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The United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, also known as the Goldstone Report, was a United Nations fact-finding mission established in April 2009 pursuant to Resolution A/HRC/RES/S-9/1 of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) of 12 January 2009, following the Gaza War as an independent international fact-finding mission "to investigate all violations of ...
The Honourable Richard J. Goldstone Goldstone in 2019 Born (1938-10-26) 26 October 1938 (age 86) Boksburg, South Africa Occupation Lawyer Known for Chairing the Goldstone Commission, prosecuting war crimes in Yugoslavia and Rwanda, leading the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict Spouse Noleen Goldstone Children 2 Richard Joseph Goldstone (born 26 October 1938) is a South ...
The Château de Rambouillet where the negotiations took place. The Rambouillet Agreement, formally the Interim Agreement for Peace and Self-Government in Kosovo, was a proposed peace agreement between the delegation of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the Republic of Serbia on the one hand and the delegation of political representatives of the ethnic Albanian majority population of ...
On 14 April 2011 the three other co-authors of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict of 2008–2009, Hina Jilani, Christine Chinkin and Desmond Travers, released a joint statement criticizing Goldstone's recantation of this aspect of the report. They all agreed that the report was valid and that Israel and Hamas had ...
United Nations Security Council resolution 1244, [1] adopted on 10 June 1999, after recalling resolutions 1160 (1998), 1199 (1998), 1203 (1998) and 1239 (1999), authorised an international civil and military presence in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia [2] [3] and established the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK). [4]
In Kosovo, a state-owned energy company plans to destroy a village to make way for expanded coal mining as the government and the World Bank plan for a proposed coal-burning power plant. The government has already forced roughly 1,000 residents from their homes. Many former residents claim officials violated World Bank policy requiring borrowers to restore their living conditions at equal or ...
Richard Goldstone and Carl Tham were appointed as first co-chairmen and other members were chosen for one-year terms. [6] The first eleven members included Anan Ashrawi, Richard A. Falk , Martha Minow , [ 7 ] Mary Kaldor , Michael Ignatieff, [ 8 ] Grace d'Almeida , Theo Sommer , Jacques Rupnik, Jan Urban, Akiko Domoto, and Oleg Grinevsky. [ 5 ]
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