UN Warns against Organized Crime, Climate Change
Organized crime, diseases, and climate change subvert the capacity of state institutions, with serious implications for peace and security, warned the United Nations on Wednesday.
According to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, what is new of those challenges is its growing transnationalization and seriousness, and its impact on the people, state, regional, and international security.
Ban addressed a session of the Security Council on Wednesday in which the new challenges for peace, international security, and prevention of conflicts were discussed.
The UN secretary general said that the openness derived from globalization is exploited by the organized crime to develop human, drugs, and arms trafficking, while the warning of the planet constitutes one of the main challenges worldwide.
Threats to peace and security increase due to crime, pandemics, and climate change, and push many poor and fragile nations towards a breaking point, said Ban.
UN Demands End of Violence Vs Women
The United Nations urged on Wednesday the governments to put an end to the violence against women and girls affirming that “only then will we have a more just, peaceful and equitable world”.
The call is included in a message issued by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon as part of the celebration on Thursday of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, established by the General Assembly in 1999.
The right of women and girls to live without violence is inalienable and fundamental as established in the international humanitarian legislation and the human rights regulations, the message notes.
Before establishing the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, the General Assembly passed a Declaration on the same issue in 1993.
As part of Thursday´s celebration, a special ceremony will take place on Wednesday with the presence of UN Women Executive Director Michelle Bachelet, who also released a message in commemoration of this date.
The leader denounced “the conspiratorial silence with regards to the violation of human rights of women” affirming that gender violence is a threat to democracy, peace and stability.
ICC Recognizes Libya’s Right to Try Gaddafi´s Son
Chief Prosecutor of the International Crime Court (ICC) Luis Moreno-Ocampo affirmed on Wednesday that Libya has the right to try Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi, after his failed attempts to process the detainee at the Hague.
Moreno-Ocampo underlined during a press conference in Tripoli that with the creation of a new government in this nation, there are more guarantees that a fair trial against Gaddafi´s son and former Chief of Intelligence Abdulah Al-Senoussi can take place.
However, human rights groups questioned the credibility of the National Transition Council (NTC) and denounced several extrajudicial executions including that of Muammar Gaddafi, murdered on October 20 after being captured alive in Sirte.
The Uruguayan-born prosecutor had insisted that Saif Al-Islam be tried by the ICC in the Hague, but, acknowledging his failure, he requested that at least ICC judges participate in the process.
Moreno-Ocampo said that in Libya, where the evidence against Gaddafi´s son is being collected, the judicial process does not exempt international justices from participating.
The ICC, sponsored by the UN and frequently criticized for carrying out selective actions that respond to the pressures of Western powers, had issued a warrant against Gaddafi, his son Saif Al-Islam and Al-Senoussi.
The three men were charged with crimes against humanity supposedly committed by executing hundreds of opponents of the government after the uprising that began in February in Benghazi that eventually overthrew Gaddafi thanks to NATO air raids.
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