Rene Wadlow

Representative to the United Nations, Geneva, Association of World Citizens

Articles de cet auteur (8)

The Next Earth Summit : Rio Plus 20

The United Nations, its Specialized Agencies and programmes, member governments and Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are preparing their policies and evaluations to be discussed at the next Earth Summit to be held in Rio de Janeiro in June 2012 : 20 years after the original 1992 Rio (…)

lundi 17 octobre 2011

Disintegrating European Diplomacy and the Necessary Rise of NGO Mediators

On Friday 23 September 2011, Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian Authority formally requested that the UN Security Council grant Palestine full membership as a state. Currently the Palestine Liberation Movement (PLO) has an observer status as an “entity” at the UN from the time that the (…)

lundi 3 octobre 2011

Are Cluster Bombs Still in Use in Thai-Cambodian Fighting ?

There are serious reports, but unconfirmed by independent observers, of the use of cluster weapons by Thai forces in the Good Friday, April 22, 2011, attack on Cambodian forces. This would be a direct violation of the ban on cluster weapons although neither Thailand nor Cambodia has ratified the (…)

jeudi 28 avril 2011

Libyen und die Responsibility to Protect

Was ist die Responsibility to Protect und wie beeinflusst sie das Handeln der Alliierten in Libyen ? Wie kam Gaddafi an die Macht und wie formte er Libyen ? Rene Wadlow mit einem Hintergrundbericht.

lundi 4 avril 2011

Libya : The Framework of the Responsibility to Protect

If humanitarian intervention is, indeed, an unacceptable assault on sovereignty, how should we respond to Rwanda, to Srebrenica — to gross and systematic violations of human rights that offend every precept of our common humanity ? Then U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, 2000 The (…)

mardi 29 mars 2011

Libye : dignité, démocratie, développement

Après la Tunisie et l’Egypte, la révolution du peuple est en route en Libye. Selon les mots d’Henry A. Wallace, Vice-président des Etats-Unis en 1942 « La révolution du peuple est en marche. Quand marche le peuple aimant la liberté – quand les fermiers ont une opportunité d’acheter leurs (…)

mercredi 9 mars 2011

Libya : Dignity, Democracy, Development

Along with Tunisia and Egypt, the People’s Revolution is on the march in Libya. In the words of Henry A. Wallace, then Vice-President of the USA in 1942 “The people’s revolution is on the march. When the freedom-loving people march — when the farmers have an opportunity to buy land at (…)

jeudi 3 mars 2011

Liberty-Work-Dignity : Tunisia : The People’s Revolution

The people’s revolution is on the march. When the freedom-loving people march — when the farmers have an opportunity to buy land at reasonable prices and to sell the produce of their land through their own organizations, when workers have the opportunity to form unions and bargain through them (…)

mercredi 2 février 2011