Craig Mokhiber, the Director of the New York Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, has resigned from his position in protest against the organization’s failure to stop Israel’s genocide of Palestinian civilians in Gaza.
You can read the letter, it’s an open statement. He extensively talks about the Hamas-Israel war. He cites directly the actions and statements from the US, EU and UK about Israel and Palestine as the reasons to retire effectively at this date as a protest, even if he was going to retire this year anyways.
You can read the letter, it’s an open statement. He extensively talks about the Hamas-Israel war. He cites directly the actions and statements from the US, EU and UK about Israel and Palestine as the reasons to retire effectively at this date as a protest, even if he was going to retire this year anyways.
Here’s the letter. It is scathing about what is happening in Gaza