In the Washington Post Jennifer Rubin dismisses the signatories of a letter to president Obama urging him to support a Security Council resolution condemning the construction of new Israeli settlements.
The two UN officials charged with monitoring genocide and mass atrocity are sounding the alarm that political violence in Cote D'Ivoire may descend into a genocide.
Navi Pillay: "Human rights abuses were at the heart of Tunisia's problems, and therefore human rights must be right at the forefront of the solutions to those problems."
The Palestinians have forwarded a Security Council resolution condemning new Israeli settlement activity. The resolution clearly reflects American position on the settlement issue, but will the Americans veto it anyway?
Swedish authorities plan on deporting 25 Iraqi asylum seekers later today. This is despite the fact that the UN Refugee Agency has warned that asylum seekers originating from several provinces in Iraq should be granted refugee status under the 1951 Refugee Convention.
Reports are coming in fast via twitter that the US Geological Survey is confirming that a 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck Pakistan. The apparent epicenter was in Southwest Pakistan, near the Afghan border.
Kofi Annan urges the Executive Board of the World Health Organization, which meets in Geneva this week, to set a target date for global Measles eradication.
UN Foundation CEO Kathy Calvin has an op-ed in the Philadelphia Inquirer about how some small interventions in Haiti can go a long way toward improving the health and welfare of women living in Haiti's sprawling tent cities.