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4 Dec 2007, 3:00 am
[JURIST] UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and counterterrorism Martin Scheinin [JURIST news archive] will attend military commission hearings at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] beginning Wednesday, according to a statement [text] by Scheinin on Tuesday. [read post]
6 Mar 2008, 10:05 am
[JURIST] The UN Human Rights Council (HRC) [official website] Thursday condemned [press release] Israel's most recent offensive in the Gaza Strip [BBC backgrounder] in a resolution passed by the seventh session [HRC materials] of the HRC. [read post]
27 Mar 2003, 4:53 pm
[JURIST] Excerpts from statements by Coalition partners Britain and the United States made in today's continued UN Security Council open meeting on Iraq:JEREMY GREENSTOCK (United Kingdom) said that many speakers had referred to the 12-year period in which the peaceful disarmament of Iraq was again and again attempted by the Council. [read post]
21 Nov 2006, 12:37 pm
[JURIST] A draft UN General Assembly [official website] resolution condemning human rights violations in Uzbekistan [JURIST news archive] has been blocked [press release] in the General Assembly's Third Committee [official website] by a group of mainly developing nations that claim such resolutions are politically motivated. [read post]
24 Apr 2006, 10:33 am
[JURIST] Leading Monday's international brief, the UN Office for the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Nepal [official website] warned the Nepal government [monarchy website] again that international standards governing police actions during times of civil unrest must be observed as part of Nepal's international legal obligations. [read post]
23 Jun 2005, 8:48 am
[JURIST] Manfred Nowak [ICJ profile], the UN special investigator on torture, complained Thursday that the US was stalling on his request to visit detainees at Guantanamo [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
31 May 2007, 11:00 am
[JURIST] Lebanese National Assembly speaker Nabih Berri [official profile] joined Syria Thursday in condemning the passage of UN Security Council Resolution 1757 [PDF text] unilaterally establishing an ad hoc tribunal [JURIST news archive] to investigate and try suspects in the February 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri [JURIST news archive], saying it infringed Lebanese [read post]
13 Apr 2005, 8:51 am
[JURIST] The UN Commission on Human Rights [official website] has called on the international community to take action against the defamation of religions, especially the ethnic and religious profiling of Muslim minorities after the September 11th attacks. [read post]
21 Jul 2005, 12:24 pm
[JURIST] The UN Human Rights Committee [official website] joined Thailand's National Human Rights Commission [official website] in opposing new security powers [JURIST report] given to Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra [profile]. [read post]
12 Jan 2009, 8:18 am
[JURIST] The UN Human Rights Council [official website] on Monday adopted a resolution [text, PDF] condemning the Israeli occupation in Gaza [press release] and demanding the immediate withdrawal of military forces. [read post]
8 Jul 2009, 1:27 am
[JURIST] The UN Security Council [official website] on Tuesday extended the terms for judges from the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and Rwanda (ICTR) [official websites] until December 31, 2010, or until they complete their cases. [read post]
25 Mar 2008, 6:20 pm
[JURIST] UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions [official website] Philip Alston [NYU Law profile] Tuesday urged [press release] Guatemalan lawmakers not to override a presidential veto of a bill that would restore the country's death penalty in a way he said would be contrary to international human rights law. [read post]
31 Mar 2006, 10:16 am
[JURIST] Manfred Nowak [official profile, DOC], the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture [official website], has said that he is certain that the United States has secret detention facilities in Europe [JURIST news archive] and has demanded access to the facilities. [read post]
28 Jun 2007, 10:39 am
[JURIST] Serge Brammertz [official profile], the former Belgian federal prosecutor who currently heads the UN investigation [JURIST news archive] into the February 2005 assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri, is expected to replace Carla Del Ponte [official profile] as the next chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) [ [read post]
29 Jun 2007, 2:11 pm
[JURIST] The United Nations Security Council called for continued international financial support [press release and statement] of the UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) [official website; JURIST news archive] Thursday. [read post]
19 Jul 2006, 1:26 pm
[JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour [official profile; JURIST news archive] Wednesday threatened perpetrators of wanton violence against civilians in the current Middle East conflict with liability for war crimes. [read post]
20 May 2004, 8:05 am
By a vote of 14-0, the UN Security Council passed a resolution late Wednesday evening condemning Israel for killing civilian protestors and demolishing Palestinian homes in the Gaza strip in violation of international law. [read post]
15 Feb 2006, 11:30 am
[JURIST] Hassan Bubacar Jallow [official profile], lead prosecutor for the UN-affiliated International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) [official website; JURIST news archive] asked Wednesday that the Tribunal transfer the case of former Rwanda official Michel Bagaragaza to Norway. [read post]
10 Jul 2007, 6:16 am
[JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour [official website] Tuesday condemned the recent execution by stoning of an Iranian man convicted of adultery, saying the execution was in violation of international law [press release]. [read post]
29 May 2006, 11:49 am
[JURIST] A UN official Monday warned members of fundamentalist Islamic and secular warlord militias fighting for control of the Somali capital of Mogadishu "that any deliberate attempt to prevent wounded or civilians receiving assistance and protection during fighting in the city may constitute elements of future war crimes. [read post]
