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31 Dec 2014, 8:36 am
[JURIST] Palestinian leaders will meet on Wednesday to plan actions after the UN Security Council [official website] rejected a resolution [AP report] on Tuesday to end Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories within three years. [read post]
24 Mar 2015, 10:53 am
[JURIST] UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights Philip Alston [official website] on Tuesday warned [press release] that poverty in Chile "remains under the radar for many policy-makers ... despite the country's impressive array of anti-poverty programs. [read post]
27 Oct 2015, 11:41 am
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein [official profile] said Monday that he has deployed a mission [press release] to South Sudan after reports surfaced of human rights abuses by both sides. [read post]
13 May 2016, 9:50 am
The UN Committee Against Torture (CAT) [official website], a body of independent experts, released closing remarks to its fifty-seventh session [materials] Friday, expressing concern about the use of excessive force [concluding observations] by Israeli forces against Palestinians. [read post]
24 Jan 2015, 10:40 am
[JURIST] The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) [official website] on Friday criticized [press release, PDF] Israel for unlawfully demolishing Palestinian homes in West Bank and East Jerusalem this week. [read post]
30 Mar 2010, 5:06 am
[JURIST] The Hague Appeals Court [official website, in Dutch] on Tuesday upheld [judgment, in Dutch; press release] the UN's immunity from prosecution by rejecting claims brought by relatives of victims of the Srebrenica massacre [BBC timeline; JURIST news archive] during the 1992-1995 Bosnian conflict. [read post]
23 Nov 2008, 10:38 am
[JURIST] A spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry [official website, in Chinese] Sunday called [press release, in Chinese; autotranslation] a report released [JURIST report] last week by the UN Committee Against Torture [official website] prejudiced and false. [read post]
11 Oct 2011, 5:04 am
[JURIST] UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression Frank La Rue [official website] on Monday condemned [press release] a law in Thailand that criminalizes insulting the country's royal family. [read post]
8 Jun 2014, 12:14 pm
[JURIST] UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon [official website] issued a statement [text] Sunday commemorating World Oceans Day [official website] calling on the international community to "commit to keep [the oceans] healthy and productive and to use their resources peacefully, equitably and sustainably for the benefit of current and future generations. [read post]
25 Mar 2015, 6:55 am
[JURIST] UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon [official website] called Wednesday for an end to modern slavery during remarks [text] at the unveiling of The Ark of Return, Memorial to the Victims of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. [read post]
8 Jun 2015, 6:13 pm
[JURIST] The hostilities in Afghanistan are leading to the killing and wounding of thousands and the forced relocation of families into neighboring countries, according to Mark Bowden [official profile], the UN Secretary-General's Deputy Special Representative for Afghanistan, in statements [press release] made on Monday. [read post]
3 Jul 2012, 10:45 am
[JURIST] UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon [official profile] on Thursday praised [official statement, text] the work of human rights activists for the right of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people while calling for an end to discrimination based on sexual orientation. [read post]
19 Nov 2004, 9:07 pm
[JURIST] Secretary General Kofi Annan admitted Friday that a "small number" of UN civilian and military personnel had committed "gross misconduct" by sexually exploiting refugees in the Democratic Republic of Congo. [read post]
29 Apr 2011, 1:59 pm
[JURIST] The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) [official website], in an emergency special session on Friday, publicly condemned [text, PDF] the violence used by Syrian authorities against peaceful protesters. [read post]
13 Aug 2012, 1:25 pm
[JURIST] The UN envoy for Somalia on Monday urged [statement, PDF] the east African nation to end a "culture of impunity" that threatens press freedom in the wake of the killings of two journalists. [read post]
2 Feb 2016, 9:51 am
[JURIST] The UN Subcommittee on the Prevention of Torture (SPT) [official website] stated [press release] Tuesday that migrant detention facilities in Cyprus need better monitoring and should improve conditions. [read post]
30 May 2015, 8:56 am
[JURIST] The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights [official website] on Thursday released a report arguing that strong encryption is elemental to basic human rights. [read post]
30 Jun 2004, 1:36 pm
The resolution also calls for the deployment of UN human rights monitors as well as support for similar monitors from the African Union who are already in place. [read post]
24 Jun 2011, 6:51 am
[JURIST] UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon [official website] on Thursday condemned [press release] a Bahraini court for sentencing 21 human rights advocates, political activists and opposition leaders to harsh punishments. [read post]
10 Feb 2012, 7:18 am
[JURIST] The UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) [official website] on Thursday welcomed the new electoral law [press release, PDF] adopted by the National Transitional Council (NTC) [official website, in Arabic; JURIST news archive]. [read post]
