Trump’s board of peace is an imperial court completely unlike what was proposed https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/20/trumps-board-of-peace-is-an-imperial-court-completely-unlike-what-was-proposed #DonaldTrump #UsForeignPolicy #Gaza #UnitedNations #WorldNews #UsNews #Palestine #MiddleEastAndNorthAfrica

Trump’s board of peace is an imperial court completely unlike what was proposed https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/20/trumps-board-of-peace-is-an-imperial-court-completely-unlike-what-was-proposed #DonaldTrump #UsForeignPolicy #Gaza #UnitedNations #WorldNews #UsNews #Palestine #MiddleEastAndNorthAfrica

🔷 About the Dataset 🔷

The Corpus of Resolutions: UN Security Council (CR-UNSC) collects and presents for the first time in human and machine-readable form all resolutions, drafts, and meeting records of the UN Security Council, including detailed metadata, as published by the UN Digital Library and revised by ourselves.

See this blog post introducing the dataset for an overview: https://seanfobbe.com/posts/2024-05-06_new-dataset-corpus-of-resolutions-un-security-council/

We recently published a pre-print entitled "Words of Power: Introducing a Comprehensive Corpus of UN Security Council Resolutions" (Zenodo 2025) describing the collection, revision and full creation process of the corpus: https://zenodo.org/records/15191558/files/Fobbe-Gasbarri-Ridi_2025_Words-of-Power-Introducing-UN-Security-Council-Resolutions-Corpus.pdf?download=1

#UnitedNations #SecurityCouncil #InternationalLaw #NetworkAnalysis #CitationAnalysis

#LawFedi #OpenScience #Law #UnitedNations #InternationalLaw #Histodons #DigitalHumanities @histodons @law @politicalscience @rstats

The complete citation network of the UN Security Council up to resolution 2798 (1946-2025) is now #OpenAccess and available for download 🔽

🔷 Corpus of Resolutions: UN Security Council (CR-UNSC) 🔷

🔹 Citation Data (GraphML) on Zenodo: https://zenodo.org/records/15154519/files/CR-UNSC_2025-12-22_CITATIONS_GRAPHML.zip?download=1
🔹 Full dataset on Zenodo: https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.7319780
🔹 Codebook on Zenodo: https://zenodo.org/records/11212056/files/CR-UNSC_2024-05-19_Codebook.pdf?download=1

No Code? No Problem! You can use the citation data without coding skills and with a graphical user interface (GUI) via Gephi: https://gephi.org/ Simply create a new project, open the GraphML file and off you go!

#LawFedi #OpenScience #Law #UnitedNations #InternationalLaw #Histodons #DigitalHumanities @histodons @law @politicalscience @rstats

🔷 About the Dataset 🔷

The Corpus of Resolutions: UN Security Council (CR-UNSC) collects and presents for the first time in human and machine-readable form all resolutions, drafts, and meeting records of the UN Security Council, including detailed metadata, as published by the UN Digital Library and revised by ourselves.

See this blog post introducing the dataset for an overview: https://seanfobbe.com/posts/2024-05-06_new-dataset-corpus-of-resolutions-un-security-council/

We recently published a pre-print entitled "Words of Power: Introducing a Comprehensive Corpus of UN Security Council Resolutions" (Zenodo 2025) describing the collection, revision and full creation process of the corpus: https://zenodo.org/records/15191558/files/Fobbe-Gasbarri-Ridi_2025_Words-of-Power-Introducing-UN-Security-Council-Resolutions-Corpus.pdf?download=1

#UnitedNations #SecurityCouncil #InternationalLaw #NetworkAnalysis #CitationAnalysis

#LawFedi #OpenScience #Law #UnitedNations #InternationalLaw #Histodons #DigitalHumanities @histodons @law @politicalscience @rstats

The complete citation network of the UN Security Council up to resolution 2798 (1946-2025) is now #OpenAccess and available for download 🔽

🔷 Corpus of Resolutions: UN Security Council (CR-UNSC) 🔷

🔹 Citation Data (GraphML) on Zenodo: https://zenodo.org/records/15154519/files/CR-UNSC_2025-12-22_CITATIONS_GRAPHML.zip?download=1
🔹 Full dataset on Zenodo: https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.7319780
🔹 Codebook on Zenodo: https://zenodo.org/records/11212056/files/CR-UNSC_2024-05-19_Codebook.pdf?download=1

No Code? No Problem! You can use the citation data without coding skills and with a graphical user interface (GUI) via Gephi: https://gephi.org/ Simply create a new project, open the GraphML file and off you go!

#LawFedi #OpenScience #Law #UnitedNations #InternationalLaw #Histodons #DigitalHumanities @histodons @law @politicalscience @rstats

FYI the US is not withdrawing from 66 "International Organizations, Conventions, and Treaties" - this is a dishonest framing by the Trump administration. Most of the entities listed in the memorandum of 7 Jan 2026 are only commissions, coordination mechanisms and sub-organs of international organizations. A few of them are quite important (e.g. International Law Commission) and many do good work, but most of them are not international organizations.

For example, you have the United Nations (the international organization) which has an organ called the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) , which created a commission called the "Economic Commission for Africa". The US is only withdrawing from the commission (and 3 other regional commissions), not ECOSOC or the UN as a whole.

Why does this matter? There are not that many international organizations in the world and withdrawing is a major step with long-term consequences. By contrast there are many, many thousands of mechanisms, commissions and sub-organs. Withdrawing from 66 of these will certainly do some damage, in particular because the withdrawal focuses on entities working on climate change, democracy, the rule of law, disarmament, peace and humanitarian issues. However, this is an entirely different impact on the international order than withdrawing from the UN or the WTO, for example.

