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United Arab Emirates Rejects UN Concerns on Mass Trial as Death Penalty Verdicts Feared

United Arab Emirates Rejects UN Concerns on Mass Trial as Death Penalty Verdicts Feared

The United Arab Emirates, which brought fresh charges against dozens of previously-convicted critics while hosting the COP28 climate conference with great fanfare, is defying UN experts who have denounced the “spurious” terrorism charges, The Geneva Observer has learned. The UAE, like Saudi Arabia a wealthy Gulf monarchy and OPEC (Organization

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Are Arab Countries Underfunding the UN Agency for Palestine Refugees?

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The worrisome rise of transnational repression—Geneva and other UN host cities are concerned

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International Geneva’s continued love affair with FIFA

“The leadership of football does not answer to the court of public opinion; it responds to its own constituency. Its leaders depend for their survival on those whom they ought to reform; power in FIFA is a political cartel."

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What Do the BRICS Want? Co-existence or Cooperation?

DANIEL WARNER | China is not calling for a total overhaul of the international system but for a different type of multilateralism, not dominated by Western powers, yet one within the basic tenets of the principles of the UN Charter established by the West.

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Ana Palacio | After decades of heeding Deng Xiaoping’s advice to “hide its strength, bide its time, never take the lead,” China has apparently decided that its moment to step into the global spotlight has arrived. The US must act urgently to restore its influence, particularly in the Middle East.

US Decline in Perspective of a Global Democracy

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US Decline in Perspective of a Global Democracy

Daniel Warner | It is banal to say that the United States is in decline in economic comparison to China. It is not banal to say that the liberal international order established by the United States and other Western powers after World War II is being challenged by the BRICS.

#43 The G|O Briefing, March 4, 2021

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