideology of Napoleon Bonaparte in France, his followers and successors, and more generally the ideology for political movements that advocate a dictatorship or authoritarian centralized state, with a strongman charismatic leader based on anti-elitist rhetoric, army support, and conservatism -
The 'Band of the 10th of December' (also known as 'Society of December 10'), a secret Bonapartist society organized mainly from impoverished parts of the population, opportunists, and military leaders, as this thrown together pile oranization helped progress Napoleon III's election as president of the Republic of France on 10 December 1848 and his coup d'état of 2 December 1851, a self-coup staged by Charles Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte - at the time President of the French Second Republic - as his coup ended in the successful dissolution of the French National Assembly and the subsequent re-establishment of the French Empire the next year
Since World War I worldwide Fascism, a form of authoritarian ultranationalism characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition and strong reglementation of society and of the economy, which came to prominence in early 20th-century Europe as the first fascist movements emerged in Italy during World War I before it spread to other European countries
1930-1945 Showa Statism in Japan, a political syncretism of Japanese chauvinistic political ideologies, developed over a period of time from the Meiji Restoration, also referred to as Showa nationalism or Japanese fascism, as this movement dominated Japanese politics during the first part of the Showa period - reign of Emperor Hirohito - and was a mixture of ideas such as Japanese ultranationalism, militarism, fascism and state capitalism - Since 1930 Showa Restoration with the goal of restoring power to the newly enthroned Japanese Emperor Hirohito and abolishing the liberal Taisho democracy, as the aims of the 'Showa Restoration' were similar to the Meiji Restoration as the groups who envisioned it imagined a small group of qualified people backing up a strong Emperor, and the 'Cherry Blossom Society' envisioned such a restoration - 'Cherry Blossom Society', an ultranationalist secret society established by young officers within the Imperial Japanese Army in September 1930, with the goal of reorganizing the state along totalitarian militaristic lines, as their avowed goal was a 'Showa Restoration', free of party politics and evil bureaucrats in a new military dictatorship
Since 1933 National Socialism in Germany, the ideology and practices associated with the National Socialist German Workers' Party NSDAP, a form of fascism but also incorporating fervent antisemitism, anti-communism, scientific racism, and eugenics into its creed, as its extreme nationalism came from Pan-Germanism and the Völkisch movement prominent in the German nationalism of the time, and it was strongly influenced by the Freikorps paramilitary groups that emerged after defeat of the German empire in World War I, from which came the party's 'cult of violence' which was 'at the heart of the movement'
Since 1936-19939 during Spanish civil war Francoism in Spain, including above all totalitarianism, ultranationalism, national Catholicism, monarchism, militarism, national conservatism, anti-Masonry, anti-Catalanism, pan-Hispanism and anti-liberalism - Since 1939 Falangism, the political ideology of the Falange Española de las JONS and afterwards, of the Falange Española Tradicionalista y de las Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional Sindicalista (both known simply as the 'Falange') as well as derivatives of it in other countries, becoming in Spain under the leadership of Francisco Franco the ideology connected with Francoist Spain
Since 1932 Wahhabism, an Islamic doctrine and religious movement founded by Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, which became the state ideology of the kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Since 1924 Stalinism and the ideology of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, following Stalin's introduction of the concept 'Socialism in One Country' in 1924, saying the Soviet Union did not need a socialist world revolution to construct a socialist society
Since 1999 intelligence state Russia, where the FSB has the right to electronically monitor the population, control political groups, search homes and businesses, infiltrate the federal government, create its own front enterprises, investigate cases, and run its own prison system, as the political system of Russia formed during the leadership of Vladimir Putin is characterized by the concentration of political and financial powers by 'siloviks', coming from overall 22 governmental enforcement agencies, the main of them being FSB, police and army
List of worldwide fascist and Nazi movements since 1920 - List of fascist movements by country since 1919, including countries establishing fascism and countries establishing Nazism, also including corresponding political parties and alliances - List of fascist movements by country A–F, by country G–M, by country N-T, by country U-Z
Religion-based wars - State religion - Confessional state - Freedom of religion by country - Religion and politics
Since 20th century Nagorno-Karabakh religious, ethnic and territorial conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan: Since 20th century Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, an religious, ethnic and territorial conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh and seven surrounding districts, which are internationally recognized as de jure part of Azerbaijan
Religious violence and Sectarian violence - Forced conversion is adoption of a different religion or irreligion under duress
So-called 'ethnic cleansing', the systematic forced removal of ethnic or racial groups from a given territory by a more powerful ethnic group, often with the intent of making it ethnically homogeneous, involving various forms of forced migration (deportation, population transfer), intimidation, as well as genocide - List of ethnic cleansing campaigns since ancient and medieval periods - Ethnic cleansing by continent
1802-1804 resistance to slavery, repression and Napoleonic France's atrocities in Haiti: In 1802 French Vicomte de Rochambeau fought a brutal campaign to re-establish slavery in Haiti, waged a near-genocidal campaign against the Haitians, killing everyone who was black, importing about 15,000 attack dogs from Jamaica, who had been trained to savage blacks and mulattoes, also drowning blacks -
In 2005 French historian Claude Ribbe accused Napoleon of having used sulphur dioxide gas for the mass execution of more than 100,000 rebellious black slaves when trying to put down slave rebellions in Saint-Domingue (now Haiti) and Guadeloupe, saying Napoleon was racist, instituted slavery, and was the first man in history that 'asked himself rationally the question how to eliminate, in as short a time as possible, and with a minimum of cost and personnel, a maximum of people described as scientifically inferior'
1937-1939 German 'Special Prosecution Book-Poland': 1937-1939 'Special Prosecution Book-Poland', the proscription list prepared by the Germans immediately before the onset of war, that identified more than 61,000 of Polish people including scientists, activists, intelligentsia, scholars, actors, former officers, and prominent others, who were to be interned or shot on the spot upon their identification following the 1939 invasion, compiled by the 'Zentralstelle IIP Polen' unit of the 'Geheime Staatspolizei' with help from some members of the German minority living in pre-war Poland
1940 German mass murder 'Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion' in Poland: 1940 German 'Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion' in Poland, a second stage of the Nazi German campaign of violence and mass murder during World War II aimed to eliminate the intellectuals and the upper classes of Polish society across the territories slated for eventual annexation, as most of the killings were arranged in a form of mass disappearances from multiple cities and towns upon the German arrival, and in the spring and summer of 1940, more than 30,000 Poles were arrested by the Nazi authorities in German-occupied central Poland, about 7,000 of them including community leaders, professors, teachers and priests were subsequently massacred secretly at various locations including at the Palmiry forest, the others were sent to German concentration camps
Progroms, ascribed most often to the deliberate persecution of an ethnic or religious group either approved or condoned by the local authorities
Impunity refers in the international law to the failure to bring perpetrators of human rights violations to justice - Command responsibility
1935-1945 pre-war events, World War II: Since 1935 pre-war events, World War II,
since 1936 'Francoist Repression', crimes committed by the Nationalist movement during the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 and during the first decade of Franco's dictatorship 1936-1975, the mass killings of the Spanish Republican loyalists occurred from the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, in July 1936, and continued unabated until 1945,
since 1939 Nazi war crimes,
the Holocaust, a genocide in which some six million European Jews were killed by Nazi Germany and its World War II collaborators, the victims included about 1.5 million children and represented about two-thirds of the nine million Jews who had resided in Europe, a broader definition of the Holocaust includes non-Jewish victims of the Nazi campaign of mass murder, based on other ethnic or biological factors, such as the Romani, and the Aktion T4 patients who were mentally and physically disabled,
Japanese war crimes,
Italian war crimes -
War crimes of the German 'Wehrmacht', impunity and the 'Clean Wehrmacht' legend, proven false by the Wehrmacht's own documents
Since 1938 responsibility for, international response to the Holocaust and for war crimes: Responsibility for the Holocaust and war crimes of World War II -
Collaboration with the Axis Powers, also including persons, organizations, or countries that were not under occupation by the Axis Powers but that ideologically, financially, or militarily, before or during World War II, supported Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, or World War II-era Imperial Japan -
International response to the Holocaust - in the decades since the Holocaust, some national governments, international bodies and world leaders have been criticized for their failure to take appropriate action to save the millions of European Jews, Roma, and other victims of the Holocaust, as such intervention, particularly by the Allied governments, might have saved substantial numbers of people
Responsibility and personal responsibility: Responsibility and Personal responsibility -
'Verantwortung', juristisch, politisch, moralisch, wirtschaftlich, in den Wissenschaften, in den Medien, in der Überlieferung (geschriebene Sprache) seit den westasiatischen Propheten wie dem hebräisch/israelischen Propheten Abraham (reportedly about 2150 BCE - c. 1975 BCE),
dem hebräisch/israelischen Propheten Jesajas,
dem hebräisch/israelischen Propheten Moses, dem Wissenschaftler der griechischen Antike Aristoteles, sehr viel später 1818-1883 Karl Marx (Kritik der politischen Ökonomie und Anwendung) und Friedrich Engels (auch 'Zur Kritik der politischen Ökonomie'), Max Weber -
1871-1919 Rosa Luxemburg's Schrift Januar 1916 'Die Krise der Sozialdemokratie' -
Rosa Luxemburgs 'Leitsätze über die Aufgaben der internationalen Sozialdemokratie' -
October/November 1917 'Second Congress of the Soviet of Workers', Soldiers', and Peasants' Deputies 'Decree on Peace' -
1865-1948 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi's struggle for Indian independence (1915–1947, and his ideas on life, society, women, self-rule, favouring an education system with far greater emphasis on learning skills in practical and useful work -
After antimilitarist Jean Jaurès was assassinated at the beginning of German empire's World War I first targeting Luxembourg, Belgium and France, by a 29-year-old French nationalist, as Jaurès had been due to attend an international conference on 9 August in an attempt to dissuade the belligerent parties from going ahead with the war, as Villain later - tried after World War I and acquitted - was killed by Spanish Republicans in 1936 -
1905-1980 Jean-Paul Sartre, philosopher and political activist, who nfluenced sociology, anti-colonial policy, and the 'Combat' French newspaper, created during NSDAP ruled German empire's Second World War as a clandestine newspaper of the French Resistance movement, as leading contributors were Jean-Paul Sartre, André Malraux, Emmanuel Mounier, Raymond Aron, Pierre Herbart and from 1943 to 1947 Albert Camus as its editor-in-chief -
1929-1968 Martin Luther King, education and studies,survived knife attack 1958, sit-ins, prison sentence, 1960 elections, Selma voting rights movement and 'Bloody Sunday' 1965, Chicago open housing and Freedom Movement, opposition to the Vietnam War, Poor People's Campaign 1968, 4 April 1968 assassination, death and aftermath with 'King assassination riots' and legacy -
1918-2013 Nelson Mandela, end of apartheid 1951, 1991, 1994-1999, und sehr viel mehr Vorkämpfer und Mitstreiter für Demokratie und Menschenrechte
Since World War II 'Ratlines' system of escape routes for Nazis and other fascists: Since World War II 'Ratlines' system of escape routes for Nazis and other fascists fleeing Europe in the aftermath of their war and crimes, as these escape routes mainly led toward havens in Latin America, particularly Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, Colombia, Brazil, Uruguay, Mexico, Peru, Guatemala, Ecuador, and Bolivia, as well as the USA, Spain and Switzerland
Germany's and Austria's responsibility for the Holocaust: German people's responsibility for the Holocaust, religious hatred and racism, implementation by German and Austrian Nazis and obedience - Anti-Jewish legislation in pre-war Nazi Germany since 1933 - Since September 1939 German invasion of Poland, marking the beginning of World War II - January 1942 'Wannseekonferenz' meeting of senior government officials of Nazi Germany and Schutzstaffel SS leaders held in Berlin, as the purpose of the conference, called by the director of the 'Reich Main Security Office' SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich, was to ensure the co-operation of administrative leaders of various government departments in the implementation of the 'Final solution to the Jewish question' (Endlösung der Judenfrage)
Groups and numbers of Holocaust survivors and issues: Groups and numbers of Holocaust survivors - Immediate aftermath of the Holocaust, displaced persons camps and searching for survivors, hidden children, immigration and absorption, second generation of survivors
1942 - April 2017 archive of the UN war crimes commission: 1943-1949 United Nations War Crimes Commission, a commission of the UN that investigated allegations of war crimes committed by Nazi Germany and the other Axis powers in World War II, beginning its work at the behest of the British government and the other Allied nations prior to the formal establishment of the United Nations itself in October 1945
1914-1918 Central Powers Mediterranean U-boat Campaign, impunity and World War II: 1914-1918 Mediterranean U-boat Campaign during World War I in the Mediterranean Sea, fought by Austria-Hungary and German Empire (with some support by the Ottoman Empire) against the Allies, characterised by the ability of the Central Powers to raid with near military impunity during the first years of the war, causing substantial shipping losses, until the introduction of the convoy system allowed the Allies to drastically cut their losses from 1917 on, followed by legal and judicial impunity after Central Powers defeat
People convicted of crimes against humanity by nationality and/or country - People convicted of war crimes by nationality and/or country - People convicted of genocide by nationality and/or country
Duty of preventing and prosecuting war crimes in accordance with the Nuremberg Trials international law, developping the concept of command responsibility and saying that military commanders are imposed with individual responsibility for war crimes, committed by forces under their effective command and control - Duty to rescue and regulations by country - Omission (law), a failure to act, which generally attracts different legal consequences
Since 2006 Russian regime's poisoning of British citizen Alexander Litvinenko in London, remaining unpunished, international relations and foreign relations of many countries characterized by malice aforethought and insidiousness, cowardice and denial
Since 2004 'Impunity Watch', a project of the Dutch development organisation 'Solidaridad' - 'Impunity Watch' is an international non-profit human rights organisation, seeking to promote accountability for past atrocities, notably in countries emerging from a violent past - Since 2007 'Impunity Watch', online publication and interactive website by the Syracuse University College of Law, dedicated to inform the world about state violations of citizens' and human rights, operating as a law review, message board, and blog to of give a voice to people who are silenced
August 2018 Neo-Nazism in Russia, Berlin and Vienna: 19 August 2018: Neo-Nazis marched through Berlin on Saturday to commemorate the anniversary of the death of Hitler's aide Rudolf Hess, carrying a banner reading 'I don't regret anything',
as Putin and Merkel had a quiet drink outside Berlin, showing memory and admiration for Russian, Iranian and Assad's assaults on the Syrian people, murdering hundreds of thousands, for the effects of Sarin, BUK-missiles, Polonium-tea and Novichok-perfume,
after Putin's dancing arm-in-arm with Austria's neo-Nazi linked FM Karin Kneissl at her wedding on Saturday
Violation of human rights in Russia
14 July 2023 Ukrainian Human Rights Center told how Russians in the Kherson region tortured women in detention centers: 14 July 2023 (Bastille day): Ukrainian Human Rights Center told how Russians in the Kherson region tortured women in detention centers, reporting that special attention during the detentions was paid to women who either worked in law enforcement agencies of Ukraine or allegedly had links with the resistance movement. The torture included beatings, electric shocks, and waterboarding. Electrocution was applied to their bare breasts. In addition, women were humiliated, stripped naked during detention, and threatened with rape against them and their children. Torture was carried out in front of other detainees to intimidate them. It is also noted that the violence was carried out during the day and at night. 'One of the victims was forced to listen to the screams of her husband, who was held in the cell opposite. For a more effective emotional perception, the doors of both cells were open.' The women were not informed why they were being detained, in violation of the legal procedure of detention. Three of the victims said they were not given any reason, while others said they were detained under the pretext of checking their documents. In the temporarily occupied part of the Kherson region, Russian terrorists made a torture chamber in a school gym
Violation of human rights in Iran
Since 2007 Impunity Watch and website 'Syria Watch': Since 2007 'Syria Watch', website of Impunity Watch online publication
February 2016: 13 February 2016: While Western leaders are not criminally responsible for the deaths of 470,000 Syrians so far murdered by the Assad regime since 2011, his helpers from Iran and Hezbollah and the Russian fighter jets bombing from high, it has happened on their watch and to a large degree through their inaction, Israeli newspaper 'Haaretz' says -
23 February 2016: The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights considers that the silence of the International community for the war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Syria encourages the criminals to kill more and more Syrian people, because they have not found anyone that deter them from continuing their crimes that killed more than 270,000 people, injured more than 2 million, some of them with permanent disabilities, displaced more than 11 million Syrian people, and destroyed the infrastructure and private and public properties
Since 2009 International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists is marked annually on 23 November by advocates for free expression, following the 2009 Ampatuan massacre in the Philippines - 'International Day to End Impunity' website
November 2009 Philippines' Ampatuan massacre with 57 individuals, journalists, media workers murdered: 23 November 2009 Ampatuan massacre in the Philippines, when 57 individuals were murdered, including 32 journalists and media workers -
Victims, aftermath, legal proceedings,
and 2010 issued Human Rights Watch 'They Own the People', charting the Ampatuans’ rise to power, including their use of violence to expand their control and eliminate threats to the family's rule, linking the Ampatuans to at least 56 other killings over the last 20 years apart from the 23 November 2009 massacre
CPJ’s Campaign Against Impunity
People indicted for international crimes
List of people indicted in the International Criminal Court
Lawlessness - Crimes against humanity - Global politics without conscience
December 2016 absence of political will to act against war crimes: 7 December 2016: 'People ... have lost trust in everyone - in world leaders, in the international organisations that are watching them being killed, they lost faith in the United Nations, and they just count the days to their death' says Syria Relief's Dr Mounir Hakimi, the chairman of one of the last NGOs on the ground in Aleppo, as a joint statement by Canada, France, Germany, Italy, UK and USA contains no commitments to new action and the USA ambassador to the UN Samantha Power tells AP that diplomatic efforts appeared to have failed, saying 'diplomacy has not delivered for the people of Aleppo, it is not us that walked away from diplomacy' -
8 December 2016: Western diplomats have conceded that there are no technical obstacles to a plan to deliver airdrops of food and medicine to Aleppo using a GPS-guided parachute system, but the scheme has been stalled in the face of reluctance among military commanders and an absence of political will
A cover-up is an attempt, whether successful or not, to conceal evidence of a crime, wrongdoing, error, incompetence or other embarrassing information, in a passive cover-up, information is simply not provided, in an active cover-up, deception is used
Impunity, insincerity, 'Lebenslügen' prevent human 'Lernfähigkeit': Impunity means 'exemption from punishment or loss or escape from fines'. In the international law of human rights, it refers to the failure to bring perpetrators of human rights violations to justice and, as such, itself constitutes a denial of the victims' right to justice and redress. Impunity is especially common in countries that lack a tradition of the rule of law, suffer from corruption or that have entrenched systems of patronage, or where the judiciary is weak or members of the security forces are protected by special jurisdictions or immunities - Insincerity and 'Lebenslügen' contradict and prevent human 'Lernfähigkeit' - 'Big lie', as German expression was coined by uprooted and broken people involved in a never seen war with the latest technology, following Germany's loss in self-inflicted World War I, unfathomable for them despising scientific efforts - 'Doublethink'
1919-1945 propaganda, preparing the and in NSDAP-ruled Germany: 1919-1945 propaganda, preparing the and in NSDAP-ruled Germany -
On 14 June 1940, the day Paris was occupied by German troops, NS propagandist Leni Riefenstahl wrote to German dictator Hitler in a telegram 'with indescribable joy, deeply moved and filled with burning gratitude, we share with you, my Führer, your and Germany's greatest victory, the entry of German troops into Paris', 'you exceed anything human imagination has the power to conceive, achieving deeds without parallel in the history of mankind', 'how can we ever thank you?', as Riefenstahl was friends with Hitler for 12 years
13 January 2022 court jails former Syrian Assad regime's intelligence officer A. Raslan for life: 13 January 2022 after his arrest in 2014, former Syrian Assad regime's colonel Anwar Raslan - who led a unit of regimes's General Intelligence Directorate -,
is sentenced by a German court to life in prison, after prosecutors had accused Anwar Raslan of 58 murders in a Damascus prison where they say at least 4,000 opposition activists were tortured in 2011 and 2012 -
Das Oberlandesgericht in Koblenz hat am Donnerstag den früheren syrischen Geheimdienstoffizier Anwar Raslan der Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit schuldig befunden, und verurteilte ihn zu lebenslanger Haft. Der Prozess wurde unter dem Weltrechtsprinzip geführt, das es ermöglicht, in Deutschland auch schwere Straftaten in Drittstaaten zur Anklage zu bringen. -
Ende Januar 2014 veröffentlichten der britische 'The Guardian' und der Sender 'CNN' Informationen über einen Bericht von HRW, der sich auf Aussagen eines nach eigenen Angaben übergelaufenen syrischen Polizei-Fotografen stützt. Er habe alleine Bilder von 11.000 toten Häftlingen, die er selbst fotografiert habe, auf Datenträgern aus dem Land geschmuggelt. Einige der toten Häftlinge auf den Bildern hatten keine Augen mehr, andere seien augenscheinlich stranguliert oder mit Elektroschocks getötet worden. Viele Gefangene seien ausgemergelt gewesen, andere zeigten Spuren von Schlägen mit Stangen oder anderen Gegenständen.
Whitewashing is a metaphor meaning 'to gloss over or cover up vices, crimes or scandals or to exonerate by means of a perfunctory investigation or through biased presentation of data'
Deception can involve dissimulation, propaganda, and sleight of hand, as well as distraction, camouflage, or concealment - A lie is a statement used intentionally for the purpose of deception - Deception used by governments
26 January 2020 'we need to teach our children what words, what racism, what lies mean': 26 January 2020: 'We need to teach our children what words, what racism, what lies mean…', Bronia Brandman, born in Poland's town of Jaworzno in 1931, says during an interview at Manhattan’s Museum of Jewish Heritage, showing the blue tattoo inked on her forearm that is a mute testimony to the pain she suffered under the Nazis at Auschwitz, also saying for 50 years she couldn’t speak about it, for 25 years, she couldn’t laugh, but 75 years after the liberation of Auschwitz telling her story is the driving force of her life
Victim blaming occurs when the victim of a crime or any wrongful act is held entirely or partially responsible for the harm that befell them - Historical negationism or denialism is an illegitimate distortion of the historical record
History of law, the study of how law has evolved and why it changed, closely connected to the development of civilisations and set in the wider context of social history - International law - Conflict of laws
Abuse of the legal system - Legal abuse - State crime
Immigration detention is the policy of holding individuals suspected of visa violations, illegal entry or unauthorized arrival, as well as those subject to deportation and removal until a decision is made by immigration authorities to grant a visa and release them into the community, or to repatriate them to their country of departure. Mandatory detention refers to the practice of compulsorily detaining or imprisoning people seeking political asylum, or who are considered to be illegal immigrants or unauthorized arrivals into a country
Capital punishment - Use of capital punishment by country - Organ transplantation in China and Organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners in China
Endangered freedom of the press, freedom of speech and freedom of information
2014 134 journalists and media staff killed in 2013 while on reporting assignments: 19 February 2014: 134 journalists and media support staff killed in 2013 while on reporting assignments, an INSI study says -
Biggest rises and falls in the 2014 World Press Freedom Index -
16 December 2014: 66 journalists killed in 2014 as attacks grow more 'barbaric' and kidnappings have soared, Reporters Without Borders say -
23 December: CPJ says at least 60 journalists around the world were killed in 2014 while on the job or because of their work, and 44 percent of them were targeted for murder -
31 December: The number of journalists who died in targeted killings, bomb attacks or shootings around the world rose to 118 in 2014 from 105 in 2013, Pakistan, Syria, Afghanistan, Palestinian territories, Iraq and Ukraine most dangerous, IFJ says
2015 Charlie Hebdo and Hypercacher terrorist attack and more attacks worldwide: January 2015 Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack in Paris,
January 2015 Hypercacher terrorist attack in Paris and worldwide protests against the terror attacks in Paris,
'Je suis Charlie' solidarity movement with the victims and reactions of governments to the terror attacks -
12 January 2015: Tens of thousands of people rallied worldwide in solidarity with Paris terror victims, with marchers across Europe and the Middle East saying 'Je suis Charlie' and 'Je suis Juif' and holding pens in the air -
11 February 2015: Reporters Without Borders 2015 World Press Freedom Index stated there were 3,719 violations of freedom of information in 180 countries in 2014, 8% more than 2013 - Iran, China, Syria and North Korea among the countries with the very worst levels of press freedom, Russia slipped to the 152nd spot -
22 September 2015: Syrian cartoonist Akram Raslan reported killed under torture in Assad prisons -
28 December 2015: Journalist and film maker Naji Jerf shot dead in Gaziantep, who received death threats after he produced a film which documents 'Islamic State' group’s atrocities in Aleppo province -
29 décembre 2015: 110 journalistes tués dans le monde en 2015, particulièrement en Irak, en Syrie, en France, au Yémen, au Soudan du Sud, en Inde, au Mexique, selon 'Reporters sans frontières'
2016: 5 February 2016: UN panel urges UK and Sweden to end WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's 'deprivation of liberty', arbitrarily detained by the UK and Sweden since he was arrested in London in 2010 after he enraged the USA by publishing hundreds of thousands of secret diplomatic cables -
19/23 February 2016: Syrian freelance journalist Majid Dirani was killed while photographing the shelling and aerial bombardment of Daraya, a suburb of Damascus, that has been besieged by Assad's army since 2012 -
22 February 2016: Syria the most dangerous country for the press in 2015, with at least 14 journalists killed, and at least 93 journalists killed in Syria since 2011, CPJ says condemning the killing of journalist Majid Dirani -
20 avril 2016: La liberté de la presse régresse partout dans le monde, quel que soit le paramètre considéré, selon 'Reporters sans frontières' -
25 June 2016: Syrian Coalition mourned the death of journalist Khaled Alissa, who was pronounced dead at a Turkish hospital of wounds he sustained in an assassination attempt along with fellow journalist Hadi Alabdullah in Aleppo on 17 June, and who sacrificed his life trying to document the crimes of the Assad regime against the Syrian people and to convey the truth to the world -
27 June 2016: Islamic State terrorists killed five journalists in the city of Deir-Ezzor, according to a video recording published on 26 June -
1 November 2016: Media activist and cameraman Abdel Salam Kanaan was covering events in the town of Zafarana in the northern Homs countryside when he was hit by an air raid that killed a number of civilians and wounded others -
7 November 2016: Zaman al-Wasl reporter Ammar Bakour killed along with eight civilians when Assad regime warplanes targeted the town of Al-Dana in Idlib province with four vacuum missiles, also leaving 20 others wounded -
19 December 2016: 'Reporters sans frontières' (Reporters Without Borders) say that at least 74 journalists have been killed around the world in 2016 while doing their job, as many journalists have fled countries that became too dangerous, especially Syria, Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Afghanistan and Burundi
2017 more attacks to shield attackers: 4 January 2017: At least 86 journalist and media activists were killed and 123 others injured in Syria in 2016, according to SNHR rights group, adding that Assad regime forces were responsible for the overwhelming majority of the deaths, and that 11 journalists were killed and 31 wounded in Russian attacks across Syria in 2016 -
4 February 2017: At least three journalists were killed and one more injured by Assad regime forces and Islamic State terrorists in January, SNHR says adding that nine more journalists and media activists, including two female media activists, were detained in January -
6 March 2017: At least five journalists were killed and nearly 14 more injured in military operations by Assad regime forces in Syria's liberated areas in February, while one was killed by the ISIS extremist group, according to SNHR -
16 March 2017: In Syria, 211 journalists and citizen journalists killed in conflict which began with a wave of protests exactly six years ago, Reporters Without Borders say -
28 avril 2017: Mise à mal par les dirigeants de nombreux pays, la liberté de la presse dans le monde a de nouveau reculé en 2016 et environ 45% de la population mondiale vit dans un pays où la presse n'est pas libre, selon 'Freedom House' -
16 October 2017 assassination of Caruana Galizia -
2 November 2017: Marking the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, SNHR says in a report that at least 634 journalists and media activists have been killed in Syria in the past seven years -
30 November 2017: 'Local media are simply disappearing', as states are using commercial ruses to squeeze out liberal media,
according to openMedia Freedom 2017 report and other reviews -
30 November 2017: Journalists living in fear as states crack down,
and as new ARTICLE 19 metric measures global threats to freedom of expression and information in 172 countries, showing journalists threatened by government censorship, organised crime and commercial pressures, saying that media freedom around the world has fallen to the lowest level for at least a decade, and that only few countries show improvements including Tunisia -
19 décembre 2017: 2017 aura été l'année la moins meurtrière pour les journalistes professionnels depuis 14 ans, mais la Syrie demeure le pays le plus meurtrier pour les reporters avec 12 journalistes tués recensés, devant le Mexique (11), l'Afghanistan (9), l'Irak (8) et les Philippines (4), et le bilan reste terrible avec 50 professionnels tués dans le monde, 65 journalistes au total, selon RSF
Air pollution
2011-2013: 29 May 2011: Record high 2010 global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil-fuel combustion and cement manufacture -
4. November 2011: Größter je gemessener Anstieg von Treibhausgasen in 2010 (China, USA, Indien etc.) -
Heal's report 7 March 2013: 'The unpaid health bill' - emissions from coal-fired power plants in the EU contribute to over 18.000 premature deaths a year and cost an annual 42,8 billion euros -
17 April 2013: Progress towards the use of cleaner fuel technology has stalled, with production of the world's energy as dirty now as it was two decades ago, the International Energy Agency says -
11 May 2013: Carbon dioxide level passes a long-feared milestone -
18 October 2013: Air pollution a leading cause of cancer, the WHO says -
6 November 2013: Greenhouse gases in atmosphere hit new record in 2013, UN's WMO says -
19 novembre 2013: Les émissions de CO2 ont encore augmenté dans le monde en 2012, de 2,2%, atteignant le record de 35 milliards de tonnes, tirées par le charbon
14 September 2021 almost 90% of the $540bn in global subsidies given to farmers every year are 'harmful': 14 September 2021: Almost 90% of the $540bn in global subsidies given to farmers every year are 'harmful', as this agricultural support damages people’s health, fuels the climate crisis, destroys nature and drives inequality by excluding smallholder farmers, many of whom are women, according to the UN agencies, as the biggest sources of greenhouse gas emissions, such as beef and milk, received the biggest subsidies, often produced by large industrialised groups that are best placed to gain access to subsidies, and as - without reform - the level of subsidies was on track to soar to $1.8tn a year by 2030, further harming human wellbeing and worsening the planetary crisis, the UN said
Global warming since 20th century - Earth's energy budget - Climate change - Paleoclimatology - Historical climatology - History of climate change science - Climate change denial
November 2019 'Brown to Green' report, criticizing Australia, Canada, China, India, Russia, South Korea, the USA and more countries: 11 November 2019: Australia’s response to climate change is one of the worst in the G20 with a lack of policy, reliance on fossil fuels and rising emissions leaving the country exposed 'economically, politically and environmentally',
according to the 2019 'Brown to Green' report, taking stock of the performance of G20 countries on climate change adaptation and mitigation across key sectors
Effects of global warming on oceans
Sea level rise: Sea level rise, as tide gauge measurements show that the current global sea level rise began at the start of the 20th century. Between 1900 and 2017, the globally averaged sea level rose by 16–21 cm. More precise data gathered from satellite radar measurements reveal an accelerating rise of 7.5 cm from 1993 to 2017: 1554 for an average rate of 31 mm per decade. This acceleration is due mostly to climate change, which is driving thermal expansion of seawater and the melting of land-based ice sheets and glaciers - Current sea level rise - Future sea level
Regional effects of global warming
Ozone depletion
Weather events and natural disasters, by continent and by country - International responses to natural disasters
3 April 2023 desertification a threat to Africa’s development: 3 April 2023: Out of nearly 7.8 billion people in 186 countries, 5.2 billion or 72% are water insecure, including 1.3 billion Africans, Africa’s entire population. 13 African countries are critically water insecure, according to the Global Water Security 2023 Assessment report, including Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Niger, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan and Sudan -
Desertification a threat to Africa’s development, according UN desertification convention's Luc Gnacadja, saying that by 2030 Africa will lose two-thirds of its arable land if the march of desertification - the spread of arid, desert-like areas of land - is not stopped
Effects of global warming on humans, as global warming has brought about possibly irreversible alterations to Earth's geological, biological and ecological systems, and as these changes have led to the emergence of large-scale environmental hazards to human health and human habitats, such as extreme weather, ozone depletion, increased danger of wildland fires, loss of biodiversity, stresses to food-producing systems and the global spread of infectious diseases
15 January 2022 global heating linked to early birth and damage to babies’ health with lifelong health effects: 15 January 2022: The climate crisis is damaging the health of foetuses, babies and infants across the world, six new studies have found, as scientists discovered increased heat was linked to fast weight gain in babies, which increases the risk of obesity in later life. Higher temperatures were also linked to premature birth, which can have lifelong health effects, and to increased hospital admissions of young children. Other studies found exposure to smoke from wildfires doubled the risk of a severe birth defects, while reduced fertility was linked to air pollution from fossil fuel burning, even at low levels. The studies, published in a special issue of the journal Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology, spanned the globe from the USA to Denmark, Israel and Australia. USA Boston University's Prof Gregory Wellenius said 'from the very beginning, from preconception, through early childhood into adolescence, we’re starting to see important impacts of climate hazards on health'
16 September 2022 extreme hunger soaring in world’s climate hotspots: 16 September 2022: Extreme hunger soaring in world’s climate hotspots, as the development charity Oxfam examined 10 of the world’s worst climate hotspots, afflicted by drought, floods, severe storms and other extreme weather, and found their rates of extreme hunger had more than doubled in the past six years. The 10 countries covered by Oxfam's report - Somalia, Haiti, Djibouti, Kenya, Niger, Afghanistan, Guatemala, Madagascar, Burkina Faso and Zimbabwe - were those with the highest number of UN appeals driven by extreme weather events.
Nutrition, the science that interprets the nutrients and other substances in food in relation to maintenance, growth, reproduction, health and disease of an organism, including ingestion, absorption, assimilation, biosynthesis, catabolism and excretion - Human nutrition deals with the provision of essential nutrients in food that are necessary to support human life and health - Plant nutrition, the study of the chemical elements and compounds necessary for plant growth, plant metabolism and their external supply - Animal nutrition focuses on the dietary nutrients needs of animals, primarily those in agriculture and food production, but also in zoo's, aquariums, and wildlife managemen
Food politics: Food politics, a term which encompasses not only food policy and legislation, but all aspects of the production, control, regulation, inspection, distribution and consumption of commercially grown, and even sometimes home grown, food. The commercial aspects of food production are affected by ethical, cultural, and health concerns, as well as environmental concerns about farming and agricultural practices and retailing methods. The term also encompasses biofuels, GMO crops and pesticide use, the international food market, food aid, food security and food sovereignty, obesity, labor practices and immigrant workers, issues of water usage, animal cruelty, climate change,
and more -
Food security
Water distribution and resources on Earth: Water distribution on Earth, as most water in the Earth's atmosphere and crust comes from the world ocean's saline seawater, while freshwater accounts for nearly 1% of the total -
Water, an inorganic, transparent, tasteless, odorless, and nearly colorless chemical substance, which is the main constituent of Earth's hydrosphere and the fluids of most living organisms -
Water resources, natural resources of water that are potentially useful, as uses of water include agricultural, industrial, household, recreational and environmental activities, and as all living things require water to grow and reproduce -
Hydrology, the scientific study of the movement, distribution and management of water on Earth and other planets, including the water cycle, water resources and environmental watershed sustainability
Lebensmittelherstellung - Nachdem seit dem Übergang zur Neuzeit die verhüllte Sklaverei der Lohnarbeiter in Europa mit ihrem Piedestal der Sklaverei 'sans phrase' in der neuen Welt der Kolonien unter Anleitung des britischen Könighauses und -reiches die Herstellung der menschlichen Lebensmittelmittel dem Kapital dienstbar gemacht hat und vor allem in Afrika dieser Entfremdungsprozeß weiter fortgesetzt wird, hat eine Sprachverwirrung eingesetzt - So als ob Menschen zu fütternde Tiere seien und obwohl sowohl Menschen als auch Tiere Lebewesen sind, wird 'Lebensmittelherstellung' 'food industry' genannt, entsprechend praktiziert und so erläuter: 'Diverse businesses participating to supply 'Lebensmittel' consumed by the world's population, as only subsistence farmers, those who survive on what they grow, and hunter-gatherers can be considered outside the scope of the modern food industry' - Food processing - Food distribution - Warehousing
2005-2008 international assessment of agricultural knowledge, science, and technology: 'International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development' IAASTD, a three-year international collaborative effort (2005–2007/2008) initiated by the World Bank, which evaluated the relevance, quality and effectiveness of knowledge, science, and technology involving 110 countries with co-sponsorship of the FAO, Global Environment Facility, UNDP, UNEP, UNESCO, the World Bank and WHO. It assessed agricultural knowledge, science, and technology with respect to development and sustainability goals of reducing hunger and poverty, improving nutrition, health, rural livelihoods, and facilitating social and environmental sustainability
Statements of the April 2008 IAASTD report 'Agriculture at a Crossroads', not supported by few countries: Statements of the 2008 report 'Agriculture at a Crossroads'. Der Bericht 'Landwirtschaft am Scheideweg' wurde 2008 vom Weltagrarrat IAASTD veröffentlicht, einem Gremium vergleichbar dem 'Weltklimarat' IPCC. Der Bericht fordert insbesondere eine Ausdehnung der ökologischen Landwirtschaft beziehungsweise agrarökologischer Methoden und der Förderung von Kleinbauern. Die Grüne Gentechnik, Agrochemie und geistiges Eigentum von Saatgut werden kritisch hinterfragt. Deutschland, die USA, Kanada und Australien unterzeichneten den Bericht nicht. Anfangs beteiligte Agrarunternehmen beendeten ihre Mitarbeit schon vor dem Schlussberich, der u.a. sagt 'um den Herausforderungen der Zukunft gewachsen zu sein, bedarf es eines radikalen und systematischen Wandels in der landwirtschaftlichen Forschung, Entwicklung und Praxis', 'die Grüne Gentechnik bringt bisher mehr Probleme als Lösungen und lenkt das Forschungsinteresse einseitig auf patentierbare Produkte', und weitere wissenschaftlich begründete kritische Feststellungen
Agricultural safety and health - Agricultural Education, the teaching of agriculture, natural resources, and land management
2019 IPCC's 'Special Report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems': August 2019 IPCC's 'Special Report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems', a landmark study by 107 experts from 52 countries -
8 August 2019: As IPCC report finds reduction in global heating requires transformation of food production and land management, also farmers demand change calling for national strategy on climate change and agriculture
2020 UN warnings and 2020/2020s in the environment: 2020 in the environment - 2020s in the environment - 2020 meteorology - 2020 natural disasters
Climate change and agriculture are interrelated processes, both of which take place on a global scale, as climate change affects agriculture in a number of ways, including through changes in average temperatures, rainfall, and climate extremes (e.g., heat waves), changes in pests and diseases, changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide and ground-level ozone concentrations, changes in the nutritional quality of some foods, and changes in sea level
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28. März 2012: Der Weltklimarat IPCC warnt vor einer Zunahme von Extremwettern infolge des Klimawandels - extreme Temperaturen und Hitzewellen hätten seit 1950 zugenommen, heisst es im neu veröffentlichten Bericht -
23 June 2012: Rio summit ends with an agreement from world leaders that charities say represents a 'missed chance' -
25 November 2012: As Qatar welcomes world leaders to the 18th UN climate change conference, its own environmental record has come under criticism as a major contributor to greenhouse gases -
6 December: The delegate Naderev Sano from typhoon-hit Philippines demanded that ministers at the Doha conference put aside their differences and take effective steps to combat global warming -
7 December: Standoff between rich and developing countries remains as UN climate talks near end -
8 December: Rich and poor nations disagree on funding as negotiators scramble to reach a global agreement on rising CO2 emissions -
9 December: Delegates in Doha agreed to extend the Kyoto protocol until 2020
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30 November 2015: The capitals of the world's two most populous nations China and India, Beijing and Delhi, were blanketed in hazardous, choking smog on Monday as climate change talks began in Paris, where China, the USA, the EU, India, Russia, Japan, Germany and Iran causing large proportion of pollution are participants -
30 November 2015: Participants in the UN climate summit in Paris on Monday observed a minute of silence during its opening for the victims of the 2015 Paris terror attacks,
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30 November 2015: 'The terrible events that France experienced this tragic November are daily reality for Ukraine for almost 21 months, my country is suffering for the terrorism sponsored and promoted by the Russian Federation', Ukrainian president Poroshenko says in Paris
January-December 2021 in the environment and environmental sciences: January-December 2021 in the environment and environmental sciences, listing global environmental disasters in 2021 and 2021 environmental sciences' efforts, statistics, reviews, reocrds, and studies by month, also geosciences, biotechnology, anthropology and geoengineering -
Wikipedia article '2021 in climate change', documenting notable events, research findings, effects, and responses related to global warming and climate change during the year -
2020s in environmental history, referring to events and trends related to the natural environment and human interactions with it, as examples of human-induced events include biodiversity loss, climate change and holocene extinction -
2020s in the environment, including years 2020, 2021 and 2022, 2020s meteorology, 2020s natural disasters, protected areas established in the 2020s, renewable resource companies disestablished in the 2020s, 2020s individual tree deaths -
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4 November 2021: As on day five of the global climate summit, the focus is on energy and how the world can move away from fossil fuels, more than 40 countries commit to shifting away from coal but huge users and producers like China, India, Australia and the USA don't sign up, according to the live reporting 'BBC'. The 'International Energy Agency IEA' has crunched the numbers from promises made at COP26 and calculated that the world will keep to a 1.8C degree rise in global temperatures if all the pledges are carried out.
7 November 2021 1.5°C and climate front lines Tokyo, Brussels, New York with world’s economic heartlands: 7 November 2021: The climate front lines are not just Tuvalu or the Maldives, they are Tokyo, Brussels, New York, and the world’s economic heartlands, and as the world comes together for the 2021 UN Climate Change Conference COP26, its largest economies – which emit 80% of all greenhouse gases – continue to have such stilted and sluggish commitments to staving off climate risk. The reality is that all G20 nations face a full-frontal tide of climate impacts that will rip through their economies within 30 years. These are the findings of the new 'G20 Climate Impacts Atlas', a study based on the most recent science. Heatwaves, droughts, fires and floods will increase in severity and frequency, creating risk and instability for today’s G20 growth models.
14 November 2021 reactions to the COP26 climate deal, decisions, documents and arguments: 14 November 2021: COP26 agreed the first climate package to include direct references on coal and fossil fuels, but many countries angered by a last-minute change to the text of the final agreement that called to phase 'down' the use of coal, rather than phasing it 'out', as 'Al Jazeera' also takes a look at the major announcements made in November, as some of the largest coal ahd fossil fuel producers/consumers were absent from the agreement, including Australia, China, India, Iran, Qatar, Russia, Saudi-Arabia, the USA, Venezuela and more -
14 November 2021: International reactions to the COP26 climate deal and more or less serious arguments,
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14 November 2021: China and India will have to explain themselves to climate-vulnerable nations, COP26 president Alok Sharma has said as the summit ends, the 'BBC' reports
20 November 2022 Cop27 has not delivered on commitment to phase down fossil fuels: 20 November 2022: In a dramatic U-turn on Friday, the EU acceded to poor countries’ demands to create a new fund to address the loss and damage caused by global heating, a decision that paved the way for an agreement early on Sunday, but the 1.5C climate goal died at Cop27, and Tuvalu's finance minister Seve Paeniu gave an impactful speech, holding up a picture of his grandchildren, demonstrating that Tuvalu in the Pacific region is fighting for its life in a way that other countries are not, reminding other delegates of this fact -
20 November 2022: The Cop27 meeting in Sharm el-Sheikh at least ended up making modest progress on loss and damage with high-emissions nations agreeing to pay those countries bearing the brunt of climate mayhem that they had little to do with bringing about. But, yet again, there was no commitment to cutting the emissions causing accelerating this crisis, without which this agreement is nothing more - as one delegate commented - than a 'down-payment on disaster'. No seasoned observers are of the opinion that the world is any nearer tackling the climate emergency. Indeed, the real legacy of Cop27 could well be exposing the climate summit for what it has become, a bloated travelling circus that sets up once a year, and from which little but words ever emerge.
4 April 2023 UAE plans huge oil and gas expansion as it hosts UN climate summit, making a mockery of the summit: 4 April 2023: UAE plans huge oil and gas expansion as it hosts UN climate summit, as UAE’s fossil fuel boss will be the president of Cop28, making a mockery of the summit, say campaigners. The UAE has the third biggest net zero-busting plans for oil and gas expansion in the world, the Guardian can reveal. The CEO of the UAE’s national oil company Adnoc has been controversially appointed president of the UN’s Cop28 summit in December, which is seen as crucial with time running out to end the climate crisis. But Sultan Al Jaber is overseeing expansion to produce oil and gas equivalent to 7.5bn barrels of oil, according to new data, 90% of which would have to remain in the ground to meet the net zero scenario set out by the International Energy Agency -
Environmental issues in the UAE are caused by the exploitation of natural resources, rapid population growth, and high energy demand. The continuing temperature rise caused by global warming contributes to UAE's water scarcity, drought, rising sea level, and aridity. The countryside of the UAE, characterized with its great arid land, infrequent precipitation, and high temperatures are already facing long-term aridity. This precondition is very vulnerable to the effects of climate change and contributes to worsening water scarcity, quality, and water contamination.
3 November 2024 Cop29 and Cop16 - we are in danger of forgetting that the climate crisis means extinction: 3 November 2024: Since 1970, wildlife populations have declined on average by 73%. Since 2015, we have lost a number of species forever: the golden toad, the Pinta giant tortoise, the mountain mist frog, several bats and birds. We heard at Cop16 that 46,000 species face extinction, including more than a third of the planet’s trees. But as woods empty of wildlife, coral reefs ossify and the wind howls through wastelands that used to be rainforests, the focus of governments, environmentalists and industry has become lopsided. Climate change sucks up all the attention. Nature loss loses. The world has never met a single target to stem the destruction of wildlife, Observer's columnist Martha Gill and 'The Guardian' report
History of climate change science - Scientific consensus on climate change - Media coverage of global warming - Climate change coverage by country
Since June 2021 planned NASA missions to understand how Venus became an inferno-like world: 2 June 2021: NASA has selected two new missions to Venus, Earth’s nearest planetary neighbor. Part of NASA’s Discovery Program, the missions aim to understand how Venus became an inferno-like world when it has so many other characteristics similar to ours – and may have been the first habitable world in the solar system, complete with an ocean and Earth-like climate
2020s Venus atmosphere investigation, planned mission for an orbiter and atmospheric probe: DAVINCI+ (Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging, Plus), a planned mission for an orbiter and atmospheric probe to the planet Venus. Together with the VERITAS mission, which will also study Venus, it was selected by NASA in June 2021 to be part of their Discovery Program, as DAVINCI+ will send both an orbiter and a descent probe to Venus. The orbiter will image Venus in multiple wavelengths from above, while the descent probe will study the chemical composition of Venus' atmosphere and take photographs during descent. The DAVINCI+ probe will travel through the Venusian atmosphere, sampling the atmosphere, and returning measurements down to the surface. These measurements are important to understanding the origin of the atmosphere, how it has evolved, and how and why it is different from the atmosphere of Earth and Mars. -
Future missions to Venus, including USA's 2023 Rocket Lab’s Venus probe, India's 2024 Shukrayaan-1, USA's 2028 Veritats mission, Roscosmos 2029 Venera-D mission, ESA's 2031 EnVision, and more proposed 2020s-2030s NASA missions
Climate change denial, or global warming denial is denial, dismissal, or unwarranted doubt that contradicts the scientific consensus on climate change, including the extent to which it is caused by humans, its impacts on nature and human society
Water is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula H2O. It is a transparent, tasteless, odorless, and nearly colorless chemical substance, and it is the main constituent of Earth's hydrosphere and the fluids of all known living organisms (in which it acts as a solvent). It is vital for all known forms of life, despite not providing food energy, or organic micronutrients.
Water resources and distribution on Earth: Water resources are natural resources of water that are potentially useful for humans, for example as a source of drinking water supply or irrigation water. 97% of the water on Earth is salt water and only three percent is fresh water; slightly over two-thirds of this is frozen in glaciers and polar ice caps. The remaining unfrozen freshwater is found mainly as groundwater, with only a small fraction present above ground or in the air. Natural sources of fresh water include surface water, under river flow, groundwater and frozen water. Artificial sources of fresh water can include treated wastewater (wastewater reuse) and desalinated seawater. Human uses of water resources include agricultural, industrial, household, recreational and environmental activities - Water distribution on Earth
Water security and supply: Water security, 'the reliable availability of an acceptable quantity and quality of water for health, livelihoods and production' - Water supply - List of countries by freshwater withdrawal
Wastewater - Sewage - Acid mine drainage - Blackwater is a form of pollution produced in coal preparation - Industrial wastewater treatment - Agricultural wastewater treatment - Sewage treatment - Thermal pollution - Water cooling
Resource depletion - List of environmental issues
Deforestation - Deforestation by region - Illegal logging
Overfishing - EU revamps fishing policy to save depleted stocks
Marine pollution - Water pollution by country
Microplastics are very small pieces of plastic that pollute the environment, as microplastics are not a specific kind of plastic, but rather any type of plastic fragment that is less than 5 mm in length according to NOAA and the ECA, entering natural ecosystems from a variety of sources, including industrial processes, cosmetics, clothing, tyres and city dust which account for over 80% of all microplastic pollution in the environment - Bioaccumulation, the gradual accumulation of substances, such as pesticides or other chemicals, in an organism, occuring when an organism absorbs a substance at a rate faster than that at which the substance is lost or eliminated by catabolism and excretion, and thus, the longer the biological half-life of a toxic substance, the greater the risk of chronic poisoning - Persistent organic pollutants, sometimes known as 'forever chemicals' are organic compounds that are resistant to environmental degradation through chemical, biological, and photolytic processes - Biodegradable plastic
Since 1998 International Pollutants Elimination Network: Since 1998 International Pollutants Elimination Network, a global network of NGOs dedicated to the common aim of eliminating pollutants, such as lead in paint, mercury and lead in the environment, persistent organic pollutants POPs, endocrine disrupting chemicals, and other toxics -
Homepage of IPEN, founded in 1998 and registered in Sweden as a non-profit, public interest organization, as the global network forging a healthier world where people and the environment are no longer harmed by the production, use, and disposal of toxic chemicals
Environmental disaster - List of environmental disasters
October 2017 deadly pollution, including toxic air, water, soils and workplaces: 19 October 2017: Pollution, including toxic air, water, soils and workplaces, kills at least nine million people and costs trillions of dollars every year, according to the most comprehensive global analysis to date, which warns the crisis 'threatens the continuing survival of human societies',
published by the Lancet Commission on pollution and health
November 2019 world’s nations to produce more than twice as much coal, oil and gas as can be burned in 2030: 20 November 2019: The world’s nations are on track to produce more than twice as much coal, oil and gas as can be burned in 2030, according to an analysis based on the published national plans of the eight key producers Australia, Canada, Russia, USA, China, India, Indonesia and Norway, which account for 60% of global fossil fuel production, as plans of other big producers, including Saudi Arabia and Iran, are not publicly available
8 November 2023 petrostates planning huge expansion of fossil fuels, says UN report: 8 November 2023: The world’s fossil fuel producers are planning expansions that would blow the planet’s carbon budget twice over, a UN report has found. The energy plans of the petrostates contradicted their climate policies and pledges, the report said. The plans would lead to 460% more coal production, 83% more gas, and 29% more oil in 2030 than it was possible to burn if global temperature rise was to be kept to the internationally agreed 1.5C. The countries responsible for the largest carbon emissions from planned fossil fuel production are India (coal), Saudi Arabia (oil) and Russia (coal, oil and gas). The USA and Canada are also planning to be major oil producers, as is the United Arab Emirates. The UAE is hosting the crucial UN climate summit Cop28, which starts on 30 November. The report sets out starkly the fundamental conflict driving the climate crisis: fossil fuel burning must rapidly be cut down to zero, yet petrostates and companies intend to keep on making trillions of dollars a year by increasing production.
27 November 2023 Saudi Arabia’s grand plan to ‘hook’ poor countries on oil: 27 November 2023: Saudi Arabia is driving a huge global investment plan to create demand for its oil and gas in developing countries, an undercover investigation has revealed. 'ODSP' - the so-called 'oil demand sustainability programme' - is overseen by Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler, the crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, and involves its biggest organisations, such as the $700bn Public Investment Fund, the world’s largest oil company, Aramco, the petrochemicals firm Sabic, and the government’s most important ministries. The 'ODSP' is based on plans to drive up the use of fossil fuel-powered cars, buses and planes in Africa and elsewhere, as rich countries increasingly switch to clean energy, planning to accelerate the development of supersonic air travel, which it notes uses three times more jet fuel than conventional planes, and partner with a carmaker to mass produce a cheap combustion engine vehicle. Further plans promote power ships, which use polluting heavy fuel oil or gas to provide electricity to coastal communities. The ODSP is overseen by Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler, the crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, and involves its biggest organisation, such as the $700bn Public Investment Fund, the world’s largest oil company, Aramco, the petrochemicals firm Sabic, and the government’s most important ministries.
World energy supply and consumption, the global production and preparation of fuel, generation of electricity, energy transport and energy consumption. It is a basic part of economic activity. It does not include energy from food.
