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1 Oct 2010, 8:18 am
[JURIST] The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) [official website] adopted resolutions [press release] Thursday establishing the mandate of a Special Rapporteur for freedom of association and assembly. [read post]
4 Feb 2015, 6:46 am
[JURIST] The UN Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers on Tuesday urged [press release] Portuguese authorities to increase efforts to ensure a wider access to the country's judicial system. [read post]
29 Mar 2006, 4:41 pm
[JURIST] The UN Security Council [official website] Wednesday agreed on a statement demanding that Iran immediately suspend its nuclear enrichment program. [read post]
2 Sep 2006, 4:07 am
[JURIST] The UN Human Rights Council (HRC) [official website] on Friday appointed three experts to investigate alleged international law violations by Israel in the ongoing Middle East conflict [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
28 Oct 2010, 9:01 am
[JURIST] UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon [official website] said Thursday that the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) [official website] will decide whether to prosecute additional Khmer Rouge [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive] officers. [read post]
24 Oct 2011, 8:33 am
[JURIST] The UN Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers [official website] Gabriela Knaul [profile] called Friday for integration of a gender perspective [report, PDF] into countries' criminal justice systems on. [read post]
12 Oct 2016, 6:20 am
[JURIST] Maina Kiai [official website], UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, warned [press release] Tuesday that the Egyptian government "seems to be systematically attacking civil society in an effort to silence its voice. [read post]
2 Apr 2018, 1:40 pm
The Israeli government reached a common understanding [press release] Monday with the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) to remove half of the African asylum seekers to Western countries. [read post]
6 Apr 2018, 2:07 pm
UN human rights experts on Friday urged [press release] the international community to conduct an independent and impartial investigation into the killings by Israeli security forces of at least 16 Palestinian protesters near the Gaza fence. [read post]
29 Aug 2016, 2:13 pm
UN experts on environment and indigenous peoples rights on Monday urged [press release] governments throughout the world to make human rights a priority in environmental conservation efforts, stating that protecting biodiversity is a human rights issue. [read post]
30 Oct 2007, 7:52 am
[JURIST] UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and counterterrorism Martin Scheinin [official website] called on the US in a report [DOC text] released Monday to quickly prosecute or release terror suspects detained at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] so that the US can close the detention center. [read post]
21 Jan 2011, 6:49 am
[JURIST] A group of independent UN human rights experts will investigate the 2009 prison death [JURIST report] of Moscow lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, his former colleague William Browder announced Thursday. [read post]
14 Jul 2011, 12:31 pm
[JURIST] Jailed Iranian journalist Isa Saharkhiz [Iran Press profile] on Wednesday urged [letter, DOC, in Persian] UN Human Rights Special Rapporteur Dr. [read post]
1 Jan 2016, 2:59 am
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) [official website] has appealed [press release] to all the parties involved in the Yemen conflict to allow the safe passage of food to the city of Taiz where people have been going hungry for weeks. [read post]
17 Jan 2017, 10:25 am
[JURIST] Three UN human rights experts on Tuesday urged Iran to halt the possible execution of a juvenile [press release] that was sentenced to death for fatally stabbing a man. [read post]
1 Apr 2010, 6:47 am
[JURIST] A UN rights official said Wednesday that immigrant workers entering Japan through government-run training programs face widespread racism and discrimination [press release], urging the country to increase immigrant protections. [read post]
10 Jul 2011, 10:24 am
[JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay [official profile] on Sunday urged Senegal not to deport former Chadian president Hissene Habre [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] back to Chad, where he has been sentenced to death. [read post]
22 Oct 2015, 11:57 am
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein [official bio] on Thursday urged [press release] the Czech Republic to stop detaining migrants and refugees in "degrading" conditions. [read post]
25 Nov 2013, 10:55 am
[JURIST] UN Special Rapporteur Sheila Keetharuth [official website] on Monday urged [press release] the Eritrean government to respect its obligation to human rights, and called for protection for the hundreds of thousands of citizens currently fleeing the country for safety. [read post]
26 Jun 2014, 6:17 am
[JURIST] Three UN rights experts on Wednesday condemned [press release] the city of Detroit's Water and Sewage Department (DWSD) [official website] disconnection of water services for failure to pay due to lack of means as a violation of human rights. [read post]
