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14 Dec 2010, 6:58 am
[JURIST] A UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) [official website] expert on Monday urged Myanmar's military government to release 2,202 political prisoners [statement]. [read post]
29 Aug 2017, 11:14 am
The UN also stated that the Russian police continues to... [read post]
17 May 2005, 8:47 am
Robert Parton resigned last month [JURIST report] from the Independent Inquiry Committee [official website] because he felt the UN investigation wasn't tough enough. [read post]
22 Aug 2012, 12:39 pm
Anaya noted [UN News Centre report] that local Dakota, Lakota and Nakota peoples expressed concern about the sale of the land, which is considered a sacred site. [read post]
6 Dec 2013, 12:03 pm
[JURIST] The UN Operation in the Ivory Coast (UNOCI) and the UN Office of the High Commissioner for human rights (OHCHR) [official websites] on Friday released a report documenting severe human rights violations [press release] occurring in the Ivory Coast. [read post]
12 Jun 2015, 9:37 am
[JURIST] Assistant Secretary-General for UN peacekeeping operations Edmund Mulet [official profile] said [press release] Tuesday that the ongoing conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan is continuing to harm civilians. [read post]
14 Oct 2016, 8:44 am
The UN Office of the High Commissioner (OHCHR) [official website] on Wednesday urged [press release] Ethiopian authorities to end the violence against peaceful protesters. [read post]
16 Nov 2016, 11:02 am
US authorities are using excessive force [press release] against protesters in North Dakota who are trying to halt a proposed oil pipeline project, according to a UN human rights expert on Tuesday. [read post]
2 Nov 2007, 4:26 am
[JURIST] The UN Human Rights Committee [official website] Friday called on Libya to end the use of torture [UN materials, PDF] and to investigate torture allegations by five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor who had been detained in Libya for eight years on suspicions that they deliberately infected hundreds of Libyan children with the HIV virus [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
9 Mar 2017, 12:13 pm
According to the UN the recommendation is focused on more rapid return rates and is disregarding the human rights of the migrants. [read post]
22 Nov 2005, 7:25 pm
[JURIST] The US on Tuesday threatened to hold up approval of a two-year UN budget unless reforms agreed to in September were acted on by the end of the year. [read post]
20 Dec 2010, 9:13 am
The decision represents a reversal after months of strong opposition [JURIST report] from the Sri Lankan government under President Mahinda Rajapaksa [official profile], who described the UN panel as an... [read post]
25 May 2012, 8:12 am
[JURIST] The top UN human rights official urged Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] on Thursday to ensure that Zimbabwe's next elections are legitimate and free from violence [press release]. [read post]
30 Nov 2016, 1:47 pm
A UN human rights expert provided a report [official report] to an international conference in Thailand on Wednesday regarding discrimination of the lesbian, gay bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) community. [read post]
7 Apr 2014, 5:30 pm
Sri Lanka's foreign minister Gamini Lakshman Peiris [official profile] announced on Monday that Sri Lanka would not cooperate with a UN investigation into alleged war crimes committed during the country's civil war. [read post]
11 May 2006, 9:35 am
Although the UN Security Council has granted the [read post]
3 Sep 2008, 8:53 am
[JURIST] The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) [official website] urged Iran [JURIST news archive] Tuesday to ban the use of the death penalty [UN News Centre report] against juvenile offenders. [read post]
4 Oct 2015, 12:01 pm
There are more than 8,000 people on death row in Pakistan, and the UN experts believe that many of them may have been sentenced for crimes they committed as children. [read post]
6 Aug 2017, 9:16 am
[JURIST] Increasing violence in the Kasai provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has become more ethnic-based, according to a report released [press release] Friday by a team of UN human rights investigators. [read post]
20 Jul 2008, 3:58 am
[JURIST] Cambodia has submitted a letter to the UN Security Council [official website; JURIST news archive] seeking to draw UN attention to its border dispute with Thailand. [read post]
