The investigation comes after #TheSundayTimes reported that #UNworkers joked about turning off an escalator before the #generalassembly meeting. On Tuesday, an escalator broke down as #MelaniaTrump, the first lady, stepped onto it. Turns out it was HIS vidrographer www.thetimes.com/us/american-...

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Secret Service to investigate whether Trump was sabotaged by UN staff

First the escalator broke down when Melania Trump stepped on it, then the president’s teleprompter stopped working. Were the glitches intentional acts of protest?

The Times
Detained U.N. Workers Accuse Israel of Obtaining False Confessions Through Torture

The U.N. refugee agency UNRWA has accused Israeli security forces of torturing imprisoned U.N. workers in an effort to extract false confessions about the agency’s ties to Hamas. The accusations are part of a new UNRWA report that documents how Palestinians detained in Israel have been attacked by dogs, deprived of food, forced into cages, beaten with metal bars and tortured with nail guns and electric batons. One Palestinian child released from Israeli prison had dog bite wounds on their body.

Democracy Now!

UN concern after its female workers are ‘banned’ from working by Taliban
Staff in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province prevented from reporting to work, according to officials

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/04/un-concern-after-its-female-workers-are-banned-from-working-by-taliban-afghanistan

#Afghanistan #UNWorkers #women #WomensRights

UN concern after its female workers are ‘banned’ from working by Taliban

Staff in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province prevented from reporting to work, according to officials

The Guardian