Environmental impact of the energy industry: Environmental impact of the energy industry, as 21st century's energy sources include biofuel use (bio-diesel, firewood), fossil fuel use (coal, petroleum and natural gas), coal, wind power, solar power, geothermal power, nuclear power -
Health and environmental impact of the coal industry, including issues such as land use, waste management, water and air pollution, caused by the coal mining, processing and the use of its products. In addition to atmospheric pollution, coal burning produces hundreds of millions of tons of solid waste products annually, including fly ash, bottom ash, and flue-gas desulfurization sludge, that contain mercury, uranium, thorium, arsenic, and other heavy metals. Coal is the largest contributor to the human-made increase of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere. -
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Environmental impact of natural gas, contributing substantially to global carbon emissions as contribution is projected to grow -
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Environmental impact of nuclear power, resulting from the nuclear fuel cycle, operation, and the effects of nuclear accidents -
Environmental impact of reservoirs under ever-increasing scrutiny as the global demand for water and energy increases and the number and size of reservoirs increases -
Environmental impact of electricity generation, as electric power systems consist of generation plants of different energy sources, transmission networks, and distribution lines
Fossil fuel and petroleum industry: A fossil fuel is a hydrocarbon-containing material formed naturally in the earth's crust from the remains of dead plants and animals that is extracted and burned as a fuel. The main fossil fuels are coal, crude oil and natural gas. Fossil fuels may be burned to provide heat for use directly (such as for cooking or heating), to power engines (such as internal combustion engines in motor vehicles), or to generate electricity. In 2019, 84% of primary energy consumption in the world and 64% of its electricity was from fossil fuels. The large-scale burning of fossil fuels causes serious environmental damage. Over 80% of the carbon dioxide CO2 generated by human activity comes from burning them, around 35 billion tonnes a year, compared to 4 billion from land development - The petroleum industry, also known as the oil industry or the oil patch, includes the global processes of exploration, extraction, refining, transportation (often by oil tankers and pipelines), and marketing of petroleum products. The largest volume products of the industry are fuel oil and gasoline (petrol). Petroleum is also the raw material for many chemical products, including pharmaceuticals, solvents, fertilizers, pesticides, synthetic fragrances, and plastics
Fossil fuel exporters: Fossil fuel exporters, as petroleum, natural gas, and coal are exported from various source countries to countries reliant on these fossil fuels, including the top ranking states of Saudi-Arabia, Russia, United Arab Emirates, Iraq, Nigeria, Angola, Canada, Venezuela, Kazakhstan, and Kuwait -
List of countries by oil exports, including Saudi-Arabia, Russia, Iraq, USA, Canada, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Nigeria, Qatar, Angola, Venezuela, Kazakhstan, Mexico etc.
26 March 2021 diversify or risk unrest, oil producers warned in report: 26 March 2021: Oil-dependent countries that are not preparing to adapt to the global shift away from fossil fuels risk their own stability, warns a new Verisk Maplecroft report, as Algeria, Iraq and Nigeria are the most vulnerable to 'a slow-motion wave of political instability', as Chad and Kazakhstan were also identified as countries with a high risk of political upheaval as energy transition engulfs their economies , and as west African states of Angola, Gabon, Congo, Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea, with 'fragile autocratic or semi-autocratic political systems' were also named as high risk by the analysts
Exports of coal by country, including Australia, Indonesia, Russia, Colombia, USA etc. - List of countries by coal production, including China, India, USA, European Union, Australia, Indonesia, Russia, South Africa, Germany, Poland, Kazakhstan, Turkey, Colombia, Canada etc. - Imports of coal by country, including China, India, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Germany, Turkey etc.
Toxic waste is any material in liquid, solid, or gas form that can cause serious harm to humans as well as animals and the environment - Hazardous waste is waste that poses substantial or potential threats to public health or the environment
Lists of nuclear disasters and radioactive incidents - Nuclear and radiation accidents - Effects of acute radiation exposure and ecological impacts of nuclear and radiation accidents and incidents
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Radioactive contamination
1979 USA's 'Three Mile Island' accident: 'Three Mile Island' accident, partial nuclear meltdown that occurred on 28 March 1979 in reactor number 2 of Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station in USA's Dauphin County in Pennsylvania -
Since March 1979 'Three Mile Island' accident health effects -
Since 1979 'Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station', closed nuclear power plant on Three Mile Island in Londonderry Township on the Susquehanna River just south of Harrisburg, official decommission date unit 1 on 20 September 2019, construction cost $1.557 billion ($2.00 billion in 2019) -
8 May 2019: 40 years after the worst commercial nuclear power plant accident in USA history unfolded on Three Mile Island, the only nuclear power reactor still operating there is preparing to shut down, as the facility has been losing money, and in a statement Exelon Generation company said it would be closed by September 30, after the company and its employees had been hoping for a subsidy from the state, and when that fell through, a shutdown was the only option
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Diesel exhaust is the gaseous exhaust produced by a diesel type of internal combustion engine, plus any contained particulates
Since 2014 diesel emissions scandal: Since 2014 International diesel emissions scandal - raising awareness over the high levels of pollution being emitted by diesel vehicles built by a wide range of carmakers, including BMW, Citroen, Fiat, Ford, Hyundai, Jeep, Mazda, Mercedes, Peugeot, Renault, Volkswagen group and Volvo, scandals relating to the emissions from diesel engines began in 2014 when emissions discrepancies between European and USA models of vehicles were highlighted by the International Council on Clean Transportation
Phase-out of fossil fuel vehicles, one of the two most important parts of the general fossil fuel phase-out process, the other being the phase-out of fossil fuel power plants for mains electricity, as more than 14 countries and over 20 cities around the world have proposed banning the sale of passenger vehicles (primarily cars and buses) powered by fossil fuels such as petrol, liquefied petroleum gas and diesel at some time in the future
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Environmental crime
Global Witness exposes the hidden links between demand for natural resources, corruption, armed conflict and environmental destruction
2016: 4 March 2016: New data of Global Witness on the murder rate of environmental and land activists in Honduras, the highest in the world, for taking a stand against destructive dam, mining, logging and agriculture projects -
20 June 2016: 2015 became deadliest year for environmental activists, as at least 185 activists were killed, anti-mining activities were the most deadly with 42 deaths related to protests,
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21 October 2016: As last year was the deadliest on record for environmental campaigners and more than three people were killed each week in 2015 by police, private security or hired assassins, states and investors must take steps to tackle this human rights crisis, UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders Michel Forst says in a report for the UN general assembly
2017/2018: 2 February 2018: 197 people killed last year for defending land, wildlife or natural resources, new Global Witness data reveals -
2 March 2018: As the Guardian and Global Witness revealed that almost four environmental defenders were murdered every week in 2017, War on Want learned of two more killings through our Latin American partner organisations -
19 mars 2018: En 2017, près de 200 personnes, activistes, leaders indigènes, scientifiques ou simples villageois, ont été tuées pour avoir voulu protéger l’environnement, première responsable l’industrie agroalimentaire, selon Global Witness
Extinction is the end of an organism or of a group of organisms, normally a species - Timeline of extinctions in the Holocene - List of recently extinct species - Endangered species
Wildfires caused by arson - Fire ecology
Urbanization and Rural development - Urbanization by country - List of metropolitan areas by population - List of agglomerations by population
Man-made disasters - Man-made disasters by country
Transport disasters - Transport disasters by country
Diseases of poverty: Diseases of poverty
Refugee health, also known as migrant health or immigrant health, is the field of study on the health effects experienced by people who have moved into another country or even to another part of the world, either by choice or as a result of unsafe circumstances such as war or persecution, displaced populations' health is mainly affected by infectious disease, mental health, and chronic diseases that are uncommon in the country in which they eventually settle
Global health: Global health - Health disasters by continent - Health disasters by country - Diseases and disorders by country
March 2019 global health and democracy: The relationships between democratic experience, adult health, and cause-specific mortality in 170 countries between 1980 and 2016, an observational analysis published by 'The Lancet' on 13 March 2019 -
May 2006 'Health and Democracy', by Timothy Besley and Masayuki Kudamatsu -
Pro-democracy resistance grows from 27% in 2009 to 44% in 2019 amidst an autocratization surge, and during 2019 citizens in 29 democracies mobilized against autocratization, such as in Bolivia, Poland, and Malawi, as citizens staged mass protests in 34 autocracies, among them Algeria, Hong Kong, and Sudan, according to University of Gothenburg democracy report 2020
Lists of Diseases: Lists of Diseases - List of causes of death by rate
22 March 2020 more victims of coronavirus pandemic: 22 March 2020: Global coronavirus death toll crossed 13,000, forcing over a billion people to remain at home, stretching governments and health workers to respond to the growing crisis, forcing lockdowns in 35 countries, disrupting lives, travel and businesses as governments scramble to shut borders and unleash hundreds of billions in emergency measures -
22 March 2020: Spain death toll rises by almost 400, as Germany and Iran see cases jump, as Italy warns of worst crisis since WWII, as India launches curfew, as 10 more people die from virus in Indonesia, and as first deaths in Colombia, Guam, Kosovo and Romania reported
28 March 2020 number of coronavirus infections topped 600,000: 28 March 2020: The number of confirmed coronavirus infections worldwide topped 600,000, as virus already has put health systems in Italy, Spain, France, in New York and New Orleans under extreme strain, as lockdowns of varying severity have been introduced across Europe, in Africa, Asia and in the Americas, and as officials dug in for a long fight against the pandemic
30 March 2020 in Zimbabwe, 'You Win Coronavirus or You Win Starvation': 30 March 2020: In Zimbabwe, 'You Win Coronavirus or You Win Starvation', as people in one of the world's most devastated nations are choosing daily survival over measures to protect themselves from a virus that 'might not even kill us', pushed aside in the struggle to obtain food, cash, cheap public transport, even clean water after World Health Organization's recommended virus precautions, and after UN expert called the number of hungry people in Zimbabwe 'shocking' for a country not in conflict and World Food Program has said more than 7 million people, or half the country, needs aid -
30 March 2020: Covid-19 death toll in Spain reaches 7,340,
as Moscow and Lagos in lockdown and countries tighten restrictions
31 March 2020 global confirmed infections pass 800,000: 31 March 2020: The number of confirmed cases of coronavirus infection around the world has passed 800,000, with more than 38,000 death, as Spain reports record single-day death toll, Vietnam enters lockdown, as Italy extends lockdown until Easter, as number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the USA at 164,539, and as Russia records biggest daily rise in cases for seventh day running
1 April 2020 reports of cases also in war-torn Syria, Yemen, Libya and record daily fatalities: 1 April 2020: Spain passes 100,000 cases, as USA officials predict up to 240,000 USA coronavirus deaths in country, amid reports of record daily fatalities in UK, France, Spain and Russia in the worst global health, social and economic crisis since the 1855-1960 bubonic plague pandemic that began in Yunnan, spreading to all inhabited continents and ultimately leading to more than 12 million deaths in India and China, considered active until 1960, when worldwide casualties dropped to 200 per year,
aside from recently and completely man-made disasters since German, Italian and Japanese empires' World War II, including the 1946-1954 French Indochina War, the 1950-1953 Korean War, the 1954-1962 French Algerian War, the 1955-1975 USA's Vietnam War, the 1967-1970 Nigerian Civil War, the War in Afghanistan since 1978, the 1998-2003 Second Congo War, and ongoing Assad's, Khamenei's and Putin's war against the Syrian people since 2011 -
1 April 2020: After the coronavirus pandemic crippled healthcare services on an unprecedented scale, countries in the Middle East already demolished by war are bracing themselves for disaster, as doctors and health officials tell 'The Independent' in over a dozen interviews across Syria, Yemen and Libya that they cannot halt the spread of the deadly coronavirus, and that healthcare systems are completely 'open and vulnerable' to the impending crisis
4 April 2020 and efforts to tackle the crisis: 4 April 2020: USA sets grim new global record with 1,480 covid-19 deaths in 24 hours, as death toll in Europe passes 40,000, with over 900 fatalities in Spain in past day, as economists predict deep worldwide recession, and as UN warns of coming catastrophe in war-torn countries Syria, Yemen etc. -
4 April 2020: Number of confirmed covid-19 cases worldwide nearing 1,120,000,
as 'Wikipedia' is monitoring and documenting the global crisis,
also by country and territory,
also by socio-economic impact,
also by impact on politics,
by a variety of more impacts,
also by national and international responses to the covid-19 pandemic, more or less effective, more or less backed by scientists, but also including cover-ups and denials e.g. North Korea,
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4 April 2020: Internet data shines light on coronavirus lockdowns working worldwide, despite attempts by regimes in Syria, Russia, Iran etc., including their networks e.g. Hezbollah terrorist groups, also some media, TV companies, print media etc., and others, to cause confusion, to undermine freedom of information and efforts to tackle the crisis
15 April 2020 global rise with 2,000,984 covid-19 cases and with 128.071 deaths: 15 April 2020: Global rise with 2,000,984 covid-19 cases and with 128.071 deaths, as Trump suspends WHO funding, as Russia reported record daily rise with 3,388 new covid-19 cases, bringing its overall nationwide tally to 24,490, as India allows industry and farming in rural areas to resume to reduce the pain for millions of people, as Spain records drop in daily virus death toll, but number of new cases rises, and as EU sets out roadmap for members to ease lockdowns
16 April 2020 economic and other impacts from the covid-19 pandemic deepen: 16 April 2020: 1m tests to be rolled out across Africa, as WHO warns Europe still in the midst of Covid-19 storm, as calls emerge on the European commission and European Council to condemn the Hungarian government’s exploitation of the coronavirus crisis to erode democracy,
and as USA reports 639,568 covid-19 cases and 30,988 deaths, data listed also by state -
16 April 2020: Economic and other impacts from the covid-19 pandemic deepen, as health authorities warn that returning to normal is a distant goal despite many politicians' hopes of reopening factories, transport capacities, stores, and schools as well quickly as safely
17 April 2020 covid-19 cases reach at least 2,167,955 as Russia reports record of new cases: 17 April 2020: Global covid-19 cases reached at least 2,167,955, as Russia again reports record of new covid-19 cases, as Indonesia becomes south-east Asian country with most infections, as social and economic impacts of covid-19 become catastrophic for millions of children, as African continent faces recession, as China’s GDP shrinks 6.8% in March quarter, and as people worldwide must re-evaluate support for irresponsible politicians in several countries
18 April 2020 Beijing regime threatens Hong Kong civic society amid covid-19: 18 April 2020: Beijing regime’s top representative office in Hong Kong semi-autonomous city declared it is not bound by Hong Kong’s constitutional restrictions that bar Chinese government from interfering in local affairs, after Hong Kong police amid covid-19 pandemic originating from mainland China arrested 14 high-profile democracy activists on charges of illegal assembly in 2019
22 April 2020 as covid-19 expands Missouri becomes first USA state to sue China over pandemic: 21 April 2020: Covid-19 pandemic 'will cause famine of biblical proportions', as more than 30 countries and former European colonies could experience widespread famine, and in 10 of those countries there are already more than 1 million people on the brink of starvation, UN warns,
as first case of covid-19 reported among Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, hosting around 475,000 Palestinian and far more Syrian refugees, as Spain recorded 435 deaths overnight, bringing the total death toll from Covid-19 to 21,717, as France's unemployment soars, as Germany’s confirmed coronavirus cases increased by 2,237 to 145,694, as UK's death toll not including deaths outside hospitals questioned by media, and as Chinese doctors in Wuhan say a growing number of recovered cases continue to test positive -
22 April 2020: Missouri becomes first USA state to sue China over covid-190 economic losses, as civil lawsuit says China 'lied to the world about the danger and contagious nature of covid-19'
29 April 2020 known global covid-19 death toll exceeds 217,000: 29 April 2020: Known global covid-19 death toll exceeds 217,000, as at least 3,116,680 people have been infected worldwide, as Russia reports 5,841 new cases on Wednesday, bringing its overall nationwide tally to 99,399, and as air passenger numbers down 99% in the UK amid rising number of covid-19 cases and deaths
Since January 2020 worldwide crisis and recessions due to covid-19: Since January 2020 international socio-economic impact of the 2019 Chinese coronavirus pandemic, by continent and country -
Covid-19 worldwide recession and the wide range of impacts
Since 2019/2020 impact of the covid-19 pandemic on education: Covid-19 pandemic has affected educational systems worldwide, leading to the near-total closures of schools, early childhood education and care services, universities and colleges. Most governments decided to temporarily close educational institutions in an attempt to reduce the spread of covid-19. As of 12 January 2021, approximately 825 million learners are currently affected due to school closures in response to the pandemic. According to Unicef monitoring, many countries are currently implementing nationwide closures and 40 are implementing local closures, impacting about 47% of the world's student population. -
Impact of the covid-19 pandemic on education in the USA,
i.a. exacerbating existing economic and social disparities sparking cultural crises in ethnic groups of Black Americans, Native Americans
Since 2019/2020 impact of the covid-19 pandemic on crime, state crimes, organised crime, terrorism, street crime, hate crimes and racism: Since 2019/2020 impact of the covid-19 pandemic on crime, state crimes, organised crime, terrorism, street crime, online crime, illegal markets and smuggling, on hate crimes, racism, policing, judicial system, and on prisons
Since 4/6 May 2022 outbreak of monkeypox in Europe, North America, Australia, coming from Africa: Since 6 May 2022 confirmed and ongoing outbreak of monkeypox, as on 4 May a British resident who had travelled to Nigeria, where the disease is endemic returned to the United Kingdom, importing the index case of the outbreak into the country
Medical conditions related to obesity
Medical abuse and perversion of medical science
Reproduction: Reproduction
Origin of life and life threatening challenges, including cancer and viruses: Origin of life, as evidence suggests that life on Earth has existed for at least 3.5 billion years, with the oldest physical traces of life dating back 3.7 billion years, as some theories suggest that life on Earth may have started even earlier -
'Phylogenesis', the biological process by which a taxon (of any rank) appears,
and the science that studies these processes is called 'phylogenetics' -
Molecular phylogenetics -
History of molecular evolution since early 20th century, as after the 1970s, nucleic acid sequencing allowed molecular evolution to reach beyond proteins to highly conserved ribosomal RNA sequences, the foundation of a reconceptualization of the early history of life -
Ribosomal ribonucleic acid, a type of non-coding RNA which is the primary component of ribosomes, essential to all cells -
Primitive protocells were the precursors to today's unicellular organisms, as - although the origin of life is largely still a mystery - in the currently prevailing theory, known as the RNA world hypothesis, early RNA molecules would have been the basis for catalyzing organic chemical reactions and self-replication -
Bacteria are one of the world's oldest forms of life, and are found virtually everywhere in nature, as many common bacteria have plasmids, which are short, circular, self-replicating DNA molecules that are separate from the bacterial chromosome, and as plasmids can carry genes responsible for novel abilities, of current critical importance being antibiotic resistance -
Multicellular organisms, especially long-living animals, face the challenge of cancer, which occurs when cells fail to regulate their growth within the normal program of development
Humans and animals: Humans are characterized by complex language use, advanced and organized societies, their bipedal locomotion and erect posture, high manual dexterity and heavy tool use, and more complex brains -
Human biology, an interdisciplinary area of academic study that examines humans through the influences and interplay of many diverse fields such as genetics, evolution, physiology, anatomy, epidemiology, anthropology, ecology, nutrition, population genetics, and sociocultural influences -
Human brain,
memory,
and Gedächtnis -
Humans and animals -
Genealogy, in different countries, cultures and history
Chimera: Genetic chimerism or chimera, a single organism composed of cells with distinct genotypes, meaning for animals that an individual derived from two or more zygotes can include possessing blood cells of different blood types, subtle variations in form (phenotype) and, if the zygotes were of differing sexes, then even the possession of both female and male sex organs (this is just one of many different phenomena that may result in intersexuality), as animal chimeras are produced by the merger of multiple fertilized eggs, and as in plant chimeras, however, the distinct types of tissue may originate from the same zygote, and the difference is often due to mutation during ordinary cell division
Medical error, a preventable adverse effect of care ('iatrogenesis'), whether or not it is evident or harmful to the patient, that might include an inaccurate or incomplete diagnosis or treatment of a disease, injury, syndrome, behavior, infection, or other ailment
Environmental impact of pharmaceuticals: Environmental impact of pharmaceuticals and personal care products
Natural disasters,
by continent and by country -
Disaster risk reduction in the world by regions and countries - 'PreventionWeb.net' participatory web platform for the disaster risk reduction community
2021 global natural disasters: 2021 global natural disasters including droughts, heatwaves, wildfires, cyclones, tropical storms, typhoons, floods, landslides, earthquakes -
2021 natural disasters by continent and by country -
2021 in climate change, natural events and phenomena, specified studies
Tropical cyclones in 2021: Tropical cyclones in 2021, listing total systems, fatalities, and damage,
2021 Atlantic hurricane season timeline,
2021 North Indian Ocean cyclone season,
2021 Pacific hurricane season,
2021 Pacific typhoon season,
2020–21 South Pacific cyclone season,
2020–21 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season,
2020–21 Australian region cyclone season
Tornadoes of 2021: 2021 tornadoes and tornado outbreaks worldwide, as strong and destructive tornadoes form most frequently in the USA, Argentina, Brazil, Bangladesh, and Eastern India. Tornadoes also develop occasionally in southern Canada during the Northern Hemisphere's summer and somewhat regularly at other times of the year across Europe, Asia, Argentina, Australia and New Zealand. Tornadic events are often accompanied by other forms of severe weather, including strong thunderstorms, strong winds, and hail. -
10-11 December 2021 tornado outbreak in the USA, coming to fruition as a trough progressed eastward interacting with an unseasonably moist and unstable environment
2021 American, Asian, Australian, European floods: 2021 floods, including 2021 Islamabad flooding, 2021 Maharashtra floods, 2021 China floods, 2021 Eastern Australia floods, 2021 European floods, March 2021 Hawaii floods, 2021 Henan floods, 2021 South Kalimantan floods, 2021 Sri Lanka floods, 2021 Uttarakhand flood
2022 African, American, Asian, American, Australian, European floods: 2022 African, American, Asian, American, Australian, European floods
Since May 2022 widespread monsoon flooding in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka: Since May 2022, widespread monsoon flooding occurred in the South Asian countries of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka
December 2022 North American historic extratropical cyclone including blizzards, high winds, snowfall, record cold temperatures: 21-26 December 2022, a historic extratropical cyclone created winter storm conditions, including blizzards, high winds, snowfall, or record cold temperatures across the majority of the USA and parts of Canada. Areas which experienced blizzard conditions included parts of Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, New York and Ontario, with the Buffalo area of New York and the Fort Erie and Kingston areas of Ontario experiencing almost two full days of blizzard/zero-visibility conditions on December 23 and 24. The cold wave affected all USA states from Colorado to the eastern seaboard and as far south as Miami, Florida. On December 24, 110 million people across 36 states were subject to wind chill alerts. The storm and the related cold wave killed at least 100 people, with six additional deaths occurring due to a contemperaneous smaller storm in the Pacific Northwest including British Columbia, Oregon, and Washington
Since January 2022 global heatwaves, droughts: Since January 2022 worldwide heatwaves, as in January 14 in Australia's Onslow town the temperature hit 50.7 °C, as in February California, including San Francisco, Sacramento, Los Angeles, and San Diego experienced a record-breaking heat wave, and as in late March India began experiencing one of the hottest March-April periods on record -
Droughts in Asia -
2022 Indian heat wave - with hottest March since 1901 - arrived unusually early in the year and extended into April, affecting a large part of the country's northwest. Rainfall has been only a quarter to a third of normal. Several cities had high temperatures over 42.8°C, with Wardha rising to 45°C - -
3 May 2022: Extreme heat kills at least 25 people in India’s Maharashtra state, as scientists have linked the early onset of an intense summer to climate change, and say more than a billion people in India and neighbouring Pakistan were in some way vulnerable to the extreme heat
Since April/May/June 2023 worldwide heat waves: Since April 2023 worldwide heat waves, including 2023 Asia heat wave, 2023 European heat waves since June, 2023 Western North America heat wave since May/June - Since June 2023 European heat waves, including those in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Slovenia, Spain, Türkiye, and United Kingdom -
Since May/June 2023 Western North America heat wave, including those in Canada, USA, and Mexico -
16 July 2023: World experiences hottest week ever recorded and more is forecast to come, according to 'The Guardian', saying 'there is a good chance that the month of July will see the highest global temperatures for 120,000 years'
17 July 2023 millions in Europe, USA, and Asia - in China 52.2°C - hit by severe heat: 17 July 2023: Millions in Europe, USA, Asia hit by severe heat, as China has now confirmed a record temperature of 52.2°C in the north-west of the country over the weekend. More than 100 million people in the USA were under extreme heat advisories this weekend and that record-breaking heat was expected to continue into the new week, as Southern Europe is bracing for a second heat storm in a week, with Italy, Greece and Spain, along with Morocco and other Mediterranean countries, being told temperature records could be broken on Tuesday, 'The Guardian' reports with live updates.
April 021 Table Mountain fire, Cape Town fire in South Africa -
10 August 2021: At least seven people killed, two injured in Algeria forest fires, as firefighters and helicopters are trying to contain several blazes threatening residents in Tizi Ouzou province, 'Al Jazeera' reports -
16 août 2021: Après la Grèce, la Turquie, l'Algérie, le nord du Maroc ravagé à son tour par des feux de forêts, touché depuis dimanche par des feux de forêts, favorisés par de fortes chaleurs et du vent, et plusieurs régions du pays enregistrent ces derniers jours des températures allant jusqu'à 49°C (16 August 2021 following Algeria's forest fires, wildfires also in Morocco amid temperatures of 40° Celsius) -
2021 North American wildfires -
Since May 2021 Oregon wildfire season -
5 August 2021 raging fire guts California Gold Rush town, as Dixie fire tore through mountain town of Greenville on Wednesday evening, leaving much of the downtown in ashes -
March/April 2021 Argentine Patagonia wildfires -
July 2021 Chilean Patagonia wildfire -
2020–21 Dzüko Valley wildfires occurred in the states of Nagaland and Manipur in North-east India, in Asia -
2021 Simlipal forest fires in India's state of Odisha in Asia -
Since June 2021, the taiga forests in Siberia and the Far East region of Russia were hit by unprecedented wildfires, following record-breaking heat and drought -
4 August 2021: Summer wildfires have already produced a record amount of carbon emissions in Russia's Siberian region of Yakutia with still more weeks of the fire season to come, according to EU's Copernicus monitoring, as environmentalists fear the fires, fuelled by hot weather, may thaw Siberian permafrost and peatlands, releasing even more carbon that was long stored in the frozen tundra -
August 2020 – June 2021 Australia's bushfire season -
February 2021 Wooroloo bushfire in western Australia -
2021 wildfires in Europe -
July-August 2021 wildfires in the Mediterranean region of Europe, including Turkey -
27 July 2021: Almost 60 wildfires erupted by Turkey's Aegean, Mediterranean coasts this week -
July 2021 Limassol wildfires, series of wildfires that broke out in Cyprus -
6 August 2021: Wildfires burn out of control in Greece and Turkey as thousands flee, as protracted heatwave continues and as flames threaten populated areas, electricity installations and historic sites -
9 August 2021: The devastating scale of destruction from a week of wildfires in Greece and Italy was being assessed as the EU mounted one of its largest firefighting operations ever and smoke from forest fires in Siberia reached the north pole, and as UN experts on Monday said global warming was advancing faster than feared and that humanity was 'unequivocally' to blame -
12 August 2021: Sicily records Europe’s ‘highest ever’ temperature as fires rage, as some scientists believe temperatures of 48.8C in Italy, as an anticyclone nicknamed ‘Lucifer’ sweeps in, are unprecedented -
13 August 2021: Record Mediterranean heatwaves fuelled blazes that have devastated parts of Italy, Turkey and Algeria, with Spain and Portugal on high alert, while Turkey’s Black Sea region has been hit by some of the worst floods in living memory
Since 2 June 2023 Central Canada wildfires: Since 2 June 2023 Central Canada wildfires, a series of ongoing wildfires in the Central Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec that began on 2 June. A combined total of 211 wildfires are reported as of June 5 by the Ontario and Quebec governments; 145 of them considered to be out of control. Currently, there are 400 firefighters working in Quebec. Air quality is expected to be impacted for both provinces. Due to an unseasonable stretch of hot and dry conditions, fire risk is at dangerous to extreme levels for nearly both provinces. -
20 June 2023: Canada is on fire from coast to coast to coast, catastrophic flooding in Pakistan, back-to-back cyclones in the Pacific islands and droughts in Africa haven’t been enough to create a tipping point for action. Now that climate impacts have hit the economic capital of western power, will it spur governments in the global north to get serious? A lack of scientific knowledge about climate change is not the barrier. Nor is a lack of cleaner, safer, cheaper energy alternatives. The IPCC said as much last year, that the barrier is vested fossil fuel interests putting their profit above our safety, according to Canadian advisor on climate and energy issues Tzeporah Berman.
A continent is one of several large landmasses, as in the 21st century several regions are regarded as continents, including Africa, Americas (North America and South America), Antarctica, Asia, Australia and Europe, as you can say in German 'Das Nacheinander (in der Geschichte unseres Planeten) ist erloschen in einem Nebeneinander auf höherer Stufe als das sich dann das Nacheinander macht (und die Form des Lebens hervorgebracht hat, die das Geschehen begreifen und darauf aufbauend einwirken kann)
Origin of life, as evidence suggests that life on Earth has existed for at least 3.5 billion years, with the oldest physical traces of life dating back 3.7 billion years, as some theories suggest that life on Earth may have started even earlier -
'Phylogenesis', the biological process by which a taxon (of any rank) appears,
and the science that studies these processes is called 'phylogenetics' -
Ontogeny, the developmental history of an organism within its own lifetime, as distinct from phylogeny, which refers to the evolutionary history of a species
World population, population by region and its history -
Demographics of the world and history -
List of countries and dependencies by population density
24/25 April 2023 India overtakes China to become world’s most populous country: 24 April 2023: India has overtaken China as the world’s most populous country, according to UN population estimates, the most significant shift in global demographics since records began. According to the UN’s projections, which are calculated through a variety of factors including census data and birth and death rates, India now has a population of 1,425,775,850 inhabitants, surpassing China for the first time. -
25 April 2023: Life at 25 in India and China, money worries, hard work and no plans for family, as both countries are facing significant demographic challenges, be it dealing with the legacy of a disastrous one-child policy and ageing population or working out how to take advantage of a booming youth cohort while managing huge disparities in the growth rates of different states
Africa
African Palaeolithic society -
Africa has the longest record of human habitation in the world, after the first hominins emerged millions of years ago, and among the earliest anatomically modern human skulls found so far were discovered leftovers at Omo Kibish, Jebel Irhoud, and Florisbad, as for Africa south of the Sahara, African archaeology is classified in a slightly different way to European, with the Paleolithic generally divided into the Early Stone Age approximately 2.6 million years ago - 280,000 years ago, the Middle Stone Age, and the Later Stone Age, as after these three stages come the Pastoral Neolithic, the Iron Age and then later historical periods
In the Paleolithic Era between 500,000 and 10,000 BC the primary socio-economic unit was the band (small kin group). Communication between bands occurred for the purposes of trading ideas, stories, tools, foods, animal skins, mates, and other commodities. Economic resources were constrained by typical ecosystem factors, including density and replacement rates of edible flora and fauna, competition from other consumers (organisms) and climate. Throughout the Upper Paleolithic, humans both dispersed and adapted to a greater variety of environments, and also developed their technologies and behaviors to increase productivity in existing environments. The following eras and periods - Mesolithic, Neolithic, Bronze and Iron ages etc. - show proven gradual domestication of plants and animals and the formation of settled communities at various times and places. The Neolithic shows that exchange and trade became necessary, as 21st century's historians argue that the first object or physical thing specifically used as general equivalent in the exchange was probably cattle -
Timeline of international trade
Several 'out-of-Africa' dispersals of modern humans, possibly beginning as early as 270,000 years ago: There were at least several 'out-of-Africa' dispersals of modern humans, possibly beginning as early as 270,000 years ago, including 215,000 years ago to at least Greece, and certainly via northern Africa about 130,000 to 115,000 years ago, as these early waves appear to have mostly died out or retreated by 80,000 years ago
Waves of human migration from Africa to other continents, and Sahara: As human habitation in North Africa has been greatly influenced by the climate of the Sahara (currently the world's largest warm desert), which has undergone enormous variations between wet and dry over the last few hundred thousand years, and the flora and fauna are forced to retreat northwards to the Atlas Mountains, southwards into West Africa, or eastwards into the Nile Valley, as in terms of human evolution, the Saharan pump has been used to date four waves of human migration from Africa, namely Homo erectus into Southeast and East Asia, Homo heidelbergensis into the Middle East and Western Europe, Homo sapiens sapiens, the spread of Afro-Asiatic languages (Berber and Egyptian to North Africa and Semitic to the Arabian Peninsula and Middle East) -
14 July 2020: Homo erectus is the first hominin known to have gone global, with fossils found from South Africa to Spain and Indonesia
2010s studies uncovered evidence of interbreeding between Homo sapiens and archaic humans in Eurasia, Oceania and Africa: Studies in population genetics in the 2010s uncovered evidence of interbreeding that occurred between Homo sapiens and archaic humans in Eurasia, Oceania and Africa, indicating that modern population groups, while mostly derived from early Homo sapiens, are to a lesser extent also descended from regional variants of archaic humans -
2 July 2014: NCBI study shows the complete genome sequence of a Neandertal from the Altai Mountains in Siberia, also showing that her parents were related at the level of half siblings and that mating among close relatives was common among her recent ancestors, also sequencing the genome of a Neandertal from the Caucasus to low coverage, also showing that several gene flow events occurred among Neandertals, Denisovans and early modern humans, indicating interbreeding, albeit of low magnitude, occurred among many hominin groups in the Late Pleistocene
Population development of the world: As Earth in the beginning 21st century has a population of 7.8 billion, with nearly two-thirds living in Asia, migration of human populations begins with the movement of Homo erectus out of Africa across Eurasia about a million years ago, homo sapiens appear to have occupied all of Africa about 300,000 years ago, moved out of Africa 50,000–60,000 years ago, had spread across Australia, Asia and Europe by 30,000 years BC, as migration to the Americas took place 20,000 to 15,000 years ago
2021 Demographics of Africa, as the population of Africa has grown rapidly over the past century, showing a large youth bulge and a low life expectancy in some countries, as total population as of 2020 is estimated at more than 1.341bn people with a growth rate of more than 2.5% p.a - List of African countries by population and demographics of by country
Americas
Population development of the Americas: Population history of Native American peoples of the Americas - History of Native American peoples of the Americas - History of Native American peoples of North America - History of Native American peoples of South America
Demographics of North America - Population of Native Americans in the USA by state since 1890 - Assimilation of Native Americans in the USA - Demographics of South America - Native American peoples of South America - Afro-American peoples of the Americas
Antarctica - Arctic
Western Asia (later so-called 'Near East' or 'Middle East' by Europeans)
Population development of Western Asia: Demographics and ethnicities of West Asia and West Asian peoples, including Arab people, Jews, Samaritans, Druze, peoples of the Caucasus (transcontinental), ethnic minorities in Iran, ethnic minorities in Iraq, Iranian peoples, Turkmen, Turks - 14 July 2020: Homo erectus is the first hominin known to have gone global, with fossils found from South Africa to Spain and Indonesia, as Sinai Peninsula and today Israel's desert region were a lush bridge out of Africa 1.8 million years ago, scientists prove - Sinaï au 21ème siècle forme une écorégion, se distinguant par le caractère unique de sa géomorphologie, de sa géologie, de son climat, de ses sols, de ses ressources en eau, de sa faune et de sa flore
Jews (Yehudim or Jewish people) originating from the Israelites and Hebrews of historical Israel and Judah: Jews, Yehudim or Jewish people originating from the Israelites and Hebrews of historical Israel and Judah, as Judaism is the ethnic religion of the Jewish people, although its observance varies
Since 740 BCE Swords to ploughshares: In der Zeit von 740 und 701 v. Chr. reagiert der Schriftprophet der hebräischen Bibel Isaias (Jesaja) in Jerusalem, Juda und Israel auf die damalige Verarmung großer Bevölkerungsteile mit einer scharfen Sozialkritik und verheißt den Israeliten und umgebenden mehr oder weniger aggressiven Reichen der Region universalen Frieden und Gerechtigkeit -
740-701 BCE Isaiah (Tanakh 2:4) says that peoples 'shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks', and 'nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more' -
Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears, let the weakling say 'I am a warrior', according to Joel 3:10 or 4:10, as Micah says 4:3 'they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more'
Texts and subject areas of ancient Israeli education: Texts and subject areas of ancient Israeli schools ('education') included texts, the Mishna and later the Talmud and Gemora, all hand-written as emphasis was placed on developing good memory skills in addition to comprehension by practice of oral repetition, as the children (girls were not provided with formal education) would be taught from the six broad subject areas into which the Mishna is divided, including Zeraim ('Seeds'), dealing with agricultural laws and prayers, Moed ('Festival'), pertaining to the laws of the Shabbat and the Festivals, Nashim ('Women'), concerning marriage and divorce, Nezikin ('Damages'), dealing with civil and criminal law, Kodashim ('Holy things'), regarding sacrificial rites, the Temple, and the dietary laws, and Tohorot ('Purities'), pertaining to the laws of purity and impurity
Asia
Demographics and ethnicities of Asia by region including Central Asian, East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, as history of Asia can be seen as the collective history of several distinct peripheral coastal regions such as East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia and the so-called 'Middle East' (Western Asia), also linked by the interior mass of the Eurasian steppe - 14 July 2020: Homo erectus is the first hominin known to have gone global, with fossils found from South Africa to Spain and Indonesia, as Sinai Peninsula and Israel's desert region were a lush bridge out of Africa 1.8 million years ago, scientists prove
Population development of East Asia: East Asian people, the people from East Asia, which consists of China, Taiwan, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea and South Korea, as the total population of all countries within this region is estimated to be 1.677bn and 21% of the world's population in 2020, as the major ethnic groups that form the core of East Asia are the Han, Korean and Yamato, as other ethnic groups of East Asia include the Ainu, Bai, Hui, Manchus, Mongols, Ryukyuan, Tibetans, Uyghurs, Yakuts and Zhuang
Since prehistoric China timeline of Chinese history: Since prehistoric China timeline of Chinese history
Population development of South Asia: South Asian ethnic groups are ethnolinguistic composition of the diverse population of South Asia, including the nations of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, the Maldives and Sri Lanka, as Afghanistan, which is usually considered to be in Central Asia, is sometimes grouped with South Asia, but Afghans are generally not included among South Asian ethnic groups, as the majority of the population fall within three large linguistic groups of Indo-Aryan, Dravidian and Iranic peoples
Population development of Central Asia: Ethnicities, demographics and demographic history of Central Asia
Since the fourth millennium BCH in Central (or Western) Asia region Iranian tribes and dynasties, including Alans, Scythians, Xionites, Dahae, Sarmatians, Saka, The Pahlavas, Massagetaeans, Roxolani, Siraces, Iazyges - Timeline of Iranian history since 33rd century BC - Iranian peoples or the Iranic peoples, a diverse Indo-European ethno-linguistic group identified by their use of the Iranian languages and other cultural similarities
Australia
Population of Australia and history
Oceania countries
Demographics of Oceania, demographics by territory and history of population
European countries, crises in Europe - economy, politics, wars, natural disasters
Demographic history of Europe: Demographic history of Europe
1st/2nd centuries renaming of Israel, Judah, Iudaea to Syria Palaestina by the Roman empire after its war crimes: As Israel has evidence of the earliest migration of hominids out of Africa, the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah emerged during the Iron Age, the Neo-Assyrian Empire destroyed Israel around 720 BCE, then Judah was later conquered by the Babylonian, Persian and Hellenistic empires and had existed as Jewish autonomous provinces, then the successful Maccabean Revolt led to an independent Hasmonean kingdom by 110 BCE, which in 63 BCE however became a client state of the Roman Republic that subsequently installed the Herodian dynasty in 37 BCE, and in 6 CE created the Roman province of Judea, then Judea lasted as a Roman province until the failed Jewish revolts resulted in widespread destruction and mass murder, the expulsion of the Jewish population, and the renaming of the region from Iudaea to Syria Palaestina
Texts and subject areas of ancient Israeli education: Texts and subject areas of ancient Israeli education included texts, the Mishna and later the Talmud and Gemora, all hand-written as emphasis was placed on developing good memory skills in addition to comprehension by practice of oral repetition, as the children (girls were not provided with formal education) would be taught from the six broad subject areas into which the Mishna is divided, including Zeraim ('Seeds'), dealing with agricultural laws and prayers, Moed ('Festival'), pertaining to the laws of the Shabbat and the Festivals, Nashim ('Women'), concerning marriage and divorce, Nezikin ('Damages'), dealing with civil and criminal law, Kodashim ('Holy things'), regarding sacrificial rites, the Temple, and the dietary laws, and Tohorot ('Purities'), pertaining to the laws of purity and impurity
8th-century BC Israelite prophete Isaiah in Judah: Isaias (Jesaja), der erste große Schriftprophet der hebräischen Bibel, der zwischen 740 und 701 BCE im damaligen Südreich Juda und verkündete diesem wie auch dem Nordreich Israel und dem anrückenden Großreich Assyrien das Gericht Gottes, und verhieß den Israeliten aber auch eine endzeitliche Wende zum Heil, das heißt zu universalem Frieden und Gerechtigkeit, und kündigte erstmals einen zukünftigen Messias als gerechten Richter und Retter der Armen an -
Ancient Israel and Judah since 1550 BCE
Since 4th century 'translation', succession of imperial transfers, Grundeigentum (real estate), and new forms of forced labour replacing slavery: The origin and name of the 'Holy Roman Empire' 800/962–1806 and its history -
'Translatio imperii' (transfer of rule) concept that originated from the Middle Ages, in which history is viewed as a linear succession of transfers of an imperium that invests supreme power in a singular ruler, an 'emperor' (or sometimes even several emperors, e.g., the Eastern Roman Empire and the Western Holy Roman Empire), as the concept is linked to 'ecclesiastical translation' (including the transfer of a bishop from one episcopal see to another, 'apostolic succession'),
taken from the 'translatio studii' with origins in the Hebrew Bible and history
Since Middle Ages territorial domination, 'Grundeigentum' and 'Territorialisierung': Territorial domination and 'Territorialisierung' -
Since Middle Ages list of duchies in European countries -
Die Arbeitsrente, wo der unmittelbare Produzent einen Teil der Woche mit Pflug, Vieh etc. den Boden bestellt und Tage der Woche auf dem Gute des Grundherrn arbeitet für den Grundherrn unentgeltlich in einem unmittelbaren Herrschafts- und Knechtschaftsverhältnis sanktioniert durch die hierarchische katholische Kirche, Rente und Mehrwert sind identisch (Rente, nicht der Profit, die Form, worin sich hier die unbezahlte Mehrarbeit ausdrückt), mit dem Problem, wieweit der Arbeiter (self-sustaining serf) hier einen Überschuß über seine unentbehrlichen Subsistenzmittel gewinnen kann, was bei sonst gleichbleibenden Umständen wiederum von dem Verhältnis abhängt, worin seine Arbeitszeit sich teilt in Arbeitszeit für ihn selbst und Fronarbeitszeit für den Grundherrn, ganz und gar bestimmt durch die Höhe der Grundrente, welche hier nicht nur unmittelbar unbezahlte Mehrarbeit ist, sondern auch als solche erscheint
Parenting and society by European territory and later 'country': Parenting by 'country',
Maternity by 'country',
Family by 'country' and since early new ages gradually by 'nationality',
Society by European country
Since 1st–10th century territorial disputes and wars: Territorial disputes ('Gebietsansprüche') -
Since 1st–10th century AD conflicts and wars in Europe to gain territories, slaves and serfs and unpaid work and extra work -
Roman and European 'right' of conquest, i.e. to use military force (even to wipe out people) in relation to other people in their home, settled (always less unsettled) region(s), to gain economic advantages
Since 19th centuries and modern economic crises also vulgar economics: Since 19th centuries and modern economic crises vulgar economics feels completely at home, and that these relationships appear all the more self-evident to it, the more their inner interconnection remains hidden to it, even though these relationships are comprehensible to the popular mind
Class conflict, struggle, analysis and development of the political form of the community: Class conflict, also referred to as class struggle and class warfare, is the political tension and economic antagonism that exists in society consequent to socio-economic competition among the social classes or between rich and poor -
1847/1848 Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei, in welchem die Kommunisten ihre Anschauungsweise, ihre Zwecke, ihre Tendenzen vor der ganzen Welt offen darlegen und dem Märchen vom Gespenst des Kommunismus ein Manifest der Partei selbst entgegenstellen, verfaßt von K. Marx und Fr. Engels und in London versammelten Kommunisten der verschiedensten Nationalität, dann in englischer, französischer, deutscher, italienischer, flämischer und dänischer Sprache veröffentlicht -
1872 angesichts der Fortentwicklung der großen Industrie in den letzten 25 Jahren und der mit ihr fortschreitenden Parteiorganisation der Arbeiterklasse, den praktischen Erfahrungen, zuerst der Revolutionen 1848 ff. und noch weit mehr der Pariser Kommune 1871, wo das Proletariat zum erstenmal zwei Monate lang die politische Gewalt innehatte, ist heute dies Programm stellenweise veraltet, und namentlich hat die Kommune den Beweis geliefert, daß 'die Arbeiterklasse nicht die fertige Staatsmaschine einfach in Besitz nehmen und sie für ihre eigenen Zwecke in Bewegung setzen kann' -
1893, die Früchte der Revolution 1848 wurden von der Kapitalistenklasse eingeheimst, während in den anderen Ländern, in Italien, Deutschland, Österreich, Ungarn, die Arbeiter von Anfang an nichts anderes taten, als die Bourgeoisie an die Macht zu bringen, nur in keinem Lande ist die Herrschaft der Bourgeoisie ohne nationale Unabhängigkeit möglich - daher ggfs. 'Unionen' -, und 1848 mußte somit die Einheit und Unabhängigkeit derjenigen Nationen nach sich ziehen, denen es bis dahin daran gebrach - Italien, Deutschland, Ungarn, Polen wird zu seiner Zeit nachfolgen
Difficulties of unterstanding, 'Forschungs- und Darstellungsweise': 1872, die Untersuchungsmethode, deren ich mich bedient habe und die auf ökonomische Probleme noch nicht angewandt wurde, macht die Lektüre der ersten Kapitel ziemlich schwierig, und es ist zu befürchten, daß das ... Publikum, stets ungeduldig nach dem Ergebnis und begierig, den Zusammenhang zwischen den allgemeinen Grundsätzen und den Fragen zu erkennen, die es unmittelbar bewegen, sich abschrecken läßt, weil es nicht sofort weiter vordringen kann, sagt Karl Marx und fügt hinzu: Das ist ein Nachteil, gegen den ich nichts weiter unternehmen kann, als die nach Wahrheit strebenden Leser von vornherein darauf hinzuweisen und gefaßt zu machen
In the exchange process acts of common will: 'Um diese Dinge als Waren aufeinander zu beziehn, müssen die Warenhüter sich zueinander als Personen verhalten, deren Willen in jenen Dingen haust, so daß der eine nur mit dem Willen des andren, also jeder nur vermittelst eines, beiden gemeinsamen Willensakts sich die fremde Ware aneignet, indem er die eigne veräußert. Sie müssen sich daher wechselseitig als Privateigentümer anerkennen. Dies Rechtsverhältnis, dessen Form der Vertrag ist, ob nun legal entwickelt oder nicht, ist ein Willensverhältnis, worin sich das ökonomische Verhältnis widerspiegelt. Der Inhalt dieses Rechts- oder Willensverhältnisses ist durch das ökonomische Verhältnis selbst gegeben
Legal history of European countries since early new period after the development of towns across the whole continent, seeing a radical change in the rate of new inventions, innovations in the ways of managing traditional means of production, economic growth, as the period saw major technological advances, and the development of medieval schools, hospital and universities
Since 1914 and 1939 war objectives in world wars of Central and Axis powers: Les buts de guerre des Empires centraux sur le plan territorial, politique et économique de la Première Guerre mondiale -
20th century Axis powers' ideology and wars as their primary goal was territorial expansion at the expense of their neighbors
May 1949 Council of Europe: May 1949 Council of Europe founded by Belgium, Denmark, France, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom, as more countries joined later, and in 2021 it has 47 member states
Following WWII 'Cold War', wars in Korea, Indochina etc., two German states and remaining (Neo) Nazism:: Allied-occupied Germany, the administration of the territory upon defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II, when the victorious Allies asserted joint authority and sovereignty, and then governance and the emergence of two German states since 1949 -
Since 1945 central European post-Nazi Germany co-governed and even governed by former NSDAP authorities, supported by newly formed BND (Gestapo) and more secret services, police agents, lawyers, teachers, celebrating NSDAP-state's generals (Heinz Guderian, Erwin Rommel etc.), also engaged in the newly formed military etc., as the German economic giants like Thyssen-Krupp partially and economically powerful class factions kept and keep going etc.
