More than 70 professors in Europe and North America have expressed concern over a UN decision to remove Saudi Arabia from its blacklist of child rights violators amid Riyadh\u2019s military campaign in Yemen.<\/p>\n
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More than 70 professors in Europe and North America have expressed concern over a UN decision to remove Saudi Arabia from its blacklist of child rights violators amid Riyadh\u2019s military campaign in Yemen.<\/p>\n
In a letter to UN chief Ban Ki-moon, 73 professors expressed shock at \u201cthe brazen vulgarity of power that a single ruling family in one member state can assert against the entirety of the UN to prevent it from documenting war crimes and crimes against humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n
The signatories, all professors of top universities including Harvard, Columbia, Georgetown, Princeton, Oxford and Cambridge, further pointed to the exclusion of Israel from a similar list.\u2019<\/p>\n
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