26 July 2012
Contact:
Stephen M. Apatow
Founder,
Director of Research & Development
Humanitarian
Resource Institute (UN:NGO:DESA)
Humanitarian University
Consortium Graduate Studies
Center
for Medicine, Veterinary Medicine & Law
Phone:
203-668-0282
Email:
s.m.apatow@humanitarian.net
Internet:
www.humanitarian.net
HRI:UNArts:
Humanitarian Intervention Initiative
Url:
www.unarts.org/H-II
H-II
OPSEC
Url:
www.H-II.org
Abandoned over one
year....
This
mornings discussion:
- Remembering
Srebrenica - Ban Ki-Moon Runs At Sarajevo Olympic Stadium: NPR, 26
July 2012.
- Ban
Ki-Moon is very frustrated with the Syrian humanitarian
catastrophe. He has fought for an international response from the
start, supporting OHCHR and the General Assembly resolutions.
Unfortunately, the UN Security Council, has been used for personal gain
by two permanent voting members, neutralizing it's mission as outlined
in the UN charter: Chapter 7.
- The
Syrian crisis is being viewed in the same light as Bosnia, Rwanda and
Durfur.... See: Veto Powers
Challenged - Genocide, War crimes and Crimes Against Humanity: HRI,
16 May 2012.
- Thousands
of lives have been lost, because the UN Security Council could not
protect civilian victims of a targeted genocide, war crimes and crimes
against humanity. HRI is working to change this landscape in regards to
crimes against humanity and CBRN international security threats.
See: Preventing
a WMD September 11: HRI, Feb 2004.
- "Perhaps
the weakest area of the rule of law now concerns the issue of
enforcement. It is a truism that international law lacks the police
functions that are found in domestic legal systems -- it is instead a
system that still relies largely upon self-help when it comes to
enforcement. The ability of the UN Security Council to perform its
enforcement responsibilities under the Charter is limited by its need
to operate in consensus and by its practical inability to order
enforcement actions -- especially involving the use of military force
-- against one of its permanent members." -- Jayantha Dhanapala,
Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament Affairs, United Nations, ABA,
Spring Meeting 2002.
- UNICEF has reached
190000 people in Syria while 1.5 million people have been in critical
need for over 1 year. See: OPSEC: Syria -
Planning a NATO Level Operational Medicine Response Plan: HRI, 3 March 2012.
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Release Url: http://www.SYRIA2012.com
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March 2012
"The
international community awaits a response by the International
Criminal Court, who has been provided eye witness reports and evidence,
disseminated by the international media for close to one year. To
abandon civilians without food, water, electricity or medical care has
severely damaged the credibility of the United Nations as a
representative body, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and
International Law." -- Stephen Michael
Apatow, Founder of Humanitarian
Resource Institute (UN:NGO:DESA) and the United Nations Arts
Initiative.
10,000
Dead: One
year later, Syria still boiling: CNN, 15 March 2012.
Massacre
in Homs, Syria: UPI
Url:
http://www.upi.com/News_Photos/News/Massacre-in-Homs-Syria/6397
A Syrian women
becomes emotional in a make-shift morgue where bodies of children are
kept, in Bab al-Sebaa, a neighborhood in the restive city of Homs in
Syria, on March 12, 2012. The bodies of 47 women and children were
found in the Karm el-Zaytoun and al-Adawiyeh neighborhoods of the
besieged Syrian city of Homs, where security forces have been fighting
raging battles against armed rebels, the opposition and activists said.
UPI
|
A Syrian man looks at
bodies of children as they are laid out on the floor at a make-shift
morgue in Bab al-Sebaa, a neighborhood in the restive city of Homs in
Syria, on March 12, 2012. The bodies of 47 women and children were
found in the Karm el-Zaytoun and al-Adawiyeh neighborhoods of the
besieged Syrian city of Homs, where security forces have been fighting
raging battles against armed rebels, the opposition and activists said.
UPI
|
Bodies of children
are laid out on the floor at a make-shift morgue in Bab al-Sebaa, a
neighborhood in the restive city of Homs in Syria, on March 12, 2012.