Since early 2000s Russia's Putin regime threating Europe and the EU: Since early 2000s European states' Russian Putin regime and his alliances threating Europe, the European Union and a peaceful and democratic future
Since Paleolithic Era - between 500,000 and 10,000 BC - economic history of the world, as the primary socio-economic unit was the band (small kin group). Communication between bands occurred for the purposes of trading ideas, stories, tools, foods, animal skins, mates, and other commodities. Economic resources were constrained by typical ecosystem factors, including density and replacement rates of edible flora and fauna, competition from other consumers (organisms) and climate. Throughout the Upper Paleolithic, humans both dispersed and adapted to a greater variety of environments, and also developed their technologies and behaviors to increase productivity in existing environments. The following eras and periods - Mesolithic, Neolithic, Bronze and Iron ages etc. - show proven gradual domestication of plants and animals and the formation of settled communities at various times and places. The Neolithic shows that exchange and trade became necessary, as 21st century's historians argue that the first object or physical thing specifically used as general equivalent in the exchange was probably cattle
May 1948 re-establishment of Israel by hundreds of thousands of Jews from all over the world following WWII and the Holocaust: On 14 May 1948 following Axis powers 1939-1945 World War II and during the 1948/1949 Arab–Israeli War, after the last British soldiers left, the re-establishment of a Jewish state in Eretz Israel was proclaimed to be known as the State of Israel,
as in 1949 the war ended and the Israelis started building their state amplified by waves of hundreds of thousands of Jews from all over the world
Since 1971 Greenpeace International, in 2021 including Africa, Aotearoa (protection of oceans), Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, East Asia, European Union, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Greenland, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mexico, 'Middle East' and North Africa, Netherlands, Norway, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Southeast Asia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, USA
Internationale Organisationen, Institutionen etc. zur Intervention, Krisenverhinderung und Krisenbewältigung and since 1942 during WWII 'United Nations'
1925 ineffective 'Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare': Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare, in international armed conflicts signed at Geneva on 17 June 1925 -
UNODA website: 36 Signatory States in 1925, in 2015 number of States Parties 138 -
1949 Geneva Conventions comprising four treaties and three additional protocols, establishing the standards of international law for the humanitarian treatment of war (1864, 1906, 1929, 1949)
United Nations: United Nations (UN) -
History of the United Nations -
United Nations (Website)
Since 1945/1946 UN Security Council: Since 1945/1946 UN Security Council -
UN Security Council (Website)
Timeline of the UN Security Council's resolutions - UN Security Council resolutions by year
1960 UN resolution 138 following Argentine complaint and German and CIA's fears over the transfer of Adolf Eichmann to Israel: In June 1960, after a complaint that the transfer of Adolf Eichmann to Israel from Argentina constituted a violation of the latter's sovereignty, UN Security Council declared in its resolution 138, approved by eight votes, that such acts could endanger international peace and security and requested that Israel make the appropriate reparation in accordance with the UN Charter, but Israel held the view that the matter was beyond the Council's competence and should instead be settled via direct bilateral negotiations,
as the capture of Eichmann caused alarm at the USA's CIA and West German Bundesnachrichtendienst, which had known for at least two years that Eichmann was hiding in Argentina, but did not act, fearing what Eichmann might say in his testimony about West German national security advisor CDU Hans Globke, who had coauthored several antisemitic Nazi laws, according to documents declassified in 2006, also revealing that both agencies had used some of Eichmann's former Nazi colleagues to spy on European countries
Since 2011 UN Security Council resolutions on Syria vetoed by Russia and China: List of vetoed UN Security Council resolutions on Syria, vetoed by Russia and China since 2011
March 2015: 6 March: UN Security Council to vote on a resolution to condemn the use of chlorine as a weapon in Syria and threaten to take action if such arms are used again in the conflict -
7 March: Fourteen Security Council members, including Russia but not Venezuela, adopt a resolution condemning the use of chlorine as a weapon in Syria and 'threatening' to take action - that is another resolution in the event of non-compliance - if such arms are used again in the conflict, which is now in its fourth year -
18 March 2015: The Syrian Coalition sent a letter to the UN Security Council calling for punishing Assad under Chapter VII of UN Charter after regime's latest chlorine gas attack on Sarmin in rural Idlib on Monday -
19 March: Russia refuses to participate in UN Security Council meeting on Crimea -
20 March: UN Security Council meeting on Crimea stresses importance of monitoring human rights in Crimea and eastern Ukraine, Russia, China, Angola and Venezuela refused to participate -
21 March 2015: Russia to block UN mission in Donbas and will not vote in the UN Security Council on the draft resolution to deploy peacekeepers, regime's Lavrov says -
22 March 2015: UN Security Council to meet on Sunday on a request from embattled Yemeni President Hadi for an 'urgent intervention' -
23 March: UN backs Yemen's Hadi as Huthis seize key airport in Taez -
25 March 2015: Assad regime's helicopters drop barrel bombs loaded with chlorine gas on Binnish near Idlib, and conducted seven attacks using chlorine gas in less than 20 days since the adoption of UN Security Council resolution 2209 without any prosecution by UN Security Council, Syrian Coalition says -
27 March 2015: Following Syrian American Medical Society's report, UN has more than doubled its estimate of Syrians who are living in besieged areas — and risk death by starvation, dehydration and the lack of medical care — to roughly 440,000 -
27 March: Gulf states ask UN Security Council for arms embargo on Yemen's Shi'ite rebels
October 2015: 1 October: United Nations veto ban proposal gains support, as some 75 countries in Europe, Africa, Latin America and Asia have already backed the proposal -
2 October: Syrian Coalition's Khoja calls on UNSC for taking immediate action to stop Russia’s brutal air raids on Damascus, Homs, and Hama, where civilian homes, hospitals, and mosques are destroyed by these attacks -
14 October 2015: The head of the UN women’s agency Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka is criticising the low level of women’s inclusion at peace tables, 15 years after a landmark UN resolution that called for women to be included in decision-making positions at every level of peacemaking and peace building -
16 October: Ukraine elected as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council -
16 October: Security Council to hold emergency talks on Jerusalem violence -
16 October: At Security Council meeting, Israel rejects any international intervention at Temple Mount -
16 October: DRC's Julienne Lusenge addressed the security council saying that seven years earlier she described to the council the rapes, murders and massacres ravaging her country, asking for action, and in 2015 almost nothing had changed and neither research on the benefits of female involvement for peace-building nor a UN resolution have ended the routine exclusion of women from negotiations -
21 October: Syrian Coalition calls on the UN Security Council to take 'firm and effective' action to stop the Russian aggression on the Syrian people following the horrible massacre committed by the Russian air force yesterday in rural Latakia where 80 people were killed -
22 October: Britain, France, Germany and the USA asked UN Security Council sanctions committee to investigate Iran’s recent missile test on October 10, branding it a serious violation of UN resolutions -
24 October 2015: France will submit a new draft resolution to the UN Security Council calling on the Assad regime to stop using barrel bombs as well as condemning other 'indiscriminate attacks' against civilians -
27 October: UNSC must condemn Russia’s targeting of civilians and hospitals in Syria, Syrian Coalition says, stating that Russian airstrikes have killed 1,511 civilians, including women and children as of October 26
December 2015: 5 December: USA to lead UN Security Council meeting on terror financing -
8 December: China and Russia oppose UN council meeting on human rights in North Korea accused by a UN inquiry, which has the backing of the nine council members Chile, France, Jordan, Lithuania, Malaysia, New Zealand, Spain, UK and the USA -
9 December 2015: The Syrian Coalition calls upon the UN Security Council to intervene immediately to stop bombing of civilians and hospitals by both Assad and Russia -
12 December: USA accuses Russian regime of attempting to suppress public discussion of facts about the nearly two-year-old agression against Ukraine -
12 December: Syrian Coalition sends letter to the UNSC condemning Russia’s escalating attacks on FSA and civilians, including public markets, bakeries, and residential buildings -
16 December: Iran violated sanctions with missile test, capable of delivering nuclear weapons, says UN panel -
18 December 2015: UN Security Council adopts resolution to cut off Islamic State terrorists funding with measures such as asset freeze, travel ban and arms embargo, targeting corrupt states, banks and organizations -
18 December 2015 UN Security Council Resolution 2254 concerning the conflict in Syria -
19 December 2015: UN security council adopts resolution on Syrian peace process calling for the UN to present the council with options for monitoring a ceasefire within one month,
as Russian warplanes and warplanes believed to be Russian carry out more airstrikes in Lattakia province, killing more children,
in Aleppo province, killing civilians,
in Idlib province, trargeting the city of Jeser al-Shogour west, killing at least 7 children and 7 women in a massacre, one of them pregnant,
and again in Idlib province, targeting the town of al-Najiyyah and as a group of protesters, some holding Syrian revolutionary flags, gather in front of UN headquarters, harbouring Russian regime's Lavrov and Assad regime's Jaafari -
21 December 2015: Russian airstrikes on Idlib, targeting health and public services centers as well as apartment buildings in the city center, killing 50 civilians and wounding 170 others, violates UNSC resolution 2254, Syrian Coalition says -
22 December 2015: After less than 48 hours since the Security Council unanimously adopted resolution 2254, the Assad regime and Russian forces jointly escalated their war on civilians across Syria, killing innocent men, women and children through indiscriminate aerial attacks, the Council was briefed on the humanitarian situation in Syria for the twenty-third time since the adoption of resolution 2139 in February 2014, only leading to an increase in civilian death and a worsening of Syria’s humanitarian situation -
23 Decembert 2015: Amnesty International says Russian air strikes in Syria may amount to war crimes after gathering reports on hundreds of civilians killed in their homes, medical facilities and other public spaces -
23 December 2015: Assad regime forces targeted Moadamiya with sarin-filled shells, killing ten people, including women and children, and injuring over 30 others in another war crime condemned by the Syrian Coalition calling upon the UN Security Council for measures under Chapter VII -
25 December 2015: Amnesty International responds to Russia's denial of committing war crimes in Syria, saying that the organization has compelling evidence that Russian airstrikes targeted civilians in markets, hospitals, mosques and populated areas and evidence of the use of cluster bombs
February 2016: 7 February 2016: South Korea, USA and Japan are requesting an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council, after North Korea fired long range rocket despite UN ban -
7 February 2016: UN security council condemns North Korea rocket launch, promising to take punitive steps -
9 February 2016: Mass deaths of detainees in Syrian Government jails amounts to crime of 'extermination', UN commission of inquiry on Syria says in its report calling on the UN security council to impose sanctions against Syrian officials in the civilian and military hierarchy responsible for or complicit in deaths, torture and disappearances in custody -
18 February: UN's Ban Ki-moon tells Security Council that states and regimes must choose between implementing ceasefire or continuing to 'pursue the bankrupt logic of a military victory' -
20 February: In a letter to the UN Security Council Syrian Coalition's President Khoja condemns Russia’s latest attacks on Aleppo and its deliberate targeting of Syrian hospitals, medical facilities and schools, demands the immediate withdrawal of Russian forces from Syrian territory and also calls for ensuring accountability for all committed war crimes -
22 February: At least 19,947 barrel bombs have been dropped by the Assad regime on rebel-held areas across Syria since the adoption of UN Security Council resolution 2139 on 22 February 2014, SNHR says -
22 February 2016: War crimes in Syria's five-year-old conflict are widespread and Syrian government forces and Islamic State militants continue to commit crimes against humanity in the face of inaction by the international community, UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry says in its latest report -
25 February: Syrian Coalition urges UN Security Council to condemn the recent escalation of aerial bombardment on Aleppo, to break the sieges across Syria, finitely protect civilians from indiscriminate aerial bombardment, and ensure accountability for war crimes -
27 February: In response to the UN Security Council’s adoption of resolution 2268 on the 'cessation of hostiles' in Syria, the Syrian Coalition supports efforts to protect civilians and to achieve a political solution away from Assad -
27 February: Callng on the UN Security Council to respond to the Assad regime’s violations of the ceasefire agreement, the Syrian Coalition says that the Assad regime bombed 15 rebel-held areas across Syria with heavy machine-guns, artillery and barrel bombs in Damascus, Rural Damascus, Daraa, Aleppo, Homs, Hama and Lattakia province -
29 February: In a letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Syrian opposition is warning attacks by Russian warplanes backing government forces are threatening fragile truce
April 2016: 26 April 2016: Security Council asks UN's Secretary-General to submit a broad plan within 30 days detailing how his Yemen envoy can help the warring Yemeni parties move towards peace -
29 April: Ukraine's Vadym Prystaiko said at a meeting of the UN Security Council that the Russian Federation had concentrated a 34,000-strong hybrid military force in the occupied part of Donbas
May 2016: 4 May 2016: UN Security Council condemnation of North Korea's latest missile tests has been delayed by Russian regime -
5 May: An an emergency meeting of the Security Council UN's Feltman calls for referring Syrian Assad regime to ICC, charging the regime with war crimes -
7 May 2016: Russia blocks UN statement on Syria airstrikes -
13 May 2016: UN Security Council expressed its outrage at recent attacks in Syria targeting civilians and medical facilities, stressing these actions may amount to war crimes,
as the SNHR said that it had documented 23 massacres by regime and Russian forces, hundreds of barrel bomb attacks, that claimed the lives of hundreds of civilians, and the death of 26 detainees killed under torture in April -
14 May 2016: Assad regime and Russian forces stepped up airstrikes on rural Idlib, concentrated on populated areas and vital civilian facilities on Friday, killing 20 civilians and injuring at least 35 -
18 May 2016: The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office accuses the Assad regime of directly violating UN Security Council Resolution 2268 by seizing medical aid bound to civilians trapped in the besieged areas and preventing the evacuation of those in urgent need for treatment -
29 May: The number of Syrians living under siege has grown by some 75,000 to total 592,700, underscoring the worsening plight of civilians in the five-year war, the UN aid chief Stephen O’Brien tells the Security Council, saying that the use of siege and starvation as a weapon of war was 'reprehensible' and 'must stop immediately'
June 2016: 1 June 2016: Hospitals are now normal targets of war, Médecins Sans Frontières' Michiel Hofman says, describing permanent members of the UN security council as complicit in killings,
after Russia blamed for new strikes which targeted two hospitals and other parts of Idlib city, killing scores -
2 juin 2016: Le Conseil de sécurité de l'ONU a condamné les trois récents tirs manqués de missiles balistiques effectués par la Corée du Nord -
14 June: Saudi Arabia-backed Syrian High Negotiations Committee's Agha slams Russia's attempts to postpone political transition, saying that the UN Security Council resolution 2254 has been ignored by Russia and rejected by the Assad regime -
21 June 2016: After Russian jets on Monday bombed the towns of Huraytan, Hayyan, Anadan, Kafar Hamra, Maaret Alartiq, Urm Alqubra, Messibin, Babees and Anjara in rural Aleppo, reportedly using cluster munitions and killing at least 21 civilians and injuring dozens more, Syrian Coalition calls for UN action to stop Russia’s use of banned weapons in Syria -
24 June 2016: 12 civilians were killed and dozens more injured in Aleppo in airstrikes by Russian jets, using internationally banned weapons, most notably incendiary and cluster munitions -
24 June 2016: Saudi Arabia-backed HNC urges UN to protect Syrian civilians from Russian incendiary bombs,
as UN's Stephen O’Brien says that the use of barrel bombs in the Syrian conflict 'constitutes indiscriminate attacks' against civilians, adding that their sole purpose is 'to terrorize and punish the civilian population'
August 2016: 2 August 2016: One year after the UN security council adopted a resolution that set a 12 month-deadline to identify the perpetrators of chlorine attacks in Syria, dozens injured in a chemical attack using a gas cylinder laced with chlorine and targeting the town of Saraqeb in Idlib province, which is under opposition control, and near where a Russian helicopter was shot down on Monday -
2 August 2016: Syrian Coalition demands UN action under chapter VII following Assad regime chlorine attacks on Saraqib in Idlib province -
4 August 2016: Daraya local council calls on the United Nations to immediately enforce provisions set out in international resolutions pertaining to the situation in besieged areas, as Assad helicopters drop Napalm-filled barrels on Daraya and the humanitarian situation deteriorates -
8 August 2016: As Syria’s Assad regime and Russian regime are carrying out daily airstrikes, MSF's Silvia Dallatomasina demands an immediate end to attacks on hospitals, pointing that four out of five UN security council members were participants in the war in Syria, after hospital supported by Doctors Without Borders in rebel-held northern province of Idlib that specialized in pediatrics hit by series of airstrikes in broad daylight, leaving four staff and five children dead and injuring six other hospital staff members, and after UN said it had recorded 44 attacks on health facilities in Syria in July alone -
9 August 2016: UN Security Council warns Russia's proposed 'Safe Passages' are risky -
10 August 2016: Medical workers in Syrian liberated areas say that Russian and Assad regime air forces targeted around 36 medical facilities within the last 40 days in blatant violation of UN Security Council Resolution 2286 adopted on 3 May 2016, strongly condemning attacks on medical facilities and personnel -
10 August 2016: Alwaer residents appeal to UN as Assad regime tightens siege, violating UN resolutions -
12 August 2016: With 11 votes and four abstentions UN approves increase in peacekeeping force in South Sudan, as an additional 4,000 peacekeepers will be dispatched, making the total deployment 17,000 troops, that will be asked to take more 'proactive' measures to protect civilians -
16 August 2016: Over 100 barrel bombs hit Daraya in rural Damascus, some filled with napalm, as the local council callsd on the United Nations and international organizations to intervene immediately to stop the war crimes -
16 August 2016: Syrian Coalition's Bashar says that the UN has so far failed to enforce own resolutions passed on Syria, only offering flawed proposals -
17 August 2016: Assad regime and Russian terrorist air forces continue to brutally bomb Aleppo, Idlib and Daraya, killing over 400 civilians in the past week, using internationally banned weapons, most notably cluster bombs, vacuum bombs, napalm and barrel bombs -
18 August 2016: The injuring of five-year-old Omran Daqneesh 'is a daily fact of Russian and Syrian government airstrikes' and 'they take turns bombing civilians in Aleppo before the whole world', 'this child is a representative of millions of children in Syria and its cities', Aleppo-based journalist Mustafa al-Sarout says -
UN World Humanitarian Day 19 August 2016 -
22 August 2016: 'I'm angry, very angry...this callous carnage that is Syria has long since moved from the cynical, to the sinful', UN's Stephen O'Brien tells the UN Security Council,
adding that Aleppo is being bombed every day and has become 'the apex of horror' in 'the greatest crisis of our time', that 'you have the power with a pen - a simple pen stroke - to allow food to people' -
24 August 2016: Reports by independent human rights groups indicate that the Assad regime has used chemical weapons 136 times since the adoption of UN Security Council resolution 2118 on 27 September 2013, as Syrian Coalition calls upon the UN Security Council to re-open the file of the 2013 Ghouta Massacre and refer it to the ICC -
24 August 2016: International inquiry accuses Syrian Assad regime of using chemical weapons, setting the stage for a Security Council decision of the five veto-wielding powers over whether sanctions should be imposed,
as the Syrian Coalition repeats its call for referring the chemical weapons dossier in Syria to the International Criminal Court -
26 August 2016: As Syrian Coalition's Nyrabiya urges UNSC to refer chemical attacks case to ICC, warning that blocking this move will encourage the culture of impunity prevalent in Syria and will give a green light to perpetrators to carry out more crimes using internationally banned weapons,
USA permanent representative to the United Nations S. Power calls the use of chemicals 'a barbaric tool, repugnant to the conscience of mankind' and urges the UN to take 'strong and swift action' -
30 August: Syrian Coalition's letter to UN Secretary General on Assad regime’s use of the UN as a 'cover' for mass displacement aimed at bringing about a demographic change in Syria -
30/31 August 2016: Russian air force carried out dozens of airstrikes on Idlib city and its countryside, using internationally banned weapons, including napalm and white phosphorus
September 2016: 1 September 2016: Human Rights Watch calls on the UN Security Council to urgently impose sanctions on the Assad regime for chemical weapon attacks in Syria and refer the situation to the International Criminal Court -
3 September: Syrian Coalition sent a letter to the UN Secretary-General concerning the third report of the OPCW-UN Joint Investigative Mechanism on the use of chemical weapons in Syria, calling for action against Assad -
6 septembre: L'ONU condamne les tirs nord-coréens -
8 September 2016: As chemical weapons watchdog chief says Aleppo gas attack disturbing, the UN Security Council is due to discuss a report by the UN and the watchdog group OPCW, blaming Assad regime forces for previous toxic gas attacks -
16 September 2016: UN-led international inquiry has identified two Syrian Assad regime air force helicopter squadrons and two other military units it holds responsible for chlorine gas attacks on civilians -
17 September: UN Security Council cancels meeting on Syria -
18 September: USA ambassador to the UN Samantha Power describes Russia’s call for an emergency closed-door security council meeting over an incident, that possibly killed through an error Assad regime military personnel, a 'stunt' that was 'uniquely cynical and hypocritical' as Russia had for years blocked UN punitive measures against the Syrian Assad regime and its perpetrators for the barrel bombing of civilian populations in rebel-held cities -
19 September 2016: At least eight civilians were killed and dozens more injured in Assad regime barrel bombs attacks on the southern Daraa province -
20 September 2016: USA blames Russia after UN aid convoy in Syria targeted by air attack and UN official says 'inexplicable' attack could amount to a war crime if bombing which killed aid workers proved to be deliberate -
20 September 2016: Red Cross president says attack on UN and Red Crescent convoy delivering supplies is unacceptable violation of international law and UN suspends all aid convoy movements in Syria after airstrike -
20 September: The UN said 18 of the trucks were damaged or destroyed and insisted that the damage to them had been caused by airstrikes, as bystanders at the scene of the attacks reported multiple airstrikes, and airstrikes in the area are realized only by Russian and Assad warplanes -
21 September 2016: Russian planes dropped bombs that destroyed UN aid convoy and killed at least 20 people in opposition-controlled Urem al-Kubra in Syria, according to USA officials also saying two Russian Sukhoi SU-24 warplanes were in the sky above the aid convoy at the precise time it was struck -
21 September: Speaking at UN Security Council meeting on Syria, USA secretary of state John Kerry accuses the Syrian Assad regime of dropping barrel bombs on children and bombing hospitals, adding that the council members know that these are flagrant violations of international law -
24 September: Syrian Coalition condemns the barbaric onslaught launched by the Assad regime and Russian forces on Aleppo, slamming the inaction of the international community and its failure to stop heinous crimes in Syria, despite promises and condemnations repeated again, again and again -
25 September 2016: UN security council to meet on Syria amid intense bombardment, appearing to include extremely powerful 'bunker buster' bombs, by Assad and Russian forces that left dozens dead and nearly 2 million without water in the city of Aleppo -
25 September: Russia accused of war crimes in Syria at UN security council session,
as the ambassadors from the USA, Britain and France walk out of the council chamber in protest against Assad regime's Ja’afari and the regime's war crimes -
27 September 2016: Syrian photographer code-named Caesar wins 2017 Nuremberg International Human Rights Award for exposing torture in Assad’s prisons -
28 september 2016: As Unicef counts 96 children killed and 223 injured since Friday, the two largest hospitals in besieged eastern Aleppo, which serve a quarter of a million civilians, bombed out of service by Russian and Assad regime airforces, in what doctors describe as a catastrophic campaign that is testing the conscience of the world, giving account that 'children ... are coming to us as body parts' -
28 September 2016: Condemning Russian and Assad regime's attacks on the two largest hospitals in eastern Aleppo as 'war crimes', UN's Ban Ki-moon says that 'those using ever more destructive weapons know exactly what they are doing' -
29 September 2016: Daily life in Aleppo will descend into hell within a month under air strikes from the regime and its Russian ally, civil defense official Meshal warns -
29 September: UN's Stephen O’Brien asks the Security Council 'whether there is any level of disaster and death that can be visited upon the Syrian people that might prompt the parties to this conflict, and by extension the international community, to identify a red line that will not be crossed',
as the UN itself has come under intense scrutiny in recent months, with aid organisations, human rights groups and NGOs accusing it of being too close to the Assad regime without scruple and its accomplices to murder -
30 September 2016: Syrian Coalition’s legal committee submits a memorandum to the UN Security Council on the genocidal war the Assad regime as well as its Russian and Iranian allies wage on Aleppo
October 2016: 1 October 2016: Syrian Coalition’s Michel Kilo says that the international community must deter Russian aggression on Syria, warning that Russia is drawing the world to the precipice of chaos and mayhem and that Russia’s actions threaten the creation of the same conditions Hitler’s policies created and which led to the breakout of World War II -
8 October 2016: UN to vote on rival Syria resolutions and likely veto both -
9 October 2016: French foreign minister Ayrault compares Aleppo's likely fate to Guernica during the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939, Srebrenica during the Bosnian war and the Chechen capital Grozny destroyed by the Russian army in the mid-1990s, saying 'it is the annihilation of Aleppo', declaring that the continued bombing by Russian and Assad forces will leave the city in ruins, a place where citizens will be left to their 'executioners', as Russian regime vetoes French-drafted UN Resolution demanding immediate halt to Aleppo bombing, and a number of ambassadors walked out, including the representatives of Britain, France, Ukraine, the USA, when Assad regime's UN ambassador Ja'afari started speaking -
11 October 2016: UN's Ban Ki-moon on Monday again asked the Security Council to formally request that the International Criminal Court ICC begin investigations of war crimes in Syria -
12 October: At least 62 countries signed a letter calling on the UN Security Council to prevent further deaths resulting from a 'calculated campaign' by the Assad regime and its allies on Aleppo -
13 October: New Zealand circulated to the 15-member UN Security Council a draft resolution that would demand an end to all attacks that kill civilians in Syria, particularly air strikes in Aleppo, just days after Russia vetoed a similar text -
14 octobre 2016: Le Royaume-Uni va présenter un projet de résolution au Conseil de sécurité de l'ONU réclamant un cessez-le-feu immédiat au Yémen après le carnage perpétré dans la capitale Sanaa lors d'une cérémonie funéraire -
19 October 2016: Russian convoy of warships, including an aircraft carrier carrying fighter bombers, passes Britain on its way to Syria, monitored by governments and politicians, since nearly 6 years concerned about their discussion threads with brutal Russian, Iranian and Assad terrorists and not about the victims, where it is thought they will participate in a final assault on the besieged city of Aleppo, where children are coming as body parts to surviving doctors in out bombed hospitals -
21 October 2016: The Syrian Coalition and the Free Syrian Army say that the UN continues to ignore Russia’s crimes and its violations of international law in Syria -
22 October 2016: International inquiry has found Syrian Assad regime forces responsible for a third toxic gas attack in Qmenas in Idlib governorate on 16 March 2015, according to a fourth report submitted to the UN Security Council, after the third report by the inquiry in August blamed Assad for two chlorine attacks in Talmenes on 21 April 2014 and Sarmin on 16 March 2015,
following Ghouta chemical attacks in August 2013 on opposition-controlled areas in the suburbs around Damascus using chemical agent sarin, and after in September 2013 the USA Senate filed a resolution to authorize use of military force against Assad's military in response, averted when the murderous regime accepted a USA–Russian negotiated deal to turn over 'every single bit' of its chemical weapons stockpiles for destruction, but has in reality encouraged Assad to escalate his war against the Syrian people, to invite the Russian regime and its murderous military to join Assad's terrorism and to annihilate the Syrian democracy and any opposition against dictatorship -
27 October 2016: UN humanitarian chief Stephen O’Brien calls the failure of the UN security council, and Russia in particular, to stop the bombing of eastern Aleppo and the mass killing of civilians 'our generation’s shame', as envoys from France,the UK and USA come to the UN’s defence against a Russian regime's envoy, who should not sit in New York but in The Hague's ICC for complicity,
as Russian or Assad's warplanes in their recent terror attack kill at least 26 people, most of them schoolchildren, teachers and rescue workers,
in Syria's Idlib -
27 October 2016: The USA directly accuses either Syria or Russia of being behind airstrikes that destroyed a school complex in Idlib province on Wednesday, as rescue workers describe details of the attack that levelled much of the area, killing almost 40 people, and as a doctor who treated many of the wounded says most of the dead were children aged six to 15 as well as female teachers, putting the number of injured at more than 100 and describing that many of the children who had arrived at the hospital had lost limbs -
28 October 2016: SOHR condemns the massacres committed by the Russian and Syrian warplanes against the Syrian citizens in Syria and in Idlib's Has, murdering in the recent school attack at least 37 civilians including 15 students, 4 teachers, 3 females, and a doctor, who died wounded after the aerial bombardment, as regime forces and allies are perpetuating their terror attacks on the towns of Safohin and al-Mozara in Idlib province and across the country, despite international condemnation, due to inactivity and complicity of some states, regimes and parties -
9 November 2016: As the Assad regime’s mass forced displacement operations, which amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, Syrian Coalition's Mohammed Jojah criticizes the international community’s failure to take action against the regime’s policies, saying that apart from shy calls by some friendly countries to end the conflict, the international community has not yet assumed its responsibility to put an end to the crimes of the Assad regime and its allies -
16 November 2016: New report by human rights group SNHR claims Assad regime is responsible for the death of 188,729 civilians, over 90% of all victims from nearly six years of war in Syria, also saying that the responsibility for war crimes also moved just weeks after the outbreak of the popular uprising in Syria in 2011 to the international community, to take collective measures in accordance with Articles 41 and 42 of the UN charter, but did not lift a finger because of Russian and Chinese protection for the Syrian regime -
16 November 2016: Bringing the total number of hospitals targeted by Russian warplanes on Monday in Aleppo's countryside to three, Russian murderous air strikes are targeting and destroying the Baghdad hospital, killing and wounding dozens and burying others under the rubble, while civil defense forces are working to lift the rubble to save the survivors and remove the corpses -
16 November 2016: Canadian FM Stephane Dion welcomes Syrian opposition leader for talks as meetings are touching on ways to circumvent Russia's veto power at the UNSC in order to end the bloodshed of Syrian civilians -
18 November 2016: UN Security Council approved a one-year extension of an international inquiry to determine blame for chemical weapons attacks in Syria -
19 November 2016: Syrian Coalition’s Bassam Abdullah says that the international community has a political, legal and moral responsibility to force the Assad regime and Russia to stop the horrific massacres they are committing in Syria -
21 November 2016: The Council of Free Aleppo Governorate calls upon the UN and human rights organizations to assume their responsibilities towards the protection of civilians in Aleppo from the fierce bombing campaign by the Assad regime and Russia forces -
21 November 2016: Assad's military commanders were involved in 'killing and injuring civilians' since 2011 with assaults on schools, hospitals and homes, says USA ambassador to the UN Samantha Power, reading out names and the military units to a meeting of the UN security council -
22 November 2016: Israeli activists launch awareness campaign to express their solidarity with the civilians in the face of a military escalation being carried out by Russia, Assad and his allied militias, calling for communal prayers on Jewish holiday for the 'hundreds of Syrians who are dying daily in Syria, men, women and children, while the world is silent' -
22 November 2016: Aleppo siege is 'war of extermination', a doctor in eastern Aleppo says, who was wounded earlier this month in an airstrike, adding that 'everything is being exterminated with the collusion of the United Nations, they all see and hear, but they will not answer, and they cannot stop this war machine' -
28 November 2016: Syrian Coalition urges international action to end Assad regime's siege of Al-Tal saying threat must not be ignored as Assad regime has already proven willingness to commit crimes of unimaginable proportions to achieve its goals -
29 November 2016: France calls for UN Security Council meeting over Aleppo saying 'we need to urgently put in place means to end the hostilities and to allow humanitarian aid to get through unhindered', as terror group Hezbollah and allied Iranian militants announce huge victory -
30 November: Syrian Coalition's letter to UN and UN Security Council presses for stopping Assad’s and Russia’s onslaught on Aleppo
December 2016: 1 December 2016: While UN's Stephen O’Brien tells an emergency session of the UN security council that Aleppo becoming 'one giant graveyard', the recent offensive by Assad regime forces, by Russian air power, Iranian ground forces, militia fighters from Iran, Iraq and Lebanese terror group Hezbollah hasn’t just cost the opposition two-thirds of their held areas, but also displaced more than 20,000 civilians and killed hundreds -
1 December: UN tightens sanctions on North Korea after largest nuclear test yet -
2 December 2016: As the Russian and Assad regime onslaught on Aleppo continues causing an untold humanitarian catastrophe, over 220 civil society organizations from 45 countries have issued a declaration saying that the UN Security Council has 'failed to uphold its responsibility to protect the Syrian people' -
3 December 2016: Thousands of Syrians took to the streets in many towns and cities across Syria to denounce the war crimes being committed by the Assad regime and Russia as well as the Iranian-backed foreign militias in Aleppo, also chanting slogans denouncing 'the international silence' over such crimes -
5 December 2016: 38 civilians confirmed dead including 5 children and 6 persons from the same family including a woman, by Russian airstrikes targeting the city of Maara al-Nuaman in Syria's Idlib province, rising the number of murdered civilians by aerial bombardment to 73 today -
6 December 2016: Syrian opposition calls on international community to shoulder its responsibility to end the bombardment and slaughter in Syria, especially Aleppo, and actively seek to deliver humanitarian aid,
as Aleppo medics convert basements into operation rooms to evade airstrikes -
6 December: Syrian Coalition's Ghadbian condemns Russia’s vetoing UN Security Council resolution, drafted by New Zealand, Spain and Egypt, calling for the imposition of a 7-day cease-fire in Aleppo so that humanitarian aid could reach the city’s besieged eastern neighborhoods -
7 December 2016: Assad regime warplanes carried out dozens of air raids using vacuum bombs on the towns and villages of the Idlib countryside, killing six civilians and wounding 15, some of them seriously,
as schools in Idlib province have suspended teaching after the regime and Russia’s deadly aerial campaign killed around 70 people, including many children, over the past four days,
and as in Aleppo dozens of corpses are still in the streets from Shaar neighborhood, because the ambulances and rescue teams are not able to pull the corpses due to the murderous Russian and Assad's military operations -
8 December: Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Turkey issued a statement calling on the UN to hold an emergency special session of the General Assembly to end the Aleppo crisis, also condemning dealing with the Syrian crisis like it was an ordinary event, and critizising the international institution’s incapability to perform the tasks it was established for following World War II -
8 December 2016: Western diplomats have conceded that there are no technical obstacles to a plan to deliver airdrops of food and medicine to Aleppo using a GPS-guided parachute system, but the scheme has been stalled in the face of reluctance among military commanders and an absence of political will -
14 December 2016: 'Aleppo should represent the end of the quest for military victory, not the start of a broader military campaign in a country already ravaged beyond all recognition by five years of war', UN's Ban Ki-moon told an emergency meeting of the Security Council -
18 December: UN Security Council to vote Sunday on Aleppo observers, as thousands look to flee besieged areas of war-ravaged city,
and as the Assad regime and Iran were trying to impose new conditions to the evacuation deal -
20 December: UN Security Council unanimously called for UN officials and others to observe the evacuation of people from eastern Aleppo and monitor the safety of civilians who remain in the rebel-held part of the city -
24 December 2016: Confusing the council with a delayed committee of the murderous Roman Empire,
UN Security Council condemns Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, destroying the last remainder of UN's credibility, completely incapable to deal with proceeding war crimes against the Syrian people since 6 years -
24 December 2016: Rejecting UN Security Council's resolution which describes the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem and the Western Wall as occupied territory and condemns Israel's settlement policy, Israel's PM Netanyahu says with the necessary clarity, that 'half a million Syrians are being slaughtered in Syria, tens of thousands are butchered in Sudan, the Middle East is up in flames, yet the Obama administration and the UN Security Council choose to set upon the only democracy in the Middle East',
but forgets to mention his own recent meetings with war criminal Putin in Moscow,
also encouraging the Russians, Iranians and Hezbollah to commit more war crimes -
28 December 2016: Israel’s absence at the UN General Assembly on resolution A/71/L.48 to collect, consolidate, preserve and analyse evidence of violations of international humanitarian law and human rights violations and abuses in Syria since 2011, reportedly the result of 'a cynical deal' between Jerusalem and Moscow
January 2017: 2 January 2017: Syria clashes test fragile truce after UN Security Council approved a resolution supporting a Russian and Turkish initiative -
8/9 January 2017: Jerusalem terror attack by an Israeli Arab citizen, who rammed a truck deliberately into a group of Israeli soldiers disembarking from a bus in the Israeli settlement Armon Hanatziv Esplanade in Jerusalem, killing 4 and injuring 15,
condemned by the UN Security Council, emphasizing 'need for those responsible for this reprehensible act of terrorism to be held accountable' -
9/10 January 2017: Syrian Coalition urges the UN Security Council to adopt a resolution calling for the immediate withdrawal of all foreign militias from Syria and to require all parties to stop supporting or providing political and legal cover for the actions of these militias,
violating the ceasefire agreement -
10 January 2017: At least 271 people, including 25 women and 34 children, reportedly killed as a result of 399 ceasefire breaches by the Assad regime and Iranian-backed militias since 29 December -
13 January 2017: UNSC urged on Thursday to discuss accountability for chemical weapons attacks in Syria -
14 January 2017: For the first time in a report published Friday, joint international team of investigators for the UN and the OPCW determined that Syrian regime's Bashar Assad and his brother Maher are suspected of being tied to several chemical weapons attacks carried out in the country in 2014 and 2015,
according to a document seen by Reuters, as an ICC spokesman says, that 'the only way that (the) ICC would have jurisdiction over the situation would be through a referral by the Security Council' -
19 January: Syrian Coalition urges Russia to adopt resolution under Chapter VII to hold truce violators accountable -
27 January 2017: UN officials urged the UN Security Council to do more to ensure the delivery of life-saving aid to civilians in the besieged areas, as nearly 700,000 people still under siege across Syria and as Assad regime continues to block aid -
31 janvier 2017: Le Conseil de sécurité de l'ONU se réunira en urgence après un tir de missile iranien
February 2017: 1 February 2017: UN Security Council's representatives, including Russian regime's, express grave concern about the dangerous deterioration of the situation in eastern Ukraine and its severe impact on the local civilian population, also calling for an immediate return to a ceasefire regime,
as the Trilateral Contact Group's representatives, including Russian regime's, will meet in Minsk today -
8 February 2017: Syrian Coalition’s Muhammed Jojah renews calls to refer the situation in Syria to the International Criminal Court and to hold the Assad regime accountable for war crimes, especially after further evidence on the scale of torture and murder perpetrated by the regime against civilian detainees has emerged in a rights group's report in February -
8 February 2017: UN reportedly 'horrified' about Amnesty’s report on Saydnaya prison -
14 February 2017: The Assad regime forces conducted coordinated chemical attacks in opposition-controlled parts of Aleppo during the final month of the battle for the city, according to Human Rights Watch -
15 February 2017: France calls on UN Security Council to respond over the Assad regime’s use of chemical weapons in Syria with a resolution that would punish those responsible for repeated attacks -
20 February: Russia is breaking promise to investigate civilian casualties of airstrikes in Syria, Human Rights Watch says -
23 February 2017: Human Rights Watch's official Whitson confirms Assad regime responsible for Sarin attack on Eastern Ghouta in 2013 -
24 February 2017: UN Security Council is likely to vote next week on a draft resolution proposing some sanctions on the Assad regime over the use of chemical weapons, but Russia is almost certain to veto the symbolic measures proposed by Britain, France and the USA, including a ban on the sale of more helicopters and a travel ban on 11 Assad regime officials
April 2017: 1 April 2017: Airstrikes hit a hospital supported by medical aid group in Latamnah in Hama province last week, killing two people, with evidence chemical weapons were used, according to Medecins Sans Frontieres -
4 April 2017: At least 35 people have been killed in a suspected chemical attack on the rebel-held town of Khan Sheikhun in the central province of Idlib, according to SOHR -
5 April 2017: Syrian opposition blames international community for allowing conditions for further attacks on civilians after reported chemical attack in Khan Sheikhoun,
demanding to hold the perpetrators of these crimes accountable and to take urgent action to protect civilians from the daily crimes committed against them since March 2011 -
5 April 2017: Warplanes thought to be Russian carried out heavy and concentrated airstrikes on rescue centers and medical facilities which were treating victims of the chemical attack in Khan Sheikhoun, Civil Defense in Idlib countryside says -
10/11 April 2017: Russian air force have intensified bombing raids on towns and villages in the provinces of Hama and Idlib in revenge attacks, causing dozens of civilian casualties and using internationally banned weapons -
12 April 2017: Using its veto power the eighth time to protect the Assad regime, Russian regime vetoed a UN draft resolution expressing the council’s full backing of OPCW's investigation and demanding the Assad regime's cooperation with the investigators of the sarin gas attack on Khan Sheikhun in Syria's Idlib province -
13 April 2017: USA intercepted communications between Syrian military and chemical weapons experts discussing plans for Khan Sheikhun poison gas attack in Idlib province, according to USA media, citing an intelligence official,
as samples taken from the chemical weapons attack in Syria last week tested positive for the nerve agent sarin by British delegation to OPCW and as OPCW's investigators are already testing samples from Khan Sheikhun deadly poison gas attack -
14 April 2017: Asking 'how long can the UN endure the shame of chemical attacks on Syrian citizens?', France's and UK's foreign ministers urge the international community to 'go further' in punishing those responsible for the chemical weapons attack in Syria on 4 April 2017 -
19 April 2017: Considering the situation in the Ukrainian Crimea, occupied by Russia, and Donbas, Ukraine’s delegation has called on the UN Security Council members to pay special attention to the observance of human rights on the temporarily territories
August 2017: 5 August 2017: On the eve of Hiroshima Day and aimed at increasing economic pressure on North Korean regime to return to negotiations on its nuclear and missile programs,
UN Security Council unanimously approved tough new sanctions against the regime including a ban on coal and other exports totaling more than $1 billion, a huge bite in its total exports, valued at $3 billion last year -
7 August 2017: Carla Del Ponte resigns from UN’s independent Commission of Inquiry on Syria, decrying Security Council inaction to hold criminals accountable in the war-battered country, saying 'for five years we’ve been running up against walls', 'the states in the Security Council don’t want justice' -
12 August 2017: Blaming Russia for blocking solution in Syria by using its repeated use of its veto power in the UN Security Council, Carla del Ponte held the council partly responsible for the continued tragedy in Syria as it has not yet put pressure on Putin regime -
14 August 2017: Enough evidence to convict Assad of war crimes, according to del Ponte, saying that 'the preparatory work has been done', but 'there is no prosecutor and no court' -
16 August 2017: UNSC discussed sending an instigative mission to determine responsibility for the April 4 sarin attack on the town of Khan Sheikhoun in rural Idlib, as rights group SNHR issued its 27th report on the use of chemical weapons in Syria -
22 August 2017: Two shipments of North Korean chemical weapons bound for Syria's Assad regime and part of a Damascus-Pyongyang arms deal have reportedly been intercepted by UN member states in the past six months,
as activities between Assad and North Korean regime under investigation includes Scud missile programs and surface-to-air missiles systems -
30 August 2017: UN strongly condemns the latest ballistic missile launch by the North Korean regime, which flew over Japan, as well as the series of launches that took place on 25 August
November 2017: 8 novembre 2017: La Russie, soutien de Damas, s'est à nouveau opposée aux Occidentaux sur l'implication du régime syrien dans des attaques chimiques, lors d'une réunion mardi à l'ONU sur le mandat des enquêteurs internationaux chargés d'en désigner les auteurs -
9 November 2017: Facing 'the largest famine the world has seen for many decades', according to the UN, following Iranian-backed Houthi militia's 2015 coup d'état, UN Security Council reiterates the need for the Houthis and the anti-Houthi coalition 'to provide full, safe, rapid and unhindered access for humanitarian supplies and UN personnel to the population of all affected governorates, including by air, land and sea' -
13 November 2017: Roundly rejecting Russian aspersions against the task force, Israel endorses a UN watchdog report on Assad regime’s use of chemical weapons, saying it 'unequivocally' proves Assad used poison gas and must therefore be punished by the international community -
17 November 2017: In response to Russia’s vetoing of the draft resolution calling for the extension of the mandate for the UN-OPCW investigation panel, Syrian Coalition’s Ahmad Ramadan says 'it is a disgraceful day in the history of humanity that the UN Security Council failed once again to redress thousands of victims of chemical weapons in Syria or hold war criminals accountable' -
18 novembre 2017: La Russie a opposé vendredi un deuxième veto en deux jours contre une résolution présentée devant le Conseil de sécurité, qui visait à renouveler de 30 jours le mandat de la commission d'enquête sur l'utilisation d'armes chimiques en Syrie, un message clair que Moscou n'accorde aucune importance aux victimes des attaques chimiques en Syrie, selon Mme Haley -
23 November 2017: After refusing to back extension of investigative mechanism that blamed Assad for April attack, Russian regime declares 'death' of body probing Syria chemical attacks, saying it will only discuss replacing expert panel,
fearing itself investigation after Putin-Assad coalition committed war crimes in Syria, among others during aerial bombing campaign of opposition-controlled territory in Aleppo in 2016 -
29 November 2017: UN Security Council scheduled an emergency meeting for Wednesday afternoon at the request of Japan, South Korea and the USA following the launch of North Korean nuclear-capable intercontinental missile
January 2018: 5 January 2018: After the USA asked the council to show support for anti-regime protesters, UN Security Council to meet on 2017/2018 Iranian protests -
5 January 2018: UN Security Council discusses deadly protests across Iran, told about rising poverty after the Iranian regime had spent $6 billion every year propping up the regime in Syria,
as Iranian Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi urges USA and the international community to support the nationwide protests in Iran with sanctions, but not economic measures that could hit the general population -
6 January 2018: During 2017 129 massacres were committed by Assad regime forces, 83 by the Russian forces, and 113 by the international coalition forces, according to SNHR, calling on the UN to refer the situation in Syria to the International Criminal Court and stop blocking the UN resolutions -
12 January 2018: Iran has violated a UN arms embargo by failing to block supplies to Yemen's Houthi rebels of ballistic missiles that were fired at Saudi Arabia, according to a UN experts' report -
19 January 2018: In the eighth year of Assad's Iranian-Russian backed war against the Syrian people, UN's Guterres renews calls for revival of Syria chemical weapons probe to punish those responsible, adding that the use of chemical weapons in Syria had challenged the 'global taboo' against these weapons of mass destruction -
23 January 2018: UN-Security Council discussed Turkey's aggression against Kurds in Syria and the worsening humanitarian crisis in the country, but did not condemn or demand an end to the Turkish military operation, as USA's ambassador Nikki Haley did not attend the meeting -
27 January 2018: UN's Antonio Guterres is again calling on the UN Security Council to refer Syria to the International Criminal Criminal Court, pointing to 'serious violations' including blocking aid deliveries and medical care to millions
February 2018: 2 February 2018: Between 2012 and 2017 North Korea has supplied weapons to Syria and Myanmar, according to a confidential report by independent UN monitors which also said Pyongyang's regime violated UN sanctions to earn nearly $200m in 2017 and ballistic missile and chemical weapons programmes may have benefited -
6 February 2018: The UN Security Council failed to adapt a resolution to stop such attacks or to adopt a draft resolution on the use of chemical weapons, as ferocious onslaught by the Assad regime forces and Iranian militias backed by the Russian air force continues to target civilians in many parts across Syria,
and as UN's Panos Moumtzis says 'We can no longer stay silent', calling for a one-month ceasefire to ease an 'extreme situation' that 'we haven’t seen before' at any point during the war, which is soon to enter its eighth year -
9 February 2018: Damascus provincial council called upon the UN Security Council to take action to address the deteriorating humanitarian situation in the suburb of eastern Ghouta and put an end to the Assad regime's relentless bombardment of civilians -
9 February 2018: As many as 45 local non-government aid groups have issued a joint statement calling for an end to the systematic targeting of health facilities by the Assad regime forces and their allies -
9 February 2018: The suffering in Syria grows and the world turns away, the British 'Guardian' says, as the UN warns of unprecedented levels of suffering in the country that has already witnessed so many crimes and such desperation in 7 years, but as its calls for a ceasefire are ignored -
10 février 2018: Suède et Koweit tentent de faire examiner par le Conseil de sécurité une résolution visant une trêve d'un mois à des fins humanitaires, mais le régime russie, alliée du régime d'Assad, a de manière répétée bloqué toute initiative du Conseil qui viserait Assad -
13 February 2018: UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric says 'that we are witnessing (in Syria) some of the worst fighting of the entire conflict, with reports of hundreds of civilian deaths and injuries, massive displacement and the destruction of civilian infrastructure, including medical facilities' and that 'history will record failure to stop the fighting and will lay the blame on those responsible' -
14 February 2018: UN once again calls for Syria cease-fire, as UN's 'Deputy regional humanitarian coordinator for the Syria crisis' Rajasingham says it is 'very possible' -
16 February 2018: Amid military escalation by the Assad regime and its allies in many parts across Syria, described by the UN as the worst throughout the course of Assad's war in Syria, Sweden and Kuwait presented a revised draft UN Security Council resolution calling for a 30-day ceasefire, revised to obtain backing by Russian war criminals -
16 February 2018: Russia bombs seventh hospital in Syria in 2 weeks in the village of Hass in Idlib province -
21 February 2018: Fears and outrage over bloodshed in Syria,
also described as a 'hell on earth' by the UN,
but once again no action of the UN disabled by the Russian perpetrator (11 vetoes), China and others,
as families in Ghouta take to basements in attempt to survive,
and as Ghouta's desperate civilians say they've been abandoned to their fate with aid groups denied access to the devastated Syrian enclave -
23 February 2018: As Assad regime and Russian war criminals are destroying eastern Ghouta's healthcare, systematically targeting hospitals, and as Médecins Sans Frontières say 13 hospitals it supported had been destroyed or damaged in the past three days alone,
Russian Putin regime blocks UN resolution on eastern Ghouta ceasefire -
23 February 2018: After 5 days of massacres which left about 2,550 civilian casualties and wounded, the escalation continues on the Eastern Ghouta by the Assad regime and its allies -
24 February 2018: Over 400 people killed and 1,000 injured as UNSC fails to stop carnage in Eastern Ghouta, according to UN,
as SOHR reports about 520 civilian casualties and more than 2,500 wounded in the vicious attack on the Eastern Ghouta -
24 February 2018: Blocked by Russian perpetrators, UN Security Council once again delayed a vote on demanding a 30-day ceasefire in Syria to Saturday at noon, as USA's ambassador asks 'how many more people will die before the Security Council agrees to take up this vote',
as Syrian Coalition calls for preventing Russian perpetrators from voting on Syria-related resolutions at UN Security Council,
and as deaths mount in Syria -
24 February 2018: Syrian teenager tweeting the horror of life in Ghouta -
24 février 2018: Les bombes du régime syrien ont encore frappé la Ghouta orientale dans la nuit de vendredi à samedi, 21 civils sont morts -
24 February 2018: UN Security Council unanimously approved a resolution demanding a 30-day cease-fire across Syria 'without delay' to deliver humanitarian aid to millions and evacuate the critically ill and wounded, after many countries have been pressing for immediate UN action as deaths mount in an Assad bombing campaign in eastern Ghouta and as USA's Nikki Haley was sharply critical of Russian regime for delaying the vote, saying it cost lives -
25 February 2018: New regime strikes hit Eastern Ghouta on Sunday despite UN Security Council demand for a ceasefire, as residents doubt Security Council resolution will be implemented, while UN diplomats say it was 'watered down' to avoid Russia veto -
25 February 2018: Iranian and Syrian Assad regime will continue attacks on Damascus suburbs despite February 2018 UN resolution demanding a 30-day truce across Syria -
26 February 2018: The wording of UNSC resolution let Russia resume bombing within hours, sidelining the UN as a decision maker and setting up Putin and his military as ultimate arbiters of who gets fed, or killed -
27 February 2018: Russian regime ordered a daily five-hour 'humanitarian pause' in the besieged eastern Ghouta, effectively replacing UN security council resolution that had demanded a month-long ceasefire in the embattled region,
replaced by a choice of forced displacement and decline or being killed in Russian-backed bombardment and siege -
27 February 2018: Russian Putin regime vetoed a British-drafted UN resolution that promised action against violations of a UN arms embargo on Yemen and pointed to a report by experts that cited Iran as a violator, as the vote was 11 in favor, Russia and Bolivia opposed, and China and Kazakhstan abstaining, as 17 million people in Yemen, 60% of the total population, are in need of food aid, of whom seven million are on the brink of famine -
28 February 2018: USA and three European allies condemned Iran, after the UN found Iranian regime had violated the arms embargo on Yemen by failing to block supplies of missiles and drones to Houthi rebels, but Russia vetoed British-drafted resolution
March 2018: 1 March 2018: Speaking at a monthly Security Council meeting devoted to the Syrian conflict, UN under secretary general for humanitarian affairs Mark Lowcock says there has been no access for humanitarian convoys, nor authorization by the regime to go into the besieged areas, nor medical evacuations, on the contrary, the bombings have continued, and deaths and wounded have mounted, since the Security Council resolution was passed -
5 March 2018: USA slams Russia, Iran over 'brutal’ assault on Syria’s Eastern Ghouta, accusing them of killing 'innocent civilians under the false auspices of counterterrorism operations',
as shelter still withhold by the international community and homemade shelters are tombs for the living -
5 March 2018: Residents in the besieged Damascus suburb of eastern Ghouta have begun using UN aid bags as shrouds for children killed in the devastating bombardment by the Assad regime to express their frustration over the organization's inaction -
9 mars 2018: 'Le Conseil de sécurité a échoué à l'égard du peuple syrien' en raison d'oppositions de la Russie, selon l'ambassadeur britannique adjoint à l'ONU Jonathan Allen -
10 March 2018: UN aid barely suffices 25% of eastern Ghouta residents as Syrian Coalition reiterates calls for implementation of UNSC resolution 2401 -
10 March 2018: Terrifying escalation in the death toll of the Eastern Ghouta raises it to about 1,100 civilian casualties, including 227 children and 154 women, killed by aerial, rocket and artillery shelling, more than half of them since UNSC resolution, and 4,378 wounded citizens, including hundreds of children and women -
12 March 2018: Following repeated violations by the Syrian regime of the previous ceasefire resolution passed a fortnight ago, the USA demands to end chemical attacks and 'inhuman suffering',
as it proposes a new binding resolution imposing an immediate 30-day ceasefire in Eastern Ghouta and signals readiness to act unilaterally, as when it attacked airbase last year -
14 March 2018: The UK has called for an urgent meeting of the UN security council to update council members on the investigation into the 'Novichok' nerve agent attack in Salisbury -
15 March 2018: Describing a pattern of Russian regime's behavior and calling to take action,
allies back UK at UN security council and condemn Russia, as the Russian regime,
denying known facts and Russian chemist Vil Mirzayanov's evidence of novichok,
claims that it never made or even researched novichok nerve agents, and laughs at the victims suggesting that the British government might have carried out the attack itself in an effort to 'tarnish' Russia ahead of the football World Cup this summer, as attacked people are fighting for their lives, once again also in British hospitals -
16 March 2018: Tens of Russian airstrikes target the southern section of the Eastern Ghouta leaving 10 casualties and tens of wounded in Saqba -
17 March 2018: Air strikes by Assad regime and Russian jets on Eastern Ghouta killed at least 30 civilians on Saturday, according to SOHR,
as rights group slams seven years of 'catastrophic failure' of the international community in Syria -
France and Britain urge UNSC to enforce resolution 2401, warning of massacres in eastern Ghouta -
17 March 2018: Doctors and civil leaders among signatories to open letter to the UN, demanding action to stop massacre by Russian-backed Assad forces -
20 March 2018: Syrian Coalition calls for sending urgent commission of inquiry to eastern Ghouta -
20 March 2018: At least 738 civilians, including 116 children killed by the Assad and Russian forces in eastern Ghouta since adoption of UN Security Council resolution 2401, according to SNHR and SOHR -
20 March 2018: Russian warplanes reportedly hit a school basement in eastern Ghouta,
killing at least 15 children, as in New York the UN human rights chief was blocked from addressing the Security Council on the carnage in Syria -
22 March 2018: Syrian Coalition sends letter to UK urging action against use of chemical weapons stressing that the failure of the international community had encouraged the use of chemical weapons on both Syrian and British territory -
22 March 2018: UN High Commissioner for Human Rights al-Hussein calls on the UN Security Council to refer human rights violations being committed by the Assad regime and its allied militias in Syria to the International Criminal Court ICC -
22 March 2018: Syrian Coalition calls on international community to hold Russia and Assad regime accountable for their crimes -
26 March 2018: Syrian Coalition's Mohammed Yahya Maktabi said that the mass forced displacement taking place in the Damascus suburb of eastern Ghouta is a 'war crime' as he condemned Russian’s major role in these crimes, adding that regime forces, the Iranian militias, and Russian air force are killing civilians, targeting popular markets, residential areas and public facilities and bombing hospitals, medical centers, and rescue workers -
26 March 2018: The UN has come under fire for sharing the coordinates of hospitals in the Damascus suburb of eastern Ghouta with Russia, only for one of them to be bombed days later killing at least one patient by what medics suspected to be a 'bunker-buster' bomb,
according to 'The Telegraph' -
26 March 2018: 871 civilians killed in eastern Ghouta since adoption of UN-security council resolution 2401, according to SNHR -
30 March 2018: The International community and the UN failed to solve humanitarian crises in Syria and other countries, outgoing UN Undersecretary General for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman said Friday -
31 March 2018: Despite fierce opposition by Israel and the USA, and requests to postpone the meeting until after the Passover holiday, the UN Security Council convenes during the Passover Seder to discuss the situation in Gaza and renewed deadly Gaza-Israel border clashes,
as Israeli army says fatalities include Hamas gunmen trying to breach fence and warns of further escalation amid an already-disastrous humanitarian situation worsened after the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority refused to pay for Gaza’s electricity, in part to press it’s political rival Hamas to loosen control of the area
April 2018: 1 April 2018: USA blocks UN resolution condemning Israel for deaths in Gaza clashes, as Israeli military on Saturday night identified 10 of the 16 people reported killed during violent protests along the Gaza security fence as members of Palestinian terrorist groups, and published a list of their names and positions in the organizations,
also saying it only shot at protesters charging Gaza border
Since 8 April 2018: 8 April 2018: Israeli officials on Sunday called on the international community to intervene in Syria, where the Russian-backed Assad regime killed dozens in a chemical attack in Douma and a series of airstrikes over the weekend, according to rescuers and medics,
as USA State Departement said that 'the Assad regime and its backers must be held accountable and any further attacks prevented immediately', adding that 'Russia ... ultimately bears responsibility for these brutal attacks' -
8 April 2018: Aid workers and local medics have described apocalyptic scenes in the besieged city of Douma, the site of a chemical attack that has killed at least 42 people, as they scrambled to save the survivors of the latest atrocity in Syria,
as Haaretz' Anshel Pfeffer describes how the West failed to prevent one Syrian chemical attack after another, saying that in the history of war, no war crime has been so well documented and so predictable to those who had it in their power to prevent it from recurring -
8 April 2018: 'What’s happening in Syria is genocide of women and children in its cruelest form, using weapons of mass destruction', Israeli chief rabbi Yitzhak Yosef says in a statement, adding that 'we have a moral obligation not to keep quiet and to try and stop this massacre' -
8 April 2018: France and eight countries seek urgent UN Security Council meet on Syria -
9/10 April 2018: As Israeli government says that Syrian chemical attack is a 'crime against humanity’,
the UK ambassador to the UN, Karen Pierce, calls on the security council to conduct a thorough investigation of the alleged chemical weapons attack, demanding that Russia must uphold the chemical weapons convention,
UK's Theresa May condemns 'barbaric' targeting of civilians, saying Bashar al-Assad and his Russian backers must be held to account if found responsible for the chemical attack on Douma,
and USA's Trump to decide on USA response to gas attack 'within 48 hours' -
10/11 April 2018: After UN clash with Russian regime, USA readies response to Syria attacks,
consulting with international allies on possible joint military response -
12 April 2018: Israel ambassador to the UN Danny Danon accompanied a group of fellow diplomats to the world body in participating in the March of the Living on Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day visiting the death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau, telling fellow ambassadors that the 'international community must act with determination to ensure that such things never happen again', and warned of 'rising anti-Semitism’ -
13 April 2018: UN Security Council met for the fourth time this week over the gas attack by Assad forces on Douma, which killed dozens of people
14 April 2018: Russian regime has been defeated in its bid to have the USA, France and UK airstrikes condemned in the UN security council with 8 countries voting against, and 4 abstentions of Ethiopia, Kazakhstan, Peru and Equitorial Guinea, confirming how isolated Putin has become on the Syrian issue -
14 April 2018: Widespread support for allied military strikes against Assad regime, as European Union and NATO, Australia, Canada, Israel, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey immediately voiced support -
14 April 2018: NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg says all NATO allies have expressed their full support for last night's military actions to degrade the Syrian regime's chemical weapons capability
May 2018: 5 May 2018: Proposed UN security council statement expressing 'serious concern' about Abbas’s anti-Semitic remarks that Holocaust was not caused by anti-Semitism but rather by Jews’ 'social behavior', rejected by Kuwait arguing that Abbas had already apologized and that it was one-sided, and fails to win UN backing -
11 May 2018: Israel demands UN condemn Iran barrage as Novichok/Sarin-Guterres calls for calm and Iranian regime revenews threats to destroy Tel Aviv and Haifa -
14 May 2018: Iran is funding Hamas’s campaign to promote violence and attacks against Israel under the cover of mass demonstrations at Gaza border, keeping its own gunmen back ready to enter Israel if fence is breached to carry out terror attacks, the Shin Bet security service says releasing findings of interrogations of suspects -
15 May 2018: USA blocks UN Security Council call for probe of Gaza deaths and UN statement that would have expressed 'outrage at killing of Palestinian civilians exercising their right to peaceful protest', as Israel blames Hamas for the deadly violence, saying the terror group had encouraged and led the protests, which included attacks on Israeli troops and attempts to breach the border fence -
17 May 2018: Hamas co-founder al-Zahar admits 'we are deceiving the public’ about peaceful Gaza border protests, saying in an interview that 'this is not peaceful resistance', the option of armed struggle 'is growing and developing', 'this is a peaceful resistance bolstered by a military force and by security agencies' -
22 May 2018: UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees UNRWA says that the Yarmouk camp for Palestinian refugees in Damascus lies today in ruins, with hardly a single building that has not been destroyed or damaged -
Foreign involvement and support for Assad's war against the Syrian people by the Russian and the Iran regime, allied with Hezbollah and Hamas -
30 May 2018: The UN Security Council will meet Wednesday at the request of the USA to discuss Palestinian militants' rocket and mortar attacks on Israel,
as Israeli army says some rockets, mortars fired from Gaza in recent attacks were made in Iran -
31 May 2018: USA blasts Security Council as measure condemning Hamas' rocket attacks on Israel blocked
June 2018: 1 June 2018: The UN Security Council is set to vote on a draft resolution presented by the USA that would give warring sides in South Sudan until June 30 to end fighting or face possible sanctions -
1 June 2018: China, France and Russia were among the countries that voted in favor of the draft put forward by anti-Israel Kuwait,
four countries, Ethiopia, the UK, the Netherlands and Poland abstained, and the USA opposed, bringing its own proposal condemning Hamas for its role in the escalation of violence in Gaza in the last two months, that also failed -
6 June 2018: UN Security Council condemns continuous violations of the ceasefire regime, especially the use of heavy weapons prohibited by the Minsk agreements, reaffirming its full support for resolution 2166 on the downing of flight MH17 -
9 June 2018: Israel has appealed to the UN to intervene in southern Lebanon, saying that the Palestinian terror group Hamas is working with Hezbollah to establish missile factories and camps to train thousands of fighters there, adding that 'Hamas is tightening its ties with Hezbollah with the blessing and support of Iran, which is working to entrench its own forces also on Lebanese soil' -
15 June 2018: UN security council has rejected a move to demand an immediate end to the fighting around the strategic Yemeni port of Hodeidah, with the USA and UK both voicing opposition to the text introduced by Sweden -
27 June 2018: Syrian Negotiations Commission calls for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council to discuss the war crimes being committed by the Assad regime and its allies in the province of Dara’a, demanding an immediate cessation of military operations as they violate international resolutions on Syria -
29 June 2018: Number of displaced triples to 160,000 during Assad's and Russian assault in south Syria, according to UNHCR -
29 June 2018: Assad and Russian airstrikes pounded rebel-held areas in southwestern Syria on Thursday, killing at least 17 civilians in an underground shelter and driving thousands more from their homes, as displaced people protest near the Israeli border demanding international protection
July 2018: 4 July 2018: The UN Security Council will hold an emergency meeting after Jordan and Israel refuse to take in some 300,000 Syrians who have been displaced by Russian-backed bombings in Daraa province -
4/5 July 2018: Fears are mounting about the safety of more than 270,000 civilians who have fled recent Russian-backed offensive in southern Syria, with aid groups and local doctors issuing urgent appeals for people stranded in the desert without shelter,
also worrying about insects and scorpions that come at night -
5 July 2018: Waves of air strikes pounded southern Syria on Thursday as Russian-backed regime forces with hundreds of missiles and barrel bombs launched their most intensive murderous bombing campaign yet in the two-week-old offensive in Daraa province -
5 July 2018: As UN's Security Council as a whole - except Russia - has shown a 'strong unity' to denounce the ongoing military offensive in southwest Syria and its humanitarian consequences, Russian regime blocks Council statement, after there has been a fruitless push to persuade the regime to accept a declaration based on the need to deliver humanitarian aid -
6 July 2018: Held in parallel with relentless Russian airstrikes on the town of Saida in eastern rural Dara’a resulting in the death of civilians including children, UN Security Council once again failed to stop the carnage civilians in Syria by the Assad regime forces and their allies, according to Syrian Coalition's Badr Jamous, saying that the indifference being shown by the international would remain a dark stain on humanity's conscience -
18 July 2018: Dozens of civilians, mostly women and children, were killed in Assad regime and Russian airstrikes on border villages in Syria's provinces of Quneitra and Daraa in the past 24 hours, as UN-Security Council remains silent -
19 July 2018: Continuing Russian and Iranian-backed terror attacks, Assad regime forces shell places and carry out raids on areas in Daraa province, amid aerial bombardments by helicopters and warplanes,
and in Hama province -
21 July 2018: After massacres of 26 civilian casualties, including 11 children, Russian warplanes continue to destroy and incinerate Yarmouk Basin area in Daraa province
August 2018: 1 August 2018: SNHR said that the collapse of the 'de-escalation zones' agreement in southern Syria was another failure of the UN Security Council as it failed to maintain security and peace in the war-torn country, saying that at least 281 civilians, including 84 children and 63 women, were killed in the offensive the Assad regime and Russia launched in southern Syria -
4 August 2018: North Korea has not stopped its nuclear and missile programmes and is violating UN sanctions, according to UN report, also saying that North Korean regime continues military cooperation with Syria's Assad regime -
18 August 2018: In a joint letter to the UN signed by Qatar and Liechtenstein on behalf of 41 countries, including the USA, the UK, Spain, Australia, Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Morocco, Mexico, Austria, Italy, Turkey, France, Canada, and the Netherlands, about the Assad regime’s recent issuance of thousands of death notices for detainees who died under torture in its prisons, condemning the Assad regime's systematic violations, torture and execution of detainee -
27 August 2018: SNHR says in a new report that the UN Security Council is still ‘dead’ despite the compelling evidence about the Assad regime’s responsibility for enforced disappearance in Syria -
31 August 2018: Russia has blocked the publication of a UN report on the implementation of sanctions against North Korea, which AFP obtained a copy of earlier this month, listing violations of a ban on North Korean exports of coal, iron, seafood and other products that generate millions of dollars in revenue for Kim Jong Un's regime
April 2019: 2 April 2019: Britain, France and Germany accused Iran of developing missile technology in contravention of a UN resolution, drawing attention to regime’s ballistic missile efforts and their potential relevance for a nuclear weapons program, and called for a full UN report on recent activities, according to a letter released Tuesday -
8 April 2019: UK urges France to condemn Haftar’s assault on Tripoli, as EU foreign ministers are meeting in Brussels to condemn an assault on Tripoli by the Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar and call for all sides to revert to UN-led political discussions about the riven country’s future, after UK-led moveto pass a security council statement condemning Haftar at the UN on Sunday was blocked by Russia -
19 avril 2019: Le Conseil de sécurité de l'ONU s'est réuni sur la Libye sans établir de stratégie claire pour réclamer rapidement un cessez-le-feu aux belligérants, alors que les Etats-Unis et la Russie continuent d'opposer de la résistance à un projet de résolution britannique, tandis que l'émissaire Ghassam Salamé a aussi réclamé que le conseil prenne une position forte sur les violations de l'embargo sur les armes imposé sur le théâtre libyen -
20 April 2019: Libya addressed a letter to the Security Council requesting the formation of an international fact-finding mission to investigate the violations committed by Haftar's forces during their attack on Tripoli, including the killing and displacement of innocent civilians, destruction of private and public property, the recruitment of children, and the targeting of densely populated neighbourhoods with heavy weapons -
23 April 2019: The UN has backed a resolution on combatting rape in conflict by 13 votes in favour, as China and Russia abstained, excluding references in the text to sexual and reproductive health after vehement opposition from the USA, but making for the first time specific calls for greater support for children born as a result of rape in conflict, as well as their mothers, amid calls for practical steps to achieve reality
17/18 May 2019: 18 May 2019: 'Despite our warnings our worst fears are now coming true', UN emergency relief coordinator Lowcock told the UN Security Council, saying that the Assad regime and its Russian ally have intensified attacks against Idlib province, bombing hospitals with the WHO reporting 20 attacks on 18 facilities in the past three weeks,
repeating some key questions put to his office in recent weeks by Member States, NGOs, doctors and families, including 'Who is bombing all these hospitals?', 'Is the information being provided about the locations of hospitals in fact being used not to protect hospitals but to target them?', 'What is your advice to parents of children who live in the de-escalation zone?', 'Hasn’t the Security Council passed a resolution reinforcing that countries shouldn’t bomb hospitals?', 'What is the point of the Security Council passing resolutions like that if States are not going to comply with them?'
