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17 Mar 2017, 10:39 am
The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) [official website] released a report [text, DOC] Thursday raising concerns over peace efforts in Colombia. [read post]
27 Jun 2014, 5:42 am
[JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay [official profile] on Thursday condemned [press release] Iran's use of the death penalty for juvenile offenders and called on authorities to halt the announced execution of Razieh Ebrahimi. [read post]
13 Apr 2017, 6:20 am
[JURIST] Russia vetoed [UN press release] a United Nations Security Council (UNSC) [official website] resolution on Wednesday that would have condemned Syrian president Bashar al-Assad's [official website] use of neurologic gas against the Syrian town Khan Sheikhoun on April 4. [read post]
28 Jan 2015, 10:48 am
[JURIST] An Amnesty International (AI) [advocacy website] report [text, PDF] released Wednesday called on the UN Security Council to impose sanctions and encourage accountability through International Criminal Court (ICC) [official websites] indictments and prosecutions to end the cycle of human rights violations and war crimes being committed in Libya. [read post]
20 Jun 2015, 9:06 am
[JURIST] UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon [official website] on Friday addressed the challenges [statement] of upholding the fundamental rights of children in war zones, stating that protecting children is a "moral imperative and legal obligation. [read post]
23 May 2005, 7:40 am
[JURIST] The United Nations has condemned the alleged abuse of Afghan detainees [UN press release] by US military forces and called on the military to allow an investigation by human rights officials inside Afghanistan. [read post]
3 Jul 2012, 5:50 am
[JURIST] The UN Working Group on discrimination against women in law and practice [official website] released a report [text, PDF] Monday calling for a focus on advancing women's rights during political transitions. [read post]
30 Jan 2015, 11:36 am
[JURIST] UN rights experts on Friday urged [press release] the Omani government to release Said Ali Said Jadad, a human rights activist. [read post]
10 Jan 2014, 4:57 am
[JURIST] The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights [official website] on Wednesday urged the Brazilian government to investigate the killings of inmates at the Pedrinhas Penitentiary Complex after a video surfaced of three decapitated inmates during a prison riot. [read post]
24 Apr 2014, 8:41 am
[JURIST] UN Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in the Ivory Coast Doudou Diene on Wednesday called on [press release] authorities in the Ivory Coast to undertake broad consultations on the reform of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) [official website]. [read post]
23 Feb 2014, 9:49 am
[JURIST] The UN Security Council [official website] announced Wednesday that a 10 year old arms embargo against Somalia will not be fully restored after its expiration in March. [read post]
15 Jul 2005, 4:22 am
[JURIST] Negotiations over a global anti-terrorism treaty get under way again the week of July 25, according to Mohamed Bennouna, chairman of the UN General Assemby's treaty-writing (Sixth) legal committee. [read post]
15 Jan 2012, 8:49 am
[JURIST] In a statement at a conference on democracy in the Arab world Sunday, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon [official profile] demanded that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad [BBC backgrounder] end the violence against the Syrian people. [read post]
12 Jan 2016, 11:41 am
[JURIST] Human rights experts from the UN and the Organization for Security and Co-operation (OSCE) [official website] joined in sending an open letter [text, PDF] Monday urging the US government to shut down the detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay on its fourteenth anniversary. [read post]
1 Mar 2017, 9:35 am
The UN Joint Human Rights Office (UNJHRO) released a report [text, PDF] Wednesday describing [press release] human rights violations committed by soldiers of the Forces armèes de la Rèpublique dèmocratique du Congo (FARDC) and agents of the Police Nationale Congolaise (PNC) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) that resulted in the deaths of at least 40 people. [read post]
24 Jan 2014, 5:10 am
[JURIST] The UN humanitarian chief on Thursday called for an immediate investigation [statement, PDF] by authorities following reports of alarming levels of violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state. [read post]
14 Jul 2005, 8:15 am
[JURIST] The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention [official website] Thursday condemned the 2001 Miami federal court conviction of five Cubans who spied on US anti-Castro groups ["Free the Five" advocacy website], calling their long jail terms - including three life sentences - "arbitrary. [read post]
28 Jan 2012, 4:33 pm
[JURIST] The UN told Maldives on Saturday that Judge Abdulla Mohamed must either be charged or released from indefinite detention. [read post]
1 Jun 2012, 10:56 am
[JURIST] The UN Human Rights Council [official website] voted to condemn Syria [press release] on Friday for killing more than 100 civilians in the Houla region of the country last week. [read post]
10 Jan 2017, 9:42 am
A new report [text, PDF] released Monday by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) [official website] shows that children in Afghanistan are bearing the brunt of the nutritional crisis, despite attempts at administering food aid. [read post]