The bodies of 47 women and children were found in the Karm el-Zaytoun
and al-Adawiyeh neighborhoods of the besieged Syrian city of Homs,
where security forces have been fighting raging battles against armed
rebels, the opposition and activists said. UPI
|
A Syrian man looks at
bodies of children laid out on the floor at a make-shift morgue in Bab
al-Sebaa, a neighborhood in the restive city of Homs in Syria, on March
12, 2012. The bodies of 47 women and children were found in the Karm
el-Zaytoun and al-Adawiyeh neighborhoods of the besieged Syrian city of
Homs, where security forces have been fighting raging battles against
armed rebels, the opposition and activists said. UPI
|
A Syrian man looks at
bodies of children laid out on the floor at a make-shift morgue in Bab
al-Sebaa, a neighborhood in the restive city of Homs in Syria, on March
12, 2012. The bodies of 47 women and children were found in the Karm
el-Zaytoun and al-Adawiyeh neighborhoods of the besieged Syrian city of
Homs, where security forces have been fighting raging battles against
armed rebels, the opposition and activists said. UPI
|
A Syrian man looking
at the bodies of children laid out on the floor at a make-shift morgue
in Bab al-Sebaa, a neighborhood in the restive city of Homs in Syria,
on March 12, 2012. The bodies of 47 women and children were found in
the Karm el-Zaytoun and al-Adawiyeh neighborhoods of the besieged
Syrian city of Homs, where security forces have been fighting raging
battles against armed rebels, the opposition and activists said. UPI
|
Bodies of children
are laid out on the floor at a make-shift morgue in Bab al-Sebaa, a
neighborhood in the restive city of Homs in Syria, on March 12, 2012.
The bodies of 47 women and children were found in the Karm el-Zaytoun
and al-Adawiyeh neighborhoods of the besieged Syrian city of Homs,
where security forces have been fighting raging battles against armed
rebels, the opposition and activists said. UPI
|
Bodies of children
are laid out on the floor at a make-shift morgue in Bab al-Sebaa, a
neighborhood in the restive city of Homs in Syria, on March 12, 2012.
The bodies of 47 women and children were found in the Karm el-Zaytoun
and al-Adawiyeh neighborhoods of the besieged Syrian city of Homs,
where security forces have been fighting raging battles against armed
rebels, the opposition and activists said.
|
A Syrian man carries
a body of a child in a make-shift morgue in Bab al-Sebaa, a
neighborhood in the restive city of Homs in Syria, on March 12, 2012.
The bodies of 47 women and children were found in the Karm el-Zaytoun
and al-Adawiyeh neighborhoods of the besieged Syrian city of Homs,
where security forces have been fighting raging battles against armed
rebels, the opposition and activists said. UPI
|
Bodies of children
are laid out on the floor at a make-shift morgue in Bab al-Sebaa, a
neighborhood in the restive city of Homs in Syria, on March 12, 2012.
The bodies of 47 women and children were found in the Karm el-Zaytoun
and al-Adawiyeh neighborhoods of the besieged Syrian city of Homs,
where security forces have been fighting raging battles against armed
rebels, the opposition and activists said. UPI
|
Bodies of children
are laid out on the floor at a make-shift morgue in Bab al-Sebaa, a
neighborhood in the restive city of Homs in Syria, on March 12, 2012.
The bodies of 47 women and children were found in the Karm el-Zaytoun
and al-Adawiyeh neighborhoods of the besieged Syrian city of Homs,
where security forces have been fighting raging battles against armed
rebels, the opposition and activists said. UPI
|
Bodies of children
are laid out on the floor at a make-shift morgue in Bab al-Sebaa, a
neighborhood in the restive city of Homs in Syria, on March 12, 2012.
The bodies of 47 women and children were found in the Karm el-Zaytoun
and al-Adawiyeh neighborhoods of the besieged Syrian city of Homs,
where security forces have been fighting raging battles against armed
rebels, the opposition and activists said. UPI
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