24/25 June 2019 Iranian, Russian and Assad's warfare: 25 June 2019: In a unanimous press statement drafted by Kuwait, UN council condemned recent attacks on oil tankers, calling them a threat to the world’s energy supply and to international peace and security, as Iranian regime's envoy to the UN Ravanchi rejected regime talks with the USA, outside the Security Council, because regime is not a member, and as Russian regime rejected a mention of a 'state actor' -
25 June 2019: In Jerusalem, USA's John Bolton urged Iranian regime to step back from its 'malign behavior' and enter into 'real negotiations' over its nuclear weapons program, ballistic missile development, and backing for international terror groups, accusing Tehran regime of supporting violence throughout the region, from Hezbollah in Lebanon to the Assad regime in Syria, as well as Shiite militias in Iraq, Yemen’s Houthi rebels, and terror attacks on USA forces in Afghanistan, and of threatening Middle Eastern oil supplies,
as Israeli PM Netanyahu told murderous Russian regime's Nikolai Patrushev that Israel will do 'anything it takes' to ensure Iran does not obtain nuclear weapons, saying 'I’m certain that Russia understands what it means for us when a regime calls for our annihilation, and acts on a daily basis to achieve that aim',
amid Assad's and Russian regime's northwestern Syria offensive since April 2019, murdering hundreds of civilians,
and as Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah is now giving orders to Assad’s army, using it to spy on Israel along Golan border
14/15 February 2020 is anyone paying attention as hundreds of thousands of civilians are fleeing in desperate circumstances? 14 Febuary 2020: British 'Guardian' asks is anyone paying attention as hundreds of thousands of civilians are fleeing a renewed assault by Syrian Assad regime and allies, in desperate circumstances now in 2020 -
15 February 2020: Russian jets bomb the western countryside of Aleppo, launching intensive airstrikes on the vicinity of Atareb, Tqad, Jam’eyyat Al-Sallum, Jam’eyyat Al-Rahal, Al-Saharah -
15 February 2020: Assad's and Russian regime's offensive on opposition-controlled region of northwestern Syria has created one of the worst catastrophes for civilians in Assad's long-running war, sending hundreds of thousands of people fleeing, many of them sleeping in open fields and under trees in freezing temperatures, causing deaths,
as France's Macron in Munich defends closer dialogue with Russia,
allied with Russian war criminal Putin also in Haftar's Libyan war against the UN-recognised government
8 July 2020 UNSC states Russia, France, USA 'did not have conscience' and backed Haftar's Tripoli attack since 2019: 8 July 2020: UNSC states backed Haftar's Tripoli attack, as members Russia, USA, France refrained from stopping attack on Tripoli by Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar, says former UN envoy Salame, underlining that the leaders of these countries 'did not have conscience' as they could have saved people's lives -
8 July 2020: ICC accepted request of Libya's Fayal Al-Sarraj to send a team to investigate and gather data on crimes committed by Haftar militias in Tarhuna and southern Tripoli, beginning sometime after mid July -
7 July 2020: UNSMIL's Stephanie Williams has blamed Khalifa Haftar’s forces for the killing of over 138 people in mine explosions in areas they fled in southern Tripoli, saying that the indiscriminate planting by forces affiliated with Haftar of explosive devices in civilian neighbourhoods, that have since late May reportedly killed and injured 81 civilians and 57 non-civilians, including mine clearance workers, is a potential violation of international law, and also expressing her deep sadness and regret over the recent death of two humanitarian mine clearance workers on Sunday in southern Tripoli
12 July 2020 strengthened Russia and China abstained from voting for their partial success: 12 July 2020: UN Security Council approved aid deliveries to Syria through only one border crossing from Turkey, a day after its authorization for the six-year-long humanitarian operation ended, leaving millions of Syrian civilians in limbo, as strengthened Russia and China now abstained from voting for their partial success after blocking any move repeatedly,
as vote is also a notable failure for the USA whose ambassador had called the maintenance of two border crossings a 'red line', like Obama in 2013, as USA's Trump is employed to decide whether he will wearing a face mask,
and as Iranian regime's Rohani, involved in Assad's and Russia's war crimes in Syria, calls for big gatherings such as weddings and wakes to be banned to stem a rise in covid-19 infections as shortly after Rohani's TV speech a police official in Tehran announced the closure of all wedding and mourning venues in the capital until further notice, forgetting millions of rounded up victims in Syria
Russian and Iranian weapons for Lebanese terrorist organization Hezbollah: Russian and Iranian weapons for Lebanese Hezbollah, classified as a terrorist organization by the governments of the USA, Netherlands, France, Gulf Cooperation Council, UK, Australia, Canada, the European Union and Israel -
19 February 2017: The Lebanese terror group Hezbollah is said to have obtained advanced Russian-made Yakhont anti-ship missiles, potentially threatening Israeli gas fields in the Mediterranean Sea and the Israeli Navy’s ability to operate in the area -
5 September 2017: Russian Putin regime threatens to veto UNIFIL mandate and renewal of UN peacekeeper force if Lebanon-based terror organization Hezbollah, its ally in Assad's war against the Syrian people, mentioned -
9 February 2018: Consortium comprising energy giants French Total, Italy's ENI, and Russian Novatek signed its first contract with Lebanon to drill for oil and gas off its coast, including in a block disputed by Israel, as Israel warns against 'provocative behavior' -
9 February 2019: Russian regime’s ambassador in Lebanon Zasypkin hails country’s Iranian-backed Hezbollah terror group for fighting alongside Russia in Syria, also saying USA policies toward Iran could set off a fresh war between Israel and Lebanon
12 December 2020 OPCW criticizes Syria supported by Russia and other regimes for failing to declare chemical weapons production facility: 12 December 2020: Chemical weapons watchdog criticizes Syria for failing to declare chemical weapons production facility and respond to 18 other issues, while Russian regime tried to accuse the watchdog of conducting a 'political crusade', as other member nations backed action against Assad regime for the attacks on Latamneh and stressed their support for efforts to collect evidence of violations of human rights, international humanitarian law and abuses 'with a view to future legal action' -
11 December 2020: UN-backed Lebanon Tribunal on Friday sentenced Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash convicted of conspiring to kill former Lebanese PM Rafik al-Hariri in a 2005 bombing to five terms of life imprisonment, as Australian Judge David Re said in reading out the court's decision 'the attack was intended to spread terror in Lebanon and indeed did', and as trial was conducted in absentia and Ayyash remains at large -
12 December 2020: Human rights lawyer Anwar al-Bunni, who devoted his life to human rights in Syria, now in exile in Germany and part of a landmark first prosecution for war crimes against Assad’s regime after spending several years inside its jails, has also met Anwar Raslan, who became a police officer before transferring to Assad's intelligence services and helped detain Bunni, now both buying groceries in a Turkish shop near the gates of Marienfelde, the Berlin refugee camp they now called home
5 March 2021 Security Council meeting behind closed doors on Myanmar, urged to end regime's violence: 5 mars 2021: Un manifestant a été tué vendredi en Birmanie, dernière victime en date de la répression de la junte contre le mouvement pro-démocratie, tandis que le Conseil de sécurité de l’ONU doit se réunir à huis clos à New York pour essayer de trouver une réponse à cette crise qui semble s’obscurcir de jour en jour -
5 March 2021: Hopes for UN Security Council action against Myanmar military coup ‘waning’ fast, warns Special Envoy, noting that around 50 'innocent and peaceful' protesters had now been killed, with scores more injured, with evidence mounting of killings and maiming by military snipers, in contravention of international human rights law, urging the Council to push further to end the violence, and restore democratic institutions
12 May 2021 more deadly rocket attacks from Gaza at central and southern Israel: 12 May 2021: Seven wounded, including child in critical condition, as Gaza rockets hit Sderot, Israeli soldier, father and daughter killed in city of Lod as central Israel comes under Gaza rocket attack, rockets fired at Dimona, 56 Gazans, including 14 children, reported killed, as 850 Gaza rockets counted from beginning of escalation, 'Haaretz' reports live
13 May 2021: Gaza rcket barrages target Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Southern Israel, as country diverts incoming flights after rocket barrage: 13 May 2021: Gaza rcket barrages target Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Southern Israel, as country diverts incoming flights after rocket barrage, as Gaza authorities say 83 killed, including 17 minors, as Israeli ground troops on standby as Hamas warns of escalation, as Israeli tally puts total rockets since beginning of escalation at 1,800
15 May 2021 fighting between Israel and Hamas escalated in what has become the heaviest flare-up since the 2014 Gaza war: 15 May 2021: Fighting between Israel and Hamas escalated in what has become the heaviest flare-up since the 2014 Gaza war, as a citizen killed in central Israel rocket fire, as direct hits were launched against several cities, as Israel downs Gaza tower, as three rounds of sirens rock central Israel after two days of quiet, as nine citizens dead in Israel, as at least 139 Gazans killed in Israeli strikes as rocket fire rages on,
as Israeli air attack on Gaza kills eight children, according to residents, and as military says it struck senior Hamas officials as rockets continue to be fired into Israel,
and after European Union condemned Palestinian rocket attacks into Israel, but then called on all sides to aim for a de-escalation and to prevent further civilian casualties, without mentioning the alliance of Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran's Mullah regime, responsible for decades of violence targeting Israel for ideological reasons, making civilians and children to cannon fodder
16 May 2021 fighting between Israel and Hamas and rocket barrage continues as UN security council holds first public meeting on the conflict: 16 May 2021: Direct Gaza rocket hits in Ashkelon, Ashdod, as no casualties reported, as at least, 3,000 rocket fired toward Israel since escalation started, as Gaza death toll climbs to 188, including 52 children, according to Haaretz,
as 7 Jerusalem police officers wounded in suspected car-ramming attack, said to be in stable condition after attack in the flashpoint neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, as Palestinian driver killed,
as the 15-member UN security council holds first public meeting on the conflict,
as Israel bombs home of Hamas chief after heavy rocket barrages targeted Tel Aviv, as heavy rocket barrage at Southern Israel continues according to Haaretz, reporting live
2009-2021 rocket and mortar attacks against Israel by date and number of rockets: 2009-2021 rocket and mortar attacks against Israel by date, including the number of rockets (some thousands in 2021) launched toward Ashdod, Ashkelon, Jerusalem and neighboring communities, Palmachim, Sha'ar HaNegev Regional Council, Sderot, Tel Aviv, as more rockets were also fired from the Sinai Peninsula into Israel, from Assad regime's territory in the East, from Lebanon in the North (Hezbollah), documented by the Jewish Virtual Library,
as air attacks against the developing Israel (and the neighbouring region) following World War II (and the 1941 German air force in the skies of pre-state Israel and near Amman) watched globally, more or less standing up for or against life
18 May 2021 two people killed, one in serious condition after direct rocket hit in Israel's south, as heavy rocket fire renews: 18 May 2021: Two Killed, one in serious condition after direct rocket hit in Israel's south, as heavy rocket fire renews, as Biden tells Netanyahu he supports cease-fire, as Israel kills 150 Hamas, Islamic Jihad commanders, IDF says, as at least 212 Gazans killed in Israeli strikes, as 12 dead in Israel, 'Haaretz' reports live
21 May 2021 Iran's regime says 'in the future the Zionists (Israel) can expect to endure deadly blows from within the occupied territories': 21 May 2021: Iranian Mullah regime's - which does not recognise Israel but supports the Islamist militants of Hamas, who rule the Gaza Strip, and after Hamas and the Islamic Jihad group fired hundreds of rockets into Israel before Friday's truce - leader urges Muslim states to back Palestinians militarily, financially, saying 'all influential elements of (Israel's) regime and the criminal (Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu must be prosecuted by international and independent courts', as regime's Foreign Ministry earlier said Palestinians had won a 'historic victory' over Israel, as Iran's Revolutionary Guards said 'the intifada (Palestinian uprising) has gone from using stones to powerful, precise missiles ... and in the future the Zionists (Israel) can expect to endure deadly blows from within the occupied territories', after leaders of Hamas and Islamic Jihad have praised Iran’s financial and military support, after regime's Khamenei last year hailed Tehran's supply of arms, saying Iranian regime had transformed the military balance of power between Israel and the Palestinians, and as regime now on Friday displayed an Iranian-made combat drone that it said had a range of 2,000 km, naming it 'Gaza' in honour of the Palestinians' struggle against Israel, state media reported
29 June 2021 Britain, the USA and Ireland call for an emergency UN security council public meeting on Tigray: 29 June 2021: Dissident leaders of Ethiopia’s war-hit Tigray region have dismissed a government ceasefire declaration and vowed to drive out 'enemies' from the region, after rebel fighters advanced on the Tigrayan capital, as the Ethiopian government declared a 'unilateral ceasefire, in a rare attempt at de-escalating the war, saying the ceasefire 'will enable farmers to till their land, aid groups to operate without any military movement around and engage with remnants (of the TPLF) who seek peace', and that the ceasefire would last until September, the end of the crucial planting season in the region, as aid agencies have been heavily restricted by Ethiopia’s government from providing desperately needed aid. About 350,000 people are on the brink of famine according to the UN, and as now Britain, the USA and Ireland have called for an emergency UN security council public meeting, which could happen on Friday, diplomatic sources told AFP, after the security council has failed to hold a public session on Tigray since the war broke out
17 March 2022 France, 5 members demand UN security council meeting over Russian bombs on Mariupol theatre: 17 mars 2022: L'Ukraine accuse la Russie d'avoir détruit mercredi à Marioupol un théâtre dans lequel s’étaient réfugiées plus d’un millier de personnes, plusieurs pays occidentaux, dont la France, ont demandé une réunion d'urgence jeudi du Conseil de sécurité de l'ONU, selon France24 en direct -
16 March 2022 Ukrainian officials accused that Russian military had bombed the 'Donetsk Regional Drama Theatre in Mariupol', which was in use as an air raid shelter during the siege of Mariupol, allegedly holding from 500 to 1,200 civilians in the days before 16 March, according to 'Wikipedia' -
17 March 2022: UN Security Council will meet at the request of six Western nations - UK, USA, France, Ireland, Norway and Albania - that sought an open session on Ukraine amid Russian regime’s war against its smaller neighbor
1 April 2023 today terrorist state began to preside over UN Security Council, Ukrainian president Zelensky said: 1 April 2023: 'Yesterday, the Russian army killed another Ukrainian child - a five-month-old boy named Danylo. From Avdiyivka, in Donbas, together with his parents who were injured. ... One of the hundreds of artillery strikes that the terrorist state launches every day. And at the same time, Russia chairs the UN Security Council. It is hard to imagine something evident that proves the complete bankruptcy of such institutions. ... Terrorists must lose, must be held accountable for terror, and not preside anywhere. ... Eternal memory to all adults and children whose lives were taken by the terror of Russia!', Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said in his new video address.
United Nations General Assembly
10 November 1975 UN General Assembly's anti-Semitism marking the 37th anniversary of Nazi Germany's November 1938 'Kristallnacht': On 10 November 1975 by a vote of 72 to 35 (with 32 abstentions) UN General Assembly adopted resolution 3379, that 'determine[d] that Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination', with the support of the Arab- and Muslim-majority countries, many African countries, the Soviet bloc, and a few others including Portugal after its Socialist Party PS won the April 1975 election for the Constituent Assembly -
Throughout the 1970s and into the 1980s UN documents systematically denied the existence of the Jews, Israel ancient history, the Holocaust, and the notion that Jews deserve the same rights granted to other groups, as most infamous example of this trend was the passage of UN General Assembly's resolution 3379, which equated Zionism with racism on 10 November 1975, the first postwar 'ideology' to ever be condemned in the United Nations' history, as many observers noted that the resolution was passed on the 37th anniversary of November 1938 'Kristallnacht' in Nazi Germany, the pogrom historians agree marked the beginning of the Holocaust
Since 8 July 1998 request to review UN resolution concerning China: 8 July 1998 Need to review UN General Assembly resolution 2758 of 25 October 1971 owing to the fundamental change in the international situation and to the coexistence of two Governments across the Taiwan Strait, letter from the representatives of Burkina Faso, El Salvador, the Gambia, Grenada, Liberia, Nicaragua, Sao Tome and Principe, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Senegal, Swaziland and Solomon Islands to the UN
23 September 2014: More than 140 world leaders are converging in the UN general assembly to discuss urgent matters in this week, timetable -
24 September: At the UN Climate Change Summit Ban Ki-moon says that $2.3bn has been pledged to the Green Climate Fund,
China and USA promise their support for a climate deal, without offering specifics, and France, promising $1bn to the Climate Fund for poor countries, calls for the establishment of a new green economy -
24 September: At the UN Climate Summit efforts to slow deforestation got a boost when dozens of countries, indigenous groups and companies pledged to halve destructive deforestation by 2020, and completely end losses by 2030 -
25 September: In his speech at the UN General Assembly session, Ukrainian PM Arseniy Yatseniuk urges Russia's Putin to stop the aggression against Ukraine -
28 September 2014: World leaders demanded Security Council reform during their addresses to the UN General Assembly over the past few days, calling for the addition of more permanent and non-permanent seats on the council and the elimination of the veto -
28 September 2014: Defeating terrorism starts with toppling Assad, Syrian Coalition's Hadi Al Bahra says in his speech at the UN General Assembly
2015: 22 January 2015: UN's first-ever meeting on anti-Semitism organized in response to violence toward Jews worldwide -
23 January: UN issued a joint declaration against anti-Semitism, signed by more than 40 countries -
28 January: At UN Holocaust commemoration, Israel's President Rivlin calls on UN to do more to prevent atrocities -
3 August 2015: UN states agree post-2015 sustainable development agenda now due to be formally adopted in September, aiming to eradicate hunger and extreme poverty, reduce inequality within and between states, achieve gender equality, improve water management and energy, and take urgent action to combat climate change, over the next 15 years -
26 August 2015: Russia's veto power may be restricted at UN General Assembly, Ukraine's FM Klimkin says, as an initiative is already joined by over 40 countries -
11 September: UN approves proposal to raise Palestinian flag with 119 votes in favor and most of EU's nations among the 45 nations that abstained -
15 September: 70th UN General Assembly to start in New York with Russia-Ukraine conflict on agenda,
as Ukraine wants UN to recognise Russia a state sponsor of terrorism -
16 September: 67 countries already support depriving Russian regime of veto right in UN -
26 September 2015: UN, Chad, Niger and Cameroon appealed for help for millions of people in the Lake Chad Basin region forced to flee the violence of Boko Haram and hit with repeated droughts and floods that have brought malnutrition and disease, but Nigeria did not attend the event on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly -
26 September 2015: As countries whose nationals lost their lives when the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 went down gather at the UN general assembly to discuss their options, Russia could face legal action over downing of jet over Ukraine -
28 September - 3 October 2015 general debate of the UN general assembly -
28 September: Russian delegation walks out of Poroshenko UN speech -
28 September: Poroshenko urges West not be fooled by Putin's UN speech -
28 September: Ukrainian delegation walks out of Putin's UN Assembly speech -
29 September: Ukrainians raise blood-soaked flag in a silent protest during Putin's speech at the UNGA -
29 September: Ukraine president Poroshenko accuses Russian regime of using UN veto as 'licence to kill',
calling for the UN Security Council veto powers to be reviewed and urging world to unite in fight against terrorism in all its forms -
1 October: At UN Israel's Netanyahu calls on Palestinians to resume peace talks, deplores Iran for annihilation threats -
20 November 2015: The UN General Assembly's human rights committee in a non-binding resolution adopted with 76 votes criticizes Iran for cracking down on activists, journalists and dissidents and its increased use of the death penalty -
20 November 2015: Without explicitly naming Russia the UN General Assembly’s human rights committee adopted a resolution with 115 votes in favor, condemning all attacks against the Syrian moderate opposition, given that such attacks benefit ISIS and other terrorist groups, and the presence in Syria of 'all foreign terrorist fighters ... and foreign forces fighting on behalf of the Assad regime'
September 2016: 20 September 2016: 'Present in this Hall today are representatives of governments that have ignored, facilitated, funded, participated in or even planned and carried out atrocities inflicted by all sides of the Syria conflict against Syrian civilians', 'many groups have killed many innocents –
but none more so than the Government of Syria, which continues to barrel bomb neighbourhoods and systematically torture thousands of detainees', 'powerful patrons that keep feeding the war machine also have blood on their hands', Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says addressing to the UN General Assembly -
22 September: Syrian opposition delegation meets with western politicians on sidelines of UN General Assembly, calling on western officials to provide protection for civilians and put an end to the Assad regime’s mass forced displacement policy -
23 September 2016: Many of the victims are children, 'they lose their limbs and become disabled for life and their only sin is that they are the children of Syria', Russian and Assad criminals 'have burned their childhood and their innocence and made them homeless in their country and all we get in return are words and promises from outside', Bara’a, a nurse in Aleppo, says -
27 September 2016: Syrian photographer code-named Caesar wins 2017 Nuremberg International Human Rights Award for exposing torture in Assad’s prisons
October 2016: 8 October 2016: After Russian regime 'has once again abused its veto privilege and sabotaged the UN security council, this time stonewalling efforts to stop the vicious assault on east Aleppo’s civilians', UN director at Human Rights Watch Louis Charbonneau says, that there is the urgent need for permanent members of the security council to shelve the veto in situations of mass atrocities, an idea supported by a vast majority of countries around the world, and that the UN general assembly should feel compelled to hold an emergency meeting, demanding an end to unlawful attacks on civilians in Aleppo -
11 October 2016: Syrian Coalition's Steifo says that the Coalition, as the legitimate representative of the Syrian people, will be working with friendly countries at the UN General Assembly to press for action under the 'Uniting for Peace' resolution to bypass the Russian veto at the UN Security Council -
11 October 2016: 'Sorry for being late, but there was a massacre', Hamza Khatib, one of the handful of medics still working in opposition-held Aleppo, told British newspaper Guardian on a brief break from tending to victims of Tuesday morning’s Russian terrorists' bombing raids -
13 October 2016: Syrian Coalition presents a detailed proposal to representatives of the Friends of the Syrian People group pushing for the adoption of a draft resolution by the UN General Assembly on Syria -
14 October 2016: Syria is suffering 'a small holocaust’ as 'every day not far from here, as we sit here, men, women and children are murdered in Syria, and particularly in Aleppo', Israeli chief rabbi Yitzhak Yosef says, demanding that Jews must not be silent in the face of genocide across northern border -
20 October: UN General Assembly must step in to fill the void left by the Security Council members’ catastrophic failure to end relentless attacks targeting the civilian population in eastern Aleppo city, Amnesty International says ahead of UNGA meeting -
24 October 2016: At least 70 countries have so far announced support for the initiative led by the Syrian Coalition and friendly countries to stop the bloodshed in Syria and avoid the veto Russia repeatedly used to block any action on Syria in the UN Security Council, Syrian Coalition says
November/December 2016: 16 November 2016: At the meeting of the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly, member states adopt a resolution, supported by 73 countries, on the human rights situation in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol in Ukraine, condemning the massive human rights violations in the occupied Crimea and calling on Russian regime as an occupying power to adhere to its obligations under the international law -
16 November 2016: General Assembly's human rights committee approved a resolution by a vote of 85 in favor, 35 against and 63 countries abstaining, to cease enforced disappearances and the widespread use of arbitrary detention by the Iranian regime and has expressed serious concern about severe limitations on freedom of thought, conscience and religion or belief -
16 November 2016: General Assembly’s human rights committee voted 116-15 with 49 abstentions in favor of the draft resolution strongly condemning the recent escalation of attacks in Aleppo and continuing violence by the Syrian Assad regime against its own people -
20 December: UNGA to vote on draft resolution on accountability of war crimes in Syria, after the UN Security Council on Monday unanimously called for UN officials and others to observe the evacuation of people from eastern Aleppo and monitor the safety of civilians who remain in the rebel-held part of the city -
21 December 2016 'International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism to Assist in the Investigation and Prosecution of Those Responsible for the Most Serious Crimes under International Law Committed in the Syrian Arab Republic since March 2011' resolution adopted by a recorded vote of 105 in favour and 15 against, with 52 abstentions, with Israel’s absence at the UN General Assembly on this resolution A/71/L.48 -
22 décembre 2016: Adoptée par 105 voix contre 15, l'Assemblée générale des Nations unies s'est prononcée pour la création d'une équipe spéciale chargée de 'collecter, regrouper, préserver et analyser les preuves' de crimes de guerre et atteintes aux droits humains commis en Syrie
December 2017: 21/22 December 2017: Non-binding General Assembly vote, including Germany's, rejects USA recognition of Jerusalem as Israeli capital, as USA's Nikki Haley notes '65 countries refused to condemn' USA, including some surprise abstentions, as 21 countries did not vote at all,
and as Hamas, following the UN vote and fearing that protests are quieting down, calls for 'red bloody day’ in West Bank -
24 December 2017: Russian and Chinese regime oppose UN resolution on Rohingya, calling on Myanmar to allow access for aid workers and the return of refugees, as the resolution was nevertheless adopted by a vote of 122 to 10 with 24 abstentions
December 2018: 7 December 2018: Resolution condemning Hamas 'for repeatedly firing rockets into Israel and for inciting violence, thereby putting civilians at risk', fails at UN, despite 87 countries voted in favor, 57 opposed it, 33 abstained, but states voted that it would need a two-thirds majority to pass -
18 December 2018: UN General assembly condemns 'severe’ human rights violations in Iran, passing Canadian-drafted resolution by a vote of 84 to 30 with 67 abstentions -
23 September 2018: UN General Assembly supported a resolution condemning human rights violations in Russian-occupied Crimea, as some 65 states voted for the resolution, 27 (including Russia, Belarus, China, India, Serbia, Syria, South Africa, Nicaragua and Venezuela) voted against, and 70 abstained
25/26 September 2019 war crimes, dictatorship and mass murder ignored by the UN: 25 September 2019: Now in its ninth year, Assad's war against the Syrian people has become a footnote in a long list of world crises, with Iranian, Russian and other war criminals claiming the stage together with obsequious, like Macron and Merkel, and fraudulent and insincere politicians, like Trump and Johnson, and with the so-called international community, including 193 states, people and movements defending and fighting for democracy, forced to resign and to live with dictators like Bashar Assad,
responsible for hundreds of thousands of victims,
ruling over a ruined country for the foreseeable future -
26 September 2019: USA confirms Syria’s Assad used chemical weapons in May 2019 in Idlib province, as Mike Pompeo says regime used chlorine in offensive, vowing a response
4 December 2019 more countries vote against pro-Palestine UN resolution: 4 December 2019: In surprise change, countries including Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Greece, Lithuania, Netherlands, Romania, Slovakia, Brazil and Colombia, vote against pro-Palestine UN resolution
5 November 2020 UN passed with overwhelming majorities a series of resolutions critical of Israel: 5 November 2020: A committee at the UN General Assembly passed with overwhelming majorities a series of resolutions critical of Israel, lambasting the Jewish state, among other things, for ostensible human rights violations against Palestinians and 'repressive measures' against Syrians in the Golan Heights, as 3 Arab countries with which Jerusalem recently signed normalization agreements supported all resolutions, and as motions are passed annually by the 'UN’s Special Political and Decolonization Committee', with minor adjustments, and ratified by member states in December, with nearly all European countries, including staunch allies of Israel such as Germany and the Czech Republic, traditionally supporting most of these resolutions, and as UN Watch, a Geneva-based nonprofit monitoring the world body’s alleged anti-Israel bias, released a long statement decrying the resolutions passed Wednesday, saying 'world body now adds insult to injury' 'just two weeks after the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist group assaulted Israeli civilians with a barrage of rockets from Gaza — while the UN’s General Assembly and Human Rights Council stayed silent', and as 'same European nations have failed to introduce a single UNGA resolution on the human rights situation in China, Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, Cuba, Turkey, Pakistan, Vietnam, Algeria, or on 175 other countries'
19 January 2021 9 African nations in debt to UN lose voting rights: 19 January 2021: Nine African nations in debt to UN lose voting rights, including Iran, Somalia, Comoros, Sao Tome and Principe, Libya, Republic of Congo, Zimbabwe, Central African Republic, South Sudan, and Niger
Since 1950 'Uniting for peace' (and not for propaganda): Emergency special sessions of the General Assembly of the UN, under the resolution 377 A 'Uniting for peace' adopted by the General Assembly on 3 November 1950, as an 'emergency special session' can be convened within 24 hours and shall be called if requested by the Security Council on the vote of any seven members, or by a majority of the Members of the United Nations because of lack of unanimity of the permanent UNSC members, fails to exercise its primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security in any case where there appears to be a threat to the peace, breach of the peace, or act of aggression -
Special session of the UN General Assembly, events with the participation of heads of state and government and government ministers, as a special session usually adopts one or two outcome documents, as since 1975 all special sessions have been called by the General Assembly
United Nations fact-finding missions
United Nations conferences
International conferences -
Diplomatic conferences
Human evolution
Language geography,
the branch of human geography that studies the geographic distribution of language(s) or its constituent elements, including the geography of languages, which deals with the distribution through history and space of languages -
Languages by geographical region, by continent and by country
List of contemporary ethnic groups: List of contemporary ethnic groups
Human reproduction: Human reproduction -
Individual human reproduction and pregnancy
Childbirth by continent and country: Childbirth -
Natural childbirth is childbirth without routine medical interventions, particularly anesthesia. Natural childbirth arose in opposition to the techno-medical model of childbirth that has recently gained popularity in industrialized societies. Natural childbirth attempts to minimize medical intervention, particularly the use of anesthetic medications and surgical interventions such as episiotomies, forceps and ventouse deliveries and caesarean section,
as the term 'Natural Childbirth' established by the 1942 'Childbirth Without Fear'
Pan-genome: 'Pan-genome' in the fields of molecular biology and genetics is the entire set of genes from all strains within a clade, the union of all the genomes of a clade.
20 April 2022 'The Human Pangenome Project', a global resource to map genomic diversity: The human reference genome is the most widely used resource in human genetics and is due for a major update. Its current structure is a linear composite of merged haplotypes from more than 20 people, with a single individual comprising most of the sequence. It contains biases and errors within a framework that does not represent global human genomic variation. A high-quality reference with global representation of common variants, including single-nucleotide variants, structural variants and functional elements, is needed. The Human Pangenome Reference Consortium aims to create a more sophisticated and complete human reference genome with a graph-based, telomere-to-telomere representation of global genomic diversity. -
23 May 2022: The telomere-to-telomere consortium has just taken a massive step forwards in human genomics, describing the first essentially complete sequence of a human genome, called the T2T-CHM13 assembly. This landmark resource, which contains regions of the genome that had not previously been represented in a reference assembly, provides an alternative sequence to the existing human reference genome.
'World population' and history: 'World population' - the total number of humans currently living - estimated by the United Nations to have exceeded eight billion in November 2022. It took over 200,000 years of human prehistory and history for the human population to reach one billion and only 219 years more to reach 8 billion. The UN Department of Economics and Social Affairs projects between 9 and 10 billion people by 2050 and gives an 80% confidence interval of 10–12 billion by the end of the 21st century, with a growth rate by then of zero. Other demographers predict that the human population will begin to decline in the second half of the 21st century.
Demographics of the world: Demographics of the world, as our earth in 2022/23 has a human population of over 8 billion, with an overall population density of 50 people per km2, excluding Antarctica. Nearly 60% of the world's population lives in Asia, with almost 2.8 billion in the countries of China and India combined. The percentage shares of India, China and rest of South Asia of the world population have remained at similar levels for the last few thousand years of recorded history. The world's population today is predominantly urban and suburban, and there has been significant migration toward cities and urban centres. The urban population jumped from 29% in 1950 to 55.3% in 2018. Interpolating from the UN prediction that the world will be 51.35% urban by 2010. China and India are the most populous countries, as the birth rate has consistently dropped in wealthy countries and until recently remained high in poorer countries. -
Historical vital statistics, from UN DESA's World Population Prospects 2022. In July 2022, UN DESA published its 2022 World Population Prospects, a biennially-updated database where key demographic indicators are estimated and projected worldwide and on the country and regional level -
2021 population distribution by region and development, major cities and regional population density -
Regional population growth rate
Human voice: The human voice, responsible for sounds made by a human being using the vocal tract, as the mechanism for generating the human voice can be subdivided into three parts including the lungs, the vocal folds within the larynx (voice box), and the articulators. The lungs, the 'pump' must produce adequate airflow and air pressure to vibrate vocal folds. The vocal folds (vocal cords) then vibrate to use airflow from the lungs to create audible pulses that form the laryngeal sound source. The muscles of the larynx adjust the length and tension of the vocal folds to 'fine-tune' pitch and tone. The articulators (the parts of the vocal tract above the larynx consisting of tongue, palate, cheek, lips, etc.) articulate and filter the sound emanating from the larynx and to some degree can interact with the laryngeal airflow to strengthen or weaken it as a sound source. The vocal folds, in combination with the articulators, are capable of producing highly intricate arrays of sound. The tone of voice may be modulated to suggest emotions such as anger, surprise, fear, happiness or sadness. The human voice therefore express emotion.
Language development: Language development, the process by which human individuals 'acquire' (sich aneignen) the capacity to understand language, as well as to produce and use words and sentences to communicate -
Phasen des Erstspracherwerbs -
'Prosodie' aus griechisch 'prosodía' -
Learning to read (including spoors and tracks since early days) and to write
Skills and degree of skill: Skills and degree of skill (including knowledge) and development in the human reproduction
History of human reproduction, parenting, demographics and culture: History of the demographics of the world
Anthropology: Anthropology, the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, including past human species. Social anthropology studies patterns of behaviour, while cultural anthropology studies cultural meaning, including norms and values. A portmanteau sociocultural anthropology is commonly used today. Linguistic anthropology studies how language influences social life. Biological or physical anthropology studies the biological development of humans. Archaeological anthropology, often termed as 'anthropology of the past', studies human activity through investigation of physical evidence. It is considered a branch of anthropology in North America and Asia, while in Europe archaeology is viewed as a discipline in its own right or grouped under other related disciplines, such as history. -
Ethnology, an academic field that compares and analyzes the characteristics of different peoples and the relationships between them -
Cultural geography subfield within human geography. The first traces of the study of different nations and cultures on Earth can be dated back to ancient geographers such as Ptolemy or Strabo, as cultural geography as academic study firstly emerged in the early 20th century -
Art history, timeline of methods, Marx and ideology, Freud and psychoanalysis
History of art by continent and by period: History of art by continent and by period -
So-called prehistoric art, as in the history art is produced in preliterate, prehistorical cultures beginning somewhere in very late geological history, and generally continuing until that culture either develops writing or other methods of record-keeping, or makes significant contact with another culture that has, and that makes some record of major historical events. At this point ancient art begins, for the older literate cultures, as many indigenous peoples from around the world continued to produce artistic works distinctive to their geographic area and culture, until exploration and commerce brought record-keeping methods to them. Some cultures, notably the Maya civilization, independently developed writing during the time they flourished, which was then later lost. The term thus varies greatly between different parts of the world.
Music by language and world music: Music by language -
Ancient music, musical cultures and practices that developed in the literate civilizations of the ancient world, succeeding the music of prehistoric societies, as major centers of Ancient music developed in - in alphabetical order - in China, Egypt (the Old, Middle and New Kingdoms), Greece (the Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic periods), India (the Maurya, Shunga, Kanva, Kushan, Satavahana and Gupta dynasties), Iran/Persia (the Median, Achaemenid, Seleucid, Parthian and Sasanian Empires), the Maya civilization, Mesopotamia, and Roman Republic -
'Klezmer', an instrumental musical tradition of the Ashkenazi Jews of Central and Eastern Europe, as the essential elements of the tradition include dance tunes, ritual melodies, and virtuosic improvisations played for listening, and would have been played at weddings and other social functions. The musical genre incorporated elements of many other musical genres especially Greek and Romanian music, Baroque music, German and Slavic folk dances, and religious Jewish music -
Sephardic music is an umbrella term used to refer to the music of the Sephardic Jewish community, as Sephardic Jews have a diverse repertoire the origins of which center primarily around the Mediterranean basin. In the secular tradition, material is usually sung in dialects of Judeo-Spanish, though other languages including Hebrew, Turkish, Greek, and other local languages of the Sephardic diaspora are widely used. Sephardim maintain geographically unique liturgical and para-liturgical traditions. -
Secular Jewish music and Jews in classical music
Latin America, Spanish-language (former colonies) music: Latin America music, former colonies' music, including Argentine, Bolivian, Chilean, Colombian, Costa Rican, Cuban, Dominican Republic, Ecuadorian, Equatoguinean, Guatemalan, Honduran, Mexican, Nicaraguan, Panamanian, Paraguayan, Peruvian, Puerto Rican, Salvadoran, Uruguayan, and Venezuelan music
Africa, Latin America, Francophone (former colonies) music: So-called Francophone (former colonies) music, including Algerian, Burkinabé, Burundian, Cameroonian, Central African Republic, Comorian music, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guadeloupean music, Haitian, Ivorian, Malagasy, Malian, Martinican, Mauritian, Moroccan, Rwandan, Senegalese, Seychellois, and Togolese music
Africa, Latin America, Asia English-language (former colonies) music: English-language (former colonies) music, including Antigua and Barbuda, Barbadian, Belizean, Dominica, Gambian, Ghanaian, Irish, Jamaican, Kenyan, Malaysian, New Zealand, Nigerian, Pakistani, Papua New Guinean, Saint Lucian, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Sierra Leonean, Singaporean, Solomon Islands, South African, Tanzanian, Trinidad and Tobago, and Zimbabwean music
Music of Latin America:Music of Latin America including 23 former colonies and countries, is the music originating from Latin America namely the Romance-speaking countries and territories of the Americas and the Caribbean south of the USA. Latin American music also incorporates African music from enslaved African people who were transported from West and Central Africa to the Americas by European settlers. As well as music from the indigenous peoples of the Americas. Due to its highly syncretic nature, Latin American music encompasses a wide variety of styles, including influential genres such as cumbia, bachata, bossa nova, merengue, rumba, salsa, samba, son, and tango.
Composition can refer to an original piece or work of music, created by composers: La composition musicale désigne l'étape où le compositeur conçoit l'œuvre musicale de manière qu'elle corresponde à l'expression sonore de sa pensée. -
Nachdem in früheren Jahrhunderten - in entstandenen Bürgerstädten, freien Reichs-, Handels- und Hansestädten innerhalb und auch im Gegensatz zu sich entwickelnden Territorialstaaten - seit der musikalischen Revolution durch die Erfindung der Notenschrift vor 1.000 Jahren die Kompositionslehre (Harmonielehre, Kontrapunkt, Formenlehre) von erfahrenen Komponisten im Lehrer-Schüler-Verhältnis weitergegeben wurde, ist sie im 21. Jahrhundert an europäischen Musikhochschulen ein zumeist zehnsemestriges Hauptstudienfach seit der Gründung des Pariser Konservatoriums am 3. August 1795 als,
'Conservatoire de musique' (François-Joseph Gossec, Étienne Nicolas Méhul, André Grétry, Jean-François Lesueur, Luigi Cherubini),
und seine Geschichte (erste Professoren Rodolphe Kreutzer und Pierre Rode)
Since 1730 Classical era of music: Since 1730 Classical era of music between roughly 1730 and 1820, and later, as best-known composers from this period are Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert, Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms etc. -
In classical music, musical development is a process by which a musical idea is communicated in the course of a composition, referring to the transformation and restatement of initial material, as development is often contrasted with musical variation, which is a slightly different means to the same end, and carried out upon portions of material treated in many different presentations and combinations at a time, while variation depends upon one type of presentation at a time
20th century ethnomusicologists, pedagogues Zoltán Kodály and Béla Bartók, music education: 20th century Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist, pedagogue, linguist Zoltán Kodály -
Hungarian composer, pianist, and ethnomusicologist Béla Bartók, considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century -
Kodály's approach to music education developed in Hungary during the mid-twentieth century by Zoltán Kodály, which was then developed over a number of years by his associates including Bela Bartok, as in 2016, the method was inscribed as a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage
Darstellende Kunst als Überbegriff für Formen der Kunst benutzt, deren Werke auf vergänglichen Darbietungen (in der Regel in Anwesenheit eines Publikums) bzw. Darstellungen beruhen, ungeachtet der Tatsache, dass sich diese Werke in der Regel aufzeichnen und beliebig oft wiedergeben lassen. Sie unterscheiden sich somit insbesondere von der bildenden Kunst und der Literatur. Zu ihren Darbietungsformen gehören überschneiden insbesondere das Theater und der Tanz. -
History of so-called 'performing arts' in Africa by region - including East, South, West and North Africa -, in Asia by region including West, Middle, Central, South, South-East and East Asia -, the Americas - including North, Middle and South America -, Oceania, and Europe as and by region
Literature is any collection of written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially prose fiction, drama, and poetry -
History of literature, as early literature is derived from stories told in hunter-gatherer bands through oral tradition, including myth and folklore. Storytelling emerged as the human mind evolved to apply causal reasoning and structure events into a narrative and language allowed early humans to share information with one another. Early storytelling provided opportunity to learn about dangers and social norms while also entertaining listeners. The history of writing began independently in different parts of the world, including in Mesopotamia about 3200 BC, in Ancient China about 1250 BC, and in Mesoamerica about 650 BC. Literature was not initially incorporated in writing, as it was primarily used for simpler purposes, such as accounting.
