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26 Sep 2015, 1:28 pm
Awad stated that the UN is planning for the potential displacement of 500,000... [read post]
14 May 2010, 10:13 am
[JURIST] The UN General Assembly [official website] on Thursday elected 14 new members [materials] to the Human Rights Council (HRC) [official website], half of which have questionable human rights records. [read post]
2 Mar 2009, 12:07 am
[JURIST] UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon [official profile; JURIST news archive] on Friday pledged his ongoing support [press release] for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) [JURIST news archive] and stressed that the international community must continue to combat genocide. [read post]
5 Feb 2014, 7:11 am
[JURIST] The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) [official website] released a report [text, PDF] Wednesday condemning the Holy See [official website] for its handling of allegations regarding sexual abuse of minors by Roman Catholic priests. [read post]
1 Mar 2012, 6:10 am
[JURIST] The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) [official website] voted Thursday to pass a non-binding resolution [text, PDF] condemning Syrian authorities for continued bloodshed and violations of human rights. [read post]
20 Aug 2004, 9:45 pm
Britain's Foreign Office said Friday that the majority of UN Security Council members oppose heavy sanctions on Sudan if it fails to make progress on ending the humanitarian crisis in the Darfur region by the end of the month. [read post]
14 Feb 2005, 12:50 am
[JURIST] A UN ad hoc committee on human cloning [official website] meets Monday to begin consideration of an alternative approach to regulation that would focus on national lawmaking rather than on an overarching international regulatory structure. [read post]
28 May 2011, 11:34 am
[JURIST] The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) [official website] called for the Yemeni government on Friday to crack down on deadly violence, expressing fear that the violence will push the country into a civil war [press briefing]. [read post]
10 Aug 2011, 12:05 pm
[JURIST] Twenty-seven rights groups called Tuesday for the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) [official website] to convene a special session on Syria [press release]. [read post]
16 Apr 2014, 9:21 am
[JURIST] The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) [official website] issued a report [text] Tuesday finding rights violations leading up to and stemming from widespread protests that began last November. [read post]
16 Apr 2009, 3:01 am
[JURIST] Israel will not comply with a UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) [official website] investigation into possible war crimes that were committed during recent fighting in the Gaza Strip [BBC backgrounder], according to Wednesday statements by Israeli government officials. [read post]
20 Sep 2017, 8:50 am
[JURIST] UN Secretary-General António Guterres [official profile] on Tuesday called on [press release] public and private bodies worldwide to further incorporate women into their economies for the sake of a more peaceful and sustainable future. [read post]
2 Nov 2014, 6:16 am
[JURIST] The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) [official website] on Friday provided criticized [press release] the recent Singapore Supreme Court [official website] ruling [JURIST report] to uphold a law [text] criminalizing consensual same-sex relations between adult men. [read post]
13 Apr 2011, 5:49 am
[JURIST] The UN announced on Tuesday the completion of a report on allegations of war crimes in Sri Lanka, but Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon [official website] said the report would not be released until President Mahinda Rajapaksa [official website] has time to review it. [read post]
12 Jul 2015, 3:36 pm
[JURIST] Warring parties in Libya [JURIST news archive] have signed a preliminary UN-sponsored agreement [text] on Saturday, agreeing to form a unity government and cease fighting. [read post]
10 Oct 2015, 8:21 pm
Authorized under Chapter VII of the UN Charter [text], the resolution permits certain nations to board ships in order to prevent human trafficking. [read post]
4 Apr 2016, 7:14 am
Intersectionality in the UN Human Rights-Treaty Body Practice and the Issue of Ambivalence, Human Rights Law Review, 2016 (Forthcoming) Over the past two decades, ‘intersectionality’ has become one of the... [read post]
23 Oct 2005, 11:43 am
[JURIST] The UN's special rapporteur for human rights in Sudan [JURIST news archive] said Saturday that the Sudanese government has failed to try persons responsible for war crimes in Darfur [BBC backgrounder, JURIST news archive]. [read post]
30 Nov 2011, 8:32 am
[JURIST] Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati on Wednesday announced that the country has made the payment required to help fund the UN Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) [official website; JURIST news archive], which has been tasked with investigating the assassination of a Lebanese statesman. [read post]
17 Jun 2016, 8:54 am
[JURIST] Brazil must place more emphasis on remedying and preventing business-related human rights violations, according to a report [text, PDF] presented Friday by the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights [official website]. [read post]