#UnitedNations #Withdrawal #Memorandum #WhiteHouse #Trump

"Under the rules established by the #UN Charter, military action – the use of force – is only lawful if it has been authorised by a resolution from the UN Security Council (as outlined in Article 42 of the Charter), or if the state in question is acting in self-defence."
#Ukraine
#Gaza
#Venezuela
#UnitedNations
#NewsRewind
https://theconversation.com/venezuela-gaza-ukraine-is-the-un-failing-272703

FYI the US is not withdrawing from 66 "International Organizations, Conventions, and Treaties" - this is a dishonest framing by the Trump administration. Most of the entities listed in the memorandum of 7 Jan 2026 are only commissions, coordination mechanisms and sub-organs of international organizations. A few of them are quite important (e.g. International Law Commission) and many do good work, but most of them are not international organizations.

For example, you have the United Nations (the international organization) which has an organ called the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) , which created a commission called the "Economic Commission for Africa". The US is only withdrawing from the commission (and 3 other regional commissions), not ECOSOC or the UN as a whole.

Why does this matter? There are not that many international organizations in the world and withdrawing is a major step with long-term consequences. By contrast there are many, many thousands of mechanisms, commissions and sub-organs. Withdrawing from 66 of these will certainly do some damage, in particular because the withdrawal focuses on entities working on climate change, democracy, the rule of law, disarmament, peace and humanitarian issues. However, this is an entirely different impact on the international order than withdrawing from the UN or the WTO, for example.

#UnitedNations #Withdrawal #Memorandum #WhiteHouse #Trump

"Under the rules established by the #UN Charter, military action – the use of force – is only lawful if it has been authorised by a resolution from the UN Security Council (as outlined in Article 42 of the Charter), or if the state in question is acting in self-defence."
#Ukraine
#Gaza
#Venezuela
#UnitedNations
#NewsRewind
https://theconversation.com/venezuela-gaza-ukraine-is-the-un-failing-272703

The #UnitedNations said it was “deeply alarmed” by the #US strikes in #Venezuela & the reported detention of President Nicolás #Maduro. It expressed concern the escalation was a violation of #InternationalLaw.

“These developments constitute a
dangerous precedent,” Stéphane Dujarric, spox for the #UN sec-gen, said. Dujarric said the UN worried about the implications for #LatinAmerica & the #Caribbean & called on “all actors in Venezuela” to respect #HumanRights & the rule of #law.

#Trump #oil

🇺🇸 🇻🇪 🇺🇳 🗨️ "The Secretary-General is deeply alarmed by the recent escalation in #Venezuela, culminating with today’s United States military action in the country, which has potential worrying implications for the region. Independently of the situation in Venezuela, these developments constitute a dangerous precedent. The Secretary-General continues to emphasize the importance of full respect—by all—of international law, including the #UN Charter."

https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/01/1166698

#Maduro #UnitedNations

The #UnitedNations said it was “deeply alarmed” by the #US strikes in #Venezuela & the reported detention of President Nicolás #Maduro. It expressed concern the escalation was a violation of #InternationalLaw.

“These developments constitute a
dangerous precedent,” Stéphane Dujarric, spox for the #UN sec-gen, said. Dujarric said the UN worried about the implications for #LatinAmerica & the #Caribbean & called on “all actors in Venezuela” to respect #HumanRights & the rule of #law.

#Trump #oil

#Spain PM #PedroSánchez called for “de-escalation & responsibility. #InternationalLaw & the principles of the #UnitedNations Charter must be respected,” Sánchez wrote on X.

#law #Congress #WarPowers #criminal #Trump #abduction #Venezuela #oil #LandGrab #WarCrimes #ExtrajudicialKillings #theft #piracy

📌 🆘 The international community, including the #UnitedNations and its member states, particularly the High Contracting Parties to the #GenevaConventions, must take all necessary measures to pressure Israel to lift its ban on the entry of temporary housing units (caravans) and essential #shelter materials into the #gaza strip, and to ensure their unrestricted entry and distribution without political or security conditions

#law #crimesAgainstHumanity

EuroMed Monitor

https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6948/Israel-weaponises-winter-in-Gaza-and-must-allow-the-immediate-entry-of-temporary-housing

📌 🆘 The international community, including the #UnitedNations and its member states, particularly the High Contracting Parties to the #GenevaConventions, must take all necessary measures to pressure Israel to lift its ban on the entry of temporary housing units (caravans) and essential #shelter materials into the #gaza strip, and to ensure their unrestricted entry and distribution without political or security conditions

#law #crimesAgainstHumanity

EuroMed Monitor

https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6948/Israel-weaponises-winter-in-Gaza-and-must-allow-the-immediate-entry-of-temporary-housing

At the WSIS+20 meeting at the #UnitedNations, German Minister for Digital Transformation and Government Modernisation Dr. Karsten Wildberger shared in his remarks Germany's commitment to a free, open, and interoperable global Internet and why it’s important that the Sovereign Tech Agency exists: to strengthen #digitalinfrastructure that is essential for modern societies and to enable prosperity and collaboration.

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@BMDS @AuswaertigesAmt

At the WSIS+20 meeting at the #UnitedNations, German Minister for Digital Transformation and Government Modernisation Dr. Karsten Wildberger shared in his remarks Germany's commitment to a free, open, and interoperable global Internet and why it’s important that the Sovereign Tech Agency exists: to strengthen #digitalinfrastructure that is essential for modern societies and to enable prosperity and collaboration.

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@BMDS @AuswaertigesAmt

The United Nations opts for @CryptPad, an open source alternative to #GoogleForms.

https://news.itsfoss.com/un-ditches-google-form/

#OpenSource #CryptPad #UN #UnitedNations #foss