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface, as the oldest known paintings are approximately 40,000 years old, found in both the Franco-Cantabrian region in western Europe, and in the caves in the district of Maros (Sulawesi, Indonesia). In November 2018 scientists reported the discovery of the then-oldest known figurative art painting, over 40,000 (perhaps as old as 52,000) years old, of an unknown animal, in the cave of Lubang Jeriji Saléh on the Indonesian island of Borneo. -
The history of painting reaches back in time to artifacts and artwork created by pre-historic artists, and spans all cultures. It represents a continuous, though periodically disrupted, tradition from Antiquity. Across cultures, continents, and millennia, the history of painting consists of an ongoing river of creativity that continues into the 21st century
History of learning: History of learning is the teaching or learning of knowledge, especially to develop the reasoning, judgement and skill required in adult life and professional occupations -
Learning and 'education' in the life process of individuals and in the development of communities -
History of learning and 'education' in ancient civilization, as since around 3500 BCE various writing systems developed in ancient civilizations around the world -
History of learning and schools in ancient Israel and Judah
Social movements and history of logic: Auch unser menschliches Leben seit Anbeginn ist gebunden an voraussetzungen,die wir nicht geschaffen haben, und bleibt es auch in späteren Zeiten, seitdem industriell Produktionsvoraussetzungen als Resultat produziert werden und der entwickelte gesellscchaftlicher Körper - die sich weiter ausdehende (intensiv und extensiv) bürgerliche Gesellschaft - die Untersuchung und dann begriffliche Darstellung der Körperzelle, der 'Wertform' - herbeiführt, weil die Gesellschaft sich Aufgaben stellt die sie letztendlich lösen kann
History, prevention of abortion and 'mitzvah' and Torah: Documented history of abortion since ancient times -
The feminine noun mitzvah occurs over 180 times in the Masoretic Text of the Hebrew Bible, as the first use is in Genesis 26:5 where God says that Abraham has 'obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments' -
Prophets in Judaism, as according to Rashi, there were 48 prophets and 7 prophetesses of Judaism -
The seven prophetesses in Judaism -
Figures widely recognised as prophets, mentioned as such in the 'Old Testament' and sometimes referred to in the so-called 'New Testament'
Education by country and history: Education by country - Education by method - History of education by country - Language education by country - Music education by country
2016 'Never again' worldwide since the fall of Masada 73/74 CE and in Germany: 'Never again', associated with the Holocaust and other genocides, as the phrase may originate from a 1927 poem by Yitzhak Lamdan which stated 'Never again shall Masada fall!' - 15 December 2016: Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, the systematic operation to wipe out the Jews of Eastern Europe began, 75 years after falling into the abyss 'Never Again' has become an empty phrase in Germany and in many countries - 2013-2017 second banning attempt of the neo-Nazi organization 'National Democratic Party of Germany', but on 17 January the German Federal Constitutional Court rejected the attempt to outlaw the party - January 2017: On 20 January 1942 outside of Berlin a gathering of representatives of the Nazi Germany’s bureaucratic offices decided on the 'Final Solution' for genocide, in the language of bureaucracy and as among the 15 representatives not one was from the German army while eight held doctorates
Timeline of historic inventions, referring to the earliest evidence of an invention found and dated by archaeologists (or in a few cases, suggested by indirect evidence - History of housing und Geschichte der Architektur - A nest is a structure built for certain animals to hold eggs, offspring, and, oftentimes, the animal itself, and as - although nests are most closely associated with birds - members of all classes of vertebrates and some invertebrates construct nests
Timeline of computing, grouped by topic areas and by detailed computing timelines: Timeline of computing, presenting events in its history, organized by year and grouped into six topic areas including predictions and concepts, first use and inventions, hardware systems and processors, operating systems, programming languages, and new application areas, as detailed computing timelines include periods before 1950, 1950–1979, 1980–1989, 1990–1999, 2000-2009, 2010-2019, 2020–2029
August 1966 Apollo Guidance Computer: August 1966 Apollo Guidance Computer, a digital computer produced for the Apollo program that was installed on board each Apollo command module and Apollo Lunar Module, as the AGC provided computation and electronic interfaces for guidance, navigation, and control of the spacecraft -
Apollo program hardware -
The Apollo primary guidance, navigation, and control system, a self-contained inertial guidance system that allowed Apollo spacecraft to carry out their missions when communications with Earth were interrupted, either as expected, when the spacecraft were behind the Moon, or in case of a communications failure
History of transport - History of road transport, as first forms of road transport connecting humans also included carrying goods over tracks that often followed game trails - History of transport by region, later by country - History of water transport and maritime history since so-called pre-historic times - History of rail transport - History of aviation
Transport timelines since 2nd millennium BC -
List of shipwrecks mainly showing later unknown trade routes, before Anno Domini listed since 20th century BC and earlier,
as the Dokos shipwreck is the oldest underwater shipwreck discovery known to early 21st century's archeologists. The wreck has been dated to the second Proto-Helladic period, 2700-2200 BC, as the remains of the shipwreck are located about 15–30 meters underwater off the coast of southern Greece near the island of Dokos in the Aegean Sea between and also linking Western Asia and Europe by water transport. Dokos island is about 100km east of Sparta, Peloponnese -
1st millennium BC in transport, after since centuries especially Greek scientists - including Archimedes, Euklid, Aristoteles, Anaximander, Hipparchus, Aristyllus and more -
2nd millennium in transport, listed since the high Middle Ages
Product introductions by century - Introductions by type and century
Human evolution, interventions in the external nature, violence and criticism: Human evolution, criticism of religion, above all of professionalism of religious faith and history of study
Der Arbeitsprozeß: Der Arbeitsprozeß, ein Prozeß zwischen Mensch und Natur, worin der Mensch seinen Stoffwechsel mit der Natur durch seine eigne Tat vermittelt, regelt und kontrolliert, dem Naturstoff selbst als eine Naturmacht gegenübertritt, wobei - was ihn vornherein gegenüber z.B. der besten Biene beim Bau ihrer Wachszellen auszeichnet - er die Zelle in seinem Kopf gebaut hat, bevor er sie in Wachs baut, und am Ende des Arbeitsprozesses kommt ein Resultat heraus, das beim Beginn desselben schon in der Vorstellung des Arbeiters, also schon ideell vorhanden, und er verwirklicht im Natürlichen zugleich seinen Zweck, den er weiß, der die Art und Weise seines Tuns als Gesetz bestimmt und dem er seine Willen unterordnen muß -
Kooperation und ihre Geschichte -
Teilung der Arbeit und Manufaktur, ihre Geschichte -
Maschinerie und große Industrie, wobei als Maschinerie das Arbeitsmittel eine materielle Existenzweise erhält, welche Ersetzung der Menschenkraft durch Naturkräfte und erfahrungsmäßiger Routine durch bewußte Anwendung der Naturwissenschaft bedingt, und der kooperative Charakter des Arbeitsprozesses wird jetzt durch die Natur des Arbeitsmittels selbst diktierte technische Notwendigkeit
Denken und Nachdenken: 'Da der Denkprozeß selbst aus den Verhältnissen herauswächst, selbst ein Naturprozeß ist, so kann das wirklich begreifende Denken immer nur dasselbe sein, und nur graduell, nach der Reife der Entwicklung, also auch des Organs, womit gedacht wird, sich unterscheiden', Karl Marx an Ludwig Kugelmann 11. Juli 1868 -
Evolution des Denkens und Überlegungen des Naturforschers Charles Darwins (1809-1882) zur Entwicklung der Fähigkeiten zu denken -
Neuroscience, the scientific study of the nervous system -
Human brain, the central organ of the human nervous system, making up the central nervous system with the spinal cord -
Development of the nervous system in humans
Science: Science - History of science - Scientific revolution - emergence of modern science during the early modern period based mainly on Hellenistic science
History of Astronomy -
Star formation, the process by which dense regions within molecular clouds in interstellar space, collapse and form stars, science a branch of astronomy -
Während massearme Sterne auch isoliert entstehen können, findet die Bildung massereicherer Sterne vornehmlich in Sternhaufen statt, und diese unterschiedlichen Arten der Sternentstehung bestimmen wesentlich die Eigenschaften und die Entwicklung von Galaxien -
Voraussetzung für die Entstehung von Sternen ist das Vorhandensein vergleichsweise dichter, kalter Materiewolken, sogenannter Molekülwolken, wobei die Wolken zu rund 70% aus molekularem Wasserstoff bestehen, der von einer Hülle aus neutralen Wasserstoffatomen umgeben ist, und sich in diesen Wolken noch weitere Moleküle finden, beispielsweise Kohlenmonoxid, und rund 1% der Masse in Form von interstellarem Staub (Silikat- oder Graphitteilchen). In der Milchstraße finden sich Molekülwolken mit mittlerer Dichte von etwa 100 H2-Molekülen je cm³ hauptsächlich in den Spiralarmen, wobei einige große Komplexe Durchmesser von etwa 150 Lichtjahren und Massen von 105 bis 106 Sonnenmassen erreichen können und deswegen auch als Riesenmolekülwolken bezeichnet werden, während kleinere, relativ isolierte Molekülwolken Massen von weniger als hundert Sonnenmassen aufweisen -
Molekülwolkenstruktur -
Sterne entstehen aus dichten Molekülwolkenkernen, in eine Molekülwolke eingebettet, innerhalb derer verschiedenste Kräfte wirken, wobei am wichtigsten die Gravitation ist, die durch ihre anziehende Wirkung dafür sorgt, dass sich diese Kerne weiter zusammenziehen, wobei diesem Kollaps hauptsächlich die thermische Energie entgegenwirkt, also die Eigenbewegung der Moleküle, die diese nur aufgrund ihrer Temperatur besitzen, und wobei als wichtig zur Stabilität auch Magnetfelder und/oder Turbulenz angegeben werden -
Protosterne, Beobachtung und Klassifizierung -
Sternentstehung in Clustern und 'Sternpopulationen' -
Sternentstehung in Galaxien, wobei Galaxien sich einteilen lassen in solche, die noch in größerem Umfang neue Sterne bilden, und solche, in denen die Sternentstehungsaktivität weitgehend zum Erliegen gekommen ist, und wobei in unserer Heimatgalaxie, der Milchstraße, rund eine Sonnenmasse an neuen Sternen pro Jahr entsteht, gemäß der Studie von Thomas P. Robitaille, Barbara A. Whitney 'The Present-Day Star Formation Rate of the Milky Way'
History of Organic Chemistry - History of Biochemistry - History of Molecular Biology - Abiogenesis
Science and technology by country - Science education by country
Scientists and and urgently needed anti-corruption activism
1642-1727 Isaac Newton, mathematician, physicist and astronomer: 1642-1727 Isaac Newton, a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and author, widely recognised as one of the most influential scientists of all time and as a key figure in the scientific revolution, who laid the foundations of classical mechanics, also making seminal contributions to optics, and sharing credit with Leibniz for developing the infinitesimal calculus
Since 1845-1850 Karl Marx' exile in London amid the emerging second French and German empires: Since 1845-1850 Karl Marx' exile in London, after the French government, receiving a request from the Prussian king, shut down 'Vorwärts', with the interior minister François Guizot expelling Karl Marx from France, who moved from Paris to Brussels, where he hoped to once again continue his study of capitalism and political economy,
as Prussian king Frederick William IV's later counter-revolutionary measures suppressing the 'Neue Rheinische Zeitung' meant Marx was ordered to leave the country in May 1849, returning to Paris already under the grip of a reactionary counter-revolution, meaning Marx was soon expelled by the city authorities, now moving to London in June 1849 to remain based in the city with his familiy for the rest of his life -
Marxists by nationality
1916-1918 Rosa Luxemburg's imprisonment, 1919 assassination and terrible worldwide weapons: 1916-1918 Rosa Luxemburg's imprisonment and 1919 assassination, following 1914 SPD's support in the German empire's 'Reichstag' for funding its World War I, opposed by the scientist and politician Luxemburg, meaning as a result that Luxemburg and Liebknecht were imprisoned in June 1916 for two and a half years, twice relocated first to Posen (now Poznan), then to Breslau (now Wroclaw), until 8 November 1918, three days before the armistice of 11 November 1918, as friends smuggled out and illegally published her articles and works, including 'The Russian Revolution', criticising the Bolsheviks, presciently warning of their dictatorship, as in 1914-1918 Germany 'since 4 August 1914, German Social-Democracy has been a stinking corpse', involved in Luxemburg's and Liebknecht's assassination, sparking the NSDAP, nazism and World War II with a new generation of terrible weapons -
Since 1 September 1939 invasion of Poland,
marking the beginning of 1939–1945 occupation of Poland and World War II -
Weapon development and science
Since September 1939 Polish resistance to German invasion and scientists: September 1939 Polish anthropologist, economist, sociologist and one of the translators of Karl Marx's 'Das Kapital' into Polish, Ludwik Krzywicki was injured during the defence of Warsaw in September 1939, as the bomb that destroyed his apartment also caused the loss of most of his papers and manuscripts, his working conditions worsened and he died of heart disease -
1937-1939 'Special Prosecution Book-Poland', the proscription list prepared by the Germans immediately before the onset of war, that identified more than 61,000 of Polish people including scientists, activists, intelligentsia, scholars, actors, former officers, and prominent others, who were to be interned or shot on the spot upon their identification following the 1939 invasion, compiled by the 'Zentralstelle IIP Polen' unit of the 'Geheime Staatspolizei' with help from some members of the German minority living in pre-war Poland -
Polish resistance movement in World War II -
1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising -
Resistance movements during World War II occurred in every occupied country by a variety of means, ranging from non-cooperation to propaganda to hiding crashed pilots and even to outright warfare and the recapturing of towns
History of the Social Sciences - History of economic thought - Classical political economy - Marxian economics
Science in society and science timelines: Science in society - History of science - Science timelines
International observational astronomy: Observational astronomy - Timeline of telescopes, observatories, and observing technology since 1600s
Since 1950s timeline of spaceflight: Since 1950s timeline of spaceflight, Spaceflight timelines
2020s Venus atmosphere investigation, planned mission for an orbiter and atmospheric probe: DAVINCI+ (Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging, Plus), a planned mission for an orbiter and atmospheric probe to the planet Venus. Together with the VERITAS mission, which will also study Venus, it was selected by NASA in June 2021 to be part of their Discovery Program, as DAVINCI+ will send both an orbiter and a descent probe to Venus. The orbiter will image Venus in multiple wavelengths from above, while the descent probe will study the chemical composition of Venus' atmosphere and take photographs during descent. The DAVINCI+ probe will travel through the Venusian atmosphere, sampling the atmosphere, and returning measurements down to the surface. These measurements are important to understanding the origin of the atmosphere, how it has evolved, and how and why it is different from the atmosphere of Earth and Mars. -
Future missions to Venus, including USA's 2023 Rocket Lab’s Venus probe, India's 2024 Shukrayaan-1, USA's 2028 Veritats mission, Roscosmos 2029 Venera-D mission, ESA's 2031 EnVision, and more proposed 2020s-2030s NASA missions
Since 1992 UN's Memory of the World Programme to safeguard the documentary heritage of humanity against collective amnesia, neglect, the ravages of time and climatic conditions, and willful and deliberate destruction - UN's Memory of the World Register by continent and country
Human rights museums - Since the ancient Western Asia (so-called near or middle East by colonial powers) and since the ancient Africa history of human rights
Slavery museums - Apartheid museums
Holocaust museums, documenting and remembering the genocide during World War II in which Nazi Germany, aided by its collaborators, systematically murdered some six million European Jews, around two-thirds of the Jewish population of Europe
Genocide museums
Museums by country
Social movements: Social movements, Internet, World Wide Web
Wikipedia collaboratively edited, multilingual, free Internet encyclopedia: Since 20th/21st centuries 'Online social movement' -
Wikipedia collaboratively edited, multilingual, free Internet encyclopedia, including Wikipedias English with millions of articles and millions, perhaps meanwhile more users, French and German Wikipedias also wholly online, as more than a dozen other Wikipedias have 1 million articles or more, of variable quality and length,
are no longer printed and sold encyclopedias, rigid and immobile, changed into digital and online encyclopedias, immediately able to update and enhance knowledge e.g. following new sources,
in contrast to Chinese-language collaborative online encyclopedia 'Baidu Wiki', reportedly censoring its content in accordance with the requirements of China's Beijing regime -
2 février 2021: Wikipédia a dévoilé mardi un 'code de conduite universel' visant à juguler la désinformation, les abus et la manipulation sur l'encyclopédie en ligne
Since 740 BCE 'swords to ploughshares' social movements: In der Zeit von 740 und 701 v. Chr. reagiert der Schriftprophet der hebräischen Bibel Isaias (Jesaja) in Jerusalem, Juda und Israel auf die damalige Verarmung großer Bevölkerungsteile mit einer scharfen Sozialkritik und verheißt den Israeliten und umgebenden mehr oder weniger aggressiven Reichen der Region universalen Frieden und Gerechtigkeit -
740-701 BCE Isaiah (Tanakh 2:4) says that peoples 'shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks', and 'nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more' -
Beat your swords into plowshares, and your pruning spears into hooks, let the weakling say 'I am a warrior', according to Joel 3:10 or 4:10, as Micah says 4:3 'they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more'
September 1932 S. Freud asks A. Einstein wie lange müssen wir nun warten, bis auch die anderen Pazifisten werden?: 'Why War? Pourquoi la guerre? Warum Krieg? Wie lange müssen wir nun warten, bis auch die anderen Pazifisten werden? Es ist nicht zu sagen, aber vielleicht ist es keine utopische Hoffnung, daß der Einfluß dieser beiden Momente, der kulturellen Einstellung und der berechtigten Angst vor den Wirkungen eines Zukunftskrieges, dem Kriegführen in absehbarer Zeit ein Ende setzen wird. Auf welchen Wegen oder Umwegen, können wir nicht erraten. Unterdes dürfen wir uns sagen: Alles, was die Kulturentwicklung fördert, arbeitet auch gegen den Krieg.' Brief von Sigmund Freud an Albert Einstein im September 1932, in 'Open Letters', Bd. 2, p 25-62
In and since the late 1960s German social and new political movements: In and since the 1960s social and new political movements, grewing as younger people became disillusioned with the political 'establishment', worrying it was reminiscent of German empire's NSDAP rule past, as West Berlin became a center for these movements since many pensive and critical, 'left' leaning people would take residence in West Berlin to avoid the military draft that was in effect in the rest of West Germany -
1960s-1970s 'Außerparlamentarische Opposition' (German for extra-parliamentary opposition, commonly known as the APO), a political protest movement in West Germany forming a central part of the German student movement, as its membership consisted mostly of young people disillusioned with the grand coalition (Große Koalition) of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), and as - since the coalition controlled 95% of the Bundestag, the APO provided a more effective outlet for student (and more) dissent -
1977/78 Krise und Auflösung der 'Projektgruppe Entwicklung des Marxschen Systems' (Das Kapitel vom Geld 1973, Theorien über den Mehrwert 1975, Grundrisse der Kritik der Politischen Ökonomie 1978) infolge politischer Intrige seitens des Projektleiters nach verletzter Eitelkeit, außerdem zu der Zeit unzureichender Quellenlage zur Geschichte Israels, des Militärstaats 'Imperium Romanum', dann - nach dessen Selbstauflösung trotz von seinen Ideologen ausgedachter christlicher Staatsreligion, ausgehend von nicht verstandener jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur - des 'Sacrum Imperium Romanum' bis 1806 und der Nationalstaaten bis 2021, und damit vor allem zur Geschichte der Privateigentumsformen, die heute den globalen Kapitalismus, den Weltmarkt und das Verhältnis reicher Länder zu Ländern mit Gemeinwesen, die die europäische Entwicklung mit seinen Privateigentumsformen (und entsprechenden Kriegen) nicht mitgemacht sondern nur darunter gelitten haben und leiden
December 2016: 13 December 2016: Thousands of people took to the streets of Istanbul and London on Tuesday to protest the reported massacres of civilians in Aleppo by Russian, Assad regime and allied forces and to show solidarity with the people of Aleppo facing Russian, Iranian and Assad war crimes -
14 December 2016: Protests and vigils were held in cities across the world including Ankara, Beirut, Istanbul and Paris on Tuesday and Wednesday to show solidarity with civilians in eastern Aleppo and to denounce the international community’s inaction over the atrocious crimes being committed against civilians by the Assad regime and its Hezbollah, Iranian and Russian allies -
15 December 2016: Global outcry condemns Russian regime for Aleppo tragedy, as condemnation of the Syrian dictator Assad and his allies Russia and Iran has intensified in capitals across Europe including Berlin, where at least hundreds have demonstrated blaming Russian regime and its support of Assad for the unfolding tragedy -
15 December 2016: Protests are being held in front of the Russian embassy in Kyiv, expressing anger over Russia's war crimes in Aleppo and calling on the USA and the EU to impose fresh sanctions on Russia over the war crimes in Syria, and also ensure safety and decent conditions for civilians in war-torn Syria -
15 December 2016: People continued to hold protests and vigils in many Arab and Western cities, including Copenhagen, Kuwait, Oslo, Paris, Rabat, Sarajevo, Stockholm and Washington, to show solidarity with civilians in eastern Aleppo and to denounce the international community’s inaction over the atrocious crimes being carried out against civilians by the Assad regime -
17 December 2016: Demonstrations and vigils condemning the war crimes being committed by Assad, Russia and the Iranian militias against civilians in Syria, especially in Aleppo, continue to be held in many cities across the world, as most demonstrations were held in front of Russian and Iranian embassies in many European and Arab countries -
18 December: Doctors, nurses and medics have staged a protest outside Parliament in London against Russian, Iranian and Assad's attacks on their professional colleagues trying to save lives in Syria as thousands of people in Germany and in France were protesting against Assad's ongoing war in Syria
January 2018 protests against Turkish Afrin campaign: 28 January 2018: A show of solidarity around the world for Syria's Afrin and against the Turkish campaign, as people gathered in Amsterdam, Barcelona, Brussels, Cologne, London, Ottawa, Paris, Stockholm, Washington D.C., and more than 50 places
19/20 June 2020 tens of thousands of USA citizens mark the Juneteenth holiday: 19 June 2020: Tens of thousands of people in the USA marked the Juneteenth holiday on Friday, which commemorates the end of slavery, as celebrations took place from from coast to coast, with the day taking on renewed significance as citizens confront the nation’s legacy of police brutality and racial injustice,´
now combined with homage to George Floyd in Minneapolis, while Atlanta protesters demand justice for Ahmaud Arbery, the unarmed black man shot dead in February while out for a run, by a white father and son, while a third white man helped corner him and videoed the killing,
another recent case in USA's history following the Atlantic slave trade, that had an economic foundation in capitalism by Europeans -
20 June 2020: Washington D.C. protesters pull down, burn statue of Confederate general on Juneteenth, as demonstrators read out disappointed and furious Trump’s tweet about toppling of only Confederate memorial in USA capital, and as activists say Albert Pike was chief founder of post-Civil War KKK
15 December 2020 anger grows in Sidi Bouzid because 'something went wrong in the revolution' called 'Arab Spring': 15 December 2020: Ten years on, anger grows in Tunisian town Sidi Bouzid where 'Arab Spring' began, after fruit seller Mohammed Bouazizi set himself ablaze in the central Tunisian town of Sidi Bouzid following an altercation with a policewoman about where he had put his cart, sparking nationwide protests that eventually toppled Tunisia’s long-serving leader and helped inspire similar uprisings across the region, as huge demonstrations broke out in Egypt and Bahrain, governments fell and ongoing repression and war engulfed Libya, Syria, Yemen, but 'something went wrong in the revolution' according to Attia Athmouni who helped lead the uprising after Bouazizi’s death, as protests have flared again in recent weeks across Tunisia’s poorer southern towns against joblessness, poor state services, inequality and shortages in a country where the economy has stagnated, leaving the public as angry as it was a decade ago
23 January 2021 over 2,000 citizens arrested in Russia at Navalny rallies: 23 January 2021: The OVD-Info monitor reported that Putin regime's police seized at least 2,131 demonstrators at the protests held in dozens of Russian cities, with 795 arrests carried out in the capital Moscow, including the wife of jailed regime critic Alexei Navalny, as riot police hauled off demonstrators and beat others with batons, as protests took place in temperatures of minus-50 Celsius, following criminal arrest of regime critics, and as demonstrators also rallied outside Russian embassy in Tel Aviv in solidarity with Russian democrats -
23 January 2021: Calling for Navalny's release,
tens of thousands protest in Russia, spanning from Kaliningrad in the west to Vladivostok in the far east, as the turnout of those calling for the opposition leader’s release from jail far surpassed many protesters’ expectations
January 2021 worldwide solidarity protests against Putin's terrorist policy: January 2021 solidarity protests were also held in cities around the world on 23 January, including Berlin, Munich, Prague, Krakow, Helsinki, London, Tallinn, The Hague, Denver, Vienna, Tel Aviv, Copenhagen, and Tokyo
2 April 2021 junta forces killed 550 civilians in Myanmar protests known locally as 'Spring Revolution': Since 2 February 2021 Myanmar protests known locally as the 'Spring Revolution' in opposition to the coup d'état on 1 February, as protesters have employed peaceful and nonviolent forms of protest which include acts of civil disobedience, labour strikes, a military boycott campaign, a pot-banging movement, a red ribbon campaign, public protests, and formal recognition of the election results by elected representatives, and as of 2 April 2021 at least 550 civilians, including children, have been killed by military or police forces and at least 2,574 people detained
Since 24 February 2022 ongoing anti-war demonstrations/protests against Putin regime's invasion of Ukraine: Since 24 February 2022 ongoing anti-war demonstrations and protests in Russia against the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, that sparked immediate daily protests in cities across Russia and worldwide, as Russian Putin regime's authorities have tried to intimidate the protesters through a total of 5,794 arrests by the end of Sunday 27 February -
Since 24 February 2022 national and international pro-Ukrainian protests have occurred at several of Russia's embassies and consulates abroad, including those in meanwhile 59 global countries, listed by 'Wikipedia', page last edited on 1 March 2022 -
Since 24 February 2022 International reactions - listed alphabetically by continent and countries - to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, also including intergovernmental and international organizations, political parties, opposition politicians and other political groups, international human rights organizations, non-governmental organizations and non-political groups, listed by continent and countries by 'Wikipedia', page last edited on 1 March 2022
Anti-nuclear movement: Anti-nuclear movement - Anti-war movement, a social movement, usually in opposition to a particular nation's decision to start or carry on an armed conflict - Peace movements
Since 1600 Timeline of labor issues, events and organized labor history: Since 1600 Timeline of labor issues and events - Organized labor history, as the origins of trade unions can be traced back to 18th century Britain, where the rapid expansion of industrial society then taking place, drew women, children, rural workers and immigrants into the work force in large numbers and in new roles - Trade unions by continent - Trade unions by country - List of trade unions by country - Trade unions by industry
Karl Marx 'Value, Price and Profit', 1865 written, presented and 1898 published: Karl Marx 'Value, Price and Profit' (written in 1865 and first published in 1898), including chapter XIV 'The Struggle Between Capital and Labour and its Results'. Karl Marx writes that the women and men of the 'working class ought not to exaggerate to themselves the ultimate working of these everyday struggles. They ought not to forget that they are fighting with effects, but not with the causes of those effects; that they are retarding the downward movement, but not changing its direction; that they are applying palliatives, not curing the malady. They ought, therefore, not to be exclusively absorbed in these unavoidable guerilla fights incessantly springing up from the never ceasing encroachments of capital or changes of the market. They ought to understand that, with all the miseries it imposes upon them, the present system simultaneously engenders the material conditions and thesocial forms necessary for an economical reconstruction of society'.
Since 19th century 'Social Democracy': Social democracy since 19th century
Since 19th century environmental movement: Since 19th century environmental movement
November 2015 climate change protests: 28 November 2015: As part of worldwide protests thousands of people rally in cities across Australia, New Zealand and the Philippines calling for action on climate change ahead of 2015 Paris summit - 29 November: Hundreds of thousands march around the world urging action to stop dangerous global warming
List of revolutions and rebellions: List of revolutions and rebellions
Since 1974 Portugal's (and Spanish) transition to democracy following its 1961-1974 wars against its African colonies in Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau, Mozambique and São Tomé and Principe: Since 1974 Portuguese transition to democracy, ushering in first the 'Ditadura Nacional' and then Oliveira Salazar's 'Estado Novo',
following the 1961-1974 Portuguese colonial wars against Portugal's African colonies in Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau, Mozambique and São Tomé and Principe, resulting in their independance after six centuries of colonialism, the end of the Portuguese Empire (first the Kingdom of Portugal 1139–1910) and its colonialism in Africa and Asia -
Since 1975 Spanish transition to democracy
Women-led protests and uprisings: Women-led protests and uprisings, initiated by women as an act of resistance or rebellion in defiance of an established government, a statement or action taken part to express disapproval of or object an authority, most commonly led in order to influence public opinion or government policy and ranging from village food riots against imposed taxes to protests that initiated the 1917 Russian revolution
Since 2001 'World Social Forum': Since 2001 World Social Forum - March 2013 World Social Forum in Tunis - December 2014 World Social Forum on Migrations - March 2015 World Social Forum in Tunisia - 5 août 2016: Après Tunis en 2015 Montréal accueille à partir de mardi le prochain Forum social mondial
Since 2015 'United Nations Post-2015 Development Agenda': United Nations Post-2015 Development Agenda - 30 January 2012: UN panel aims for 'a future worth choosing' - UN Global Sustainability Panel (January 2012)
Internet in the aftermath of World War II connecting all continents, in English, Chinese, Hindi, Spanish, French, Standard Arabic, Russian, Portuguese, Urdu, Indonesian and more languages, social movements - L’Internet mondial et répartition des utilisateurs d'Internet par continent en mars 2008 - Internet in Africa - Internet in North and in South America, and Spanish-language edition of Wikipedia - Internet in Asia, in India and China - Internet in Oceania including Australia and New Zealand - Internet in Europe, different languages
Cooperative movement by continent and country: List of cooperatives by continent and country - Cooperatives by country - History of the cooperative movement, concerning the origins and history of cooperatives in modern economies, as cooperative arrangements, such as mutual insurance, and principles of cooperation existed long before, the cooperative movement began with the application of cooperative principles to business organization
Journalism and media: News media and Journalism, the work and distribution of reports on the interaction of events, facts, ideas, and people that are the news of the day or a longer period
2020 'End Impunity - for a UN Convention to protect journalists': 2020 'End Impunity - for a UN Convention to protect journalists', as despite many protocols, guidelines and proposals, journalists still face a daily threat, and impunity continues to make the situation worse after in the last 6 years more than 600 journalists have been killed, as 9 in 10 cases remain unpunished, as hundreds of journalists are imprisoned, and as on a daily basis journalists are attacked, beaten, detained, harassed and threatened, also with cyber-attacks, hacking, and online harassment -
RSF's 2020 World Press Freedom Index 'Entering a decisive decade for journalism, exacerbated by coronavirus'
Professionalism of journalism, ethics and standards - Journalism ethics - Code of ethics in media following the 1947 Hutchins Commission, suggesting that newspapers, broadcasters and journalists had started to become more responsible for journalism and thought they should be held accountable
Freedom of the press, freedom of speech and freedom of information
1841-1843 mouthpiece of the democratic movement in Germany 'Rhenish Newspaper', later edited by Karl Marx: 1841 erhielt Karl Marx eine Einladung für die 'Rheinische Zeitung' tätig zu werden. Am 5. Mai 1842 wird sein erster Nachrichtenartikel für die RZ veröffentlicht, der erste Bericht seiner Artikelserie 'Debatten über Preßfreiheit' und Publikation der Landständischen Verhandlungen. Er kritisiert Reden der Landtagsabgeordneten zum Thema Pressefreiheit, und zitiert z.B. einen Redner aus dem Fürstenstand, der die Meinung vertrat, die Zensur sei ein geringeres Übel als der Unfug der Presse. Marx betrachtete das anders: 'Ein Volk, welches (…) das Recht, die Wahrheit zu denken und auszusprechen, den Hofnarren vindiziert, kann nur ein Volk der Abhängigkeit und der Selbstlosigkeit sein.' In langen Artikeln propagierte der noch junge Marx die Pressefreiheit und kritisierte dabei auch die Reden der Verteidiger dieser Freiheit scharf. Marx zitierte einen solchen Redner, der die Pressefreiheit der Gewerbefreiheit zuordnen wollte. Darauf entgegnet Marx, dass dies zwei unterschiedliche Arten von Freiheit seien, die nicht einander untergeordnet werden könnten, sonst würde man 'die Pressefreiheit (…) verteidigen, indem man sie vor der Verteidigung totschlägt'. Aus diesem Artikel stammt auch Marx’ Zitat: 'Die erste Freiheit der Presse besteht darin, kein Gewerbe zu sein.' Im Herbst 1842 zog Marx nach Köln und übernahm am 15. Oktober 1842 die Redaktionsleitung. Alle Beiträge von ihm, wie auch der übrigen Mitarbeiter, erschienen anonym, und es gelang ihm auch bis zum Untergang der Zeitung, seine Tätigkeit als Redaktor geheim zu halten. Unter Marxens Chefredaktion formulierte die RZ schnell radikale, revolutionäre demokratische Ideen. Sie wurde eines der wichtigsten Sprachrohre der demokratischen Bewegung in Deutschland. -
1841-1843 'Rhenish Newspaper', a 19th-century German newspaper edited most famously by Karl Marx. The paper was launched in January 1842 and terminated by Prussian state censorship in March 1843
Spring 1848 until May 1849 'New Rhenish Newspaper - Organ of Democracy', editor Karl Marx: Frühling 1848 - Mai 1849 'Neue Rheinische Zeitung. Organ der Demokratie' NRhZ, eine von Karl Marx in Köln, damals zur preußischen Rheinprovinz gehörend, herausgegebene Tageszeitung. Am 19. Mai 1849 stellte die Neue Rheinische Zeitung nach 301 Ausgaben ihr Erscheinen ein, nachdem die letzten Aufstände der Märzrevolution von Preußen im Rheinland niedergeschlagen worden waren. Marx, Dronke und Weerth wurden als Nichtpreußen des Landes verwiesen. Gegen die restlichen Redaktionsmitglieder wurden gerichtliche Verfahren eingeleitet. Marx ging erneut ins Exil, diesmal nach London, wo er im Wesentlichen bis zu seinem Lebensende 1883 blieb und sein 3-bändiges Hauptwerk Das Kapital verfasste. Er blieb weiterhin politisch aktiv und hatte großen Einfluss auf die sich entwickelnde Arbeiterbewegung und ihre politischen demokratischen Parteien. Auf seine Initiative hin wurde 1864 die 12 Jahre bestehende 'Internationale Arbeiterassoziation' gegründet. -
1848/1849 'New Rhenish Newspaper. Organ of Democracy', a German daily newspaper published by Karl Marx in Cologne and recognised by historians as one of the most important dailies of the Revolutions of 1848 in Germany. The paper was regarded by its editors and readers as the successor of an earlier Cologne newspaper, the 'Rhenish Newspaper' since 1841, also edited for a time by Karl Marx, which had been suppressed by state censorship over five years earlier
Democratic media is a form of media organization that strives to have the principles of democracy underlying not only the production of content, but also the organization of the entire project - Media democracy, a democratic approach to media studies that advocates for the reform of mass media to strengthen public service broadcasting and develop participation in alternative media and citizen journalism in order to create a mass media system that informs and empowers all members of society and enhances democratic values
Citizen journalism, participatory media and democratic media: Citizen media,
an inclusive term that refers to any form of content produced by private citizens and includes production models like public access, community technology centers, digital storytelling, blogs, vlogs (video blogs), and podcasting (audio blogs) -
Participatory media, where the audience can play an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing and disseminating content -
MIT Center for Civic Media, a research and practical center that develops and implements tools that support political action and 'the information needs of [civic] communities'
Since 2012 Bellingcat website founded by the British citizen journalist Eliot Higgins, publishing the findings of citizen journalist investigations into war and the criminal underground, also publishing guides to their techniques and case studies, after in March 2012 Eliot Higgins started a blog demonstrating that the Syrian regime was using cluster munitions and chemical weapons - 'Bellingcat' website
Since 2013 'The Insider', an independent news website specializing in investigative journalism, fact-checking and political analytics. The newspaper is known for exposing fake news in Russian media. The editorial office of the newspaper is located in Riga. - Investigations of 'The Insider' including the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal (2018 collaboration with the Bellingcat network and the BBC's Newsnight TV program), the assassination of Zelimkhan Khangoshvili in Berlin ('The Insider' with 'Bellingcat' and Der Spiegel conducted an investigation of the murder of Zelimkhan Khangoshvili in Berlin in August 2019, reportedly committed by a man working for the Russian intelligence agencies), the August 2020 poisoning of Alexei Navalny with chemical weapon Novichok (joint investigation by 'The Insider', 'Bellingcat', 'Der Spiegel' and 'Radio Liberty'), July 2014 Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 shootdown (in April 2020 the independent investigation of 'The Insider', 'Bellingcat' and 'BBC' identified one of the main persons involved in the MH17 crash, as the Insider used voice-comparison technology, travel information and phone records to establish a person's identity)
Since 2010 Bureau of Investigative Journalism, a nonprofit news organisation based in London - 'Bureau of Investigative Journalism' website
Since 1997 International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, an independent Washington D.C.-based international network - 'International Consortium of Investigative Journalists' website
Since 1985 Reporters Without Borders, or Reporters Sans Frontières RSF, is an international non-profit, non-governmental organization that promotes and defends freedom of information and freedom of the press - 'Reporters Without Borders' website - The Press Freedom Index is an annual ranking of countries compiled and published by 'Reporters Without Borders' based upon the organisation's own assessment of the countries' press freedom records in the previous year
Citizen journalism is based upon public citizens 'playing an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing, and disseminating news and information' - Crowdsourcing
Collaborative journalism, a mode of journalism where multiple reporters or news organizations, without affiliation to a common parent organization, report on and contribute news items to a news story together, practiced by both professional and amateur reporters
Investigative journalism is a form of journalism in which reporters deeply investigate a single topic of interest, such as serious crimes, political corruption, or corporate wrongdoing, and an investigative journalist may spend months or years researching and preparing a report - Lists of investigative journalists by country
Democracy: Democracy - State - Government
Voting, ballots, vote counting, participation and abstentions for various reasons: Voting -
Issue voting -
Voter registration -
Voting age -
Vote counting -
Ballot, known since ancient Greece, a device used to cast votes in an election -
Voter turnout, the percentage of eligible voters who cast a ballot in a vote or an election -
Abstention, a term in election procedure for when a participant in a vote either does not go to vote (on election day) or, in parliamentary procedure, is present during the vote, but does not cast a ballot -
Electronic voting, using electronic means to either aid or take care of casting and counting votes -
Electronic voting by country
The right to vote, women's and 'universal' suffrage: Suffrage, political franchise, or simply franchise is the right to vote in public, political elections (although the term is sometimes used for any right to vote) - 'Universal suffrage' gives the right to vote to all adult citizens, regardless of wealth, income, gender, social status, race, ethnicity, or any other restriction, subject only to relatively minor exceptions
'Cosmopolitanism' and 'Gattungswesen': 'Cosmopolitanism' is the idea that all human beings or 'Gattungswesen' are members of a single community. Cosmopolitanism is both prescriptive and aspirational, considering humans can and should be 'world citizens' in a 'universal community' since spread across all continents worldwide. This view encompasses different dimensions and avenues of community, such as promoting universal moral standards, establishing global political structures, or developing a platform for mutual cultural expression and tolerance. - Karl Marx writes in 1845 that the essence of man is no abstraction inherent in each single individual. In reality, it is the ensemble of the social relations. Feuerbach, who does not enter upon a criticism of this real essence is hence obliged, to abstract from the historical processd
Election, electoral system and reform: Election - Electoral system, a set of rules that determine how elections and referendums are conducted and how their results are determined
History of law: History of law connected to the development of civilisations and economic, social and political history - Contract law - Treaty - International law
Legal systems of the world, history and national legal history: Legal systems of the world based on one of four basic systems: common law, civil law, statutory law, religious law or combinations of these, as the legal system of each country is shaped by its unique history, by conflicts and wars, and so incorporates individual variations - List of national legal systems with 'common law' - Common law, the body of law derived from judicial decisions of courts and similar tribunals - List of national legal systems with 'civil law', that takes as its major inspiration classical Roman law - List of national legal systems with 'religious law' - Map of legal systems of the world, with common law countries corresponding to variations in common law systems - Sociology of law
Legal profession - Legal education in different countries - History of the legal profession, having its origins in ancient Greece and Rome
Opposition to nationalism: Opposition to nationalism
History and development of the political form of the community and constitutions
Since c. 2.500 BCE city of Lagash, economy, defense, scribal school production: Since c. 2.500 BCE ancient city state of Lagash, located northwest of the junction of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers and east of Uruk, as inhabitants of the city noted how after the flood people was having difficulty growing food for itself, being dependent solely on rainwater, further relating that techniques of irrigation and cultivation of barley were then imparted by the gods, as at the end of the text is the statement 'Written in the school', suggesting this was a scribal school production -
Border conflicts, efforts to maintain independence, and documented organised battle today known to scholars and historians -
Archaeological exploration since 2 half of the 20th century, including since March/April 2019 field work, resumed under the University of Cambridge Lagash Archaeological Project
Since 459 BCE 'school system' developping for Israeli children above six or seven years of age: The 'be rav' or 'bet rabban' (house of the teacher), the 'be safra' or 'bet sefer' (house of the book), said to have been originated by Ezra' 459 BCE and his Great Assembly, who provided a public school in Jerusalem to secure the education of fatherless boys of the age of sixteen years and upward, as the school system did not develop until Joshua ben Gamla 64 CE caused public schools to be opened in every town and hamlet for all children above six or seven years of age -
Texts and subject areas of ancient Israeli 'education' included texts, the Mishna and later the Talmud and Gemora, all hand-written as emphasis was placed on developing good memory skills in addition to comprehension by practice of oral repetition, as the children (girls were not provided with formal education) would be taught from the six broad subject areas into which the Mishna is divided, including Zeraim ('Seeds'), dealing with agricultural laws and prayers, Moed ('Festival'), pertaining to the laws of the Shabbat and the Festivals, Nashim ('Women'), concerning marriage and divorce, Nezikin ('Damages'), dealing with civil and criminal law, Kodashim ('Holy things'), regarding sacrificial rites, the Temple, and the dietary laws, and Tohorot ('Purities'), pertaining to the laws of purity and impurity
4-11 February 1945 'Yalta Conference', also preparing the UN: 4-11 February 1945 Yalta Conference, also known as the Crimea Conference, the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the USA, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union to discuss the postwar reorganization of Germany and Europe, and held near Yalta in Crimea, as the three governments agreed that democracies would be established, all liberated European and former Axis satellite countries would hold free elections,
as key points included that Germany would undergo demilitarization and denazification, as discussion began which contries would be granted UN membership,
following November/December 1943 'Tehran Conference' meeting of Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill, held in the Soviet Union's embassy in Tehran, dealing with differing objectives, as the main outcome of the Tehran Conference was the Western Allies' commitment to open a second front against NSDAP-ruled Germany in Europe
Peace treaty, an agreement between two or more hostile parties, usually countries or governments, which formally ends a state of war between the parties
Since 13 August 2020 'Abraham Accords': Since 13 August 2020 'Abraham Accords', named after the patriarch of the Israelite people Abraham (originally Abram), associated with the 'Abrahamic religions' including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam and the 'Book of Genesis', the first book of the Hebrew Bible, its account of the creation of the world, the early history of humanity and Israel's ancestors, and the origins of the Jewish people,
as hundreds of years later during the history of slavery, roman militarism and the fall of the Roman Empire the Hebrew Bible was claimed as the 'Christian Old Testament'
Separation of church and state: Separation of church and state
International law and international human rights law: International law is the set of rules generally regarded and accepted as binding in relations between states and between nations - History of international law - Self-determination
Human rights by issue - Opposition to crimes against humanity
Right to life and children's rights: Right to life - Children's rights - Reverence for Life
Right to work, to food, water and environmental protection: Right to work - Right to food - Human right to water and sanitation - Environmental protection - Common heritage of mankind, a principle of international law that holds that defined territorial areas and elements of humanity's common heritage (cultural and natural) should be held in trust for future generations and be protected from exploitation by individual nation states or corporations
Right to health: The right to health is the economic, social and cultural right to a universal minimum standard of health to which all individuals are entitled
Freedom of speech: Freedom of speech - Toleration - Right to equal protection
The right of self-defense: The right of self-defense, the right for people to use reasonable force or defensive force, for the purpose of defending one's own life (self-defense) or the lives of others, including (in certain circumstances) the use of deadly force - Self-defence in international law
Resistance to colonialism - Indigenous decolonization - Rebellions against empires - Decolonization, the undoing of colonialism, the latter being the process whereby a nation establishes and maintains its domination on overseas territories, as the concept particularly applies to the dismantlement during the 20th century of the colonial empires established prior to World War I throughout the world
African resistance to colonialism: African resistance to colonialism - African independence movements - Decolonisation of Africa mainly in the mid-to-late 1950s and 1960s
Native American resistance to colonialism in North America: Resistance to colonialism and wars involving the indigenous peoples of North America - Wars between the USA and Native Americans in North America - Massacres of Native Americans
Indigenous resistance to colonialism in South and Latin America: Indigenous rebellions against the Spanish Empire - Rebellions against the Spanish Empire - Timeline of the Spanish American wars of independence 1806-1836
1791-1804 Haitian Revolution of self-liberated slaves against French colonial rule: 1791-1804 Haitian Revolution, the successful insurrection by self-liberated slaves against French colonial rule in Saint-Domingue, today the sovereign state of Haiti - 1492-1804 Slavery in Haiti, as in 1804 the USA passed laws to keep Haitian merchants away from USA soil because slaveholders there did not want their slaves getting ideas about revolt from the Haitians, and as in 1915 USA military invaded Haiti after peasants had staged uprisings to resist moves by USA investors to appropriate their land and convert the style of agriculture in the area from subsistence back to a plantation-like system, followed now in 1915 by USA's reinstitution of forced labor under the corvée system
Asian resistance to colonialism: Asian resistance to colonialism - Decolonization of Asia, the gradual growth of independence movements in Asia, leading ultimately to the retreat of foreign powers and the creation of a number of nation-states in the region
Opposition to nationalism, racism, antisemitism, militarism and fascism: Opposition to nationalism - Anti-racism includes convincements, actions, movements, and policies inevitably developed to oppose racism, also intending to promote an egalitarian society in which people do not face discrimination - Anti-racism by continent - Anti-racism in Europe - Opposition to antisemitism - Opposition to fascist ideologies, groups and individuals in European, African, American and Asian countries since the 1920s, an opposition spreading to other countries around the world - Anti-fascists by nationality - Antimilitarism and corresponding social movements, not rejecting war of defence, but rejecting the desire and policy to maintain a large and strong military organization in aggressive preparedness for war
Since February 2022 popular resistance against Russian regime's invasion and assault on Ukraine: Since February 2022 popular resistance against Russian regime's invasion and assault on Ukraine, as Ukrainian civilians and solidaric international groups, movements have resisted the Russian invasion in various ways, such as volunteering to join local armed territorial defence units, making Molotov cocktails, donating food, constructing barriers such as Czech hedgehogs, and helping to transport refugees. Various tactics of unarmed civil resistance have been employed across Ukraine. Responding to the call from Ukraine's streets agency, Ukravtodor, civilians dismantled or altered local road signs, constructed makeshift barriers and blocked roadways. Social media reports and shared videos show spontaneous street protests against the Russian forces in occupied settlements, often evolving into verbal altercations and physical standoffs with Russian troops. In some instances, people physically blocked Russian military vehicles, sometimes forcing them to retreat. For instance, a video shot in occupied Kherson showed a man on top of a moving Russian armoured personnel carrier, waving a Ukrainian national flag. The Russian soldiers' response to unarmed civilian resistance varied from reluctance to engage the protesters to firing into the air or directly into crowds. There have been mass detentions of Ukrainian protesters, and local Ukrainian media have also reported forced disappearances, mock executions, hostage-taking, extrajudicial killing, and sexual violence perpetrated by the Russian military to try to break the Ukrainian resistance
The 'law of war' refers to the component of international law that regulates the conditions for war and the conduct of warring parties, also defining sovereignty and nationhood, states and territories, occupation, and other critical terms of international law - Sources of international law - Treaties, formal written agreements entered into by actors in international law, namely sovereign states and international organizations, also be known as an international agreement, protocol, covenant, convention, pact, or exchange of letters, among other terms, that may be considered treaties subject to the same rules under international law
Human rights promotion
September 2018 Montréal summit: 23 septembre 2018: La quinzaine de femmes ministres des Affaires étrangères d'Afrique du Sud, d'Andorre, de la Bulgarie, de Canada, du Costa Rica, de Croatie, du Ghana, du Guatemala, d'Indonésie, du Kenya, de Namibie, de Norvège, du Panama, de Sainte-Lucie, de Suède et de l'Union européenne réunies vendredi et samedi à Montréal pour un premier sommet ont promis de se retrouver régulièrement pour faire prévaloir une 'perspective féminine' dans la politique internationale -
Grassroots women's empowerment movements
International sanctions: International sanctions are actions taken by countries against others for political reasons, either unilaterally or multilaterally - Sanction
Sanctions against Iranian regime - List of UN resolutions concerning Iran - USA sanctions against Iran - EU sanctions against Iran - Iranian frozen assets - Foreign direct investments in Iran
Sanctions against North Korean regime
Since 2012 international sanctions on Russia following the death of Russian tax accountant Sergei Magnitsky in a Moscow prison in 2009 - Since 2014 International sanctions against Russian regime during the Ukrainian crisis
Environmental protection: Environmental protection, a practice of protecting the natural environment on individual, organization controlled or governmental levels - International environmental organizations - Environmentalism - Environmental globalization refers to the internationally coordinated practices and regulations - often in the form of international treaties - regarding environmental protection, usually supported by non-governmental organizations and also by some governments of developed countries - List of environmental issues
List of supranational environmental agencies: List of supranational environmental agencies
Environmental law and international environmental agreements: Environmental law by subject and country - International environmental law - Environmental impact assessment - Environmental protection agencies - International environmental agreement - List of international environmental agreements
List of environmental lawsuits: List of environmental lawsuits
Sustainable development - Participation
Phase-out of fossil fuel vehicles, one of the two most important parts of the general fossil fuel phase-out process, the other being the phase-out of fossil fuel power plants for mains electricity, as more than 14 countries and over 20 cities around the world have proposed banning the sale of passenger vehicles (primarily cars and buses) powered by fossil fuels such as petrol, liquefied petroleum gas and diesel at some time in the future
Solutions and potential solutions in the general fossil fuel phase-out process, including the phase-out of fossil fuel vehicles, the phase-out of fossil fuel power plants for mains electricity and more
Greenpeace international: Greenpeace international, all countries and regions listed alphabetically - Greenpeace, non-governmental environmental organization founded by Canadian activists in 1971 with offices in over 40 countries, with an international coordinating body in Amsterdam, and stating its goal is to 'ensure the ability of the Earth to nurture life in all its diversity' and focusing its campaigning on worldwide issues such as climate change, deforestation, overfishing, commercial whaling, genetic engineering, and anti-nuclear issues - Greenpeace international website and latest updates - Greenpeace news
Agricultural production by commodity, valuable crops and livestock products: Agricultural production by commodity - List of most valuable crops and livestock products - List of 20 largest countries by agricultural output according to the IMF and CIA World Factbook in 2018
2005-2008 international assessment of agricultural knowledge, science, and technology: 'International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development' IAASTD, a three-year international collaborative effort (2005–2007/2008) initiated by the World Bank, which evaluated the relevance, quality and effectiveness of knowledge, science, and technology involving 110 countries with co-sponsorship of the FAO, Global Environment Facility, UNDP, UNEP, UNESCO, the World Bank and WHO. It assessed agricultural knowledge, science, and technology with respect to development and sustainability goals of reducing hunger and poverty, improving nutrition, health, rural livelihoods, and facilitating social and environmental sustainability
Statements of the April 2008 IAASTD report 'Agriculture at a Crossroads', not supported by few countries: Statements of the 2008 report 'Agriculture at a Crossroads'. Der Bericht 'Landwirtschaft am Scheideweg' wurde 2008 vom Weltagrarrat IAASTD veröffentlicht, einem Gremium vergleichbar dem 'Weltklimarat' IPCC. Der Bericht fordert insbesondere eine Ausdehnung der ökologischen Landwirtschaft beziehungsweise agrarökologischer Methoden und der Förderung von Kleinbauern. Die Grüne Gentechnik, Agrochemie und geistiges Eigentum von Saatgut werden kritisch hinterfragt. Deutschland, die USA, Kanada und Australien unterzeichneten den Bericht nicht. Anfangs beteiligte Agrarunternehmen beendeten ihre Mitarbeit schon vor dem Schlussberich, der u.a. sagt 'um den Herausforderungen der Zukunft gewachsen zu sein, bedarf es eines radikalen und systematischen Wandels in der landwirtschaftlichen Forschung, Entwicklung und Praxis', 'die Grüne Gentechnik bringt bisher mehr Probleme als Lösungen und lenkt das Forschungsinteresse einseitig auf patentierbare Produkte', und weitere wissenschaftlich begründete kritische Feststellungen
Agriculture by type and country: Agriculture, the profession, science and art of cultivating plants and livestock - Agriculture by type, by continent, and by country
Agricultural history and science: Agricultural science, a broad multidisciplinary field of biology that encompasses the parts of exact, natural, economic and social sciences that are used in the practice and understanding of agriculture - L’histoire de l'agriculture, l'histoire de la domestication des plantes, des animaux et du développement, par les êtres humains, des techniques nécessaires pour les cultiver ou les élever, puis de la modification des écosystèmes cultivés, transformés en agroécosystèmes. L'agriculture est apparue indépendamment dans différentes parties du monde lors de la Révolution néolithique, il y a parfois plus de dix mille ans. On peut supposer que cela a débuté par une agriculture de subsistance. Puis, peu à peu, s'est créée une agriculture de production et de négoce. - Agriculture et agronomie, portail et page de 'Wikipédia'
October 2014 the emergence of Karl Marx’s critique of modern agriculture in his 'Notebooks': 1 October 2014:
The emergence of Karl Marx’s critique of modern agriculture in the 19th century, as Japanese MEGA editorial group's Kohei Saito explains ecological insights from Marx’s 'Excerpt Notebooks'. Against the robbery economy, Kohei Saito cites Marx who demands both the preservation and sustainable improvements of lands for future generations: 'From the standpoint of a higher socio-economic formation, the private property of particular individuals in the earth will appear just as absurd as the private property of one man in other men. Even an entire society, a nation, or all simultaneously existing societies taken together, are not the owners of the earth. They are simply its possessors, its beneficiaries, and have to bequeath it in an improved state to succeeding generations as boni patres familias.' -
Im Abschnitt 10 'Große Industrie und Agrikultur' des 'Kapital' gesteht Marx 1867 ein, daß er mit tradierten Vorurteilen von Stadtbürgern gegenüber der Landbevölkerung und ihrer Arbeit - ein bestimmtes Arbeitsvolumen in der Agrikultur, eine bestimmte Zahl in dieser Produktion Berufstätiger, trägt die gesamte Gesellschaft - noch nicht fertig geworden ist. Daher bleibt ihm unklar, daß die wichtigste Produktionsbedingung der Agrikultur weltweit - der Boden unseres Planeten mit verschiedensten ökologischen Gegebenheiten - nicht wie die Produktionsvoraussetzungen des industriellen Kapitals aufgefaßt werden kann. Der Boden, der bearbeitet wird um insbesondere pflanzliche Wachstumsprozesse in Gang zu setzen, zu kontrollieren und deren Ergebnisse z.B. Getreideprodukte für die Ernährung der Weltbevölkerung nutzbar zu machen, ist kein von Menschen hergestelltes Produkt, kein konstantes Kapital, wenn auch mehr oder weniger über Jahrhunderte modifiziert. Die Klimakatastrophe des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts ist zwar eine menschengemachte Krise, aber keine bezweckte. Die Buchführung und Rechnung ist komplizierter.
