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World leaders at UN summit adopt 'bold' plan to enhance protections for refugees and migrants

Protect the human rights of all refugees and migrants, regardless of status. This includes the rights of women and girls and promoting their full, equal and meaningful participation in finding solutions;

Ensure that all refugee and migrant children are receiving education within a few months of arrival;

Prevent and respond to sexual and gender-based violence;

Support those countries rescuing, receiving and hosting large numbers of refugees and migrants:

Work towards ending the practice of detaining children for the purposes of determining their migration status;

Find new homes for all refugees identified by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) as needing resettlement; and expand the opportunities for refugees to relocate to other countries through, for example, labour mobility or education schemes; and

Strengthen the global governance of migration by bringing the International Organization for Migration (IOM) into the UN system.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon congratulated Member States saying: “Today's Summit represents a breakthrough in our collective efforts to address the challenges of human mobility.” He said the adoption of the New York Declaration will mean that “more children can attend school; more workers can securely seek jobs abroad, instead of being at the mercy of criminal smugglers, and more people will have real choices about whether to move once we end conflict, sustain peace and increase opportunities at home.”

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.as...8#.V-AsioWcGh0

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A reminder from another thread...
Trade agreements should mainstream human rights – UN expert urges

“It is high time to mainstream human rights into all trade agreements and World Trade Organization (WTO) rules and regulations, so that trade representatives and dispute-settlers know that trade is neither a 'stand alone' regime nor an end in itself,” he said.

Civil society including consumer unions, health professionals, environmental groups and other stakeholders must be part of the process of elaboration, negotiation, adoption and implementation of trade agreements, Mr. de Zayas said.

“A just, peaceful, equitable and democratic world order must not be undermined by the activities of investors, speculators and transnational enterprises avid for immediate profit at the expense of social and economic progress,” he stressed.

According to the news release, the report introduces the concept of “responsibility to act” or R2A, in the public interest. The R2A reaffirms the ontology of governance and goes well beyond “responsibility to protect” or R2P.

“Governments, Parliaments and Courts must deliver on R2A and not compromise their constitutionally defined roles,” the expert said.

http://wedg.millenniumweekend.org/fo...233#post271233

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The Assembly decided that the delegations of the Holy See and the State of Palestine would participate in the seventieth session as observer States, and that the European Union would participate in the work of the session as an observer.

https://www.un.org/press/en/2016/ga11819.doc.htm

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Obama Warns Against ‘Aggressive Nationalism’ And ‘Crude Populism’ In UN Speech

“We can choose to press forward with a better model of integration, or we can retreat into a world sharply divided and in conflict,” he said.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...60ce3?section=

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speech ..



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And for those who prefer to read...
Read Barack Obama’s Final Speech to the United Nations as President

This is what I believe: that all of us can be co-workers with God. And our leadership, and our governments, and this United Nations should reflect this irreducible truth.

http://time.com/4501910/president-ob...ch-transcript/

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.. co-workers with God. And our leadership, and our governments, ..

HEY!! Mr. President! Haven't you heard? There's that little issue of "separation of church and state!"

... well, at least when it's convenient for your highness' agenda.

I am a believer in the fact of church and state being separate, but not because of man's law, but just because it's a fact regardless of man's law. Government/state is "of the world" and the church .. the body of Christ .. is "not of the world."

Ya .. the pols and elitists can flap their lips all day if they want .. and they will .. and say nothing so long as they're opposed to the Creator, the One, True God .. the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of the living.

Issachar, won't .. but would like to talk to him/them about this "irreducible truth."

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Saudi Arabia at General Assembly calls for urgent UN reforms to confront world crises

