Very much looking forward to my country visit to Guatemala!
Today is the one year deadline given by the UN General Assembly for withdrawal of Israel from all illegal settlements after last year’s historic ICJ ruling which found settlements illegal. What should happen now? I discuss in an opinion piece.
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I welcome #France’s decision to recognize the State of Palestine. This is highly overdue and I urge all holdout states in the West to follow suit. That is the surest way to peace in the Middle East.
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Interview in Arabic on Al Jazeera about the press release issued by me and fellow UN experts on the urgent need to dismantle the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and restore real aid flows to the famine-stricken people of Gaza.
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France intends to recognise a Palestinian state in September at the United Nations General Assembly, President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday, adding that he hoped it would help bring peace to the region, but drawing an immediate rebuke from Israel.
Without confronting Israel’s outlaw behavior, states are faced with the prospect of the breakdown of law and order in the international system, and the obsolescence of the UN itself - Anadolu Ajansı
Detailed interview on the catastrophe in Gaza and West Bank and the urgent responsibilities of every State and of the international community, on Al Jazeera Mubasher.
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Interview on Al Jazeera Mubasher on the catastrophic situation in Gaza
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Balakrishnan Rajagopal
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UN Special Rapporteur @balaraj.bsky.social will conduct an official visit to #Guatemala 🇬🇹 from 14 to 25 July 2025.
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#Guatemala: UN expert @balaraj.bsky.social calls for urgent moratorium on evictions until adequate legal protections can be guaranteed, urging an end to the widespread practice of violent & inhumane forced evictions.
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YouTube video by Al Jazeera Mubasher قناة الجزيرة مباشر
I condemn this executive order by the US President to criminalize homelessness in the US in violation of both US law and international law. I have condemned this approach already in a UN report last year and call on States in the US not to cooperate.
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GENEVA – Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, a...
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose and
At the #UnitedNations, a General Comment on the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in situations of armed conflict is underway.
Former UN Special rapporteur on the right to adequate housing @balaraj.bsky.social shares his recent input:
Former Special Rapporteur finds that the destruction of housing in armed conflict is a "central and systemic" violation of international law.
