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22 Jan 2015, 7:32 am
," the panel discussion was held at UN Headquarters in New York and hosted by the Permanent Mission of Poland to... [read post]
18 Sep 2005, 11:56 pm
The agreement [PDF text; UN summary, PDF] includes the statement that the international community must intervene in genocide cases, a response [read post]
7 Sep 2012, 9:14 am
[JURIST] The head of the UN International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala presented a strategic work plan at the UN headquarters in New York on Thursday outlining efforts in four specific areas to improve the rule of law in the Latin American nation. [read post]
18 Mar 2016, 10:44 am
" The UN called for transparency on... [read post]
1 Dec 2014, 8:22 am
[JURIST] According to casualty figures released on Monday by the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) [official website], at least 1,232 Iraqis were killed in November as a result of acts of terrorism and violence, while 2,434 were wounded. [read post]
5 Mar 2015, 8:42 am
[JURIST] Head of the United States Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) [official website] Bernardino León on Wednesday warned [transcript] the UN Security Council [official website] that without intervention from the international community and UN, Libya is likely to become unstable in the wake of repeated terrorist attacks. [read post]
7 Jun 2017, 5:15 am
UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health, Dainius Puras, on Tuesday called for a revolutionary overhaul of the mental health care systems around the world. [read post]
12 Oct 2007, 8:08 am
[JURIST] UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Friday that he would appoint [press release] Judge Mohamed Amin El Mahdi, Judge Erik Mose and Nicolas Michel [official profiles] to the selection panel that will recommend the judges and chief prosecutor for the new Special Tribunal for Lebanon [UN materials]. [read post]
3 Aug 2011, 12:06 pm
[JURIST] UN Human Rights Special Rapporteur Dr. [read post]
12 Mar 2007, 6:26 am
[JURIST] UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon [official profile] pressed member nations to work with the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) [official website; JURIST news archive] on Monday, telling UNHRC members at the opening of the council's first 2007 session that it is crucial that they in turn work with all nations in cooperation toward ending human rights abuses. [read post]
3 Mar 2008, 7:38 am
[JURIST] UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon [official website] on Monday called on the 47 member states of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) [official website; JURIST news archive] to "create an environment of trust" and "spur greater accountability for action on human rights. [read post]
14 Sep 2010, 9:08 am
The UN Working Group met with US officials last summer to discuss the actions of US private military and security companies (PMSCs) and to make recommendations on its findings. [read post]
6 Feb 2017, 10:57 am
Of the dead, 923 were children [UN report], as were 2,589 of the injured. [read post]
10 Nov 2014, 9:54 am
The head of the UN Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) [official website] Martin Kobler on Sunday commended [UN News Centre report] the sentencing of a former militia commander accused of war crimes. [read post]
15 Aug 2011, 9:28 am
[JURIST] The UN on Monday called for a thorough investigation [press release] into alleged violations of international law and war crimes in the Southern Kordofan area of Sudan [BBC backgrounder]. [read post]
12 May 2006, 4:35 am
[JURIST] A recent report [press release] from the UN Mission in DR Congo [official website] finds that despite a decrease in large-scale human rights abuses [JURIST report] at the hands of the military in the Congo [JURIST news archive], individual incidents of rapes, killings and torture by Congo's security forces have increased and could threaten cooperation between thousands of UN peacekeepers [read post]
30 May 2011, 10:53 am
[JURIST] UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial killings Christof Heyns [official website] on Monday urged the UN Human Rights Council [official website] to conduct further investigations into possible Sri Lankan war crimes after reconfirming the legitimacy of a video of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) [JURIST news archive] members being executed by members of the Sri Lankan military. [read post]
9 Sep 2014, 7:19 am
[JURIST] A senior UN human rights official saidn Monday that the death toll in Ukraine [BBC backgrounder] has risen above 3,000, and pleaded for peace to spare more bloodshed. [read post]
26 Jan 2012, 9:43 am
[JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay [official website] addressed [statement] the UN Security Council Wednesday, expressing concern over alleged current human rights violations in Libya. [read post]
17 Apr 2015, 9:41 am
[JURIST] At the 13th UN Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice [official website] on Thursday, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) [official website] announced [press release] that prison overcrowding has reached "epidemic proportions" worldwide. [read post]
