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2 Jun 2004, 2:08 am
Responding to objections by several UN Security Council members, the US and Britain have presented a revised Iraq draft resolution (read the full text of the resolution via BBC News). [read post]
24 Jan 2008, 2:51 pm
[JURIST] The UN Human Rights Council [official website] Thursday adopted a resolution [draft text, PDF] criticizing Israel for recent military attacks and a week-long blockade [JURIST report] against the Palestinian-controlled Gaza Strip that the Council says amount to human rights violations. [read post]
5 Aug 2019, 4:30 am
En muchos casos, las partes se dan cuenta de que pueden ahorrar tiempo y recursos al negociar un acuerdo extrajudicial entre ellos. [read post]
18 Jun 2007, 12:08 pm
[JURIST] The UN Security Council [official website] said Monday it has approved a request [letter, PDF] by Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora [BBC profile] to aid his country in the investigation of the murder of anti-Syrian legislator Walid Eido [BBC report] last week. [read post]
12 Dec 2013, 10:14 am
[JURIST] The UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) [official website] on Wednesday granted [text, PDF] a motion by Radovan Karadzic [BBC profile] to subpoena Ratko Mladic, former leader of the Bosnian Serb army during the Bosnian civil war, to testify at his trial where he has been charged [ICTY case summary, PDF; JURIST news archive] with genocide, crimes against humanity charges and violations of the laws of war. [read post]
2 Dec 2011, 10:56 am
[JURIST] Sudanese-born Canadian citizen Abousfian Abdelrazik [backgrounder] was removed [press release] from the UN Security Council [official website] Al Qaeda Sanctions List (1267 List) [text, PDF; materials] on Thursday. [read post]
9 Jan 2015, 12:50 pm
[JURIST] The UN published a report [text, PDF] Thursday which stated the acts committed in the Central African Republic (CAR) constituted war crimes and crimes against humanity but not genocide. [read post]
29 Jan 2015, 5:42 am
[JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights [official website] Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein [official profile] spoke out [press release] Tuesday against the excessive force used by security personnel to control political protests in Egypt. [read post]
22 Dec 2016, 6:28 pm
The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution [text, PDF] Wednesday to establish an independent panel to investigation possible war crimes in Syria. [read post]
6 Feb 2016, 11:45 am
The UN Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in the Sudan, Aristide Nononsi, on Friday called for an end [press release] to conflict in Darfur between the Sudanese government and the Sudan Liberation Army/Abdul Wahid which may have led to human rights abuses and violations of international law. [read post]
8 Jan 2017, 9:53 am
The secretary, who acts as chair for the UN/ISSG Task Force on Humanitarian Access in Syria, made the statement during a press conference where the adviser said that more than 5.5 million people are experiencing water shortages where around 30 percent of water functions have... [read post]
20 Apr 2017, 7:06 am
[JURIST] Eugene Owusu [official profile], the top United Nations humanitarian official in South Sudan on Wednesday warned [UN News Centre report] that without peace in South Sudan humanitarian conditions will continue to deteriorate. [read post]
24 Aug 2014, 3:38 pm
[JURIST] The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Iraq [official website], Nickolay Mladenov, on Saturday called for immediate action [press release] to stop the inhumane activity caused by Islamic State (IS) armies in Amerli. [read post]
21 Oct 2016, 7:03 am
[JURIST] The UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, David Kaye [official profile] said Thursday that governments are "wielding the tools of censorship" and cautioned [press release] that "the freedom of expression is under the widespread assault. [read post]
17 May 2007, 6:21 am
[JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour [official profile] Thursday denounced the poor conditions of prisons in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) [JURIST news archive] during a visit there, deploring in particular overcrowding and inadequate access to justice. [read post]
24 Feb 2009, 10:18 am
[JURIST] The UN Special Tribunal for Lebanon [official website] will begin work on March 1, according to the Tribunal's Registrar, Robin Vincent [official profile, PDF]. [read post]
31 Jan 2017, 1:30 pm
[JURIST] A judge for the UN Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals on Tuesday ordered the release [press release] of Turkish judge Aydin Sefa Akay who was detained in July. [read post]
18 Sep 2004, 3:49 am
The draft UN resolution includes measures such as building up the African Union monitoring forces in the region, [read post]
18 May 2005, 9:06 am
[JURIST] In the wake of conflicting reports, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour [official website] on Wednesday urged an independant probe of reports of killings by Uzbekistan security forces. [read post]
6 Sep 2016, 8:45 am
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein [official profile] on Monday unleashed [official speech] a scathing criticism of Western "demagogues," accusing them of spreading populist xenophobia and racism. [read post]
