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1 Sep 2011, 1:31 pm
[JURIST] Director General of the UN Educations, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) [official website], Irina Bokova [official website], expressed concern Thursday over the abuse of journalists in Syria [press release]. [read post]
15 Oct 2016, 4:14 pm
The report, released by the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) [official websites], noted [UN report] that rape was the "second-most commonly reported serious crime in Liberia" between January 2015 and March 2016. [read post]
1 Oct 2011, 1:14 pm
[JURIST] The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) [official website] on Friday called for Kosovo to institute an independent witness protection program [press briefing transcript]. [read post]
20 Jul 2010, 1:11 pm
[JURIST] UN Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay [official website] Tuesday issued a warning [press release] about ongoing human rights violations in Kyrgyzstan following the recent ethnic violence [Guardian backgrounder] in the country. [read post]
17 Jul 2014, 10:55 am
[JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay [official website] expressed concern [press release] Wednesday over the widespread lack of transparency in governmental digital surveillance practices. [read post]
6 Feb 2012, 8:32 am
[JURIST] A UN ambassador on Sunday urged the government in Myanmar to continue its ongoing reforms [statement] in areas such as judicial independence and human rights protections. [read post]
5 Mar 2015, 5:44 am
[JURIST] UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) [official website] chief Irina Bokova [official website] on Tuesday condemned the brutal murder of Colombian journalist Luis Carlos Peralta Cuéllar, urging authorities to bring the perpetrator to justice. [read post]
27 Jul 2012, 11:13 am
[JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay [official profile] on Friday insisted that the Syrian government take steps to protect civilians [statement] during armed conflicts. [read post]
28 Sep 2016, 9:45 am
UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, Kate Gilmore [officialprofile] addressed [text] the 33rd session of the Human Rights Council [website] on Tuesday speaking on the deteriorating human rights situation in Libya and calling for accountability and reform. [read post]
6 Feb 2016, 8:51 am
[JURIST] The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention [official website] on Thursday released a statement [press release] finding that Julian Assange [BBC profile], founder of the controversial website WikiLeaks [website], has been arbitrarily detained in the UK since 2010. [read post]
12 Apr 2015, 3:07 pm
[JURIST] The Kenyan government announced on Sunday that it asked the UN Refugee Agency [official website] to repatriate hundreds of thousands of Somali refugees by July. [read post]
24 Mar 2004, 11:28 am
The UN Commission on Human Rights passed a resolution Wednesday condemning Israel for its targeted killing of Hamas leader Ahmed Yassin in a pre-dawn air strike in Gaza Monday. [read post]
9 Mar 2016, 11:08 am
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi [official profile], expressed concerns [text] Tuesday for a proposed migrant exchange program [press release] between the EU [official website] and Turkey. [read post]
30 Nov 2006, 3:11 pm
[JURIST] The UN Human Rights Council [official website] agreed Thursday to hold a special session to look into human rights abuses committed in the Darfur region [JURIST news archive] of Sudan. [read post]
5 Aug 2010, 3:12 pm
[JURIST] UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon [official website] called [press release] for the elimination of all nuclear weapons Thursday in a speech [text] delivered during a visit to the Japanese city of Nagasaki. [read post]
9 Jun 2015, 6:29 am
[JURIST] The Eritrean government has committed "systematic, widespread and gross human rights violations," according to a report [materials] released Monday by a panel of UN investigators. [read post]
19 Mar 2015, 11:05 am
[JURIST] UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar Yanghee Lee [official profile] on Wednesday called on state authorities [press release] to address ongoing challenges to the democratic reform process in Myanmar. [read post]
18 Apr 2015, 9:00 am
[JURIST] Spokesperson for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) [official website], Ravina Shamdasani, expressed concern [press release] Friday at the "dire human rights situation" in Ukraine after reports of intensified fighting in violation of the Minsk Agreement [BBC backgrounder], a ceasefire deal proposed for peace negotiations. [read post]
6 May 2014, 12:13 pm
[JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay [official website] on Tuesday expressed grave concern [press release] over the escalating unrest in Ukraine [BBC timeline] that has brought increasing destruction and death to the region. [read post]
22 Jul 2004, 2:35 pm
The US circulated a revised UN Security Council resolution on Sudan Thursday which carries the possibility of sanctions being imposed against Sudan if it does not prosecute Arab militia leaders behind the atrocities in the Darfur region. [read post]
