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18 Dec 2006, 9:43 am
[JURIST] Sudanese Justice Minister Mohammed Ali al-Mardhi has indicated that Sudan will cooperate with a UN Human Rights Council [official website] mission investigating human rights abuses in Darfur [JURIST news archive], according to reports Monday in local Sudanese media. [read post]
16 Sep 2009, 5:31 am
[JURIST] Israeli officials on Wednesday rejected a call by the UN Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict [official website] to establish an independent inquiry into accusations of war crimes during December and January's Operation Cast Lead [GlobalSecurity backgrounder] in the Gaza Strip [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive]. [read post]
24 Dec 2005, 1:33 pm
[JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour [official website] has again cautioned the Uzbekistan government to observe fair-trial standards after Uzbek courts sentenced another 42 people to 12-20 years in prison [JURIST report] during closed hearings Wednesday. [read post]
15 Dec 2004, 9:56 am
[JURIST] A high level UN panel set up to monitor the administration of the Iraqi oil industry and revenues under Security Council Resolution 1483 [PDF], granting the Coalition Provisional Authority the right to spend from Iraq oil money "in the interests of the Iraqi people", reported Tuesday that it had found "important weaknesses" in program management, including lack of financial controls and [read post]
8 Apr 2006, 4:07 am
[JURIST] UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide Juan Mendez [official profile] said Friday that the international community remains reluctant to contribute the funds and military personnel necessary to stop genocide worldwide, as he spoke at a press conference on the 12th anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda [JURIST news archive], during which some 800,000 Rwandans - mostly Tutsis - [read post]
25 Apr 2006, 9:06 pm
[JURIST] The UN Security Council passed a resolution 12-0 Tuesday imposing sanctions on four individuals for acts or abuses committed in the troubled Darfur [JURIST news archive] region of Sudan and calling for the conclusion of a peace agreement for the area by the end of the month. [read post]
24 Nov 2006, 4:07 pm
[JURIST] The UN Committee against Torture (CAT) [official website] urged Russia Friday to investigate and prosecute [press release] what it called the "widespread use of torture" in Chechnya [BBC profile; JURIST news archive]. [read post]
27 Oct 2007, 12:21 pm
[JURIST] UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial executions [official website] Philip Alston [JURIST news archive] said Friday he is planning an official visit to the US to investigate allegations of unlawful killings by US military and non-military actors in Iraq and Afghanistan. [read post]
6 Mar 2009, 12:23 am
[JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights [official website] spokesman Rupert Colville said Friday that his office may investigate whether Sudan's expulsion of foreign aid agencies [Oxfam press release] is a possible breach of human rights law or war crime. [read post]
13 Aug 2004, 4:29 am
According to a confidential UN High Commissioner for Refugees report, US airport officials have sometimes intimidated and harassed asylum seekers, discouraging them from seeking political asylum in the US, and often lack an understanding of asylum law. [read post]
21 Aug 2004, 1:21 pm
The Sudanese government signed a deal with the UN on Saturday that ensures the voluntary return of over one million people who have been displaced by fighting in Darfur and promises to give Darfurians more say in local government. [read post]
20 May 2005, 11:13 am
[JURIST] In a version of a report to be released next Tuesday, Kosovo UN Governor Soren Jessen-Petersen [official website] indicates "significant progress" in security and in the area of minority rights under the Kosovo Standards Implementation Plan [PDF]. [read post]
3 Oct 2006, 8:13 am
[JURIST] A group of four UN human rights envoys reported Tuesday that Israel and Hezbollah [CFR backgrounder] both broke international humanitarian law during the 34-day Middle East conflict [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
19 Sep 2005, 1:19 am
[JURIST] UN leaders at the 60th General Assembly session now underway in New York in the aftermath of the 2005 World Summit [official website] are pressing for agreement on a definition of terrorism and are calling for a broad international convention to serve as a co-ordinating framework for governmental anti-terror efforts. [read post]
17 Dec 2008, 6:30 am
[JURIST] The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) [official website] on Tuesday called for greater judicial cooperation to combat piracy [press release] off the coast of Somalia. [read post]
16 May 2006, 7:35 am
[JURIST] Martin Scheinin [official profile], UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counterterrorism, said Tuesday that US officials have been stonewalling investigations into allegations that the Central Intelligence Agency [official website] flew terrorism [JURIST news archive] suspects through Europe to countries where they could be tortured [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
3 Jul 2008, 9:56 am
[JURIST] The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has urged the Mongolian government [press release] to "exercise the utmost restraint" in dealing with protests of the country's recent parliamentary elections. [read post]
28 Apr 2010, 6:29 am
[JURIST] The UN Security Council on Tuesday unanimously approved Resolution 1918 [press release], calling on member states to criminalize piracy under their domestic laws and urging Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon [official website] to consider an international tribunal for prosecuting piracy. [read post]
19 May 2005, 8:19 am
[JURIST] UN legal experts met with Indonesian leaders Thursday to launch an inquiry [JURIST report] into the violence and pro-Indonesian militia killings that followed the 1999 independence vote in East Timor [Wikipedia backgrounder] and eventually led to the territory's emergence in 2002 as a fully independent state under the name of Timor-Leste [government website], after a brief period of [read post]
22 Aug 2007, 2:14 pm
[JURIST] Cambodia's decision to transfer an investigating judge away from the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) [official website; JURIST news archive] could lead to undue delays in bringing top members of the Khmer Rouge [Wikipedia backgrounder] to trial, UN officials said Wednesday as they urged the Cambodian government to rethink the decision. [read post]
