Anti-Semitism is "rampant" 80 years after the Holocaust, the UN's rights chief Volker Turk said Friday, also denouncing increasing attacks on diversity as US leader Donald Trump rolls back inclusion measures in the United States.
The United Nations announced new actions Friday to counter the surge in antisemitism, including encouraging governments to enforce laws against hate crimes and discrimination. The U.N., created in the aftermath of the World War II Holocaust in 6 six million Jews were killed,
President Isaac Herzog to address Special UN Assembly marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, meet with UN Secretary-General António Guterres for the first time since the beginning of the current conflict.
The U.N. secretary-general is slated to meet with the Israeli president on Monday, when the latter keynotes a Holocaust remembrance event
Given the UN’s declination to endorse the IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism, CAM insisted that the definition is central to effectively combating antisemitism.
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WARSAW, Poland, Jan. 23, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- On January 27, we observe International Holocaust Remembrance Day, marking the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest German Nazi concentration and extermination camp.
When I think of those 7,000 Jews liberated just 80 years ago, I wonder if they knew that their after would include their continued fight against antisemitism, says .
Holocaust Memorial Day is observed annually on January 27, which in 2025 falls on a Monday. This date was chosen to commemorate January 27, 1945, the day the Auschwitz concentration camp was liberated by the Soviet Union.
The U.N., created in the aftermath of the World War II Holocaust in 6 six million Jews were killed, has worked to counter antisemitism. But the 193-member global organization has been accused of ...
Israel has accused Labor of playing into the hands of Iran and called on it to back the only democracy in the Middle East, as Anthony Albanese defends sending Foreign Minister and critic of Israeli foreign policy Penny Wong to the year’s most important Holocaust memorial.