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8 Jun 2009, 11:42 am
The UN Secretary General's Database on Violence Against Women contains information about violence against women and the measures taken by various countries to combat this violence. [read post]
13 Jun 2008, 2:52 am
[JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour [official profile] Thursday commended [press release] the US Supreme Court for its ruling [opinion, PDF; JURIST report] that federal courts have jurisdiction to review habeas corpus petitions filed by Guantanamo detainees classified as enemy combatants. [read post]
5 Jan 2009, 3:08 am
[JURIST] UN Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment Manfred Nowak [official website; JURIST news archive] on Monday said more countries around the world should accept [ORF interview, WMP audio, in German] released Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainees so the military prison can be closed. [read post]
29 Jan 2005, 7:08 pm
[JURIST] US Central Command reported late Saturday that the last UN-made ballots, printed by a special process in Switzerland to reduce the threat of fraud, have been delivered to polling stations in Baghdad as Iraq prepares to conduct its first free elections since 1944. [read post]
28 Mar 2005, 7:45 pm
[JURIST] The UN special mission to Burundi [mission website] has recommended that the nation create a non-judicial truth commission and special prosecuting chamber within its court system in order to deal with perpetrators of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. [read post]
25 Oct 2007, 12:44 pm
[JURIST] UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar Paulo Sergio Pinheiro [official profile] said Wednesday that he will investigate alleged human rights abuses [press release] during his November visit to Myanmar. [read post]
14 Jul 2006, 11:17 am
[JURIST] Top UN officials Friday condemned Israel, the Palestinians and Lebanese Hezbollah militants for intentionally inflicting civilian casualties on one another contrary to international humanitarian law as violence continued to escalate [ABC report] in the Middle East, with Israel stepping up military action against Lebanese targets and Hezbollah militants attacking Haifa with rockets. [read post]
23 Nov 2007, 1:12 pm
[JURIST] UN Special Rapporteur on torture Manfred Nowak [official website] Friday called on the government of Indonesia [JURIST news archive] to step up efforts at stopping ill-treatment and torture of individuals under police detention. [read post]
30 Mar 2005, 1:01 pm
[JURIST] Sudan's Ministry for Foreign Affairs [official website] Wednesday called yesterday's UN Security Council [official website] sanctions resolution "unbalanced and inappropriate," saying it "ignored the government's efforts in addressing the political, security and humanitarian aspects of the Darfur conflict. [read post]
22 Apr 2005, 12:52 pm
[JURIST] The UN's independent expert on human rights in Afghanistan, Cherif Bassiouni [DePaul University faculty profile] says he has received reports of torture and other abuses by US and Afghan forces in Afghanistan. [read post]
7 Nov 2006, 12:21 am
[JURIST] UN Under Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Jan Egeland called Tuesday for a freeze on the use of controversial cluster munitions [FAS backgrounder; JURIST news archive] at the outset of the Third Review Conference [official website; US delegation website] in Geneva on the 1983 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons [text; ACA backgrounder], which already bans or limits the [read post]
6 Apr 2004, 3:40 am
Speaking in Kigali, Rwanda, on the 10th anniversary of the beginning of the Rwanda genocude between Hutus and Tutsi's that killed over 800,000 people in 100 days in 1994, Canadian general Romeo Dalliare (read a CBC profile), former head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda - the UN peacekeeping force in the country at the time - branded the West, and especially France, Britain and [read post]
29 Jun 2006, 7:13 pm
[JURIST] The UN Human Rights Council [official website] on Thursday adopted a resolution [press release] endorsing the draft International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance [PDF text], which would require signatories to refrain from engaging in forced disappearances [Wikipedia backgrounder; UNHCHR materials]. [read post]
29 Sep 2005, 11:17 am
[JURIST] The United Nations Wednesday defended its decision approving Tunisia to host a UN summit on Internet access in the developing world, despite protests that the country is unfit due to repeated allegations of press and civil society abuses. [read post]
1 Dec 2007, 3:19 am
Ambeyi Ligabo, Special Rapporteur on Freedom of opinion and expression; Hina Jilani, the UN Secretary-General's Special Representative on Human Rights Defenders; [read post]
16 Jun 2006, 6:39 am
[JURIST] The UN Security Council [official website] on Friday unanimously agreed to a resolution [summary and text] authorizing the pending war crimes trial of ex-Liberian president Charles Taylor [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] to be shifted from the facilities of the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL} in Freetown, Sierra Leone, to the facilities of the International Criminal Court at The [read post]
29 Jan 2009, 4:00 am
[JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay [official profile; JURIST news archive] expressed deep concern Thursday over the deteriorating conditions for a quarter of a million Sri Lankans [press release] trapped in the conflict-ravaged north, calling for investigations and prosecutions of killings and other human rights abuses. [read post]
7 Mar 2008, 5:30 am
[JURIST] The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination [official website] on Friday concluded its review [report, PDF; press release] of US compliance with the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) [text]. [read post]
9 Sep 2009, 12:28 am
[JURIST] The UN-backed Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) [official website] on Tuesday ordered [press release, PDF] Afghanistan's Independent Election Commission (IEC) [official website] to conduct a partial recount of votes from polling stations with high irregularities. [read post]
22 Oct 2003, 7:15 pm
The Chairman of the UN General Assembly's legal committee called a meeting Wednesday to iron out differences between two competing draft resolutions banning human reproductive cloning. [read post]
