The Interview - Executive Secretary of UN ESCWA 2010-2017 - Rima Khalaf

Executive Secretary of UN ESCWA 2010-2017 - Rima Khalaf

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Why did a UN agency publish a report that categorised Israel as an apartheid state? Rima Khalaf was Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia until March 2017. She commissioned a report which accused Israel of systematically implementing apartheid policies and promptly resigned from her UN post when the Secretary General refused to accept the work. What were her motives?

Published on Monday, 17th April 2017.

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