We are at a pivotal stage,” Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef bin Abdul Aziz A1-Saud declared on the debate’s second day. “We either join together in a collective effort to address the difficult challenges and disasters we are confronted with in the world or fail and in doing so history will not be on our side,” he stated.
“The type and scale of the challenges we confront require us to work hard toward the reform of the United Nations system, increase the effectiveness of the Security Council, and revitalize the role of the General Assembly and all the relevant bodies of the United Nations,” he added, calling for a new impetus to enable the UN to cope with the aspirations of the 21st century.
Such reforms have proposed increasing the numbers of the 15-member Council, whose resolutions have binding legal force, and enhancing the powers of the Assembly, whose decisions currently lack this.
Turning to individual crises, the Prince called for an end of Israeli occupation of Palestinian and other Arab land, condemning Israel’s “terrorist practices and acts of aggression.”
“Achieving any progress in ending the Palestinian-Israeli conflict seems impossible in light of the continuation of the Israeli settlement policy, the tampering with the holy city of Jerusalem ruining the Arab, the Islamic and Christian identity of the city, and the heartless policy of repression practiced against the Palestinian people,” he said.
Calling for a transition in Syria by supporting the moderate opposition, he faulted the world community for failing to “to take concerted decisions to save the Syrian people from the crimes that take place there, murders, destruction and displacement all of which is made by President Bashar al-Assad.”
Saudi Arabia is keen to provide assistance to Syrian refugees in neighbouring countries through direct aid to campaigns to collect donations for their relief, he said, noting in another part of his speech that his country has received more than 2.5 million Syrian refugees and two million from Yemen and is facilitating free access to education, health care and employment for them.
As for Yemen, the Prince stressed that Saudi Arabia’s intervention there with its Gulf Cooperation Council allies “has received a great international acceptance” and has helped launch a national dialogue.
Turning to Iran, he condemned its support to “terrorist militias' groups” in Bahrain, Kuwait, Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and elsewhere, as well as it dissemination of sectarian speech.
“The Government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia calls upon the Islamic Republic of Iran to desist from all of the policies of discrimination, racism and sectarianism and to begin to build positive relations with its neighbours on the basis of the principles of good-neighbourliness and non-interference in the internal affairs of other States,” he said.
He also denounced recent United States congressional action to allow Americans to sue Saudis in connection with the terrorist attacks of 11 September, 2001, as “a serious threat to the sovereign rights,” reaffirmed his country’s priority in fighting extremist speech and ideologies that feed terrorism and pledged full Saudi cooperation with the UN to tackle the refugee crisis.

Kuwaiti Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber al-Mubarak al-Hamad al-Sabah also referred to regional crises from the Assembly podium, denouncing “the intentional targeting of residential areas, civil and medical facilities, the indiscriminate bombing and dropping of barrel bombs, as well as the use of internationally banned weapons” in Syria.
“Kuwait renews its support of the endeavours of the United Nations, and to the international efforts aiming to reach a political solution in Syria,” he said, also pledging his support for UN efforts in Yemen and Libya, and calling for international cooperation in combatting the “odious phenomenon” of terrorism and beating back ISIL.
The Sheikh called on the UN Security Council to compel Israel to implement resolutions that lead to the Palestinian people’s attaining their own independent state over their own territory, with East Jerusalem as capital, along the Israeli borders that existed before 1967.
“The persistence of the Israeli occupation authority, in its aggressive practices and policies, emanate, more regrettably so, from a firm conviction, that Israel is immune to any international accountability, exempt from any prosecution, and protected from any criticism or condemnation by the international organizations,” he said.

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.as...5#.V-LoLIWcGh0

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At the same time in the security council...

An impassioned Kerry faced off with Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at the U.N. Security Council in New York, in an unusually heated televised showdown, saying the bombing of an aid convoy in Syria raised "profound doubt whether Russia and the Assad regime can or will live up to" ceasefire obligations.
Listening to Lavrov made him feel like he was living in a "parallel universe", Kerry said.

http://wedg.millenniumweekend.org/fo...cy-U-N-meeting
The rhetoric this time is hyped up a notch louder then normal.

Countries calling for change, but that isn't unusual. The tone that is being displayed is, a tone of people actually expecting it this time.

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"This is what I believe: that all of us can be co-workers with God. And our leadership, and our governments, and this United Nations should reflect this irreducible truth."

To paraphrase Bill Clinton's infamous quote, "it depends on what your definition of God is"

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Waiting for video of Netanyahu to be posted..

'Lay down your arms', Israeli says; "The war against Israel at the UN is over."

http://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel...neral-assembly

More and more nations around the world see Israel as a partner, the prime minister said. "Everything will change and a lot sooner than you think," he said.

http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.743788

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"More and more nations around the world see Israel as a partner, the prime minister said. "Everything will change and a lot sooner than you think," he said."

Yes, Bibi, this is true, but unfortunately not in the way you are hoping for.

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The video.

Edit to add transcript


Full text of Netanyahu’s speech at 2016 UN General Assembly

http://www.timesofisrael.com/netanya...eral-assembly/

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I pray for Bibi. He is where he is suppose to be. I believe that about this President as well. I am a watcher on the wall. And thanks to the Word I have 20/20.

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post 13 - Thanks SAT.

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