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7 Mar 2023, 12:15 pm
Wash Post, "Gender Equality is 300 Years Away", UN Chief Warns Decades of advances on women’s rights are being wound back and the world is now hundreds of years away from achieving gender equality, according to the United Nations. [read post]
3 Aug 2022, 3:10 pm
Louis University School of Law Last week, on Tuesday, July 26, 2022, the UN General Assembly adopted resolution 76/300 with 161 votes in favor and 8 abstentions, recognizing the human right to a... [read post]
5 May 2004, 2:35 am
The President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia told the UN Security Council Tuesday that Serbia and Montenegro, the successor state to Yugoslavia, had persistent failed to cooperate with the court and that its lack of co-operation threatened to postpone the trials of key war crimes suspects beyond the target completion date of 2008:In particular, the Prosecutor [read post]
18 Aug 2014, 2:06 am
Two recent SSRN postings offer provocative critiques of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. [read post]
9 Dec 2005, 3:33 am
[JURIST] Cambodia and the United Nations moved closer to beginning genocide trials for Khmer Rouge leaders with an announcement Friday that the UN-backed tribunal will begin setting up offices next month. [read post]
5 Mar 2010, 8:57 am
[JURIST] The UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) [official website] announced [press release] on Friday the creation of a working group of rights experts to monitor the support offered to disabled Haitians as they attempt to recover from the damage caused by the January earthquake [NYT backgrounder; JURIST news archive]. [read post]
23 Apr 2020, 4:47 pm
Dubravka Šimonović, in her thematic report to be presented to the UN General Assembly in September 2020 will address States’ responsibility to criminalize and prosecute rape... [read post]
30 Jul 2014, 10:14 pm
ThinkProgress: UN Warns Countries With Draconian Abortion Bans That They’re Violating Human Rights, by Tara Culp-Ressler: United Nations officials are urging several countries with particularly harsh abortion bans to increase legalization of the medical procedure, pointing out their current laws... [read post]
27 Oct 2005, 2:34 pm
[JURIST] Experts with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) [official website] expressed concern over the fairness of the trial of 15 men in Uzbekistan charged with terrorism and precipitating the violent uprising in the town of Andijan [JURIST news archive] in May 2005, according to a press release issued Thursday. [read post]
21 Mar 2011, 8:28 am
“Targeting Muammar Gaddafi and his military high command is permissible under the broadly drawn terms of the UN security council resolution, according to many international lawyers. [read post]
18 Feb 2012, 4:31 pm
hola me gustaria saber si me pueden ayudar lo que pasa es que hace mas o menos 6 años que tengo una deuda con un banco ya que por esta deuda no me pueden dar ningun tipo de credito [read post]
30 Jun 2019, 11:23 pm
From Devex: Governments worldwide need a “reality check” on outdated policies that often fail to recognize the diversity of families, new findings by UN Women show. [read post]
11 Oct 2021, 10:27 am
Un discurso en ocasión de los actos de iniciación de la Asociación de Derecho Laboral de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad Interamericana. [read post]
25 Apr 2024, 4:00 am
El informe compila en un solo documento información estadística validada sobre una gama de asuntos relacionados con la actividad judicial durante el año fiscal. [read post]
30 Sep 2008, 10:19 am
[JURIST] Members of the UN Security Council [official website] approved a resolution Monday to extend the terms of some judges serving on the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) [official website] to allow them to complete their assigned cases. [read post]
21 Feb 2007, 11:48 am
[JURIST] The UN Development Programme [official website] ordered an audit [AFP report] Wednesday of the human resources practices of the Extraordinary Chamber of the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) [official website], the international tribunal established to try former Khmer Rouge officials, in response to reports of corruption. [read post]
9 Jun 2009, 7:58 am
[JURIST] The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) [official website] on Tuesday condemned [press release] the violence perpetrated against civilians in Mogadishu, Somalia, during an uptick in fighting between government and militia forces over the weekend, as a violation of international human rights law. [read post]
29 Jan 2019, 12:09 pm
Foreign Policy reports that the U.S. waged a behind-the-scenes campaign against the appointment of Michelle Bachelet, former President of Chile, as the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. [read post]
7 Jun 2010, 11:49 am
The Council also urged all States, relevant UN bodies and... [read post]
28 Aug 2008, 1:23 pm
[JURIST] The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) Wednesday submitted requests to the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (UNCLCS) [official websites] to claim exclusive harvesting rights to an area of the seabed surrounding Ascension Island, a British possession in the remote South Atlantic technically part of St Helena, the British overseas territory that where [read post]
