Articles by UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia
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UN Launches Report on Israeli Practices towards the Palestinian People and the Question of Apartheid
UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
15 Mar 2017 – UN Under-Secretary-General Rima Khalaf noted that Israel, encouraged by the international community’s disregard for its continual violations of international law, has succeeded over the past decades in imposing and maintaining an apartheid regime that works on two levels. First, the political and geographic fragmentation of the Palestinian people…
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UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
[Note from the TMS Editor: This text has been removed from the ESCWA website. It is published here for Historical Record.]
15 Mar 2017 – Having established that the crime of apartheid has universal application, that the question of the status of the Palestinians as a people is settled in law, and that the crime of apartheid should be considered at the level of the State, the report sets out to demonstrate how Israel has imposed such a system on the Palestinians in order to maintain the domination of one racial group over others.