Agriculture biologique, impact économiquee et social: Agriculture biologique, impact économiquee et social en Afrique, en Amérique latine, en Amérique du Nord (Canada, États-Unis), en Asie, and Europe, en Union européenne (France, Belgique, Allemagne), en Océanie. Dans l'Union européenne fin 2016, 291 326 exploitations agricoles cultivaient plus de 12,0 millions d'hectares en bio. entre 2015 et 2016, le nombre de fermes et la surface bio de l'UE ont progressé de 8,4 % et 7,6 %
Agricultural cooperatives: Agricultural cooperatives, also known as a farmers' co-op, cooperatives in which farmers pool their resources in certain areas of activity - Agricultural cooperatives by continent and country - Agricultural supply cooperatives, as 'wikipedia' lists only several examples in different countries indluding Australia (Co-operative Bulk Handling Limited, Westralian Farmers Co-operative Limited), Canada (Farmers' Storehouse Company, United Farmers of Alberta, Farmers of North America), France (Agrial in Normandy, Terrena in pays de la Loire, Vivescia), Israel (Granot central cooperative), Japan (Japan Agricultural Cooperatives), Ukraine (Ukrainian cooperative movement), USA (Landisville Produce Co-op since 1914, Rockingham Cooperative since 1921, MFA Incorporated, Darigold, Organic Valley, National Council of Farmer Cooperatives, Southern States Cooperative, Farmers Cooperative Association, Ocean Spray cooperative, Land O'Lakes, Michigan Sugar, Sunkist, Wilco stores in Oregon, Grange Cooperative), Netherlands (Avebe, Agrico, Agrifirm), also listing somce marketing cooperatives - in New Zealand, Canada, Ecuador, India, Israel, Netherlands, Ukraine, USA and Mexico - Oromia Coffee Farmers’ Cooperative Union OCFCU, a smallholder farmer owned cooperative union based in the Oromia region of south, central and west Ethiopia - Bugisu Cooperative Union, a Ugandan agricultural cooperative federation since 1954, started and owned by a group of coffee farmers
United Nations Secretariat and Secretary-General of the United Nations - UN Secretary-General selection - a candidate must receive the votes of at least 9 members of the UN Security Council, with no vetoes from permanent members, and a majority vote of the UN General Assembly, but the General Assembly has never refused to appoint the person recommended by the Security Council
2024 UK and USA accused of obstructing inquiry into 1961 death of UN chief: 1 March 2024: The USA and UK have been accused by university researchers of obstructing a United Nations inquiry into the 1961 plane crash that killed the UN secretary general Dag Hammarskjöld, as a conference in London heard an update from the UN assistant secretary general for legal affairs, Stephen Mathias, on progress in the inquiry, which is seeking archive documentation from member states. 'While Belgium, Sweden and Zimbabwe demonstrated serious efforts, the USA and UK responses were wholly inadequate and showed contempt for the UN inquiry', said the organisers of Thursday’s conference, and Susan Williams, a researcher whose 2011 book Who Killed Hammarskjöld contributed to the reopening of the UN inquiry, said the USA and UK were 'global outliers'.
2015: 23 January 2015: UN's Ban Ki-moon paints a worsening picture of Assad's war in Syria, citing indiscriminate government bombing and opposition shelling, high civilian casualties and deteriorating humanitarian conditions -
13 March 2015: Syrians feel 'increasingly abandoned', UN's Ban Ki-moon says -
24 March 2015: The people of Syria feel 'increasingly abandoned by the world' as global attention focuses on Islamic State militants, while violence and government bureaucracy hinder attempts to deliver aid to 12 million people, UN's Ban Ki-moon repeats on Monday 23 March -
3 May 2015: The UN is telling Syria's Assad regime that the use of explosive weapons in the besieged Palestinian refugee community of Yarmouk and other populated areas must stop -
28 May 2015: 'The level of carnage and devastation throughout the Syrian Arab Republic should shock the collective conscience of the world', UN's Ban Ki-moon says in the fifth year of Assad's war in a report -
24 June 2015: UN's Ban Ki-moon again calls for urgent action in Syria -
21 July 2015: Syrian Coalition criticizes UN's Ban Ki-moon’s silence over Iran and Assad crimes -
17 September 2015: Hungary's treatment of refugees is shocking and unacceptable, UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon says -
4 October 2015: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warns of a dangerous escalation in Jerusalem and the West Bank and urges leaders to 'condemn violence and incitement' -
31 October 2015: Making reference to the 'brazen and brutal erosion of respect for international humanitarian law', which was characterized by indiscriminate attacks on civilians areas, such as one reported yesterday in a marketplace in Syria and credited to government forces, UN's Ban Ki-moon along with the head of the ICRC calls for action to stop suffering by ending conflict,
saying 'Enough is enough'
Since 2017 Antonio Guterres: Since 17 February 2017 UN Secretary-General Portugal's - with a long history as a colonial power - politician Antonio Guterres, whose political career began in 1974, when he became a member of the 'Socialist Party',
is due to name a judge or prosecutor as the head of a new UN team aiming to bring Syria war crimes to court -
21 février 2017: Juger les crimes contre l'humanité commis par le régime syrien, c'est la requête faite à la Cour pénale internationale par des intellectuels et des artistes syriens, consignée dans une lettre ouverte au secrétaire général de l'ONU Antonio Guterres -
25 April 2017: Syrian Interim Government sent a letter to the UN Secretary-General Guterres highlighting the systematic bombing of hospitals and medical facilities by the Assad regime and Russia forces -
1 June 2017: UN's Guterres calls for referring Syrian file to the International Criminal Court, accusing the Syrian regime of hampering the access of civilians to humanitarian aid -
8 August 2017: UN's Guterres says a UN commission probing war crimes in Syria should continue its work, despite the resignation of prosecutor Carla Del Ponte -
14 December 2017: UN secretary general Antonio Guterres has warned that Iran may be defying a call to halt ballistic missile development and may have passed ballistic missiles to Yemen's Houthis, also saying that the Simorgh space launch vehicle that Iran launched on 27 July, if configured as a ballistic missile, is 'inherently capable of delivering nuclear weapons'
UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General: UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General - UN Special Representatives and Envoys of the Secretary-General
UN Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict: UN Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict
United Nations Special Coordinator for the 'Middle East' Peace Process: United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process - 22 June 2014: UN envoy Robert Serry denies claim he tried to funnel $20m to Hamas behind Israel's back - 5 February 2015: Nikolay Mladenov to replace Robert Serry as UN mideast envoy - 7 June 2015: Israel's PM Netanyahu chides world over silence after new Gaza rocket attacks in 2015, saying 'I have not heard a single international figure condemn the violence, not even at the United Nations' - 16 September 2015: The UN’s Mideast peace envoy Nikolay Mladenov warns that clashes between Israelis and Palestinians in and around Jerusalem’s holy sites have the potential to ignite violence well beyond the walls of its Old City, pointing to 'a vicious tide of terror and extremism' in the region
2016: 6 January 2016: Residents of the Syrian town of Madaya north of Damascus say they are dying of starvation as a result of a months-long siege by Assad regime's forces, as an aid official, who visited Madaya and Zabadani in October, cites an appeal from the children in those two places -
6 January: Syrian Coalition calls upon the Arab League, the UN, and the UN envoy to Syria to shoulder their responsibilities towards the civilians trapped by Assad gangs and the Hezbollah militia in Madaya, Biqqin and other besieged areas -
7 January 2016: Turkey's Davutoglu says that Russia has become a partner of the Syrian regime, which is brutally bombing civilians in Syria, and the world should not tolerate a situation where Syrians are fleeing the bombing, adding that the UN Security Council and Russia are responsible for the tragedy unfolding in Syria -
18 January 2016: A leaked document from the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs of the United Nations in Damascus shows that the organization was aware of the existence of famine in Madaya months ago -
22 January 2016: The United Nations reportedly altered a key humanitarian aid plan for Syria after consultation with the Assad regime, including deleting references to besieged areas such as Madaya where thousands of people are starving -
25 January: Sit-in of protestors in Istanbul to denounce Russian, Iranian and Assad's terrorism against the Syrian People, stressing that stopping barrel bombing and Russian airstrikes, lifting the siege and releasing the detainees are non-negotiable humanitarian demands -
25 January: UN talks on Syria due to begin later this week despite disagreement on key issues, Mistura says -
26 January: The Syrian Coalition says that 'the informal talks that De Mistura will host in Geneva assume that the problem is not in the Assad regime, but between Syrians themselves (and that) this approach will not only exempt the Assad regime from responsibility for the crisis, but will also present the regime as the only salvation for a community that is fragmented and divided (and that) Tehran will appear as a guarantor of Syria’s unity after it was the dynamite that blew it apart'
February 2016: 2 February: Situation remains unclear in Geneva as UN's Mistura announces start of Syrian talks -
2 February: After the Assad regime, Russia and Iran even have escalated barbaric attacks, Riyad Naasan Agha urges the international community and the UN to take measures in order to deter Russia and the Assad regime from committing further crimes against the Syrian people -
3 February: The Assad regime and Russia have killed nearly 300 civilians in Syria since the launch of the Geneva III conference on January 29th, according to the SNHR -
4 February: After UN envoy Mistura halted his efforts to conduct Geneva talks, Turkish president Erdogan says Syrian talks in Geneva are pointless while Assad's forces and Russia continue their attacks -
4 February: Syrian Coalition says that UN envoy Mistura’s decision to suspend Geneva talks due to Assad's refusal to implement UN Security Council resolution 2254, and that it's reflecting the international community’s failure to put pressure on the regime and its allies, mainly Russia and Iran -
4 February 2016: Russian bombs triggering mass Aleppo exodus, Syria conference told -
5 February 2016: As murderous Russian and Assad regime's airstrikes, killing hundreds of civilians, trigger mass exodus from Aleppo,
Turkey's Erdogan slams world’s silence over Russia’s aggression on Syria -
10 February: UK special representative for Syria Bayley says that Russia 'cannot continue to claim a seat at the table whilst deliberately bombing the moderate opposition and killing civilians in blatant breach of international humanitarian law' -
12 February: Partial ceasefire 'within a week' in Syria agreed at Munich talks but no end in sight to Russian airstrikes, as UN’s Zeid Ra’ad al Hussein underlines the urgency of the need for humanitarian access to besieged areas, condemning Assad regime's offensive and Russian airstrikes displacing tens of thousands of Syrian civilians,
as Syrian Coalition's Hijab, at a news conference in London, condemns the scorched earth policy through the intensification of the bombardment by Russians and Iranians,
and as USA's Warren describes the Assad regime’s and Russia’s onslaught on Aleppo province as 'systematic and widespread attack on civilians' -
13 February 2016: UN-backed investigators to look into reports of five possible uses of chlorine and mustard gas on rebel-held areas in Syria -
13 February 2016: Ukrainian President Poroshenko at Munich 'Security Conference', focusing on the migrant crisis as well as the war in Syria, underlines the importance of not giving into the Russian propaganda during the conference, saying 'Mr Putin, Mr Lavrov, Mr Medvedev, this is your aggression in Ukraine and we do not give you any tiny opportunity to provide here propaganda, Kremlin style propaganda, to poison the opinion of European people' -
14 February: So-called 'ceasefire' deal seems more an endorsement of Russian regime's murderous role in Syria than a challenge to it, as opposition against dictatorship in Syria is abandoned by the USA and European governments, British newspaper states -
14/15 February: Riyad Hijab says in Munich that the solution for the crisis in Syria lies in neutralizing foreign hostile operations carried out by Russia and Iran and its allied militias, and in stopping the bombardment that Russian warplanes are carrying out on populated areas -
15 February 2016: A makeshift clinic supported by Médecins Sans Frontières in Idlib province hit by a suspected Russian strike,
killing nine people and wounding dozens, as in a separate incident seven Russian missiles struck a hospital in the northern town of Azaz -
15 February: Following the recent war crime in Idlib, Syrian Coalition condemns Russian crimes and airstrikes targeting civilian neighborhoods, medical centers, schools and houses of worship adding the crime in Idlib will not be the last as long as the international community keeps silent and shirks its responsibility to respond to them -
16 February: France and Turkey say that air strikes on hospitals in northern Syria constitute war crimes -
16 February: SNHR says it had documented eight new chemical weapons attacks by Assad regime forces against rebel-held areas in Syria in late 2015, that killed 19 people and also caused dozens of cases of asphyxiation -
19 February: Considering Russian aggression in Syria as 'blatant violations of international law' in the same way as spokesperson Farhan Haq for the UN Secretary General, Syrian Network for Human Rights calls upon the USA and Europe to stop considering Russia a key partner in the efforts aimed at finding a political solution in Syria -
22 February 2016: War crimes in Syria's five-year-old conflict are widespread and Syrian government forces and Islamic State militants continue to commit crimes against humanity in the face of inaction by the international community, UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry says in its latest report -
22 February: Syrian opposition's faction provisionally agrees to temporary truce, provided there were guarantees Assad’s allies including Russia would implement the ceasefire -
23 February: Syrian Coalition aays Assad regime unable to control foreign, Iranian-backed militias -
26 February: Syrian Coalition demands investigation into regime’s seizing of UN aid airdrops on Deir Ezzor -
26 February: Excluding the district of Darayya from ceasefire agreement is unacceptable, Syrian Coalition says -
27 February: UN wants ot respond quickly to violations to reach cessation of attacks in Syria, following agreement that urges weapons such as aerial bombing, mortal shelling, and rockets not to be used -
27 February: The Syrian Coalition says that the Assad regime has violated the 'cessation of hostilities' agreement after it took effect at Friday midnight, bombing 15 rebel-held areas across Syria with heavy machine-guns, artillery and barrel bombs in Damascus, Rural Damascus, Daraa, Aleppo, Homs, Hama and Latakia province -
29 February: Syria’s opposition will stick to the cessation of hostilities despite violations and more breaches on Sunday, Salem al-Muslat says -
29 February: In a letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Syrian opposition is warning attacks by Russian warplanes backing government forces are threatening fragile truce -
29 February: The district of Qaboun in the northern suburbs of Damascus remains under siege despite a cease-fire agreement reached two years ago in early 2014 and despite new 'cessation of hostilities', residents and activists say -
29 February 2016: Continuing Russian-backed terror attacks, Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Idlib province, dropping several barrel bombs on the villages of al-Najyeh and al-Kenda and carrying out airstrikes on the city of Jisr al-Shughur, which killed a pregnant woman and injured 12 others, including four children and 2 citizen women,
in Lattakia province, also dropping barrel bombs,
in Homs province, also dropping barrel bombs,
in Rif Damashq province, where civilians were wounded by regime forces and activists accused regime forces in using gases,
and in Aleppo province -
29 February / 1 March: Activists say that 29 civilians, including 15 in Aleppo, were killed in Russian and regime attacks on rebel-held areas on Sunday, recording attacks on 40 areas across Syria in violation of the UN-backed truce agreement
March 2016: 1 March 2016: Syrian Assad regime forces and their allies accused of threatening the fragile ceasefire, as aid groups still hope to reach over a hundred thousand people in desperate need -
2 March 2016: War Monitor SNHR documents 44 violations on third day of UN-backed truce -
2 March: Syrian Coalition calls on UN to deter Assad breaches of truce,
as 143 regime violations of truce are documented since Saturday -
3 March: The Syrian Network for Human Rights says it has documented 35 violations of the UN-sponsored truce on its fifth day, Wednesday -
4 March: Russian and Assad regime forces have deliberately struck hospitals and medical facilities in Aleppo as they advanced on the north Syrian town, killing and wounding civilians and medical workers, according to rights group -
7 March: Turkey and Qatar backed Syrian Coalition demands release of detainees -
8 March 2016: Assad’s forces, supported by Russian air strikes, had carried out a massacre of dozens of civilians around Aleppo on Monday, Riad Hijab says -
9 March 2016: Syrian Coalition calls for urgent international action to lift siege on Darayya and for the release of detainees from the prisons of the Assad regime to enhance chances of a political solution -
12 March: Main Syrian opposition will attend peace talks in Geneva, starting in two days’ time -
13 March: Syrian Coalition calls for full sustained access of aid convoys to besieged areas -
14 March: Syrian opposition delegation arrives in Switzerland ahead of second round of UN-backed peace talks -
14/15 March: Syrian opposition delegation will meet with the UN envoy to discuss the political transition process, the forming of a transitional governing body with full powers to find a permanent political solution and to alleviate the suffering of the Syrian people -
15 March: After Russian regime's Putin announced on Monday that 'the main part' of its armed forces in Syria would start to withdraw, UN human rights investigators on Syria say that preparing prosecutions against war criminals should not be delayed until the end of the conflict in Syria, now entering its sixth year -
19 March: UN raises pressure on Syrian Assad regime as peace talks end first week -
22 March 2016: A total of 530 people were killed in the first 23 days of a truce in Syria in areas covered by the cessation of hostilities agreement, SOHR days -
23 March: The Syrian opposition said on Tuesday there was no common ground with the Assad regime after more than a week of peace talks, accusing the regime of renewing sieges and stepping up barrel bombings on civilians -
23 March: Syrian Coalition demands to put pressure on the Assad regime to be serious in Geneva talks -
24 March: Saudi Arabia-backed Syrian opposition’s negotiating delegation in Geneva has laid out a comprehensive vision for the transitional period in Syria, involving the formation of a transitional governing body with full powers, drafting a new constitution and holding free and democratic elections -
24 March: Summing up 'Geneva III Intra-Syrian Talks' press conferences with Mistura, who now acknowledges that there are 'two negotiating parties' -
25 mars: Reprise des discussions de Genève le 9 ou 10 avril, selon l'ONU -
25 March: Syrian Coalition's Samira al-Masalmah says that Syrian Women aspire to a political transition that achieves justice, freedom, dignity and equality for all Syrians and accountability for crimes against the Syrian people, criticizing calls to lift economic sanctions on the Assad regime -
27 March 2016: More than 170 civilians including 41 children and 34 women are among the 646 people killed in a month of 'truce' in Syria, according to SOHR -
28 March: The Syrian Network for Human Rights documented 896 violations of the February 'cessation of hostilities' agreement, saying that nearly 129 people, including 28 children and 11 women, were killed in these violations
April 2016: 1 April 2016: Syrian Coalition urges UNSC to stop Assad regime violations of truce and targeting of civilians,
as regime’s warplanes continue to commit massacres -
4 April: Assad regime reportedly continues to block aid to besieged areas -
6 April 2016: SOHR documented the death of 2,658 persons in March 2016 including 588 civilians and 214 child and citizen women, 223 citizens including 43 children and 45 citizen women were killed in raids by Russian and Syrian warplanes’ bombing and helicopters’ barrel bombs, 90 civilians including 23 children and 5 citizen women were killed in the shelling and sniper fire of the regime forces, 28 civilians were killed under torture in Assad regime prisons and dungeons of its intelligence branches, 5 citizens including 3 children and a citizen women died due to poor health conditions and the bad living conditions and the lack of medication, 13 civilians including 7 children and 2 citizen women were killed in the bombing by warplanes of the international coalition -
13 April 2016: Syrian activists and civil society associations have appealed to end the siege on the city of Daraya, south-western Damascus, and other besieged areas days after the UN criticized the Syrian Assad regime for hindering the delivery of aid to blockaded areas -
13/15 April: Syrian Coalition's Nyrabiya says that Assad killed 1,400 Syrians during truce and that political transition is vital to protect Syrians,
also saying that Assad is using truce deal to make advances on the ground -
15 April: Syrian Coalition’s Yasser Farhan says that the intransigence of the Assad regime and its refusal to lift the blockades on the besieged cities have exacerbated the suffering of civilians -
16 avril 2016: De violents combats qui ont déjà fait 210 morts depuis dimanche dernier, impliquant tous les protagonistes de la guerre en Syrie, poussent sur les routes des milliers de civils dans le nord, jetant une ombre sur les pourparlers entre le régime et l'opposition à Genève -
20 April 2016: Political solution in Syria impossible while criminal Assad remains, Riyad Hijab says -
20 April 2016: Political opposition adjourns UN-led peace talks as Syrian Assad regime's air strikes kill at least 35 civilians and injure dozens in Idleb following attacks on crowded areas of two marketplaces -
22 April 2016: UN will name a coordinator to probe the fate of Syrians in Assad’s prisons, killed, tortured and starving in custody -
23 April: Syrian Coalition Anas al-Abdah says that the international community’s soft stance in dealing with Assad, who continues to commit massacres against civilians in Syria, is seen by him as a license to carry on with his crimes against the Syrian people,
as at least 20 civilians, including children, were killed and many more wounded in intensified aerial bombing of Aleppo on Friday by regime and Russian forces -
25 April: Regime forces carried out two appalling massacres on Saturday in the Damascus countryside and the city of Aleppo, with dozens of dead and wounded, including women and children -
25 April: Hijab says number of civilian casualties and besieged cities has increased since envoy Mistura's appointment, after comments in which Mistura described the withdrawal of the committee from the talks as a political display -
27 April: Date of new Geneva Syria talks unclear amid conflicting reports -
27 April: Syrian Coalition calls for timetable for lifting sieges and releasing detainees, as meeting with representatives of the 'Friends of the Syrian People' group also touches on the suggestion to establish a safe area in Syria -
28 April: Assad’s targeting of hospitals a war crime backed by Russia and Iran, Syrian Coaltion says -
29 April: United Nations and USA condemn Syria hospital bombing in war-ravaged Aleppo, with UN officials also voicing alarm at the 'catastrophic deterioration' of the situation in Syria and appealing on world powers to salvage February truce -
29 April 2016: United NGOs International Committee of the Red Cross and Médecins Sans Frontières demand end to Syria atrocities as Assad regime's Aleppo airstrikes continue -
30 April: Surge in fighting on the Aleppo battlefied shows 'monstrous disregard' for civilian lives, UN says
May 2016: 1 May 2016: Syrian Coalition's Anas al-Abdah urges 'Friends of Syria' to end Assad regime’s war crimes in Aleppo,
as regime and Russian warplanes continue to launch brutal attacks for the ninth consecutive day, hitting Aleppo with all types of bombs and missiles and returning to bomb the same target after rescue workers and first responders have gathered to help the victims -
1 May 2016: Continuing Russian-backed terror attacks, Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Aleppo, in Hayan and the village of Tal Msibin, as violent clashes in the countryside continue,
in Homs, Idlib and al-Suwaidaa province,
in Hama province,
and in Rif Damashq province - 1 May 2016: Despite the alleged truce and the data of Mistura, 3,116 people including 859 civilians were killed during the second month of it, documented by the SOHR during the month of April - 2 May: Russian regime offering the Syrian people 'two hard choices', accepting Assad’s terms or the bombing and destruction of whole cities and vital civilian facilities, Syrian Coalition's Nyrabia says, as Russian regime is directly involved in the massacres, also bombing hospitals as strategy of war - 3 May: Russia deceiving international community to keep Assad in power, Syrian Coalition’s Nora al-Ameer says - 6 May: Assad regime accused of bombing a Syrian refugee camp near Sarmada, a town in Idlib province, that left dozens of civilians dead and wounded and the camp in ruins, with one witness describing a scene of horror, with tents on fire and body parts strewn around the area - 6 May: Syrian Coalition urges UN to visit Hama prison, warns of imminent massacre - 6 May: Assad regime forces prevent UN aid convoys from entering the district of Al-Waer in Homs - 9 May: Syrian Coalition's Abu Hatab slams international community’s reluctance to establish no-fly zone to protect hospitals, as health services in the liberated areas have seriously deteriorated as a result of the continued deliberate targeting of hospitals and medical facilities by regime and Russian forces - 11 May: During meeting with Friends of Syria Group in Paris Riyad Hijab says that the political process can only continue by immediately and unconditionally implementing UN resolutions related to the cessation of violence - 11 May: Assad continues to bomb Aleppo, as UN investigators demand halt to attacks on civilians, as 10 people, including women and children, are killed in airstrikes by regime forces on the town of Binnish in rural Idlib and Alzoabi says that Russia and USA are unable to stop Assad’s crimes - 14 May 2016: Assad regime and Russian forces stepped up airstrikes on rural Idlib, concentrated on populated areas and vital civilian facilities on Friday, killing 20 civilians and injuring at least 35 - 16 May: International Syria Support Group ISSG should raise Russia’s aggression during next meeting in Vienna on Tuesday, Riad Nassan Agha says - 19 May: Alzoabi says that the statements made by the Assad regime and its allies on a political solution in Syria are just a smokescreen behind which they hide their real intentions and plans - 21 May: Russia is offering the Syrian people a choice between Assad or continued killings, head of the opposition’s negotiation delegation Alzoabi says, criticizing the role of the UN's Mistura in the negotiations, saying Mistura listens to decisions by Russia and the USA and serves the interests of major powers - 24 Mai 2016: Assad regime continues to block aid convoys to besieged civilians, UN's Dujarric says - 25 May: Forming a transitional governing body will help defeat terror in Syria, Syrian coalition's Hisham Marwa says - 29 May: Fears of UN reversal over aid airdrops plan to send food and urgent medicine to besieged towns in Syria, as British MP's ask whether the words of the international community are meant to mean anything - 30 May: Chief negotiator of Syria's main opposition umbrella group Mohammed Allush resigns over the failure of UN-backed peace talks, the continued shelling of rebel-held areas by al-Assad's regime, and over 'international community’s lack of seriousness'
June 2016: 1 June 2016: Russia blamed for overnight strikes which targeted two hospitals and other parts of Idleb city, killing scores including several children, in the latest incident in a systematic aerial campaign against medical personnel and facilities that has gone unpunished despite its intensification over the last year and a half -
1 June 2016: Hospitals are now normal targets of war, Médecins Sans Frontières' Michiel Hofman says, describing permanent members of the UN security council as complicit in killings -
1 June 2016: Sources from Idlib province have confirmed that Russian air forces were responsible for targeting Idlib Monday 30 May, killing and injuring scores while causing destruction to vital infrastructure -
2 June: Syrian opposition has proposed a nationwide truce on the occasion of Ramadan, as a UN aid convoy entered the besieged towns of Daraya and Moadamiya, reaching besieged suburb of the Syrian capital in a first delivery since 2012, but according to reports 'there is no indication that there is a true move towards loosening the sieges and allowing an end to the starvation strategy' -
6 June 2016: At least 53 civilians, including women and children, were killed and many more wounded in intense bombardment of Aleppo by the Assad regime and Russian forces on Sunday -
13 June: Russia’s continued aggression on Syria disrupted Geneva negotiations, Syrian Coalition says in Brussels -
17 June 2016: 80 civilians killed by Russian airstrikes on Aleppo despite 48-hour truce, Syrian Coalition says that Russian regime has lost its credibility as a sponsor of negotiations and that the regime proves day after day it cannot claim to be a guarantor of the political process as it is directly complicit in the crimes and terrorism perpetrated against the Syrian people -
24 June 2016: UN urged to protect Syrian civilians from Russian incendiary bombs -
27 June 2016: Syrian Coalition's Muwaffaq Nyrabiya says, UN reluctance to hold Assad accountable risks shattering political process -
28 June 2016: UK envoy to Syria Bayley says reports of Russian strikes on civilian areas constitute a violation of the UN-backed cessation of hostilities agreement, as Russian warplanes continue to target Deir-ez-Zor civilians
July 2016: 18 July 2016: Syrian Coalition's Maktabi says that the USA continues to ignore the terror practiced by the Russians in cooperation with the Iranians and the Assad regime in Syria, criticizing the absence of the international will to hold the Assad regime accountable for the war crimes and the inability of the international community to stop those crimes -
19 juillet 2016: Près de 60 civils, dont 11 enfants, morts et des dizaines de blessés mardi dans des raids de la coalition menée par les Etats-Unis près du village d'al-Toukhar tenu par Daech dans la province d'Alep, selon l'OSDH -
19 July 2016: As at least 500 civilians were killed in aerial attacks by the Assad regime and Russia forces on Aleppo and its countryside between 11-19 July mainly directed on the rebel-held areas, Syrian Coalition's Yahya says that the Syrian people lost confidence in the international community as more get killed every day -
22 July 2016: Asa’ad Alzoabi says the Hezbollah militias have been recruiting children to fight alongside the Assad regime, calling on the international community to take action in order to stop the flow of foreign fighters to Syria -
25 July: Bombing of hospitals by Assad and Russian regime disprove claims they agree to political solution, Syrian Coalition's Steifo says -
26 July 2016: Russian warplanes fired vacuum missiles and cluster bombs at residential neighborhoods, hitting Atareb's main hospital and medicine stores and wounding 45 more people -
26 July 2016: Syrian Coalition's Alabdah calls on International Syria Support Group to take urgent action after regime and Russian air forces escalated their attacks with systematic targeting of vital civilian infrastructure; particularly medical facilities -
28 July 2016: 5,188 civilians killed since start of 'Cessation of Hostilities', SNHR says -
28 July 2016: The regime forces with full Russian air cover control the entire factories of Leiramon and large parts of Bani Zaid neighborhood north of Aleppo, as Assad's helicopters also dropped barrel bombs on areas at Bab al-Hadid neighborhood -
31 July: UN's Syria envoy urges Russia to leave so called 'humanitarian corridors' to UN -
31 July 2016: Four new-born babies reportedly killed after a recent triple airstrike, which aid workers said came from Syrian government warplanes, hit besieged Aleppo’s last children’s hospital run by a group of Syrian doctors, the Independent Doctors’ Association, and backed by the charity Unicef
August 2016: 1 August 2016: Syrian Coalition's Bashar says that the international community standing by as Russian and Assad regimes destroy Aleppo -
8 August 2016: Russian warplanes are attacking the town of Saraqeb, its vicinity and countryside until today with more than 105 airstrikes causing destruction of homes, schools, public facilities, institutions of electricity and water and medical points, leaving four casualties at least including a child, and about 70 wounded -
8 August 2016: Hospital supported by Doctors Without Borders in rebel-held northern province of Idlib that specialized in pediatrics hit by series of airstrikes in broad daylight, leaving four staff and five children dead and injuring six other hospital staff members -
8 August 2016: Continuous airstrikes target Aleppo, its countryside and outskirts, causing casualties and wounded people -
25 August 2016: Special Advisor Jan Egeland says UN ready to send aid to Aleppo at any time, waiting for ceasefire -
27 August 2016: Syrian Coalition condemns forced displacement of Daraya residents as the spokesman for the local council in Darya F. Mohammed points out that Mistura's statement regarding the evacuation of Daraya is aimed at evading responsibility to protect the people of Daraya and preventing their forced displacement by the Assad regime, adding that the UN and Mistura chose to remain silent about the regime’s torching of Daraya farmlands, its deliberate bombing of its only field hospital, and its use of incendiary napalm against residential neighborhoods in the district -
31 August: Syrian Coalition calls for inquiry into UN dealings with the Assad regime following corruption revelations
September 2016: 1 September 2016: Women of Syria, a strong constituency for peace, says Insaf Hamad, member of the first-ever Women’s Advisory Board, composed of 12 independent civil society representatives from diverse backgrounds, who consult regularly with the UN Special Envoy for Syria, raising matters that are missing from the agenda and providing recommendations to assist the peace talks -
7 September: After Assad's helicopters dropped several barrel bombs filled with the toxic chlorine gas on the Aleppo neighborhood of Alsukkari Syrian Coalition says that the international community’s silence on Assad’s crimes has encouraged the regime to use chemical weapons against unarmed civilians over again -
8 September: Opposition sets out three-phase plan for political solution in Syria -
10 September: Putin-Assad forces renew terror attacks in Syria hours after USA-Russia deal,
as 'Bellingcat' journalists document that Russian regime lied about its noninvolvement in the 17 August bombing of Al-Qaterji district in Aleppo city, that wounded five-year-old Omran Daqneesh and killed his brother -
13 September 2016: In breach of the agreement to allow unhindered access, Syrian Assad regime is blocking aid from entering eastern Aleppo, claims UN -
15 September 2016: Aleppo Local Council rejects presence of Russian forces on Castello Road, saying presence is not acceptable due to its lack of neutrality -
15 September: UN's Mistura admits 'we have a problem' on getting humanitarian aid into Syria, despite the USA-Russia brokered deal -
16 September: Aid delivery into besieged areas does not require regime’s consent and requests by UN's Mistura 'for the regime’s approval to go ahead with the delivery of aid contravenes the UN Security Council resolutions on Syria and renders the cessation of hostilities agreement meaningless', Syrian Coalition says -
16 September: Syrian Coalition's Yahya says that absence of punishment encourages Assad regime and its allies to violate ceasefire agreements, as SCHR says that at least 129 civilians were killed across Syria between 12-15 September, including 78 civilians killed as a result of bombardment by the Russian and regime forces -
19 septembre: L'ONU déplore le blocage d'un convoi d'aide pour les habitants des quartiers est d'Alep à la frontière turco-syrienne pendant la semaine de trêve -
20 September 2016: USA blames Russia after UN aid convoy in Syria targeted by air attack and UN official says 'inexplicable' attack could amount to a war crime if bombing which killed aid workers proved to be deliberate -
20 September 2016: Red Cross president says attack on UN and Red Crescent convoy delivering supplies is unacceptable violation of international law and UN suspends all aid convoy movements in Syria after airstrike
October 2016: 6 October 2016: Eastern Aleppo could be destroyed by Christmas if the 'cruel, constant' Russian-backed bombing of the Syrian city continues, UN Syria envoy says warning of 'another Srebrenica, another Rwanda' and offering to personally escort Islamist fighters out of city to halt bombing -
13 October 2016: USA Secretary of State John Kerry plans to meet Russian regime's FM Sergey Lavrov in Switzerland on 15 October and to try once again to reach an agreement on a cessation of violence in Syria and renewal of humanitarian help deliveries, as several countries call the USA and the EU to add more sanctions against Russian regime and as rescue workers say, that 145 people, including many children, are killed in last two days of Russian/Assad bombing of Syria's Aleppo -
15 octobre 2016: Négociations à Lausanne, Alep sous les bombes -
15 October 2016: Syria talks with Russian regime, including envoys from Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, in Lausanne's lakeside 'Beau-Rivage' hosted by USA's John Kerry end without agreement, highlighting once again the world’s inability to tackle Assad's, Russian and Iranian crimes against humanity and to find a peaceful path out of a conflict with as many as half a million murdered people, followed by Europe’s worst refugee crisis since the second world war, and that has created a vast space of instability that also 'Islamic State', another terrorist group, has exploited -
18 October 2016: USA and UK reject a Russian and Assad regime offer of a temporary 'pause' on airstrikes in Aleppo as the basis for reopening talks, saying there has to be a credible and durable ceasefire that should initially last as long as 48 hours, as the UN humanitarian spokesman says that relief workers need longer than eight hours to help extricate the injured and Syrian Coalition’s Michel Kilo says that Russia’s announcement of a so-called eight-hour 'humanitarian pause' in Aleppo is a gimmick aimed at crushing the FSA and rebels’ resistance and quashing the revolution -
20 October 2016: UN proposal on Aleppo 'flawed', and made amid mass forced displacement operations around Damascus, Syrian Coalition says -
21 October: Aleppo ceasefire at risk after Russian regime says all rebels can be eliminated -
31 October 2016: Syrian Coalition's Abdul Ilah Fahd criticizes de Mistura's remarks about Aleppo FSA and rebel offensive,
describing these remarks as biased and a form of 'double standards'
November 2016: 1 November 2016: At least 1,106 people, including 791 civilians, were killed in attacks by the Assad regime and Russian forces across Syria in October 2016, SNHR says -
2 November 2016: Syrian Coalition's Riad Hijab slams Russia's defense minister's remarks about postponing political solution 'indefinitely’ -
3 November: FSA reaffirms commitment to civilian protection against the barbaric onslaught by the Assad regime and its allies, and denies allegations about attacks on civilians in Aleppo -
14 November 2016: Syrian Coalition stresses the need for a new, comprehensive, and integrated strategy to protect civilians in Syria through cessation of hostilities and the establishment of no-bombing zones -
16 November 2016: New report by human rights group SNHR claims Assad regime is responsible for the death of 188,729 civilians, over 90% of all victims from nearly six years of war in Syria, also saying that the responsibility for war crimes also moved just weeks after the outbreak of the popular uprising in Syria in 2011 to the international community, to take collective measures in accordance with Articles 41 and 42 of the UN charter, but did not lift a finger because of Russian and Chinese protection for the Syrian regime -
16 November 2016: Bringing the total number of hospitals targeted by Russian warplanes on Monday in Aleppo's countryside to three, Russian murderous air strikes are targeting and destroying the Baghdad hospital, killing and wounding dozens and burying others under the rubble, while civil defense forces are working to lift the rubble to save the survivors and remove the corpses -
16 November 2016: Canadian FM Stephane Dion welcomes Syrian opposition leader for talks as meetings are touching on ways to circumvent Russia's veto power at the UNSC in order to end the bloodshed of Syrian civilians -
18 November 2016: Syrian Coalition’s Osama Taljo expresses surprise at the silence of the UN envoy to Syria Staffan de Mistura over the war crimes that the Assad regime and the Russians are committing in Aleppo -
21 November 2016: The Council of Free Aleppo Governorate calls upon the UN and human rights organizations to assume their responsibilities towards the protection of civilians in Aleppo from the fierce bombing campaign by the Assad regime and Russia forces -
21 November 2016: At a meeting with French FM Jean-Marc Ayrault Syrian Coalition's Hijab stresses that the brutal onslaught on Aleppo by Assad and its Russian and Iranian allies are war crimes and crimes against humanity, calling upon the international community to assume its duty to stop Assad and Russia’s massacres in Syria -
24 November 2016: Residents and a group of activists including doctors and civil servants from Aleppo's rebel-held areas urged the international community to make airdrops of humanitarian aid to put an end to the siege the Assad regime and its allies have imposed on the city for nearly three months -
28 November 2016: Syrian Coalition urges international action to end Assad regime's siege of Al-Tal saying threat must not be ignored as Assad regime has already proven willingness to commit crimes of unimaginable proportions to achieve its goals
December 2016: 1 December 2016: Over 400,000 displaced in Aleppo after tens of thousands more flee,
UN's special envoy Mistura says,
as Assad's and Russian regimes decline UN request for a pause in fighting to evacuate 400 sick and wounded in need of immediate treatment -
3 December 2016: Syrian Coalition's Abdul Ahad Steifo stresses the urgent need for the resumption of the political process through negotiations in Geneva and the enforcement of UN resolutions, especially the humanitarian provisions that call for an end to the bombing, lifting the sieges, the delivery of aid to civilians in need, and the release of detainees -
9 December: Russia has not halted military operations in besieged eastern Aleppo despite Russia’s claims of a pause,
as 'Doctors of the World’ slams international silence over ongoing atrocities against Syrian civilians -
11 December 2016: USA's Kerry denounced Russian and Assad 'war crimes’ in Syria after new round of talks in Paris, before USA and Russian officials once again will convene in Geneva -
13 December 2016: Urgent calls to save Aleppo civilians as UN voices alarm over atrocity reports, and as residents are giving account that 'people are under the rubble alive and no one can save them, some people are injured in the streets and no one can go to help them, the cries and fear of women and children heard from the streets' -
13 December 2016: At least 82 civilians, including 11 women and 13 children, in four different neighborhoods of eastern Aleppo have been killed by Assad regime troops and allied Iraqi militia, 'being shot in the street trying to flee and shot in their homes', UN says -
14 December 2016: Residents still await evacuation of east Aleppo, which the UN said had endured a brutal 'meltdown of humanity' as forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad rampaged through newly reclaimed districts reportedly carrying out extrajudicial killings -
17 December 2016: 'The carnage in Syria remains a gaping hole in the global conscience, Aleppo is now a synonym for hell' says UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon,
as terrified residents cram on buses for journey into the unknown -
18 December 2016: Thousands of Aleppo residents in limbo as transport fails to arrive,
and as a senior Syrian rebel blames Iran and its Shia militias of holding up the evacuation of civilians -
27 December 2016: UN says situation of Aleppo evacuees catastrophic as regime and allies mass forces to attack western rural Aleppo -
30 December 2016: Syrian Coalition calls for stopping attempts by the Assad regime and its Iranian ally to sabotage ceasefire agreement as over 30 violations of the agreement by Assad and the Iranian-backed foreign militias have been recorded
February 2017: 1 February 2017: UN postpones Syria political talks until 20 February, as Mistura alleges that the cease-fire is broadly working 'quite effectively',
and as SOHR documented since the 24th of August 2016, the date of the entry of Turkish forces into Syria, the death of 3,231 Syrian civilians by Russian, Assad and Turkish airstrikes, including 784 children and 436 citizen women -
12 février 2017: L'opposition syrienne a présenté les 21 membres d'une délégation unifiée, dont dix représentants des rebelles, qui se rendront à Genève pour les pourparlers de paix prévus le 20 février -
14 February 2017: Regime forces and the Iranian-backed militias continue to violate the ceasefire agreement in many areas across Syria, as UN says attacks were the bloodiest since truce took effect -
16 February: Opposition's official media claims nation-wide ceasefire at risk of total collapse due to Russia's support for regime bombardment of the southern Syrian province, which has killed 47 people in past three days -
17 February: UN's Jan Egeland calls to allow aid convoys to reach besieged and hard-to-reach areas of Syria, critizising that not a single UN-arranged land convoy has reached any of more than a dozen besieged towns or villages this year, citing a lack of approvals from authorities -
20 February: Assad regime forces and the Iranian-backed militias continue to block the entry of aid convoys to Alwaer district in Homs to undermine the political process and to prevent political transition in Syria, Syrian Coalition’s Mohammed Jojah says -
22/23 February: Assad regime and Iranian-backed militias loot UN aid convoy heading to besieged Alwaer district in Homs,
as the Syrian Coalition criticizes the failure of the UN to enforce its resolutions -
23 février: Reprise des pourparlers à Genève, peu d'espoir -
27 February 2017: Syrian Opposition's Nasr al-Hariri says Geneva talks must focus on political transition, criticizing the Iranian and Russian violent interference and the international community's silence over the daily crimes that have been committed against the Syrian people for nearly six years now -
28 February: Syrian Opposition's Nasr al-Hariri says that the regime's proposal for a national unity government during the political transition phase is not backed by any previous UN resolutions
May 2017: 3 May 2017: Syrian Coalition condemns the bombing that targeted the headquarters of the Syrian interim government in Azaz in northern Aleppo province, killing at least five civilians and wounding many more -
4 May 2017: Angry delegates leave Astana conference called to announce 'de-escalation' plan agreed by Turkey, Iran and Russia amid the ongoing war led by the Assad, Iranian and Russian regimes against the Syrian people -
6 May 2017: Assad regime forces shell the towns of Kafr Zita and Latamneh and fighter jets fire at the rebel-held village of al-Zalakiyat and nearby positions in the Hama countryside, following a so-called 'safe zones' agreement by Russia, Turkey and Iran, announced to go into effect at midnight on Friday, which evidentially exists only on paper -
12 May 2017: UN demands more details on Syria 'safe zones' deal as some UN members remain skeptical of plan as Security Council reportedly prepares to meet in 'closed session' to debate specifics of the deal -
15 May 2017: The Syrian Kurds will not attend the next round of Geneva talks on Syrian settlement due to Turkey’s anti-Kurdish sentiment -
17 May 2017: Syrian Coalition's Nazir Hakim warns that international inaction towards the Assad regime’s use of chemical and non-conventional weapons against the Syrian people risks creating security threats affecting the whole world,
as EU's Federica Mogherini says that accountability for war crimes is key to resolving the conflict in Syria -
19 May 2017: Syrian peace talks in Geneva break up as UN’s special envoy defends himself against charge that talks have become hopelessly bogged down -
24 May 2017: The Syrian National Coalition condemns the Islamic State’s massacre of Syrian civilians in rural Hama, emphasizing that the Assad regime and its allied Iranian militias are fully responsible for the group’s crimes and calling for an alliance of 'civilized world' to tackle threat of Assad regime and all forms of terrorism -
24 May 2017: Assad forces carried out a series of airstrikes on a city that has been declared a safe zone under a recent Russia-sponsored deal, as 12 airstrikes and at least nine barrel bombs hit the city of Daraa
January 2018: 4 January 2018: 120 organisations inside the Working Group for Syria including leading civil society groups are urging UN's Staffan de Mistura not to attend Russian regime sponsored conference set for the end of January, saying it would represent a 'dangerous departure from the (UN-led) Geneva process' -
26 January 2018: Truce of the besieged Eastern Ghouta begins its first hour by the launch of 2 missiles by the regime forces targeting the outskirts of Arbin city -
26 January 2018: After Russia’s 'Thermite' (cluster incendiary bombs) attack today, warplanes bomb again the eastern countryside of Idlib and shelling targets north of Homs -
27 January 2018: Syria opposition to boycott Russian peace talks -
28 January 2018: Authorities in Syria's Kurdish autonomous region said that they will not attend the peace talks in Russia's Sochi next week because of Turkey's offensive against the Kurdish enclave of Afrin -
28 January 2018: The Syrian Negotiations Commission SNC is deeply unhappy that UN's De Mistura will attend Sochi despite boycotts, saying that Russia has no intention of letting the Sochi peace process lead to any political change away from the Assad regime, after preconditions for attendance set by UN's Guterres including the primacy of the UN process have not been met by the Russians -
29 January 2018: Russian and Syrian warplanes escalated their airstrikes on the towns and cities of the Idlib countryside on Sunday, as civilian displacements continue -
30 January 2018: Syria conference in Russia's Sochi has got off to a rocky start after some delegates opposed to Assad refused to leave the airport on arrival until Syrian regime's flags and emblems were removed, and the Russian regime's FM Lavrov was heckled by delegates, accusing Putin regime of killing civilians in Syria with airstrikes -
31 January 2018: Social media sites have ignited with comments on the failure of the Sochi conference, despite 'having a UN representative here', amid ongoing attacks by several murderous regimes in Afrin, Daraa, Idlib and other Syrian provinces -
31 January 2018: The United Nations condemned a recent wave of renewed air strikes on medical centers in rebel-held parts of Syria including most recently one that targeted a hospital of Saraqib in rural Idlib serving 50,000 people, putting it out of action
2015: 16 February 2015: UN's Ban Ki-moon concerned about reports of continuing military clashes in Debaltseve -
12 March 2015: UN counts nearly 1.8 million refugees and internally displaced persons in Ukraine -
2 June 2015: Since the beginning of the war in Donbas, 6362 people have been killed, another 16,000 injured, UN monitoring team says -
2 June 2015: UN's Ivan Simonovic reports on increasing evidence of Russia's invasion of Donbas -
5 June: 28 people including 9 civilians killed in recent Maryinka battle, as Russian-backed forces launched a new offensive near Donetsk using tanks, mortars, and artillery, UN's Jeffrey Feltman says -
30 June: Violence in Ukraine has killed 6,500 people in the past year, wounded 16,000 and left 5 million people in need of humanitarian aid, UN says -
8/9 September 2015: Close to 8,000 people have lost their lives in eastern Ukraine since mid-April 2014, UN says,
indicating that Russian regime bore responsibility for the increasing death toll -
12 September: Ukrainian PM Yatsenyuk calls on world leaders to put more pressure on Putin, saying that Putin would see the lifting of sanctions as sign of weakness -
13 October 2015: UN's Ban Ki-moon expresses willingness to increase the UN presence in Ukraine for de-escalation and stabilization of the situation in Donbas
2016: 5 January 2016: UN delegates invite to Ukraine's war-torn eastern regions to assess the possibility of an international peacekeeping mission, but main militant leader in Donetsk region has already dismissed the idea -
21 February: Unicef says, that more 580,000 children have been affected by the nearly two year conflict in eastern Ukraine, that 215,000 children are internally displaced and that at least 20 children were killed as a result of the violence last year -
3 March 2016: Since the start of the Russian invasion in 2014 9,167 people have been killed and 21,044 have been wounded, including civilians, UN says, adding that people continue dying in the Donbas region as 21 people were killed during February 15 - March 1 -
23 March 2016: UN Secretary General supports Ukrainian side in Savchenko's case -
24 March 2016: Foreign armed actors in Donbas range from volunteers to paid-service men and women, and from independent militants to professional militaries, according to preliminary findings by the UN Working Group on mercenaries -
29 April 2016: Ukraine's Vadym Prystaiko said at a meeting of the UN Security Council that the Russian Federation had concentrated a 34,000-strong hybrid military force in the occupied part of Donbas -
23 May 2016: Ukraine's president takes part in the first ever UN World Humanitarian Organization Summit in Tureky, problems of Crimean Tatars and Russian annexation top Poroshenko's agenda -
3/4 August 2016: UN rings alarm bells on record number of civilian casualties in eastern Ukraine,
as OSCE says, that Minsk contact group ignores numerous ceasefire violations, promoting unpunishment -
20 August 2016: Ukraine has drawn the attention of the United Nations to another illegal visit of Russia's Putin to the occupied Crimean peninsula -
15 October 2016: Ukrainian president Poroshenko believes that Russia will not terminate its policy of aggression until the world is united to stop Russian Putin regime, calling 'to make every effort to unmask the manifestation of Russian aggression wherever we only can – in Donbas, in the case of the downed MH17, and in Aleppo', emphasizing the importance of solidarity of the whole world in this issue and further extension of sanctions against Russia
UN Resident Coordinator: UN Resident Coordinator is the highest UN official and the chief of UN diplomatic mission in a country, usually performed by the Resident Representative of the UN Development Programme - 'The UN Resident Coordinator' website - November 2016 overview of the UN Resident Coordinator system, including 129 UN Resident Coordinators posts leading 131 United Nations Country Teams UNCTs, each composed of 16 UN entities on average, and serving 165 countries and territories
Criticism of the United Nations: Criticism of the UN, representing the interests of governments
Since 2008 Global Centre for the Responsibility, established to promote universal acceptance and effective operational implementation of the norm of the 'Responsibility to Protect' populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity, serving as a resource and a forum for governments, international institutions and non-governmental organizations working to protect populations from mass atrocities
Government Accountability Project whistleblower protection and advocacy organization in the USA - Government Accountability Project - website
UN Watch Geneva-based non-governmental organization whose stated mission is 'to monitor the performance of the United Nations by the yardstick of its own Charter'
UN budget and funding: UN budget and funding - the UN is financed from assessed and voluntary contributions from member states, the General Assembly approves the regular budget and determines the assessment for each member, broadly based on the relative capacity of each country to pay, as measured by its gross national income, the so-called core UN budget does not include peacekeeping or the costs of several major UN agencies funded by voluntary contributions from member states
List of UN organizations, after the UN Charter established six principal organs of the Organization (General Assembly, the UN Security Council, the Economic and Social Council, the UN Trusteeship Council, the International Court of Justice, the UN Secretariat), allowing for the creation of any other entities that were seen as required, now encompassing numerous specialised organisations and agencies, programmes and funds, training and research bodies as well as other service providers, and there are also numerous subsidiary bodies, including committees, commissions, boards, councils, panels, and working groups - Organizations established by the UN - United Nations System
United Nations salaries, allowances, benefits and job classification
United Nations Staff Selection System - UN Manuals on staff selection - Special measures for gender equality in the United Nations
UN pension is a retirement benefit provided by the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund UNJSPF - United Nations Joint Staff Fund UNJSPF is a fund that provides UN pension, death, disability and the other related benefits for staff of the United Nations and the other organizations admitted to membership in the Fund
United Nations corruption: Criticism of the United Nations corruption and scandals
Reform of the United Nations: Reform of the United Nations
Reform of the UN Security Council: Reform of the United Nations Security Council and its key issues: categories of membership, the question of the 'veto' held by the five permanent members, regional representation, the size of an enlarged Security Council and its working methods, and the 'Security Council' - 'General Assembly' relationship -
UN Security Council veto power -
L.69 Group of Developing Countries is a cross regional grouping of 42 developing countries from Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific, that is focused on achieving lasting and comprehensive reforms of the UN Security Council, since 2007 -
'Uniting for Consensus' movement, developed in the 1990s in opposition to the possible expansion of permanent seats in the UN Security Council, aiming to counter the bids for permanent seats proposed by G4 nations and calling for a consensus before any decision is reached -
G4 nations comprising Brazil, Germany, India, and Japan are four countries which support each other’s bids for permanent seats on the UN Security Council
Unicef: Unicef United Nations Children's Fund - Unicef's country statistics
2016: 15 January 2016: In a joint statement Unicef and WHO call on Syrian regime to allow aid to reach besieged committees adding that 'siege and the denial of humanitarian access to civilians continue to be used as a tactic of war in violation of international humanitarian law' -
16 janvier 2016: Un garçon de 16 ans est mort de faim devant les représentants de l'Unicef, qui menaient une évaluation médicale sur la famine dans la ville de Madaya de 40'000 habitants, dont la moitié sont des enfants de moins de 18 ans, assiégée par l'armée de Bachar el-Assad depuis six mois -
5 January 2016: The huge global scale of female genital mutilation has been revealed in disturbing new Unicef statistics, which show at least 200 million girls and women alive today have undergone ritual cutting, half of them living in just three countries -
21 February 2016: Unicef says, that more 580,000 children have been affected by the nearly two year conflict in eastern Ukraine, that 215,000 children are internally displaced and that at least 20 children were killed as a result of the violence last year -
