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14 Jan 2015, 12:27 pm
[JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) [official website] Antonio Guterres on Wednesday appealed [press release] for an increase in funding to help Syrian refugees. [read post]
3 Mar 2017, 10:45 am
The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) [official website] reported [text, DOC] Friday that Sri Lanka has made slow progress towards establishing transitional justice. [read post]
3 Mar 2017, 10:15 am
[JURIST] A UN cultural rights expert presented a report [materials] to the Human Rights Council [official website] on Friday expressing concern over the normalization of extreme rhetoric in politics, culture and media all over the globe. [read post]
16 Apr 2014, 8:01 am
[JURIST] An independent UN human rights expert on Tuesday urged [press release] Israel to prevent settlers from taking over a building in the West Bank city of Hebron. [read post]
19 Aug 2005, 6:38 am
[JURIST] Grundfos [corporate website], a Danish company that produces industrial pumps, admitted Friday that two employees paid kickbacks to authorities in Saddam Hussein's government under the UN oil-for-food program [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
23 Apr 2012, 10:05 am
[JURIST] The UN Security Council [official website] on Saturday urged immediate restoration of constitutional order [press release] in Guinea-Bissau [BBC backgrounder]. [read post]
2 Jun 2015, 2:03 pm
The UN Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Somalia, Bahame Tom Mukirya Nyanduga, on Monday urged the government of Somalia to continue working to increase human rights protections [press release]. [read post]
28 Feb 2018, 10:31 am
The UN Special Rapporteur on torture expressed concerns [press release] Tuesday after allegations of torture and human rights violations committed by Turkish police arose following the end of his visit in December 2016. [read post]
25 Aug 2005, 5:05 am
[JURIST] UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke [official profile] Wednesday denounced a statement issued by the UN's Special Rapporteur on Torture [official website] Manfred Nowak urging the UK to refrain from deporting Islamic radicals [JURIST report] for fear that they will face torture by their home countries. [read post]
18 Feb 2008, 3:49 am
[JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour [official profile; JURIST news archive] on Sunday criticized Nepal [press release, PDF] for failing to hold military and government officials accountable for human rights abuses. [read post]
27 Mar 2009, 7:03 am
[JURIST] The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) [official website] on Friday passed a resolution condemning Myanmar for human rights violations [press release] and calling on the military junta to desist from politically motivated arrests and release nearly 2,100 political prisoners, which include Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi [BBC profile; JURIST news archive]. [read post]
23 May 2017, 10:38 am
A UN panel released a draft treaty [text, PDF] in Geneva on Monday that would ban the use of all nuclear weapons. [read post]
13 Feb 2016, 12:36 pm
A spokesperson for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) [official website], Melissa Fleming, expressed concern over the growing number of migrants arriving in Europe and urged [press release] all EU member states to implement measures agreed on last year to ensure human treatment of all refugees entering their nations. [read post]
5 Nov 2007, 11:27 am
[JURIST] UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon [official website] called for countries to hold to treaties restricting chemical and explosive weapons in remarks at two separate meetings Monday. [read post]
8 Oct 2008, 4:01 pm
[JURIST] The UN General Assembly [official website] voted [press release] Wednesday to ask the International Court of Justice (ICJ) [official website] for a non-binding advisory opinion on the legality of the unilaterally-proclaimed independence of Kosovo [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
11 Apr 2011, 10:49 am
[JURIST] The UN Security Council [official website] unanimously approved [video] a resolution [1976 (2011) text] Monday to consider creating new laws, courts and prisons specialized to address the growing problem of piracy [JURIST news archive] off the coast of Somalia. [read post]
13 Dec 2011, 7:07 am
[JURIST] The International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website] on Monday referred the Republic of Malawi [decision, PDF; press release] to the UN Security Council and the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute [official websites] for failing to arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir [case materials; JURIST news archive] when he visited the country for a trade summit in October. [read post]
7 Jan 2015, 10:40 am
[JURIST] UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon [official profile] on Wednesday spoke out against the attack against the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo [corporate website], expressing his shock and appall at at the actions of the terrorists who carried it out. [read post]
30 Aug 2017, 9:52 am
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein on Tuesday urged [press release] people to refrain from violence against Myanmar security forces, for authorities to adhere to human rights law, and for authorities to prohibit use of provocative media usage in the northern regions of Rakhine state. [read post]
21 Mar 2018, 6:52 am
An independent UN human rights expert on Tuesday submitted a report [text, PDF] to the Human Rights Council in Geneva highlighting Israel's failure to ensure the health and welfare of Palestinians living under their control. [read post]
