Bombing Civilians

Rafah Invasion: Everything That’s Happened so Far

May 10, 2024 UNAC Editor Genocide, Indigenous peoples, Israel, Israel-Palestine, LandGrabs, Occupation, Palestine

by Tareq S. Hajjaj, published on Mondoweiss, May 8, 2024 It’s a scene that has played over and over again in the southern Gaza city of Rafah since the beginning of the war: mothers with sad and pale faces carrying their children on their shoulders and in their hands, balancing many bags on their backs, surrounded by more children carrying[…]

UN Human Rights Council Action Silences Yemeni Human Rights Victims

October 14, 2021 UNAC Editor Human Rights, Saudi Arabia, United Nations, Yemen

by Kathy Kelly, published on The Progressive, October 13, 2021 Monday, October 11, marked the official closure of the U.N. Group of Eminent Experts on Yemen (also known as the Group of Experts or GEE). For nearly four years, this investigative group examined alleged human rights abuses suffered by Yemenis whose basic rights to food, shelter, safety, health care and[…]

Afghanistan: 19 Years of War

October 17, 2020 UNAC Editor Afghanistan, War and Peace, War on the Poor

by Maya Evans, published on Voices for Creative Nonviolence, October 14, 2020 The NATO & US backed war on Afghanistan was launched 7th October 2001, just a month after 9/11, in what most thought would be a lightning war and a stepping stone onto the real focus, the Middle East. 19 years later and the US is still trying to[…]