Speakers at a briefing on the treatment of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people in Nazi Germany praised the advances made by developing nations in protecting gay rights.
Israeli president Reuven Rivlin has questioned the United Nations’ commitment to eradicating genocide, slamming the UN’s genocide convention as nothing more than a “symbolic document.”
Only 15 of the United Nations’ 193 member states have fully paid their regular membership dues for 2015, but this is far from the first instance of the U.N. dealing with unfulfilled debts.