15 March 2016: UNICEF report estimates up to 3.7 million Syrian children born into devastating conflict conditions, and that at least eight million children in Syria and the neighboring countries are in need of humanitarian aid, including 2.4 million Syrian refugee children -
14 avril 2016: Éducation, santé, revenu, satisfaction à l'égard de leur vie, les enfants sont encore loin d'être égaux aussi dans les pays riches et le fossé se creuse dans plusieurs d'entre eux entre les plus démunis et les autres, selon un rapport de l'Unicef
September/October 2016 'uprooted' children across the globe: 8 September 2016: Some 50 million children have been 'uprooted' across the globe, according to Unicef -
4 October 2016: More than half of Yemen’s 28 million people are already short of food and children are particularly badly hit following Iranian-backed Houthi sectarian military rebellion, with hundreds of thousands at risk of starvation, UN says -
5 October 2016: Nearly half of all children in sub-Saharan Africa are living in extreme poverty, according to Unicef-World Bank report,
with figures showing that almost 385 million children worldwide survive on less than $1.90 a day, the World Bank international poverty line -
14 octobre 2016: Dans les pays pauvres, 5 enfants sur 6 de moins de 2 ans ne consomment pas assez d'aliments nutritifs pour leur âge, selon Unicef -
30 October 2016: The dead from Wednesday’s Russian airstrikes near a school complex in Idlib province included 22 children, Unicef's director Alan Lane says, adding that six teachers also died in the attacks -
31 octobre 2016: Quelque 300 millions d'enfants dans le monde, soit un sur sept, vivent dans un endroit où la pollution de l'air extérieur excède jusqu'à six fois les normes internationales, contribuant dans une large mesure à la mortalité infantile, selon l'Unicef
December 2016 - July 2018 a quarter of the world’s children in countries affected by conflict or disaster: 9 December 2016: A quarter of the world’s children - about 535 million - are living in countries affected by conflict or disaster, often without access to medical care, quality education, proper nutrition and protection, Unicef says, marking 70 years of 'relentless work' in the world’s toughest places to bring life-saving aid, long-term support, and hope to children whose lives and futures are threatened by conflict, crises, poverty, inequality and discrimination -
10 July 2018: A quarter of the world’s children - about 535 million - are living in a country affected by conflict or disaster, according to Unicef, adressing UN Security Council meeting on children and armed conflict
17 December 2021 children in danger of violence in Lebanon, SRSG Maalla M'jid, UNICEF launching report: 17 December 2021: At least one million children in danger of violence as crisis intensifies in Lebanon, Maalla M'jid (UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence Against Children) launches report with UNICEF -
December 2021: Violent beginnings for children, growing up in Lebanon’s crisis, after over the last two years, the Lebanese lira has lost more than 90% of its value, causing massive inflation and unemployment, driving more than 80% of the population into multidimensional poverty, as country is struggling with political instability, the covid-19 pandemic and the impact of the August 2020 Beirut Port explosions, according to UNICEF
Committee on the Rights of the Child: Committee on the Rights of the Child - Committee on the Rights of the Child (website) - Convention on the Rights of the Child
UN Commission on the Status of Women: UN Commission on the Status of Women - UN Commission on the Status of Women - website
UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women: UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women - UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women - website
Conference on Disarmament: Conference on Disarmament - Conference on Disarmament (Website) - UN Office for Disarmament Affairs (Website) - UN Disarmament Commission (Website)
7 July 2017 'Nuclear-weapon-ban treaty': 7 July 2017: At a UN meeting boycotted by all nuclear-armed nations including China, France, India, Israel, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, United Kingdom and USA, 122 countries adopt the first-ever treaty banning nuclear weapons, but none of the nine countries known or believed to possess nuclear weapons support legally binding pact -
21 September 2017: As UN treaty office says 51 countries are expected to attach their names on the opening day for signatures, nations began signing the first treaty to ban nuclear weapons, a pact backed by over 100 countries but spurned by those with nuclear arms
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization: Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization CTBTO - Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization since 1996 - Preparatory Commission's website
UN Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons: UNOG: The Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons and annexed Protocols I-V - UN Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons
Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons: Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons OPCW intergovernmental organisation since 29 April 1997 - Chemical Weapons Convention signed 13 January 1993 - List of parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention
March-November 2015: 27 March 2015: OPCW to investigate Assad’s chlorine gas attack on Sarmin that killed six and wounded dozens earlier this month -
9 May 2015: OPCW inspectors find undeclared chemical weapons in Syria, diplomats say traces of sarin, VX nerge agent found at previously unknown military site -
24 July 2015: Assad did not give up entire chemical weapons arsenal, tucking away 'caches of even deadlier nerve agents', USA, world powers 'never exercised the right' to demand access to sites,
report says -
11 septembre 2015: L'ONU pourra enquêter sur les armes et attaques chimiques attribuées au régime syrien,
après une résolution créant un 'mécanisme conjoint d'enquête' entre l'ONU et l'Organisation pour l'interdiction des armes chimiques et sa blocage par la Russie -
5 novembre 2015: Des experts en armes chimiques ont conclu pour la première fois que du gaz moutarde, banni par l'ONU en 1993, avait été utilisé à Marea, lors de combats en Syrie en août
2016 Assad's use of chemical weapons: 6 January 2016: A fact-finding mission of OPCW indicates that people in Syria are still exposed to deadly Sarin gas, or a compound like it, according to a report released by the UN -
13 February 2016: Investigators to look into reports of five possible uses of chlorine and mustard gas on rebel-held areas in Syria -
14 March 2016: Syrian American Medical Society's report claims that chemical weapons have been used at least 161 times through the end of 2015 and caused 1,491 deaths in Syria, saying that such attacks are increasing, with a high of at least 69 attacks last year, and 14,581 people have been injured in all -
13 August 2016: Reports of chlorine gas that targeted civilians in Aleppo, documented by 'Bellingcat' investigative journalists -
24 August 2016: International UN and OPCW inquiry accuses Syrian Assad regime of using chemical weapons, setting the stage for a Security Council decision of the five veto-wielding powers over whether sanctions should be imposed -
13 December 2016: OPCW seriously concerned about claims that at least 105 civilians, mostly women and children, were killed by a gas attack in central Syria when airstrikes hit a cluster of five villages, as up to 300 people were injured as a result of the intense airstrikes and attacks by Sarin nerve agent by Assad regime and Russian air forces on several villages in eastern rural Hama
April 2017 Assad's Khan Shaykhun chemical attack: 6 April 2017: If Assad has been hiding chemical weapons, the world needs to know, UN weapons inspectors must be allowed in to survey the damage and tell who was responsible,
before the dust settles on the latest atrocity in Syria,
the 4 April Khan Shaykhun chemical attack -
13 April 2017: OPCW's investigators are already testing samples from Khan Sheikhun deadly poison gas attack in Syria's Idlib province,
as samples taken from the chemical weapons attack in Syria last week tested positive for the nerve agent sarin by British delegation to OPCW,
not waiting for the allowance of the war criminals Assad and Putin, who blocked a UN Security Council resolution on Syria the eighth time -
14 April 2017: Syrian interim government says that the results of sample analysis carried out by independent institutions shows that the sarin nerve agent was used in the attack, collected from the site of the chemical attack on the town of Khan Sheikhoun, as residents of the town and survivors confirm that the Assad regime’s aircraft carried out the attack -
15 April 2017: Brig. Gen. Zaher al-Sakat, who was head of chemical warfare in the Syrian army’s Fifth Division and was ordered to carry out chemical strikes on three different occasions before he defected from Assad’s forces in 2013, told British newspaper that Assad had deceived United Nations inspectors sent into the country to destroy his chemical stockpiles, saying that according to his contacts inside Syria, Assad has not manufactured new weapons since 2014, but 'they don’t need any more, they have all they need already' -
19 April 2017: Concerning the chemical weapons use in the Khan Sheikhun area of southern Idlib on 4 April, OPCW’s Director-General Ahmet Üzümcü updated Council members stating clearly that 'the results of these analyses from four OPCW designated laboratories indicate exposure to Sarin or a Sarin-like substance', 'while further details of the laboratory analyses will follow, the analytical results already obtained are incontrovertible' -
21 April 2017: The global chemical arms watchdog OPCW on Thursday 'overwhelmingly' rejected a Russian-Iranian move to launch a new investigation into the chemical attack on Khan Sheikoun, delegates said, backing the probe already underway -
29 avril 2017: L'OIAC étudie 45 attaques chimiques présumées en Syrie depuis la mi-2016, selon son directeur
17-22 April 2018: 17 April 2018: Ahmet Uzumcu, the head of the chemical watchdog group OPCW, said Monday that Russian and Syrian regime prevented independent investigators from going to the scene of a suspected chemical attack in Douma, blocking international efforts to establish what happened and who was to blame -
17 April 2018: Dr Ghanem Tayara, the head of the largest medical relief agency in Syria UOSSM, claims that medics who responded to the gas attack in Douma have been subjected to 'extreme intimidation' by Assad regime officials who seized biological samples, forced them to abandon patients and demanded their silence, as a number of doctors who spoke to the Guardian this week say the intimidation from the regime has increased in the past five days, a timeframe that coincides with the arrival in Damascus of a team from the OPCW -
18 April 2018: Chemical weapons experts press for access to Syria attack site, as questions asked about how Russia was able to take sympathetic journalists to Douma while international inspectors have been waylaid on safety grounds -
18 April 2018: Despite destruction of 1,300 tonnes of declared chemical weapons since 2013, Assad regime retained capacity and willingness to replenish stockpile, after Russia vetoed any referral of Syria to the ICC -
22 April 2018: Chemical weapons inspectors collect samples from Douma site
UN Peacekeeping: UN Peacekeeping - UN Peacekeeping (Website) - Department of Peacekeeping Operations
Since 1948 list of UN peacekeeping missions: List of UN peacekeeping missions since 1948
2016: 12 August 2016: UN approves increase in peacekeeping force in South Sudan, as an additional 4,000 peacekeepers will be dispatched, making the total deployment 17,000 troops, that will be asked to take more 'proactive' measures to protect civilians -
17 August 2016: UN is under intense pressure to explain why thousands of well-armed peacekeeping troops failed to respond to urgent calls for help from international humanitarian workers under attack only minutes away from its bases during fighting in South Sudan last month -
6 October 2016: UN peacekeepers stayed in their bases rather than protect civilians during an outbreak of fighting in South Sudan in July, and Chinese UN peacekeepers in the capital Juba 'abandoned their posts entirely' at one civilian protection site where tens of thousands had sought safety from successive bouts of fighting, rights group says -
1 November 2016: The UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan failed to protect hundreds of civilians from death or rape because of a risk-averse culture and chaotic leadership, despite multiple requests to stand up a quick reaction force to respond a total of 73 people were killed, including 20 people who were under UN protection, according to the independent Patrick Cammaert’s damning report
Child sexual abuse by UN peacekeepers - Department of Peacekeeping Operations
Duty to rescue: Duty to rescue, a concept in tort law that arises in a number of cases, describing a circumstance in which a party can be held liable for failing to come to the rescue of another party in peril - Conscience is an aptitude, faculty, intuition or judgment that assists in distinguishing right from wrong - Common heritage of mankind - World conscience
Duty to rescue by country: Many civil law systems, which are common in Continental Europe, Latin America and much of Africa, impose a duty to rescue, in some countries there exists a legal requirement for citizens to assist people in distress - Non-assistance à personne en danger, l'abstention volontaire de porter assistance à une personne en péril dans le Code pénal français
21/22 July 2018: 22 July 2018: Israel transported several hundred Syrian civil defense workers and their families from southwest Syria to Jordan overnight Saturday,
saying it had engaged in 'a humanitarian effort' at the request of the USA, some European countries and Canada, after many powerful countries and the United Nations - including a lot of subsidiary organs, organizations, and an Assad supporting Guterres - failed to prevent even one of Assad's, Russian and Iranian war crimes since 2011 -
24 July 2018: There remains an acute threat for several hundred Syrian rescuers trapped in the country’s south with no escape from approaching regime troops,
after Assad regime officials and Russians said the Syrian civil defense volunteers were 'a red line' who should be 'eradicated', and as during previous evacuations from fallen opposition areas elsewhere, civil defense volunteers were specifically targeted, pulled from buses, tortured and filmed making false confessions about being paid agents, also because they helped document atrocities by Assad's forces and allies
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe OSCE: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe OSCE - Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe - OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media - OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
2016: 19 February 2016: As key Minsk deal points including heavy weapons pullback and prisoner exchanges are incomplete, OSCE extends Ukraine monitoring mission until March 2017 -
4 March 2016: OSCE's Alexander Hug warns that Ukrainian children caught up in the war continue to pay a heavy price, as youngsters are being forced to live in shelters and being prevented from going to school -
11 March 2016: OSCE observers to Ukraine are still facing obstacles when fulfilling their duties, especially in the occupied districts of Donetsk region, Alexander Hug says in Kramatorsk -
9 May 2016: OSCE says open to sending armed monitors to Ukraine conflict zone, but only if that is agreed by all sides -
4 August 2016: Minsk contact group ignores numerous ceasefire violations, OSCE's Hug says -
25 November 2016: The OSCE Special Monitoring mission in Ukraine in the mid-November reports on the highest number of ceasefire violations since the beginning of the observations in Donbas in 2014 -
8/9 December 2016: Ukraine and Syria wars will dominate OSCE conference agenda in Hamburg,
as Russian-backed separatist forces attack Ukrainian towns and positions of Ukrainian in Donetsk and Luhansk regions,
as OSCE aims to replace its surveillance drones destroyed by Russian-backed separatist forces, its mission in eastern Ukraine used to monitor ceasefire violations,
and as people in Aleppo 'have lost trust in everyone, in world leaders, in the international organisations that are watching them being killed' due to an absence of political will to confront war criminals since nearly 6 years -
24 December 2016: Latest truce deal, negotiated in Minsk, just to be violated shortly after
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA): UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
2016: 12 January 2016: UN humanitarian affairs chief calls for the evacuation of about 400 people from Madaya hospital after aid trucks reached the Syrian town which has been cut off by Assad forces for months,
also saying that aid to besieged towns must be repeated -
18 January 2016: A leaked document from the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs of the United Nations in Damascus shows that the organization was aware of the existence of famine in Madaya months ago -
28 January 2016: Saying that Assad's regime blocks most aid requests, UN's Stephen O’Brien urges an end to targeting civilians and public infrastructure in Syria, calling for more action to facilitate unhindered, unconditional and sustained access to all those in need, including besieged and hard-to-reach areas -
30 janvier 2016: La délégation de l'opposition syrienne doit arriver samedi soir à Genève pour participer aux discussions organisées par l'ONU, mais en Syrie 16 autre personnes sont mortes de faim dans la ville de Madaya, assiégée par les forces pro Assad, depuis que des convois humanitaires y sont entrés mi-janvier, selon MSF -
11 February 2016: UN's Regional Humanitarian Coordinator for the Syrian crisis Kevin Kennedy says that the UN continues to deliver humanitarian aid to Syria, noting that 85 aid workers have so far been killed in Syria as a result of the Russian and Assad regime's targeting of public facilities such as schools and hospitals -
12 February 2016: Russian warplanes and warplanes believed to be Russian carry out more airstrikes in Daraa province, as civil authorities in the towns of Sidon, Eastern al-Gharya, Western al-Gharya and Naemeh closed the schools and hospitals as a result of the continued targeting by warplanes for vital facilities and people’s homes in these towns -
22 August 2016: Aleppo is being bombed every day and has become 'the apex of horror' in 'the greatest crisis of our time', UN's Stephen O'Brien tells the UN Security Council, adding that 'you have the power with a pen - a simple pen stroke - to allow food to people'
United Nations, Human Rights and Syria: United Nations, Human Rights and Syria
2015: 11 March 2015: Exhibition of photographs showing the victims of atrocities and torture carried out by Assad regime goes on display at UN headquarters -
12 March 2015: The war in Syria has plunged 80 percent of its people into poverty and reduced life expectancy by 20 years since the conflict began, according to a UN-backed report of the Syrian Center for Policy Research -
12 March 2015: World utterly failing Syria after 4 years of conflict, aid organizations say ahead of the fourth anniversary of the peaceful pro-democracy protests that marked the start of the devastating conflict -
18 March 2015: The Syrian Coalition sent a letter to the UN Security Council calling for punishing Assad under Chapter VII of UN Charter after regime's latest chlorine gas attack on Sarmin in rural Idlib on Monday -
25 March 2015: Assad regime's helicopters drop barrel bombs loaded with chlorine gas on Binnish near Idlib, and conducted seven attacks using chlorine gas in less than 20 days since the adoption of UN Security Council resolution 2209 without any prosecution by UN Security Council, Syrian Coalition says -
27 March 2015: Following Syrian American Medical Society's report, UN has more than doubled its estimate of Syrians who are living in besieged areas — and risk death by starvation, dehydration and the lack of medical care — to roughly 440,000 -
20 April 2015: Syrian Network for Human Rights says it has recorded 87 violations of the UN Security Council resolution 2118 by the Assad regime, 59 of which occurred in 2014, and 28 in 2015, also reporting 15 violations of UN resolution 2209 by the Assad regime -
30 April 2015: Syrian Coalition's Khoja delivered a speech at UN on the Day of Remembrance for all victims of chemical warfare, marking the first large-scale use of chemical weapons in 1915 during World War I -
5 May 2015: Al-Assad’s Syrian regime is committing war crimes and crimes against humanity by systematically using barrel bombs to kill civilians and destroy infrastructure in Aleppo, rights group says -
13 May 2015: A three-year operation to smuggle official documents out of Syria has produced enough evidence to indict Bashar al-Assad and 24 senior members of his regime, 'Commission for International Justice and Accountability' CIJA says -
29 August 2015: The Syrian Coalition calls upon the international community to shoulder its humanitarian and ethical responsibilities towards the Syrian people and to work on ending the Syrian refugees’ crisis -
3 septembre 2015: 'L'impunité qui règne en Syrie est une honte pour l'ONU', dit Carla del Ponte -
22 September: UN investigator Carla del Ponte sees Milosevic's fate awaiting Assad -
5 October 2015: Assad’s Russian-backed deadly escalation in Homs province aims to change its demography, Syrian Coalition says calling on the United Nations to assume legal, humanitarian and ethical responsibilities towards the tragedy of the Syrian people -
17 November 2015: The Eastern Ghouta Women Center for Training and Rehabilitation organized a sit-in calling on the international community and the UN to work on protecting civilians from the fighting in Syria in general and in eastern Ghouta in particular, calling to stop the bombing of residential areas and the massacres and for opening humanitarian corridors to enter relief and medical aid -
17 December 2015: Human Rights Watch report presents compelling evidence on mass deaths and torture of detainees in Assad’s prisons -
21 December 2015: Human Rights Watch denounces Russia’s extensive use of cluster bombs in Syria
2016: 26 janvier 2016: Les Syriens sont en train 'de perdre espoir' sur l'intérêt du monde pour la crise chez eux, a dit mardi à Genève le coordinateur humanitaire de l'ONU Yacoub El Hillo, et 'chaque heure perdue' pour entamer des discussions politiques provoque le déplacement de 50 familles, a souligné Jan Egeland -
26 January: UN warns 2.5 million Syrian children will become refugees by 2017 -
9 February 2016: Mass deaths of detainees in Syrian Government jails amounts to crime of 'extermination', UN commission of inquiry on Syria says in its report calling on the UN security council to impose sanctions against Syrian officials in the civilian and military hierarchy responsible for or complicit in deaths, torture and disappearances in custody -
9 February 2016: Human Rights Watch documents in a report, that Assad regime forces and the Russian military have been carrying out daily cluster bomb attacks in Syria over the past few weeks, killing and wounding dozens of civilians, including many children and women -
22/23 February 2016: War crimes in Syria's five-year-old conflict are widespread and Syrian government forces and Islamic State militants continue to commit crimes against humanity in the face of inaction by the international community,
UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry says in its latest report -
15 March 2016: After Russian regime's Putin announced on Monday that 'the main part' of its armed forces in Syria would start to withdraw, UN human rights investigators on Syria say that preparing prosecutions against war criminals should not be delayed until the end of the conflict in Syria, now entering its sixth year -
15 March 2016: Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has documented death of 273,520 persons since 18 March 2011, which witnessed the fall of the first martyr in Daraa, until today -
17 March 2016: Assad regime must be held accountable for the crimes committed in Syria to achieve transitional justice, Syrian Coalition’s Hanan al-Balkhi says -
22 April 2016: United Nations will name a coordinator to probe the fate of detainees in Assad’s prisons, a move sought by the opposition as the Assad regime has been torturing, starving and killing people in custody -
9 May 2016: UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, Adama Dieng, expresses his outrage at the ongoing 'indiscriminate and seemingly calculated' attacks against civilians and civilian objects in Syria -
24 June 2016: UN's Stephen O’Brien says that the use of barrel bombs in the Syrian conflict 'constitutes indiscriminate attacks' against civilians, adding that their sole purpose is 'to terrorize and punish the civilian population', denouncing the international community’s silence over crimes committed by the Assad regime and terrorist groups in Syria for over five years -
12 August 2016: 3 days have passed since the child Ghani Quider began pleading to no avail for the United Nations to evacuate her from the besieged city of Madaya in the western Damascus countryside and treat her after she was struck by bullets fired by Lebanese Hezbollah’s snipers, as city’s activists and its medical and aid agencies have called for the evacuation of dozens of wounded and sick people, and are now accusing the United Nations of collusion with and bias toward the Syrian regime
March 2018: 6 March 2018: Calls for justice and accountability by victims and families must be urgently addressed, according to the UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria, underscoring the complete impunity of perpetrators by chronicling crimes and violations, including deliberate and indiscriminate attacks on civilians and protected objects, starvation, unlawful internment, and the use of chemical weapons,
as residents in the besieged Damascus suburb of eastern Ghouta have begun using UN aid bags as shrouds for children killed in the devastating bombardment by the Assad regime to express their frustration over the organization's inaction -
14 March 2018: The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria has condemned the flagrant violation of International Humanitarian Law in Syria as it has called for holding accountable perpetrators for their crimes, namely regime forces, terrorist organizations, their partners and backers -
25 March 2018: Syrian Coalition's Salwa Aksoi calls on the UN and international human rights organizations to document the mass forced displacement and demographic change taking place against residents of eastern Ghouta at the hands of the Assad regime, Iranian militias and Russia for holding war criminals accountable -
26 March 2018: The UN has come under fire for sharing the coordinates of hospitals in the Damascus suburb of eastern Ghouta with Russia, only for one of them to be bombed days later killing at least one patient by what medics suspected to be a 'bunker-buster' bomb
February 2019: 25 February 2019: SOHR documented the rise in the number of people who died in al-Hool camp for displaced people in the southeastern countryside of Hasaka, as a result of the significant failure in medical care and health supervision over the ill people, as well as the deterioration of the weather conditions, the lack of assistance and the absence of it sometimes, the lack of necessary treatment, the lack of food provided by the organizations including the UN supervising the al-Hool camp -
25 February 2019: After he was denied entry to the building and a meeting with a UN official in Tripoli in Libanon, a Syrian refugee set himself on fire in protest, according to Alsouria Net -
25 February 2019: Russia and the Assad regime have further tightened the blockade on al-Rukban IDPs camp near the Jordanian border as they continue to block the delivery of humanitarian aid with the aim of 'breaking the will of those trapped inside, displace them once again, and make them face an unknown fate', according to Syrian Coalition's Mustafa -
27 February 2019: Action Group for the Palestinians of Syria appeals to the UN as well as international and humanitarian organizations to ratchet up pressure on the Assad regime to force it to release detainees and disclose the fate of the enforcedly disappeared
Since 2006 Syrian Observatory for Human Rights SOHR, a UK-based information office whose stated aim is to document human rights abuses in Syria, and which has focused since 2011 on Assad's, Iranian and Russian regime's war against the Syrian people - SOHR's website
International humanitarian aid during the Syrian Civil War: International humanitarian aid during the Syrian Civil War coordinated by the UNOCHA
2016: 8 January 2016: Failure to enforce UN Security Council resolutions encourages Assad to starve civilians, Syrian Coalition says in a letter, critizising the servility of the UNOCHA -
19 January 2016: After reports revealed that the UN knew about mass starvation in Syria for months before providing humanitarian in 2016 under international pressure, the UN’s conduct during Syria's starvation crisis has prompted outrage from 112 Syrian humanitarian workers, who, in an open letter published on 13 January, accused the UN kowtowing to Assad’s regime and 'chasing permission you do not even need' -
9 February 2016: Besieged Syrian town of Madaya is facing starvation again due to meagre supplies delivered last month already running out, as the UN is accused of severely underestimating the number of people suffering under blockades around the country -
17 February 2016: Some humanitarian aid trucks entered Madaya, Zabadani, Kafriya and Al-Fu’ah in Syria's Rif Dimashq and Idlib province -
26 February 2016: Syrian Coalition demands investigation into Assad regime’s seizing of UN aid airdrops on Deir Ezzor -
3 March 2016: The UNOCHA says that the Assad regime still blocks the delivery of some surgical items to the district of Moadamiyah west of Damascus -
11 March 2016: 30 aid agencies, including Oxfam, release a new report cataloguing deteriorating conditions in Syria and calling on Russia, USA, France and the UK to 'safeguard the glimmer of hope' February’s ceasefire has brought to civilians -
7 April 2016: UN's Jan Egeland says in Geneva that pro-Assad regime forces still besiege 15 areas across Syria blocking the entry of food and medical supplies -
29 avril 2016: L'ONU a averti jeudi que des centaines de milliers de Syriens risquaient de ne plus pouvoir recevoir d'aide d'urgence si les combats se poursuivaient, mais Salem al-Meslet du HCN a estimé que le régime de Bachar el-Assad 'refuse de mettre fin aux souffrances du peuple syrien' -
2 June 2016: As the UN has infuriated the Syrian opposition by saying that a previous commitment to push for airdrops to deliver food aid to besieged towns cannot go ahead without the permission of the Russian regime, UN 'aid' convoy entering Damascus suburb of Darayya for the first time since 2012 did not contain food and instead was largely made up of mosquito nets and shampoo -
16 June 2016: Rights group's report, based on interviews with aid workers, including current and former UN staff, accuses the United Nations of delivering 99% of its aid to regime-controlled territories, calling on the UN to 'restore its impartiality' -
6 July 2016: UN's Yacoub El Hillo has expressed alarm over reports of deteriorating humanitarian conditions and urgent medical evacuation needs in the Syrian towns of Madaya, Foah, Zabadani and Kefraya, where more than 62,000 people are besieged
Humanitarian aid organizations - Disaster management is the creation of plans through which communities reduce vulnerability to hazards and cope with disasters - Emergency management - Civil defense - Emergency organisations - Since 1963 Disasters Emergency Committee umbrella group comprising 13 UK charities, all associated with disaster related issues such as providing clean water, humanitarian aid and medical care
2016: 8 January 2016: 'Médecins Sans Frontières' (Doctors Without Borders) calls for immediate delivery of food and medicine to Syria's city of Madaya, under siege for months by Assad regime forces -
8 January: Deliveries of food, medical supplies and blankets to three towns in Syria where residents are starving to death will begin by Monday, Red Cross says amid global outrage -
11 January 2016: ICRC's Pawel Krzysiek, who accompanied an aid convoy on Monday to Madaya, reports that 'the first impression is really heartbreaking', seeing 'many just simply too weak' to welcome the convoy -
9 February 2016: A million Syrian civilians are living in besieged towns, with 300,000 more under threat in Aleppo,
aid organisation 'Siege Watch' (PAX, Syria Institute) says in 'First Quarterly Report on Besieged Areas
in Syria' -
18 February 2016: Hospitals in opposition-held parts of Syria are refusing to share GPS coordinates with Russian and Syrian authorities because of repeated attacks on medical facilities and workers, Médecins Sans Frontières and humanitarian workers on the ground say
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights since 1993 - Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (Website)
March 2018: 6 March 2018: Calls for justice and accountability by victims and families must be urgently addressed, according to the UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria, underscoring the complete impunity of perpetrators by chronicling crimes and violations, including deliberate and indiscriminate attacks on civilians and protected objects, starvation, unlawful internment, and the use of chemical weapons,
as residents in the besieged Damascus suburb of eastern Ghouta have begun using UN aid bags as shrouds for children killed in the devastating bombardment by the Assad regime to express their frustration over the organization's inaction -
6 March 2018: The Russian air force has used unguided 'dumb' bombs in Syria, in what UN sources say could be an effort to shift responsibility for possible war crimes and civilian deaths to their ally, the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad -
7 mars 2018: Le Haut commissaire aux droits de l'homme accuse le régime syrien de planifier 'l'apocalypse' dans son pays, ajoutant que le conflit était entré dans une nouvelle 'phase d'horreur' -
16 March 2018: Reports of civilian casualties from Afrin 'deeply alarming',
according to UN's Ravina Shamdasani, saying that children, families killed by Turkish airstrikes, shelling in Afrin -
27 March 2018: China and Russia accused of waging 'war on human rights' at UN, as high commissioner Zeid Ra’ad Hussein has announced that he will be stepping down this year and not seeking another term in the post, explaining to his staff that the lack of global support for protecting human rights made his job untenable
Since 2000 UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues: Since 2000 UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues - Indigenous peoples
2007 Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: 2007 Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, was adopted by the General Assembly's majority of 144 states in favour, 4 votes against (Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the USA) and 11 abstentions (Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burundi, Colombia, Georgia, Kenya, Nigeria, Russian Federation, Samoa and Ukraine)
United Nations Human Rights Committee: United Nations Human Rights Committee 1946-2006, body of independent experts that monitors implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights by its State parties
United Nations 'Human Rights' Council: United Nations 'Human Rights' Council since 2006
May 2015: 12 May 2015: USA administration admits at UN Human Rights Council that it 'crossed the line' on interrogating detainees also saying that it should 'do better' in police conduct toward minorities
2016 after 5 years UN's policy in Syria morally bankrupt: 29 August 2016: Saying that it is perverse that UN and its agencies committed to human rights are throwing a lifeline to a regime that has no qualms about burning the entire country just to stay in power, expert in war studies Leenders reveals that UN agencies had paid 'lucrative procurement contracts to Syrian regime cronies who are known to bankroll the very repression and brutality that caused much of the country’s humanitarian needs',
as the UN calls Assad's war against the Syrian people the 'world’s largest humanitarian crisis' but as brave and principled UN aid workers who were kicked out by the regime for refusing to comply with illegal restrictions on humanitarian access receive no support from their headquarters and as UNHCR is the biggest customer of the 'Four Seasons' in Damascus spending $6,822,445 at the hotel since the start of Assad's war crimes -
19 October 2016: UN Human Rights Council will hold a special session on the worsening situation in Aleppo on Friday after a formal request from Britain on behalf of a core group of 11 Western and Arab countries -
22 October 2016: UN Human Rights Council demands immediate end to aerial bombardment of Aleppo, as UN's High Commissioner Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein says that the siege and aerial bombing of Aleppo constitutes 'crimes of historic proportions' that have caused and is causing heavy civilian casualties amounting to war crimes -
25 October 2016: Over 80 human rights and aid organizations, including Human Rights Watch, CARE International and Refugees International, have urged the United Nations member states to expel Russia from the Human Rights Council over its military campaign in Syria -
28 October 2016: It was the first time Russia and one of the permanent five members of the security council had failed to get elected to the HRC since its formation a decade ago, and followed a campaign by human rights groups opposing Russian membership because of its role in the bombing of Syrian cities, eastern Aleppo in particular
14 March 2020 UN 'Human Rights' Council applauds Iranian criminal regime in periodic review: 14 March 2020: UN 'Human Rights' Council applauds Iranian regime in periodic review, as North Korean, Syria's Assad, Russia's Putin and Chinese Beijing regime praise Tehran's Mullahs for ‘protecting rights of vulnerable groups', ‘openness to dialogue’,
after the January 2020 shooting down of Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752, murdering 176 international passengers and crew members,
following the July 2014 Russian shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in Ukraine, murdering 298 international passengers and crew members, followed in February 2020 by Dutch trial, after prosecution formally charged four suspects amid Russian murderous regime's denials and threats against witnesses
UN special rapporteur: UN special rapporteur, independent expert, and working group member are titles given to individuals working on behalf of the UN within the scope of 'special procedure' mechanisms who have a specific country or thematic mandate from the 'United Nations Human Rights Council'
March 2019 UN report: 11 March 2019: Worrying patterns of intimidation, arrest, prosecution, and ill-treatment of human rights defenders, lawyers, and labour rights activists in Iran signal an increasingly severe State response to protests and strikes in the country, according to UN expert and Special Rapporteur Javaid Rehman, saying that rising inflation, difficult working conditions, late or unpaid wages, falling living standards, and increased challenges in accessing adequate work, food, health care, and water was making life harder for many Iranians
Since 2007 Iran Tribunal: Since 2007 Iran Tribunal, an international people's court and a non-binding legal tribunal residing in The Hague, aiming to investigate serious allegations of Human Rights violations and Crimes against humanity in the Islamic Republic of Iran during the 1980s, founded because no other judicial committee would investigate allegations made against the Iranian regime -
Iran Tribunal website
List of human rights organisations -
List of indigenous rights organizations
Since 1978 Human Rights Watch international non-governmental organization, conducting research and advocacy on human rights, headquarters are in New York City with offices in Amsterdam, Beirut, Berlin, Brussels, Chicago, Geneva, Johannesburg, London, Los Angeles, Moscow, Nairobi, Paris, San Francisco, Sydney, Tokyo, Toronto, Washington, D.C., and Zurich -
Human Rights Watch website
May 2018: 15 May 2018: Repression, discrimination ahead of 2018 World Cup in Russia, Human Rights Watch says, not demanding that the murderous Putin regime, involved in Assad's war against the Syrian people since 2011, common war crimes, and the war against Ukraine since 2014, should be boycotted and finally convicted by the International Criminal Court ICC,
because it's a moral farce in letting Russia play host while engaged in actions and policies that are hostile to humanity, international goodwill and harmony FIFA says the World Cup promotes -
21 May 2018: With the lives of over two million civilians at risk in Syria’s Idlib and Daraa governorates, world leaders should abstain from attending the opening ceremony of the World Cup in Moscow, unless the Kremlin takes meaningful steps to protect them from chemical and conventional attacks, Human Rights Watch says
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
2015: 19 March 2015: UN High Commissioner for Refugees says seven million Syrians are internally displaced as a result of Assad's war against Syrian people, 2.2 million from Rural Damascus, 1.7 million from Aleppo, 1.1 million from Homs, 390,000 from Deir Ezzor, 300,000 from Latakia, 245,000 from Dara’a, 235,000 from Hama and 520,000 from Idlib, Damascus, and Al-Hasakah -
27 March 2015: The number of people applying for asylum in safer countries soared to a 22-year high in 2014, as hundreds of thousands fled conflicts in Syria and Iraq, UNHCR says -
16 April 2015: The war in Syria is largest humanitarian disaster since WWII, UNHCR says urging the international community to act -
19 June 2015: Syria world’s biggest source of refugees, UNHCR says -
1 July 2015: More than 135,000 refugees reached Europe by sea in first half of 2015, with most of the burden being borne by countries in southern Europe, UNHCR says, adding that increased EU funding for rescue operations has meant a decrease in the number of deaths at sea since May -
1 July 2015: The sea route
to Europe, the Mediterranean passage in the age of refugees -
9 July 2015: Latest figures from UNHCR put the total number of refugees from Syria fleeing war and persecution to just over 4,013,000 people,
the largest exodus from a single conflict in a generation, and with at least 7.6 milion people forced from their homes within Syria -
4 September: UNHCR Antonio Guterres says mass relocation programme needed in the EU to help refugees fleeing war and persecution -
27 September 2015: World waited too long to act on refugee crisis, Antonio Guterres says in an interview on the sidelines of UN General Assembly -
3 October 2015: About half of the 380,000 migrants and refugees who have claimed asylum in Europe this year are Syrian, according to UN, but most Syrian refugees are just too poor to flee to Europe -
24 October 2015: UNHCR's Amin Awad says that Russian airstrikes and increased fighting around the Syrian city of Aleppo had contributed to the 'dynamic of displacement', with about 30,000 displaced, as the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs puts the number at 50,000 -
3 November 2015: Russian airstrikes in Syria send thousands more refugees to Europe, as UNHCR reports 30% in increase in refugees since Russia began bombing Syria -
24 November: UNHCR decries restrictions on refugees, upholds right to asylum -
19 December: UN refugee chief Guterres calls for 'massive resettlement' of Syrians in Europe -
22 December: Refugee and migrant arrivals in EU pass 1 million in 2015, while thousands died or went missing, UNHCR says
2016: 16 January 2016: Calling on politicans, new UN chief for refugees Filippo Grandi says he hopes international refugee and migration crisis will be solved soon if the necessary political decisions are made -
20 January 2016: More than a million Syrians are enduring another winter as refugees in Lebanon, as for some it is their fifth in a row, displaced by Assad's war that has driven 4.4 million Syrians into neighboring countries and that the UN was unable end -
10 February 2016: UN refugee agency in February 2016 urges Turkey to open borders to Syrian refugees, following murderous Assad regime's, Russian and Iranian attacks on Aleppo -
13 February 2013: Over 80,000 refugees and migrants have already arrived in Europe since the beginning of 2016, the majority of those arriving in January 2016 were women and children making up nearly 58%, over 400 have died trying to cross, according to UNHCR's Melissa Fleming -
21 February 2016: UN officially registered more than a million Syrian refugees in Lebanon, the highest concentration in the world, making up more than a quarter of the country's population, with 70% of them living below the poverty line -
8 March 2016: UN refugee agency has concerns over the deal reached between the EU and Turkey that would see refugees sent back to Turkey, where some nationalities lack protection -
22 March 2016: UNHCR has stopped transporting refugees and migrants arriving on Lesbos from Turkey to a reception facility as their subsequent freedom of movement is no longer guaranteed, a UNHCR spokesman says, referring to last week's EU-Turkey deal -
20 May 2016: Hundreds of UN schools in Syria, Palestinian territories, Lebanon and Jordan run by the UN have been attacked, damaged or rendered inoperable by armed conflict and violence in the Middle East over the past five years, disrupting the education of thousands of children, a UN report says -
20 June 2016: As a record 65 million men, women and children are forced from their homes by war and persecution last year,
and as the three countries Syria, Afghanistan and Somalia produce half the world’s refugees,
UN refugee agency sounds alarm over failure of nations to find collective solutions
September 2016: 15 September 2016: Highlighting the impact of conflicts on civilians in a report showing that the global number of displaced people is equivalent to the UK’s population of 65 million, World Bank and UNHCR show that the root of the problem are 10 conflicts in Afghanistan, Burundi, the Caucasus, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iraq, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, the former Yugoslavia, saying that 89% of refugees and 99% of internally displaced people were hosted by around 15 developing countries, as xenophobic reactions in high-income countries threaten the consensus that is underpinning global economic growth
23 July 2019 'the crucial role played by NGOs must be acknowledged': 23 July 2019: UNHCR and the International Organization for Migration said in a joint statement 'the crucial role played by NGOs must be acknowledged (and) they should not be criminalised nor stigmatised for saving lives at sea', as 14 states made progress on plans to redistribute refugees rescued in the Mediterranean, while eight said they would actively take part, including Croatia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Lithuania, Luxembourg, and Portugal
UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East: UNRWA United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East since 1949
2014: 22 June 2014: UN envoy Robert Serry denies claim he tried to funnel $20m to Hamas behind Israel's back -
13/14 July 2014: Palestinian representative to the UN Human Rights Council Kraishi says every missile fired from Gaza at Israel is a crime against humanity because it is directed at civilian targets and, unlike IDF, 'we never warn anyone about where these missiles are about to fall' -
17 July: 20 missiles found in UN-run school in Gaza, confirming Israel’s oft-repeated claim that Hamas and other Gazan terror groups use civilian infrastructure to hide weapons -
19 July: UN's Ban Ki-moon joins efforts for ceasefire negotiations after Hamas's rejection and as death toll reaches 350 -
20 July 2014: 'United' Nations agency UNRWA handed 20 missiles found in Gaza school back to Hamas, not to International Criminal Court -
22 July 2014: Israeli newspaper asks wether is was a war crime that UNRWA handed rockets over to Hamas -
22 July: For the second time in less than a week, rockets have been found in a school in Gaza operated by the UNRWA -
23 July 2014: UN's Ban Ki-moon is 'alarmed' to hear that rockets placed in UN-run school in Gaza now 'have gone missing', demanding a full review -
28 July 2014: Hamas fired anti-tank missile from UNRWA school in Beit Hanoun on Thursday, yard was empty when IDF responded, IDF investigation says -
30 July 2014: UN agency for Palestinian refugees admits that a stockpile of Hamas rockets for the third time since the onset of Operation Protective Edge was found in UNRWA’s Gaza schools, but was not publicized by UNRWA -
30 July 2914: Three Israeli soldiers were killed and 15 injured in an explosion at a booby-trapped UNRWA 'health clinic' in Gaza's Khan Yunis that housed the opening of a Hamas tunnel for terrorist attacks in Israel -
2 August: Finnish reporter admits Gaza rockets launched from hospital -
13 August: Concerned by rockets turned over to local authorities by the UN organization, USA lawmakers want UNRWA investigated over troubling Gaza role
International Commission on Missing Persons: International Commission on Missing Persons (intergovernmental organization) -
International Commission on Missing Persons - icmp website -
Missing people organizations
International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement: International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement -
International Committee of the Red Cross -
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
3 May 2023 IRC warns almost 400,000 displaced people may need humanitarian support due to ongoing violence in Sudan: 3 May 2023: The International Rescue Committee IRC warns that the ongoing fighting in Sudan, which began on 15 April, and has displaced almost 400,000 people might get worse if nothing is done to foster peace. An estimated 334,000 have been displaced within Sudan itself with almost 65,000 estimated to have moved over borders as refugees, as IRC's Emergency Director for East Africa Shashwat Saraf said 'when people become displaced, whether within a country or over borders, they require support as they carry very little provisions with them. There are also millions still caught up in the conflict who have been unable to move. Before the fighting began, humanitarian needs across Sudan had already reached record levels, with 15.8 million people requiring humanitarian assistance this year. The latest violence has led to acute shortages of food, water, medicines, and fuel, while the price of essential items has significantly increased.'
Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders: Médecins Sans Frontières -
'Médecins Sans Frontières' website
2017: 16 février 2017: Des vidéos, trouvées sur les réseaux sociaux, montrent 'qu'il y a des attaques systématiques des hôpitaux de la part des armées russe et syrienne', estime un porte-parole d'un centre de recherche britannique, qui a procédé à l'analyse des images 'dans le moindre détail' pour MSF -
1 April 2017: Airstrikes hit a hospital supported by medical aid group in Latamnah in Hama province last week, killing two people, with evidence chemical weapons were used, Medecins Sans Frontieres said -
1 August 2017: Sick and injured civilians within and outside Raqqa city are facing major difficulties obtaining urgent lifesaving medical care due to the ongoing battle to control the northeastern Syrian city, according to 'Médecins Sans Frontières' -
29 September 2017: An escalation in the targeted bombing of medical facilities since September 19 has forced the closure and evacuation of hospitals throughout northwestern Syria, leaving people trapped in a war zone without access to health care, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières MSF said,
as UN's Jan Egeland denounces air raids on hospitals and calls for establishing system of notification to prevent attacks on humanitarian facilities in Syria
2016: 10 January 2016: A missile hit a health centre operated by Medecins Sans Frontieres in northern Yemen on Sunday, killing four people and wounding 10 others -
9 February 2016: An airstrike hit Tafas field hospital, some 12 km from the Jordanian border in southern Syria, that is supported by Médecins Sans Frontières, killing three people including a nurse and wounding six -
15 février 2016: Un hôpital à Hadiyé dans la région de Maaret al-Noomane, lié à MSF, a été bombardé, neuf personnes, dont un enfant, ont été tuées lors de frappes de l'aviation, vraisemblablement russe -
18 February 2016: Hospitals in opposition-held parts of Syria are refusing to share GPS coordinates with Russian and Syrian authorities because of repeated attacks on medical facilities and workers, Médecins Sans Frontières and humanitarian workers on the ground say -
23 February: Survivors of MSF Hospital targeted by warplanes in Maarat al-Nouman recount their stories -
29 April 2016: Médecins Sans Frontières’ request for independent inquiry into 3 October USA airstrike that killed 42 civilians remains open after military fails to yield charges -
9 May 2016: Attacks on hospitals and medical facilities by the regime and Russian forces continue unabated, as Assad’s jets on Sunday bombed a hospital in Kafrnaha in rural Aleppo which is supported by Doctors Without Borders destroying three ambulances and causing damage to the hospital building -
1 June 2016: Hospitals are now normal targets of war, Médecins Sans Frontières' Michiel Hofman says, describing permanent members of the UN security council as complicit in killings,
after Russia blamed for new strikes which targeted two hospitals and other parts of Idlib city, killing scores -
24 juillet 2016: Des bombardements aériens, menés par la Syrie et la Russie, ont touchés les établissements dans les quartiers est de la ville, assiégés depuis le 17 juillet par le régime -
24 July 2016: Four makeshift hospitals and a local blood bank in Syria's battered Aleppo city have been hit by regime air raids in the past 24 hours, including the children's hospital in a besieged eastern neighbourhood, where the bombardment killed a two-day-old baby, according to a group of doctors -
26 July 2016: Russian warplanes fired vacuum missiles and cluster bombs at residential neighborhoods, hitting Atareb's main hospital and medicine stores and wounding 45 more people -
29 July 2016: An airstrike has hit a maternity hospital in a rebel-held area of Idlib province supported by Save the Children, killing two people and injuring several others including a woman, who was six months pregnant and who lost her leg, and several babies, when their incubators crashed to the floor in the attack -
31 July 2016: Four new-born babies reportedly killed after a recent triple airstrike, which aid workers said came from Syrian government warplanes, hit besieged Aleppo’s last children’s hospital run by a group of Syrian doctors, the Independent Doctors’ Association, and backed by the charity Unicef -
31 July 2016: It rose to 9 (including 3 citizens, a child, a pharmaceutical and the deputy director of Jassem hospital) the number of people who were killed when the warplanes bombed areas of Jassem in the countryside of Daraa, where one of the raids targeted the town’s hospital area,
as the Syrian Center for Policy Research puts the death toll from the six-year Assad war against Syrians at more than 470,000 people -
8 August 2016: Hospital supported by Doctors Without Borders in rebel-held northern province of Idlib that specialized in pediatrics hit by series of airstrikes in broad daylight, leaving four staff and five children dead and injuring six other hospital staff members -
11 August 2016: Facing an attack on a medical facility every 17 hours, 15 of the last 35 doctors in rebel-held eastern Aleppo have written a letter to USA's Obama with an urgent plea for intervention to stop the bombardment of hospitals in the besieged city by the Russian-backed Syrian air force, saying 'we do not need tears or sympathy or even prayers, we desperately need a zone free from bombing over eastern Aleppo to stop the attacks', as some doctors refused to sign the letter because they had no wish to make any more appeals to the west -
13 August 2016: Russian jets destroy pediatric and maternity hospital in Kafar Hamra in Aleppo province -
15 August: At least 11 people have been killed and 19 injured in an airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition, that includes USA, UK and Sunni Arab allies, on a Yemeni hospital supported by Médecins Sans Frontières as the conflict escalates following the collapse of peace talks, as MSF's desk manager for the Emergency Unit in Yemen Teresa Sancristóval says that 'this is the fourth attack against an MSF facility in less than 12 months' -
17 August 2016: Russian fighter jets destroy hospital in Daret Izza, rural Aleppo
March 2018: 26 March 2018: The UN has come under fire for sharing the coordinates of hospitals in the Damascus suburb of eastern Ghouta with Russia, only for one of them to be bombed days later, according to 'The Telegraph' -
26 March 2018: Syrian Coalition's Mohammed Yahya Maktabi said that the mass forced displacement taking place in the Damascus suburb of eastern Ghouta is a 'war crime' as he condemned Russian’s major role in these crimes, adding that regime forces, the Iranian militias, and Russian air force are killing civilians, targeting popular markets, residential areas and public facilities and bombing hospitals, medical centers, and rescue workers -
27 March 2018: As more than half million people killed in seven years of brutal ground and aerial bombing by the Assad regime and its allies, and as Syrian children have taken the biggest share in the horrible death toll, the unstoppable roar of Russia's warplanes has caused a heart attack for Lojain Said, taking the life of the schoolgirl who lived in the northwestern town of Jisr al-Shughour, the Civil Defense rescue group says
North Atlantic Treaty Organization: Since 1949 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) -
Member states of NATO -
Enlargement of NATO
March 2014 NATO meets on Russia and Ukraine: 2 March 2014: NATO meets on Ukraine, says Russia risks destabilizing Europe -
15 March: NATO's Anders Fogh Rasmussen says a planned referendum in Ukraine's Crimea region would violate international law -
16 March: Hackers calling itself 'cyber berkut' in Russian rather than Ukrainian brought down several public NATO websites with cyber-attacks on Saturday -
29 March: Norway's Stoltenberg to become next NATO chief -
1 April: Nato plans stronger ties to states south of Russia by increasing military co-operation with Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Moldova -
1 April: NATO to bolster its military presence in eastern Europe as it sees no sign that Putin regime is withdrawing tens of thousands of troops from the Ukrainian border -
2 April: NATO suspends cooperation with Russia over its annexation of Crimea and will draft measures to strengthen its defences and reassure Eastern European countries -
8 April: NATO's chief warned Russian regime that it would be committing a historic mistake if it intervened further in Ukraine, urging it to step back after pro-Kremlin militants seized government buildings in several cities in the east -
10 April: As Russian military amassing near Ukraine border are 'ready to go,' NATO's Europe commander says USA troops may be sent to alliance member states in Eastern Europe now feeling at risk -
11 April: NATO satellite photos show Russian military build-up near Ukraine -
15 May 2014: Russia has not taken one single step to fulfill its Geneva commitments of April 17, NATO's Rasmussen says -
24 July: NATO continues to see evidence of weapons being moved into Ukraine from Russia since the downing of Malaysian MH17 airliner -
26 July: USA passed intelligence data to NATO indicating that Russian regime launches missiles at targets in Ukraine -
1/2 October 2014: Taking up office as NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg says that NATO wishes to achieve a constructive relationship with Russia but that the prerequisites for such a relationship are currently not present,
adding that the crisis in Ukraine, caused by Russia’s military intervention, is a major challenge to Euro-Atlantic security and that Russia remains in breach of international law -
3 December 2014: NATO steps up actions to deal with Ukraine crisis, announcing the establishment of an interim spearhead force
6 March 2022 Finland/Russia relations thought to be pretty good, 'The Ukraine invasion has changed everything': 6 March 2022: Russia's invasion of Ukraine has sent shivers of fear through many of its neighbours, from the Baltic states to Moldova. Finland ought theoretically to be safe, since it has historically been neutral and gave Stalin's Soviet army a hard time when he invaded the country in 1939. Like other Scandinavian countries, besides Sweden, there has never been much support here to join the Nato military alliance. But when the spokeswoman for the Russian foreign ministry recently warned Finland and Sweden explicitly that any move towards Nato could have military consequences, people in both countries were deeply shocked. Since then, Russian warplanes have blatantly intruded into Swedish airspace. If being neutral is not sufficient to guard against Russia, people here are saying that maybe joining Nato will give the two countries the protection they need. This represents a major change of mood. In Finland, particularly, relations with Russia were thought to be pretty good. The Ukraine invasion has changed everything.
