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11 Feb 2024, 12:08 pm
” The UN reported that an estimated 1.4 million civilians currently shelter in Rafah. [read post]
26 Jan 2024, 5:03 pm
Israel also denied visa renewals for UN officials, saying the UN’s response to the Hamas attacks was “disgraceful. [read post]
25 Sep 2010, 3:00 am
As Donna cleverly put it, the un-divorce is only an “un-choice”. [read post]
11 May 2017, 4:40 am
The position reports to the Office of the Ombudsman for UN Funds and Programmes and provides Ombuds and dispute resolution services to staff members and non-staff personnel of the UN Funds and Programmes (including UNDP, UNFPA, UNICEF, UNOPS and UN Women). [read post]
31 Jul 2006, 10:55 am
[JURIST] The UN Security Council [official website] Monday passed a resolution giving Iran [JURIST news archive] until August 31 to halt uranium enrichment and threatening sanctions if it does not comply. [read post]
27 Oct 2009, 2:18 am
[JURIST] UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and counterterrorism Martin Scheinin [official website] said Monday that all Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainees should be brought before US federal courts for trial [recorded video] by the January 22 deadline for closure set by US President Barack Obama [official profile]. [read post]
29 Nov 2008, 8:01 am
[JURIST] The UN Special Tribunal for Lebanon [official website] could begin prosecuting suspects in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri [JURIST news archive] on March 1, 2009 with its prosecutor's scheduled arrival at The Hague, according to a report from Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to the Security Council [official websites]. [read post]
18 Aug 2005, 2:38 am
[JURIST] Ali Alatas, former Indonesian foreign minister, went to Myanmar Thursday as a special envoy of the UN to help push for the release of jailed opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi [advocacy website; Wikipedia profile]. [read post]
13 Feb 2009, 5:17 am
[JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay [official bio] on Thursday called on [press release] the new national government of Zimbabwe [JURIST archive] to reinstate the rule of law and to release all political prisoners who remain in custody illegally. [read post]
16 Feb 2004, 4:30 am
UN war crimes prosecutor Carla Del Ponte (see a recent profile in the UK's Guardian) has said that the international community has been relunctant to co-operate with her efforts to prosecute more Albanians for war crimes commited against Serb civilians in connection with the 1998-99 Kosovo conflict. [read post]
21 Jan 2009, 12:31 am
Bush [official profile; JURIST news archive] and former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld [JURIST news archive] for ordering illegal interrogation methods at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST archive], according to a statement made by UN Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, [read post]
15 Oct 2007, 7:02 am
[JURIST] UN Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Myanmar Ibrahim Gambari [official profile] Monday criticized Myanmar's detention of four more pro-democracy activists [JURIST report], urging the military government to release political prisoners and end the detention of peaceful democracy activists. [read post]
5 Jun 2007, 3:49 am
[JURIST] Chilean President Michelle Bachelet [official website] urged members of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) [official website; JURIST news archive] to adopt measures to ensure the independence of UNHRC investigators [press release, in Spanish]. [read post]
14 Apr 2008, 8:44 am
[JURIST] Myanmar is completely ill-prepared to hold a national constitutional referendum [JURIST report] as part of a democratic political transition, UN Special Rapporteur on Myanmar Paulo Sergio Pinheiro [official profile] told Reuters in an interview Monday. [read post]
18 Feb 2005, 11:55 am
[JURIST] The UN General Assembly's legal committee [official website] failed to reach a consensus Thursday on a nonbinding declaration that would have urged urge governments to adopt their own laws on human cloning. [read post]
30 Mar 2006, 4:15 pm
[JURIST] Manfred Nowak [official profile, DOC], the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture [official website], told reporters Thursday that he is currently investigating allegations raised by the Falun Gong spiritual group [Wikipedia backgrounder], banned by the Chinese government, that thousands of its followers were being held in a Chinese "concentration camp" to be killed for organ-harvesting [read post]
27 Jul 2007, 2:58 pm
[JURIST] The UN Human Rights Committee [official website] Friday urged the Sudanese government to "take all appropriate measures" to guarantee that all state agents, including the military and armed militias, discontinue "widespread and systematic" violations of human rights. [read post]
12 Jan 2006, 6:02 am
[JURIST] Syrian officials announced Thursday that President Bashar al-Assad [BBC profile] would not submit to questioning by the UN probe into the assassination of former Lebanese president Rafik Hariri [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
25 Sep 2009, 4:00 am
[JURIST] Iraqi President Jalal Talabani [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] on Thursday urged the UN General Assembly [official website] to establish an independent international tribunal [statement, PDF] to investigate and try suspects in a recent series of deadly bombings. [read post]
11 Aug 2006, 1:32 pm
[JURIST] The UN Security Council [official website] late Friday unanimously approved [recorded video] a resolution [text] to end the current Middle East conflict [JURIST news archive], calling for Hezbollah to stop all attacks immediately and for Israel to cease "all offensive military operations. [read post]