UN International Court of Justice: UN International Court of Justice -
UN International Court of Justice (Website)
2016 lawsuit against India and Pakistan etc. accused of failing to halt the nuclear arms race: 30 January 2016: After the Marshall Islands in 2014 accused China, Britain, France, India, Israel, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia and the USA of 'not fulfilling their obligations with respect to the cessation of the nuclear arms race at an early date and to nuclear disarmament', the Marshall Islands will seek to persuade the UN’s International Court of Justice to take up a lawsuit against India, Pakistan and Britain, which it accuses of failing to halt the nuclear arms race -
10 March 2016: Marshall Islands begins legal action against the world’s nuclear powers aimed at global nuclear disarmament, argueing at International Court of Justice that health and lives of its people destroyed by dozens of nuclear tests along its territory from 1946-1958
1945-1960 Holocaust survivors' search and capture of Adolf Eichmann in Argentina: 1945-1960 Holocaust survivors' search and capture of Adolf Eichmann in Argentina, one of the major organizers of the Holocaust, after survivors - among them Jewish Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal - dedicated themselves to retrace Nazis and especially Eichmann, who has been tasked following the January 1942 Wannsee Conference by SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich with facilitating and managing the logistics involved in the mass deportation of Jews to ghettos and extermination camps in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe during World War II, and other Nazis -
After Germany's defeat in 1945, Eichmann, who escaped from a detention camp, lived in a small village in Lower Saxony until 1950, when he moved to Argentina with help from an organisation directed by Catholic bishop Alois Hudal, as later information collected by Israel's intelligence agency Mossad confirmed his presence in Bueonos Aires in 1960 and a team of Mossad and Shin Bet agents captured widely protected Eichmann and brought him to Israel
UN War Crimes Commission 1943-1949: UN War Crimes Commission 1943-1949, initially called the UN Commission for the Investigation of War Crimes, was a commission of the UN that investigated allegations of war crimes committed by Nazi Germany and the other 'Axis powers' in World War II, had no power to prosecute criminals by itself
1942 - April 2017 inaccessible UN war crimes commission's archive, that was closed in the late 1940s, opened: 18 April 2017: The once-inaccessible archive of the UN war crimes commission, that was closed in the late 1940s and its use of the records was effectively suppressed, as West Germany was transformed into a pivotal ally at the start of the cold war and as many convicted Nazis were granted early release after the anti-communist USA senator Joseph McCarthy lobbied to end war crimes trials, is being opened by the Wiener Library in London with a catalogue that can be searched online -
18 April 2017: Allies of World War II Soviet Union, United Kingdom and USA, that together opposed the Axis powers' aggression and war crimes, knew of Holocaust in 1942, 2 years before previously assumed, UN documents prove, posing questions on efforts to halt slaughter and shedding damning light on refusal to take in refugees
Nuremberg trials 1945-1949 of leaders of Nazi Germany who planned, carried out, or participated in The Holocaust and other war crimes: Nuremberg trials 1945/1946 series of military tribunals, held by the Allied forces after World War II, which were most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of Nazi Germany who planned, carried out, or otherwise participated in The Holocaust and other war crimes -
The subsequent Nuremberg trials 1946-1949, series of twelve USA military tribunals for war crimes against members of the leadership of Nazi Germany
16 October 1946 Nuremberg executions of political and military leaders of Nazi Germany: 16 October 1946 Nuremberg executions, shortly after the conclusion of the Nuremberg Trials, as ten prominent members of the political and military leadership of Nazi Germany were executed by hanging, including Hans Frank, Wilhelm Frick, Alfred Jodl, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Wilhelm Keitel, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Alfred Rosenberg, Fritz Sauckel, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, and Julius Streicher, as Hermann Göring was also scheduled to be hanged on that day, but committed suicide the night before, and as Martin Bormann to death in absentia reportedly had committed suicide while attempting to escape Berlin on 2 May 1945
Since 1945 subsidiary and related trials: Subsidiary and related trials, as USA authorities conducted subsequent Nuremberg Trials in their occupied zone, and other trials conducted after the first Nuremberg trial, including 1947 Auschwitz trial, when Polish authorities (the Supreme National Tribunal) tried forty former staff of the Auschwitz concentration camps,
1963-1965 Belzec trial, a war crimes trial of eight former SS members of Belzec extermination camp,
1945-1965 Chelmno trials, a series of consecutive war-crime trials of the Chelmno extermination camp personnel, held in Poland and in Germany following World War II,
1944-1981 Majdanek trials, a series of consecutive war-crime trials held in Poland and in Germany, as the first judicial trial of Majdanek extermination camp officials took place from November 1944 to December 1944 in Poland's Lublin,
1965/1966 Sobibor trial, a judicial trial directly concerning the Sobibor extermination camp personnel and one of a series of similar war crime trials held during the early 1960s, such as the Jerusalem Adolf Eichmann trial of 1961 and the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials of 1963–65, as a result of which the general public came to realize the extent of the crimes that some twenty years earlier had been perpetrated in occupied Poland by Nazi bureaucrats and their executioners,
1964-1970 Treblinka trials concerning the Treblinka extermination camp personnel in West Germany, in a series of similar war crime trials held during the early 1960s, and five more trials
International Military Tribunal for the Far East 1946-1948: International Military Tribunal for the Far East, convened on 29 April 1946 to try the leaders of the Empire of Japan for war crimes, including joint conspiracy to start and wage war, conventional war crimes and crimes against humanity, as 11 countries (Australia, Canada, China, France, British India, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the Philippines, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the USA) provided judges and prosecutors for the court, and the defense comprised Japanese and American lawyers
1946-1949 international 'Far East' trials took place in around fifty locations in Asia and the Pacific: 1946-1949 more than 5,700 lower-ranking personnel were charged with conventional war crimes in separate trials convened by Australia, China, France, the Netherlands Indies, the Philippines, the United Kingdom, and the USA, as the charges covered a wide range of crimes including prisoner abuse, rape, sexual slavery, torture, ill-treatment of labourers, execution without trial, and inhumane medical experiments, and as the trials took place in around fifty locations in Asia and the Pacific
International Criminal Court ICC: International Criminal Court ICC, the primary goal of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, entered into force on 1 July 2002, is 'to put an end to impunity for the perpetrators' 'of the most serious crimes of concern to the international community as a whole' - International Criminal Court (Website) - States parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court - Non-signatory states to the statute of the ICC
Europe:
September 2016: 28 September 2016: Dutch-led joint investigation team including representatives from Australia, Malaysia, Ukraine, and Belgium states that there is 'irrefutable evidence' that a Russian Buk 9M38 missile downed the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 in 2014, killing all 298 people on board, also concluding that the Buk missile system was brought across the border from Russia and later transported back escorted by several other vehicles and by 'armed men in uniform', according to witnesses, photographs, video, damning intercepted telephone calls, radar data, forensic examinations, tests and reconstructions
3 July 2015: Dutch seek UN tribunal to prosecute downing of Malaysian plane MH17 by Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine on 17 July 2014 -
8 October 2015: The 'Bellingcat' open source investigation into the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 summarizes that on 17 July 2014 a Buk missile launcher, originating from the 53rd Brigade near Kursk in Russia, travelled from Donetsk to Snizhne, was then unloaded and drove under its own power to a field south of Snizhne, where at approximately 4:20 pm it launched a surface-to-air missile that hit Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 as it flew over Ukraine, and was driven back on the morning of July 18 from Luhansk in Ukraine across the border to Russia, adding that 'alternative scenarios presented by the Russian Ministry of Defense and Almaz-Antey are at best deeply flawed, and at worst show a deliberate attempt to mislead using fabricated evidence' -
13 October: International investigators have concluded that Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down by a Russian-made BUK missile fired from rebel-held eastern Ukraine on 17 July 2014, a Dutch paper says ahead of the official report -
13 October: Dutch MH17 report suggests efforts were made by Russian-backed separatists to cover up causes of disaster, including a bungled autopsy in which metal fragments from a Russian-made Buk missile were deliberately removed, as the chairman of the safety board Tjibbe Joustra says to Dutch journalists in the corridor of parliament that the Buk missile was fired from an area controlled by Russian-backed separatists -
16 July 2016: Misdated and edited satellite images of the MH17 crash, published by Russian Defense Ministry in July 2014, were 'so heavily manipulated that they lack any credibility as evidence', independent investigation group Bellingcat states -
17 July 2016: Only Russia hinders MH17 crash investigation, abusing the veto in the UN Security Council, Ukraine's Poroshenko says marking the second anniversary of the tragedy
2 March 2022 UK and 37 countries refer atrocities committed in Ukraine to ICC: 2 March 2022: The UK and 37 other countries have formally referred reports of atrocities committed in Ukraine to the International Criminal Court ICC, as under ICC rules, such a referral from member states means that the prosecutor does not have to get the approval of ICC judges before opening an investigation, speeding up the process. With 37 countries joining the UK, it is the largest referral in the history of the ICC. 'Putin’s military machine is targeting civilians indiscriminately and tearing through towns across Ukraine', said Britain’s FM Liz Truss in statement, adding 'an investigation by the International Criminal Court into Russia’s barbaric acts is urgently needed and it is right that those responsible are held to account. The UK will work closely with allies to ensure justice is done' -
2 March 2022: Video shows Russian strikes hitting residential buildings in Ukraine, adding to mounting evidence of war crimes to be investigated by The Hague, as footage of an attack on a car park in Kharkiv, described by a Bellingcat researcher as a cluster bomb strike, appears to show a residential park nearby, and similar bombs exploded along a road
6 February 2024 ICC ‘turf war’ blocking Ukrainian bid to have top Russians tried, advocate says: 6 February 2024: The ICC is locked in a deplorable turf war that is blocking Ukraine’s efforts to set up a special international tribunal with the authority to try Russia’s leadership for the crime of aggression, Philippe Sands KC claims. Sands, a leading advocate of an international tribunal, blamed the deadlock on Karim Khan, the ICC prosecutor, and some unnamed judges on the court, an international body based in The Hague that prosecutes people for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and the crime of aggression. He said they were opposing a special international tribunal not on the basis of principle, but because of a self-interested turf war. Sands also said some G7 countries – the US, UK and France – were nervous about an international tribunal as it might set a precedent that led to other world leaders being charged by other future tribunals. So far, 40 countries have joined the Ukraine core group that supported action on the crime of aggression, but there is no diplomatic consensus on the model of court.
Middle East:
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Extraordinary African Chambers in Senegal: Statute of the Extraordinary African Chambers within the courts of Senegal created to prosecute international crimes committed in Chad between 1982 and 1990
International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea: International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea ITLOS, an intergovernmental organization created by the mandate of the Third UN Conference on the Law of the Sea and established by the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, signed at Montego Bay in Jamaica on 10 December 1982, entering into force on 16 November 1994, and establishing an international framework for law over 'all ocean space, its uses and resources'
Since 1994 International Seabed Authority to organize, regulate and control all mineral-related activities in the international seabed area beyond the limits of national jurisdiction, an area underlying most of the world’s oceans, an organization established by the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea
Impunity Watch: Impunity Watch is an international non-profit foundation that originated in 2005 as a special programme of the Dutch development organisation Solidaridad, seeking to promote accountability for serious crimes and human rights abuses in countries emerging from armed conflict or periods of repression - Impunity Watch - website
Permanent Court of Arbitration: Permanent Court of Arbitration international organization based in the Peace Palace in The Hague, a permanent bureaucracy that assists temporary tribunals to resolve disputes among states and similar entities, intergovernmental organizations, or even private parties arising out of international agreements, and the cases span a range of legal issues involving territorial and maritime boundaries, sovereignty, human rights, international investment, and international and regional trade - Permanent Court of Arbitration (Website)
European Court of Human Rights: European Court of Human Rights - European Court of Human Rights ECHR (Website) - Council of Europe
List of Human Rights organisations - Human rights in Europe - Human rights in European countries
European Court of Justice: European Court of Justice - 12. Juli 2012: Der Europäische Gerichtshof hat in einem wegweisenden Urteil die Rechte von Bauern und kleinen Agrargemeinschaften gegenüber internationalen Saatgutkonzernen gestärkt - 8 April 2014: EU Court of Justice rejects requirement to keep data of telecom users and declares the Data Retention Directive invalid - 14 May 2014: The European Court of Justice's ruling, saying that Google must respect 'right to be forgotten', may burden internet operators with extra costs, and is likely to benefit ordinary people rather than public figures - 17 December 2014: After a decision of European Court of Justice, Israel expects the EU to put Hamas back on the terror blacklist immediately
United Nations Convention against Corruption - International Corruption Perceptions Index
2016 'Panama Papers': April 2016 'Panama Papers', date of documents 1970s – 2016 -
3 April 2016: Findings of a yearlong investigation by the ICIJ of the 'Panama Papers' (also concerning the British Virgin Islands and other offshore havens), a giant leak of offshore financial records, expose global array of crime, corruption, offshore holdings of politicians and public officials from around the world including Putin, Assad associates, Argentina's president Macri, the family of China’s Xi Jinping, the king of Saudi Arabia, Qatar's Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, Ukraine's Poroshenko, the familiy of Pakistan's Nawaz Sharif, people in more than 200 countries and territories (Kojo Annan, Jackie Chan, Eugenio Figueredo, Lionel Messi, Nico Rossberg, Jérôme Valcke etc.), people and companies blacklisted because of evidence that they’d been involved in wrongdoing and war crimes, such as doing business with Mexican drug lords, terrorist organizations like Hezbollah or rogue nations like North Korea and Iran, the support of Assad's barrel bombs, and involving major banks including British banks, German banks, banks of Luxembourg, Switzerland's UBS, Credit Suisse and HSBC Private Bank -
List of people named in the Panama Papers -
4 April 2016: Global reactions to huge leak of offshore tax files -
4 April 2016: The Procuraduría de la Nación announces that it will open an investigation concerning the international journalistic investigation 'Panama papers', where Mossack Fonseca is involved,
also indicating that companies using offshore were accused ofproviding fuel for the Syrian Assad regime's murderous air force
UNODC's Action against Corruption and Economic Crime: UNODC's Action against Corruption and Economic Crime
United Nations Office on Drug and Crime UNODC: United Nations Office on Drug and Crime UNODC - United Nations Office on Drug and Crime UNODC (Website)
Since 2002 Interpol Terrorism Watch List for access by Interpol offices and authorized police agencies in its 184 member countries, including the establishment of a 24-hour, 7 days a week command center and a linkage system to identify terrorist financing lists and to support its member countries' police forces
Interpol notice, an international alert circulated by Interpol to communicate information about crimes, criminals, and threats by police in a member state to their counterparts around the world, disseminated via notices concerns individuals wanted for serious crimes, missing persons, unidentified bodies, possible threats, prison escapes, and criminals' modus operandi - European Arrest Warrant, an arrest warrant valid throughout all member states of the European Union EU, requiring another member state to arrest and transfer a criminal suspect or sentenced person to the issuing state so that the person can be put on trial or complete a detention period
WHO World Health Organization: UN World Health Organization - World Health Organization WHO (website)
September 2014 UN Ebola Emergency Response, mostly in Africa, after first UNSC resolution to deal with a public health crisis: UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response UNMEER, following first resolution in the history of the Security Council to deal with a public health crisis and sponsored by 131 countries
Global health: Global health
Health disasters, diseases and disorders: Health disasters by continent - Health disasters by country - Diseases and disorders by country
Cardiovascular disease, a class of diseases that involve the heart or blood vessels, are the leading cause of death globally
20 March 2020 three months too late regime issues a 'solemn apology' to Li Wenliang's family: 20 March 2020: Amid public anger over the failure to properly honor the sacrifices of front-line health workers while praising the party and its head, Xi Jinping, who has tightened controls on society since taking power in 2012, Beijing regime has exonerated doctor Li Wenliang who was officially reprimanded for warning about the covid-19 outbreak and later died of the disease, a startling admission of error by the regime, also saying a 'solemn apology' had been issued to Li's family and that two police officers, identified only by their surnames (!), had been issued 'disciplinary punishments' for the original handling of the matter, after in Wuhan local leaders told doctors in December not to publicize the spreading virus in order to avoid casting a shadow over the annual meeting of a local legislative body, after Li Wenliang's punishment for 'rumor mongering' was aired on CCTV, signalling central government endorsement for the reprimand, and after 'Supreme People's court of China' dismissed the coronavirus spread as 'rumor'
Mental and behavioural disorders - Mental disorder - List of mental disorders - Emotional and behavioral disorders - WHO's ICD-10 Chapter V 'Mental and behavioural disorders' - Neurological disorders - History of mental disorders
Health and mental health of refugee children
Homelessness and mental health
Disability - Disability by type - Disability by country
Medicine, the science and practice of the diagnosis, treatment, and healtcare at least since ancient times prevention of disease - History of medicine
5 September 2021 twins conjoined at head separated after rare surgery in Israel: 5 September 2021: One-year-old conjoined twin girls joined at the head were separated at Soroka Medical Center in Be’er Sheva in a complex operation last week that involved 50 staff members, and months of preparation, 'for the first time in Israel, in this case with very young babies', Dr. Mickey Gideon, director of pediatric neurosurgery at Soroka, said, adding 'the coming days are critical in the process of the twins’ recovery',
as Eldad Silberstein, the head of Soroka's plastic surgery department, told Israel's Channel 12 news 'they are breathing and eating on their own', and as humans globally watch the success for life in Israel
Healthcare, preventive healthcare, and by country: Healthcare, the maintenance or improvement of health via the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in human beings - Healthcare by country - Preventive healthcare
Blood transfusion, the process of transferring blood products into a person's circulation intravenously.[1] Transfusions are used for various medical conditions to replace lost components of the blood. Early transfusions used whole blood, but modern medical practice commonly uses only components of the blood, such as red blood cells, white blood cells, plasma, clotting factors and platelets - Blood donation, occurs when a person voluntarily - the common case - has blood drawn and used for transfusions and/or made into biopharmaceutical medications by a process called fractionation (separation of whole blood components). Donation may be of whole blood, or of specific components directly (apheresis). Blood banks often participate in the collection process as well as the procedures that follow it, as donor safety and recipient safety must be observed
Cell biology: Cell biology, a branch of biology studying the structure and function of the cell, also known as the basic unit of life - Zellbiologie und Zellforschung - List of medicine awards
Epidemiology - the study and analysis of the patterns, causes, and effects of health and disease conditions in defined populations
Diseases of poverty: Diseases of poverty
Refugee health, also known as migrant health or immigrant health, is the field of study on the health effects experienced by people who have moved into another country or even to another part of the world, either by choice or as a result of unsafe circumstances such as war or persecution, displaced populations' health is mainly affected by infectious disease, mental health, and chronic diseases that are uncommon in the country in which they eventually settle
Diseases of luxury:
Sport - Sports by continent - Sports by type - 'Politics and Sports' describes the use of sport as a means to influence diplomatic, social, and political relations. Internation Sport including international sport events may transcend cultural differences and bring people together.
International sport: International sport
Professional sports and TV broadcast contracts: Professional sports - professional athleticism depending on the development of media - Sports broadcasting contracts by country - List of sports television broadcast contracts
Stadium disasters: Stadium disasters
Boxing and medical concerns - knocking a person unconscious or even causing concussion may cause permanent brain damage and there is no clear division between the force required to knock a person out and the force likely to kill a person, since 1983 the Australian, British, Canadian and USA's Medical Associations have called for bans on boxing, that 'should not be sanctioned by any civilized society' - Boxing by country - Famous deaths due to injuries sustained in boxing - 2011: Death under the Spotlight - The Manuel Velazquez Boxing Fatality Collection
2014 Ziel eines Boxkampfes das Schädel-Hirn-Trauma: 28. November 2014: Ziel eines Boxkampfes ist es aus medizinischer Sicht, beim Gegner ein stumpfes Schädel-Hirn-Trauma herbeizuführen, möglichst mit der Folge einer kurzen Bewusstlosigkeit, im Unterschied zu anderen Sportarten ist die Besonderheit beim Boxen, dass es die erklärte und auch von den Zuschauern gewünschte Absicht und d.h. der Vorsatz ist, eine oder mehrere üblicherweise strafrechtlich sanktionierte Körperverletzung(en) herbeizuführen, bei ca. 20% der Profiboxer kommt es zu schweren Folgeerkrankungen des Gehirns wie Parkinson, Sprachstörungen, Gleichgewichtsstörungen, Verlangsamung des Denkens, Gedächtnisstörungen bis hin zu einer Demenz (deutlich erhöhtes Risiko), Depression, Reizbarkeit, Kriminalität, Sucht
Doping in sport - Lists of doping cases - List of doping cases in cycling - Doping at the Tour de France - List of doping cases in athletics - World Anti-Doping Agency
Assisted reproductive technology - Surrogacy
Boycotts: List of boycotts of sporting events, of products, businesses and countries - International sports boycotts - List of Olympic Games boycotts
1936 Olympics boycott debate and Nazi Germany's propaganda win: 1936 Summer Olympics in Nazi Germany, German antisemitism, Spanish Civil War and boycott debate - 1936 People's Olympiad, a planned international multi-sport event that was intended to take place in Barcelona and conceived as a protest event against the 1936 Summer Olympics being held in Berlin, which was then under control of Nazi Germany
1972 Munich's Olympic massacre and aftermath: In the wake of the hostage-taking and massacre, public criticism of the Olympic Committee's decision to continue the 1972 Munich Olympic games, but about 80,000 people who filled Munich's Olympic Stadium for a West German football match carried noisemakers, waved flags, and when several spectators unfurled a banner reading '17 dead, already forgotten?' security officers removed the sign and expelled those responsible from the grounds, the remaining members of the Israeli team withdrew from the Games and left Munich after a memorial service with the notorious Brundage - Accusation of German foreknowledge of the attack, revealed since 2012 - 1 December 2015: In 1992 the lawyer Mr. Zeltzer and Ms. Spitzer, the widow of the fencing coach Andre Spitzer, pressured the German government into releasing the file, which included the photographs 1972 Munich Olympic massacre's victims - 2 December 2015: Horrific new details emerge about the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre, as Israeli athletes were beaten until their bones snapped and one man was castrated by Palestinian terrorists - 19 August 2018: Munich Olympics attack survivor Shaul Ladany says Corbyn an anti-Semite, should exit politics, asserting that by attending wreath-laying ceremony for terrorists, UK Labour party leader was showing 'admiration' for deadly assault on Israeli athletes
USA Biathletes' boycott of March 2018 Russian event: 24 February 2018: Citing fears for their personal safety and frustration at Russia’s continued failure to comply with antidoping regulations, the USA biathlon team has announced it will boycott the season-ending World Cup event in Russia next month
2018 proposed UK government boycott of the 'Balltreter' World Cup in Russia: Following the apparent poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Shrewsbury in the United Kingdom, the British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson announced that the British government were considering cancelling official visits to the 2018 World Cup if Russian involvement was proved
Boycott Chinese products, a slogan used by Internet campaigns that advocate a boycott of Chinese-made products, as recent reason relates to the covid-19 pandemic, originating from China and spreading around the world, creating a crisis that led to widespread criticism of the Chinese regime due to its behavior of hiding real figures, deliberately destroying evidence about the initial outbreak and not containing it on time, as countries including Vietnam, India, and the Philippines have called for the boycott of Chinese goods since Beijing regime's human rights violations, especially since the 1989 massacre on Beijing's Tiananmen Square
2022 FIFA Qatar 'Balltreter' World Cup proposed boycott: List of 2022 FIFA World Cup controversies - Corruption controversies
Consumer boycotts: Consumer boycotts - Ethical consumerism
International Atomic Energy Agency: International Atomic Energy Agency, serving as an intergovernmental forum for scientific and technical co-operation in the peaceful use of nuclear technology and nuclear power worldwide and established as an autonomous organisation on 29 July 1957 through its own international treaty, the IAEA Statute
May 2018 Iran regime's pact with world powers based on 'Iranian deception': 30 April/1 May 2018: Iran 'brazenly lied’ about nuclear program, continued work after deal, Israeli PM Netanyahu says,
adding that Israel's Mossad in 2016 obtained 100,000 documents from Tehran, proving 2015 pact with world powers based on 'Iranian deception',
as Iranian regime dismisses Netanyahu’s nuclear exposé as 'childish' and 'ridiculous' while threatening it can enrich 'ridiculous' uranium to higher levels than before nuclear deal -
2 May 2018: Tehran’s retention of 'designing, developing, acquiring, or using computer models to simulate nuclear explosive devices' details after the 2015 nuclar deal was signed, as shown by the files obtained by Israel — and particularly its reported transfer of the files between different locations as it sought to keep them hidden — could very well be seen as a breach of the terms of the nuclear deal
Secret uranium enrichment and hidden nuclear sites in Iran:
Nuclear Security Summits since 2010
The International Panel on Fissile Materials, established in 2006, is a group of independent nuclear experts from 16 countries, aiming to advance international initiatives to 'secure and to sharply reduce all stocks of highly enriched uranium and separated plutonium, the key materials in nuclear weapons, and to limit any further production'
UN World Meteorological Organization: UN World Meteorological Organization
UN-Water: UN-Water - UN water homepage - United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification - United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development - World Water Assessment Programme
Since 1996 World Water Council: Since 1996 World Water Council with 341 members in 2017, including organizations from the UN and intergovernmental organizations, the private sector (construction, engineering and manufacturing companies), governments and ministries, academic institutions, international organizations, local governments, and civil society groups
- 22 March 2018: While presidents, royalty and corporate dignitaries gave speeches at global water conference in Brasil’s federal capital on the need to protect water sources and as river defender Ageu Lobo Pereira was running for his life through the Amazon fores, river defenders and community activists who are often murdered or persecuted for trying to protect their resources, have set up an alternative forum to share their stories
Since 2000 United Nations Forum on Forests, a high-level intergovernmental policy forum including all UN member states and permanent observers, the UNFF Secretariat, the Collaborative Partnership on Forests, Regional Organizations and Processes
'Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael' Jewish National Fund's forestry and ecology research - Afforestation in Israel
Collaborative Partnership on Forests, an informal, voluntary arrangement among 14 international organizations and secretariats with substantial programmes on forests promoting sustainable management of all types of forests to strengthen long-term political commitment to this end
UN Convention to Combat Desertification
UN Food and Agriculture Organization: UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and world agrarian council
Agricultural cooperatives: Agricultural cooperatives, also known as a farmers' co-op, cooperatives in which farmers pool their resources in certain areas of activity -
Agricultural cooperatives by continent and country -
Agricultural supply cooperatives, as 'wikipedia' lists only several examples in different countries indluding Australia (Co-operative Bulk Handling Limited, Westralian Farmers Co-operative Limited), Canada (Farmers' Storehouse Company, United Farmers of Alberta, Farmers of North America), France (Agrial in Normandy, Terrena in pays de la Loire, Vivescia), Israel (Granot central cooperative), Japan (Japan Agricultural Cooperatives), Ukraine (Ukrainian cooperative movement), USA (Landisville Produce Co-op since 1914, Rockingham Cooperative since 1921, MFA Incorporated, Darigold, Organic Valley, National Council of Farmer Cooperatives, Southern States Cooperative, Farmers Cooperative Association, Ocean Spray cooperative, Land O'Lakes, Michigan Sugar, Sunkist, Wilco stores in Oregon, Grange Cooperative), Netherlands (Avebe, Agrico, Agrifirm), also listing somce marketing cooperatives -
in New Zealand, Canada, Ecuador, India, Israel, Netherlands, Ukraine, USA and Mexico -
Oromia Coffee Farmers’ Cooperative Union OCFCU, a smallholder farmer owned cooperative union based in the Oromia region of south, central and west Ethiopia -
Bugisu Cooperative Union, a Ugandan agricultural cooperative federation since 1954, started and owned by a group of coffee farmers
2005-2008 FAO, UNDP, UNEP, UNESCO, World Bank's and WHO's IAASTD agricultural science effort: 'International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development' IAASTD, a three-year international collaborative effort (2005–2007/2008) initiated by the World Bank, which evaluated the relevance, quality and effectiveness of knowledge, science, and technology involving 110 countries with co-sponsorship of the FAO, Global Environment Facility, UNDP, UNEP, UNESCO, the World Bank and WHO. It assessed agricultural knowledge, science, and technology with respect to development and sustainability goals of reducing hunger and poverty, improving nutrition, health, rural livelihoods, and facilitating social and environmental sustainability
Statements of the April 2008 IAASTD report 'Agriculture at a Crossroads', not supported by few countries: Statements of the 2008 report 'Agriculture at a Crossroads'. Der Bericht 'Landwirtschaft am Scheideweg' wurde 2008 vom Weltagrarrat IAASTD veröffentlicht, einem Gremium vergleichbar dem 'Weltklimarat' IPCC. Der Bericht fordert insbesondere eine Ausdehnung der ökologischen Landwirtschaft beziehungsweise agrarökologischer Methoden und der Förderung von Kleinbauern. Die Grüne Gentechnik, Agrochemie und geistiges Eigentum von Saatgut werden kritisch hinterfragt. Deutschland, die USA, Kanada und Australien unterzeichneten den Bericht nicht. Anfangs beteiligte Agrarunternehmen beendeten ihre Mitarbeit schon vor dem Schlussberich, der u.a. sagt 'um den Herausforderungen der Zukunft gewachsen zu sein, bedarf es eines radikalen und systematischen Wandels in der landwirtschaftlichen Forschung, Entwicklung und Praxis', 'die Grüne Gentechnik bringt bisher mehr Probleme als Lösungen und lenkt das Forschungsinteresse einseitig auf patentierbare Produkte', und weitere wissenschaftlich begründete kritische Feststellungen
4 June 2021 world’s soils ‘under great pressure’, says UN pollution report: 4 June 2021: The world’s soils, which provide 95% of humanity’s food, are 'under great pressure', according to a UN report on soil pollution, as soils are also the largest active store of carbon, after the oceans, and therefore crucial in fighting the climate crisis, but the report said industrial pollution, mining, farming and poor waste management are poisoning soils, with the 'polluter pays' principle absent in many countries
13 January 2023 5 UN agencies demand aid 'before it is too late' for 30 million children suffering from acute malnutrition in 15 countries: 13 January 2023: The UN launched an appeal for funds to come to the aid 'before it is too late' of 30 million children suffering from acute malnutrition in countries affected by the food crisis. 'More than 30 million children in the 15 most seriously affected countries suffer from wasting - or acute malnutrition - and eight million of these children suffer from severe wasting, the most deadly form of undernutrition', underline five agencies of the UN in a joint statement. The 15 countries affected are Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Haiti, Kenya, Madagascar, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Somalia, Sudan, Sudan South and Yemen.
UN World Food Programme - UN World Food Programme (Website) - WFP and the Zero Hunger Challenge (Website)
International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems IPES-Food
ETC Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change - Kyoto Protocol 1997
UN International Labour Organization: UN International Labour Organization - International Labour Organization (Website) - Youth employment
2014: 24 February 2014: Employment practices and working conditions in Thailand’s fishing sector, ILO report -
31 March 2014: UN agency ILO criticises Qatar over migrant workers' rights after 36 Nepalese and Indian workers died in February in Qatar -
20 May 2014: Trafficking, forced labour and modern slavery are big business generating profits estimated at $150 billion a year,
the ILO says, adding that forced labour has no place in our society -
10 June 2014: Thai 'ghost ships' that enslave, brutalise and even kill workers are linked to global shrimp supply chain producing prawns for supermarkets in US, UK, Europe, including Walmart, Carrefour, Costco, Tesco, Aldi, Morrisons, the Co-operative and Iceland
UN Economic and Social Council/Department: United Nations Economic and Social Council ECOSOC, one of the six principal organs of the United Nations, responsible for coordinating the economic and social fields of the organization, specifically in regards to the fifteen specialised agencies, the eight functional commissions, and the five regional commissions under its jurisdiction. ECOSOC serves as the central forum for discussing international economic and social issues, and formulating policy recommendations addressed to member states and the UN. It has 54 members, and in addition to a rotating membership of 54 UN member states, over 1,600 nongovernmental organizations have consultative status with the Council to participate in the work of the UN. ECOSOC holds one four-week session each year in July, and since 1998 has also held an annual meeting in April with finance ministers of heading key committees of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund IMF. Additionally, the High-Level Political Forum, which reviews the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, is convened under the auspices of the Council every July. - List of members of the UN Economic and Social Council - As of May 2014 192 of the 193 UN member states are divided into five regional groups including the African Group, with 54 member states, the Asia-Pacific Group, with 53 member states, the Eastern European Group, with 23 member states, the Latin American and Caribbean Group, with 33 member states and the Western European and Others Group WEOG, with 28 member states, plus 1 member state USA as an observer state
July 2019 UN's wrong world and women's rights: :
24 July 2019: Ignoring the world’s worst abusers of women’s rights and refusing to pass a single resolution on the situation of women in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan, or DR Congo, all of which ranked in the top ten worst countries in last year’s Global Gender Gap Report, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Pakistan were among members of the UN’s 54-nation economic and social council, a principal organ of the world body, who voted to single out and condemn Israel yesterday as the only country in the world that violates women’s rights, in a resolution, adopted 40 to 2 with 9 abstentions and 3 absent -
26 July 2019: France, the Netherlands, Denmark, Ireland, Luxembourg and Malta joined Saudi Arabia, Iran, China, Russia, and Venezuela and 29 other nations in supporting UN resolution accusing only Israel of women’s rights violations
UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific: UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific - List of members of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
Since 2018 Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership CPTPP: Since 2018 Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership CPTPP, a trade agreement among Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, and Vietnam, evolving from the Trans-Pacific Partnership TPP, which was never ratified due to the withdrawal of the USA. The eleven signatories have combined economies representing 13.4% of global gross domestic product, at approximately US$13.5 trillion, making the CPTPP one of the world's largest free-trade areas by GDP, along with the USA–Mexico–Canada Agreement, the European Single Market, and the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership
31 March 2023 'Joint Ministerial Statement on the UK’s accession process to the CPTPP': 31 March 2023 'Joint Ministerial Statement on the UK’s accession process to the CPTPP', as ministers and representatives of Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Viet Nam - already members of the CPTPP - and the United Kingdom UK met virtually on 31st March 2023
UN Development Group: United Nations Development Group - Members of the UNDG United Nations Development Group
UN Development Programme: United Nations Development Programme
August-September 2015 without change UN anti-poverty targets out of reach: 3 August 2015: UN states agree post-2015 sustainable development agenda now due to be formally adopted in September, aiming to eradicate hunger and extreme poverty, reduce inequality within and between states, achieve gender equality, improve water management and energy, and take urgent action to combat climate change, over the next 15 years -
18 August 2015: Rights group's findings reflect the global trend, that children with disabilities continue to be left out of school even as some countries assert that they have met the UN millennium development goal to grant every child access to primary education -
19 September 2015: Without change, UN anti-poverty targets are still out of reach, London-based Overseas Development Institute's study finds, as politicians and diplomats are expected to attend the UN’s sustainable development summit next weekend in USA's New York to renew promises
15 July 2022 Putin's missile attack against Vinnytsia city in central Ukraine, and UN: 15 July 2022: On Ukraine, UN's secretary general said that he is 'appalled' by the missile attack against the city of Vinnytsia in central Ukraine. He condemns any attacks against civilians or civilian infrastructure and reiterates his call for accountability - not mentioning the war criminal Putin - for such violations, as in Vinnytsia UN's humanitarian colleagues on the ground are supporting people. Médecins Sans Frontières, has donated trauma kits and other medical supplies to the city’s hospital. IOM and UNHCR are helping local authorities provide emergency shelter, critical supplies and psychological support, as UN's office in Vinnytsia says that the death toll is rising, with at least 23 people confirmed to have been killed so far, including three children. More than 10 people are still missing, and local authorities are reporting that more than 400 rescue workers continue to clear the debris and search for survivors, after especially the UN failed to stop Putin and his supporters since many years after it became clear that he is an unscrupulous criminal.
UN Resident Coordinator: UN Resident Coordinator is the highest UN official and the chief of UN diplomatic mission in a country, usually performed by the Resident Representative of the UN Development Programme - November 2016 overview of the UN Resident Coordinator system, including 129 UN Resident Coordinators posts leading 131 United Nations Country Teams UNCTs, each composed of 16 UN entities on average, and serving 165 countries and territories
UN Population Fund: Since 1969 United Nations Population Fund UNFPA
United Nations Environment Programme: Since 1972 United Nations Environment Programme, a UN agency that coordinates its environmental activities, assisting developing countries in implementing environmentally sound policies and practices, with its headquarter in Nairobi, Kenya - UNEP's main activities are related to climate change, including the Territorial Approach to Climate Change TACC, disasters and conflicts, ecosystem management, environmental governance, environment under review, harmful substances, resource efficiency
UN Global Compact initiative to encourage businesses worldwide to adopt sustainable and socially responsible policies, and to report on their implementation - UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights - OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises - Corporate accountability for human rights violations
Since 2012 Intergovernmental science-policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services IPBES, an independent intergovernmental body established to strengthen the science-policy interface for biodiversity and ecosystem services for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity, long-term human well-being and sustainable development by 94 governments and placed under the auspices of the four UN entities UNEP, UNESCO, FAO and UNDP and administered by UNEP
Since 1975 CITES, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, a multilateral treaty to protect endangered plants and animals, following a 1963 meeting of members of the International Union for Conservation of Nature IUCN - Lists of species protected by CITES
Unesco: Unesco - UN 'Educational, Scientific and Cultural' Organization - Unesco member states
2015 UN condemns the 'Islamic State’s' barbaric acts: 28 February 2015: Unesco urges ICC action against 'Islamic State' terror group following destruction of ancient artifacts in Iraq as UN Security Council condemns the 'Islamic State’s' barbaric acts -
6 March 2015: Destruction of ancient Iraq site near Mosul is an 'Islamic State' war crime, Unesco's Irina Bokova says -
16 April 2015: Unesco adopts by an overwhelming majority resolution to continue monitoring the situation in Crimea, despite unprecedented pressure of Russia on the member states -
4 May 2015: Unesco awards its annual press freedom prize to Syrian journalist and rights activist Mazen Darwish who has been jailed by the Assad regime for more than three years -
13 July 2015: Designating Jordan rivers’ baptismal area of Jesus on the eastern bank a 'World Heritage Site', ridiculous Unesco decides in fact over tourism dollars and its own reputation -
24 August 2015: UN’s 'cultural' agency's Irina Bokova described Islamic State’s destruction of Baal Shamin Roman temple in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra, also murdering archaeological expert Khaled al-Asaad, as a 'war crime' and an 'immense loss for the Syrian people and for humanity',
but who will at long last prosecute and punish war crimes, mass murder and mass atrocities against humans in Syria, after Assad began war in 2011 against the Syrian people demanding democracy? -
6 October 2015: After Russian airstrikes hit 2000 years old Serjila town, Syrian Coalition urges the Unesco and regional organizations to condemn Russia’s aggression in Syria, calling for taking urgent action against these crimes and protect Syria’s historical and archaeological sites
October 2016 Unesco, Israel’s history and Jerusalem: 13 October 2016: A Unesco - so-called UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization - resolution, adopted in a 24 (Algeria, Bangladesh, Brazil, Chad, China, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Iran, Lebanon, Malaysia, Morocco, Mauritius, Mexico, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Russia, Senegal, South Africa, Sudan, Vietnam) to 6 (only Estonia, Germany, Lithuania, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, USA) vote at the committee stage (abstaining Albania, Argentina, Cameroon, El Salvador, France, Ghana, Greece, Guinea, Haiti, India, Italy, Ivory Coast, Japan, Kenya, Nepal, Paraguay, Saint Vincent and Nevis, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, Ukraine, absent Serbia and Turkmenistan), seeks to erase Jewish ties to Jerusalem, uses only Muslim names for the Jerusalem holy sites and is harshly critical of Israel for what it termed 'provocative abuses that violate the sanctity and integrity' of the area -
13 October 2016: Unesco's motion ignoring Jewish link to Temple Mount draws scorn from across Israeli political spectrum, including charges of anti-Semitism -
Tisha B'Av, an annual fast day in Judaism which commemorates the anniversary of a number of disasters in Jewish history, primarily the destruction of both the First Temple by the Babylonians and the Second Temple in AD 70 by the Romans in Jerusalem -
14 octobre 2016: Israël a décidé de suspendre sa coopération avec l'Unesco au lendemain d'un vote dénoncé dans l'Etat hébreu comme déniant le lien historique millénaire entre les juifs et Jérusalem -
17 October: Unesco chief Irina Bokova reportedly received 'death threats' after expressing reservations about an Arab-backed resolution denying Israel’s history in Jerusalem -
18 October 2016: Unesco’s formal adoption of a resolution effectively disregarding Jewish ties to Jerusalem called a victory by Hamas
Dezember 2019 die UNESCO hat 21 Kulturformen neu in ihre Liste des Immateriellen Kulturerbes aufgenommen: 13. Dezember 2019: Die Weltkulturorganisation UNESCO hat 21 Kulturformen neu in die weltweite Liste des Immateriellen Kulturerbes aufgenommen, nachdem ein UNESCO-Ausschuss in Kolumbien tagte, und unter anderem musikalische Praktiken aus Norwegen, Zypern (Byzantinische Gesang auf Zypern aus der Zeit vor dem gregorianischen Choral, einstimmig und ohne instrumentale Begleitung, notiert in Vorformen der Notenschrift), Irland (Spiel auf der Harfe, musikalische Beispiele), Marokko (Gnawa als rhythmusbetonte Musik), dem Iran (Spiel der Dotar, ein zweisaitiges Zupfinstrument, das aus verschiedenen Holzarten gefertigt wird, wobei Herstellung und Spiel in der Regel auf informellem Wege nach dem Meister-Schüler-Prinzip weitergegeben werden), von den Kapverden und der Dominikanischen Republik, für schützenswertes Kulturerbe hält
UN Special Committee on Decolonization - History of the UN Special Committee on Decolonization
World Bank, an international financial institution and a component of the World Bank Group, that provides loans to countries of the world for capital projects, comprising the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the International Development Association - World Bank Group, a family of five international organizations that make leveraged loans to developing countries, is the largest and most famous development bank in the world and is an observer at the UN Development Group
Since 1998 World Bank Development Marketplace Award: Since 1998 World Bank Development Marketplace Award, a competitive grant program administered by the World Bank to promote innovative projects worldwide, based on innovation, potential for growth, visible benefits, realism and sustainability
Central Banks - List of Central Banks
International Monetary Fund IMF - Internationaler Währungsfonds IWF
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development OECD - Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques OCDE - OECD member countries
OECD Tax Database
List of countries by tax rates, tax rates by countries and territories - <List of countries by personal income tax rate, as Ivory Coast, Finland, Japan, Denmark, Austria, Sweden, Aruba, Belgium, Israel, Slovenia, are listed with 50 and more per cent, and as Bahamas, Bahrain, Bermuda, Brunei, Cayman Islands, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates are listed with 0 per cent
Corporate tax, a direct tax imposed by a jurisdiction on the income or capital of corporations or analogous legal entities. Many countries impose such taxes at the national level, and a similar tax may be imposed at state or local levels. The taxes may also be referred to as income tax or capital tax. - Tax competition, a form of regulatory competition, exists when governments use reductions in fiscal burdens to encourage the inflow of productive resources or to discourage the exodus of those resources
Since 1974 International Energy Agency IEA, an autonomous intergovernmental organization established in the framework of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development OECD in the wake of the 1973 oil crisis - OECD member states can become members of the IEA, as except for Chile, Iceland, Israel, and Slovenia, all OECD member states are members of the IEA
Since 2009 International Renewable Energy Agency IRENA, an intergovernmental organisation mandated to facilitate cooperation, advance knowledge, and promote the adoption and sustainable use of renewable energy, and the first international organisation to focus exclusively on renewable energy
Fusion power, a proposed form of power generation that would generate electricity by using heat from nuclear fusion reactions in fusion reactors (proposed) - Proposed fusion reactors - Nuclear fusion
Since October 2007 international nuclear fusion research and engineering project ITER: Since October 2007 ITER, an international nuclear fusion research and engineering megaproject, which will be the world's largest magnetic confinement plasma physics experiment, funded and run by 7 member entities including the EU, India, Japan, China, Russia, South Korea, USA, as the EU, as host party for the ITER complex, is contributing 45.46% of the cost and as 35 countries are participating in the project with an experimental tokamak nuclear fusion reactor built next to the Cadarache facility in Saint-Paul-lès-Durance in southern France
Since 20th century similar reactors to ITER project: Since 20th century similar reactors to ITER project, including Germany's Wendelstein 7-X, an experimental stellarator built by the Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics, Russia's T-15MD tokamak in parallel with its ITER participation, DEMO, a proposed nuclear fusion power station that is intended to build upon the ITER experimental nuclear fusion reactor, NIF National Ignition Facility, a large laser-based inertial confinement fusion research device in California, SST-2 Steady State Superconducting Tokamak, a plasma confinement experimental device in India, as well as CFETR China Fusion Engineering Test Reactor, also STEP Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production, a spherical tokamak concept proposed by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, funded by UK government and aiming to produce net electricity from fusion on a timescale of 2040
World Trade Organization since 1995 - Member states (and observers) of the WTO and list of accession dates
Foreign trade by country - Commodity markets - History of money
Environmental economics, concerned with environmental issues - Ecological economics addressing the interdependence and coevolution of human economies and natural ecosystems - Ecology, the scientific analysis and study of interactions among organisms and their environment, and an interdisciplinary field that includes biology, geography, and Earth science
Timeline of international trade: Timeline of international trade
Since 1995 World Trade Organization by subject: World Trade Organization by subject - World Trade Organization member economies - Ministerial Conferences - World Trade Organization agreements - World Trade Organization's website - Annual World Trade Report
Dispute settlement in the World Trade Organization - Subjects of WTO dispute settlement cases
Criticism of the World Trade Organization: Criticism of the World Trade Organization
List of customs territories, including sovereign states (including freely associated states), which typically have independent customs policies, enumerated on the list of sovereign states, including both freely associated states and partially recognized states
Regional organizations - International organization, including international nongovernmental organizations and intergovernmental organizations - List of regional organizations by population - Regional integration
Since 2001 African Union AU, a continental union consisting of 55 countries of the continent of Africa (with exception of various territories of European possessions), founded in Addis Ababa to replace the Organisation of African Unity OAU, established in 1963 in Addis Ababa by 32 signatory governments -
Economy of the African Union -
Assembly of the African Union, one of several decision-making bodies within the African Union, the other bodies are the Pan-African Parliament, the Executive Council, consisting of foreign ministers of the AU members states, and the African Union Commission -
Since 1998 African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights, a continental court established by African countries to ensure protection of human and peoples' rights in Africa, as of January 2019 nine state parties to the protocol (Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Mali, Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania, the Gambia and Tunisia) have made a declaration recognizing the competence of the Court and 30 states have ratified the protocol
Lists of trade blocs - List of economic unions - List of multilateral free-trade agreements
Supranational union, a type of multinational political union where negotiated power is delegated to an authority by governments of member states
Global economic conferences
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation APEC
October 2013 Apec Indonesia summit: APEC Indonesia October 2013
Summits of the so-called 'Group of Seven', consisting of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the USA, as the heads of government of the member states, as well as the representatives of the EU, meet at the annual G7 Summit -
11 May 2013: 'Group of Seven' agree to target tax evasion and avoidance -
24 March 2014: 'Group of Seven' countries snub Putin and refuse to attend planned G8 summit in Russia amid fears of further Russian military moves in Ukraine,
warning Russia of more sanctions if Ukraine crisis escalates -
26 April 2014: In a joint statement the G7 nations say they will act urgently to intensify 'targeted sanctions' on Russian regime -
5 June 2014: 'Group of Seven', gathered in Brussels, focused on Russia's involvement in the Ukraine crisis, urging Russian regime to respect international law -
31 July: G7 states have threatened Russian regime with tougher sanctions if it continues to oppose the de-escalation of the conflict in eastern Ukraine
15 July 2018: 15 July 2018: The G7 foreign ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, the USA, as well as the High Representative of the EU have called on Russian regime to cooperate with MH17 investigators, saying that 'the JIT's findings on Russia's role in the downing of MH17 are compelling, significant and deeply disturbing', and standing 'together against the impunity of those who engage in aggressive actions that threaten the rules-based international order', as soccer mob roars 'goal' in Russia
August 2019 G7 summit in Biarritz: 24-26 August 2019 45th G7 summit in Biarritz in France -
19 August 2019: French authorities have expelled German journalist for radio station Dreyeckland from the country and banned him from staying in France until after next week's G7 Summit in Biarritz -
22 August 2019: Congratulating president Zelensky on the occasion of the upcoming Independence Day and wishing the Ukrainian people success and prosperity, British PM Boris Johnson assures Ukraine of opposing Russia's return to G7 -
22 August 2019: EU against Russia's return to G7 world leaders' talks, official says -
24 August 2019: G7 leaders to hold emergency talks over Amazon wildfires crisis, as Ireland's Leo Varadkar, who was first to call the EU-Mercosur agreement into question, said Bolsonaro’s attempt to blame the fires on environmental groups was 'Orwellian' and nternational efforts to force Brazil to change its deforestation policies gathered momentum -
25 August 2019: After terrorism supporting French presidency overbearing said G7 leaders had even agreed that Macron should hold talks and pass on messages to Iran,
Macron forced to deny receiving OK to give message to Iran in name of G-7 leaders -
25 August 2019: Iranian murderous regime's Zarif had flown to Biarritz making surprise wisit to G7 at the provocative invitation of his French counterpart, Jean-Yves Le Drian,
as Israel is battling to fend off Iranian regime's terrorism across the Middle East aimed at destroying Israel,
including plans to attack the Jewish state with explosive drones -
25 August 2019: Haftar’s forces carrying all-out offensive to recapture Gharyan, seized by GNA forces about two months ago, delivering a blow to Haftar’s French backed forces who were using the city as the control room for their fighting operations in southern Tripoli
2 June 2021 G7 nations have pumped many billions of dollars into fossil fuels in 2020/21: 2 June 2021: G7 nations have pumped billions of dollars more into fossil fuels than they have into clean energy since the Covid-19 pandemic, despite their promises of a green recovery, as - while the UK prepares to host the G7 summit - new analysis reveals that the countries attending committed $189bn to support oil, coal and gas between January 2020 and March 2021, and as in comparison, the same countries – the UK, US, Canada, Italy, France, Germany and Japan – spent $147bn on clean forms of energy -
2 June 2021: Climate crisis is suffocating the world’s lakes, as falling oxygen levels harming already struggling wildlife and drinking water supplies, say scientists
10 June 2021 initiated by USA G7 summit will call for a transparent WHO investigation into origins of covid-19: 10 June 2021: Leaders at the G7 summit will call for a new, transparent investigation by the WHO into the origins of the coronavirus, according to a leaked draft communique for the meeting, as the call was initiated by Joe Biden’s administration and follows his decision to expand USA's investigation into the origins of the pandemic, and as statement also indicates G7 will also commit to delivering 1bn vaccine doses and plans to tackle forced labour -
10 June 2021: The 'Guardian' presents top items of G7 gathering at Cornwall, and some possible outcomes, including 'Russia – and threats to democracy', China's threats for the world, vaccines, tax, aid and girls’ education, climate and 'Brexit'
19 November 2021 G7 condemns Belarusian human rights violations in Belarus–EU border crisis: 19 novembre 2021: Les grandes puissances du G7 ont 'condamné l'orchestration par le régime bélarusse' de la crise migratoire depuis juillet, sommant Minsk d'y mettre un terme 'immédiatement' et d'autoriser l'accès à l'aide humanitaire, concernant réfugiés et migrants en provencance d'Irak, de Syrie, de l'Afghanistan, de l'Iran, de la Republique du Congo, de Cameroun, de la Russie et Biélorussie. En attendant, sur le terrain, les tentatives de traversée de la frontière continuaient -
Since July 2021 Belarus–EU border crisis (Wikipedia)
26-28 June 2022 48th G7 summit in Germany's Bavarian Alps: 26-28 June 2022 48th G7 summit in Schloss Elmau, Krün, Bavarian Alps -
2 July 2022: At a meeting of the G7 Group of Seven rich democracies this week, leaders discussed imposing price caps on Russian crude, a move critics say is 'ambitious'. Some of the topics discussed were the war in Ukraine, rising energy prices, food security, investment, and technology. Multibillion-dollar pledges were made, including plans to raise $600bn to fund global infrastructure projects in developing countries, 'Al Jazeera' reports.
24 August 2023 Brics to admit six new countries to bloc including Argentina, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the UAE: 24 August 2023: Brics to admit six new countries to bloc including Argentina, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the UAE. The summit underlined divisions with the west over the war in Ukraine, and the support Russia enjoys from its Brics partners at a time of global isolation. South Africa, China and India have not condemned Russia’s invasion while Brazil has refused to join western nations in sending arms to Ukraine or imposing sanctions on Moscow. USA officials have played down the likelihood of Brics emerging as a geopolitical rival, describing the bloc as a highly diverse collection of countries containing both friends and rivals. The Brics are a disparate mix of big and small economies, democratic and authoritarian states and war mongers like Russia, and the candidates seeking membership and those admitted to the club also reflect this variety.
November/December 2018 G20 Buenos Aires summit, Putin and bonesaw bin Salman: November/December 2018 G20 Buenos Aires summit21 November 2018: Novichok-Putin, Trump may meet Chop-the-head-off Saudi crown prince at G20 in Argentina -
29 November 2018: Argentine legal authorities took initial action to consider a request from Human Rights Watch to prosecute Saudi Arabia’s crown prince Mohammed bin Salman for crimes against humanity -
30 November 2018: G20 participants including Marcron and Trump welcome Saudi prince at G20 stage, showing he’s not isolated and mocking humans, as Mohammed bin Salman and Russia's Putin both grinned broadly and greeted each other with an enthusiastic, thumping handshake that resembled a high-five, and hearty laughter -
1 December 2018: Macron's chat with Saudi prince captured at G20 -
Für den 2018 G20-Gipfel in Buenos Aires hat die argentinische Regierung einen Betrag von 112 Millionen US-Dollar zu Lasten der argentinischen Steuerzahler veranschlagt, u.a. für das Catering, das Gala-Dinner im Teatro Colón, die Gastgeschenke an die Delegationen inklusive die Mörder aus Rußland und Saudi-Arabien, und nicht eingerechnet 'Zusatzausgaben' an Material für die Sicherheit wie 12 Kleinflugzeuge Beechcraft TC6 Texan II von den USA für 160 Millionen US-Dollar, vier Artillerieboote von Israel für 49 Millionen USD sowie fünf Kampfflugzeuge Super Etendard von Frankreich für 12,5 Millionen USD -
1 December 2018: G20 agreement bows to Trump on trade reforms and reflects no progress on climate change -
4 December 2018: Briefed USA senators say they are certain Saudi crown prince ordered Khashoggi's murder,
also saying the USA must 'send a clear and unequivocal message that such actions are not acceptable in the world's stage' -
13 December 2018: USA Senate votes to condemn Saudi Mohammed bin Salman, end support for Yemen war, unanimously approving a measure blaming the bone saws kingdom’s crown prince for the assassination of journalist and columnist for the 'Washington Post' Jamal Khashoggi
2022 G20 Bali summit with several meetings, beginning in July: 2022 G20 Bali summit, as the host country for the 2022 summit Indonesia commits to arrange seven meetings, including G20 Bali, Indonesia summit in November, G20 Indonesia Ministerial and Central Bank Governors (Finance Track) meeting, G20 Indonesia Sherpa (Sherpa Track) meeting, G20 Indonesia Deputies meeting, G20 Indonesia Working Group agenda, G20 Indonesia Engagement Group agenda -
7 July 2022: Ukraine tensions run high as Putin regime's FM Lavrov flies into Bali for G20 foreign ministers summit, when the meeting in Indonesia will be the first with the Russian envoy since the Kremlin regime invaded its neighbour, triggering global food and energy crises,
as global hunger toll soars by 150 million with ongoing covid-19 crisis, Russia's Ukraine war, and with tenth of world’s population now chronically undernourished, with spectre of widespread famine drawing ever closer, UN report warns
World Social Forum: World Social Forum -
Fórum Social Mundial (homepage) -
26 to 30 March 2013 World Social Forum in Tunis -
2016 World Social Forum in Montreal
World Economic Forum: So-called World Economic Forum WEF, founded 1971 and also called 'European Management Forum'
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