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24 Jun 2015, 7:00 am
[JURIST] UN High Commissioner on Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein [official profile] announced [statement] Tuesday the opening of a UN office to specifically monitor human rights in North Korea (DPRK). [read post]
2 Apr 2016, 1:35 pm
The UN Security Council [official website] requested on Friday that UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon [official profile] consult with the government of Burundi and members of the African Union about an option that would enable the council to deploy a UN police component to Burundi. [read post]
8 Aug 2011, 10:19 am
[JURIST] Human rights abuses continue to plague various regions of Iraq, the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) and the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) [official websites] concluded in a report [text, PDF] released Monday. [read post]
8 Jun 2012, 8:06 am
In the press release, Margaret Sekaggya, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights... [read post]
26 Sep 2014, 6:38 am
[JURIST] The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) [official website] and a number of UN officials on Thursday urged global leaders to abolish the death penalty. [read post]
30 Mar 2007, 2:19 pm
[JURIST] A ground-breaking UN disabilities rights treaty [JURIST news archive] opened for signature [UN press release] Friday. [read post]
2 Sep 2011, 12:23 pm
In a UN-produced report released by the New York Times amid objections from Turkey and Israel, the UN found that the naval blockade of the Gaza Strip was lawful but that Israel's response to Turkish ships attempting to penetrate the blockade were... [read post]
26 Mar 2011, 8:02 am
[JURIST] The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) [official website] will send an independent, international commission to investigate allegations of serious human rights abuses during post-election violence in the Ivory Coast [JURIST news archive], the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) [official website] announced [press release] Friday. [read post]
12 Nov 2016, 8:00 am
Rachel Kyte [official profile], Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General and CEO of the Sustainable Energy... [read post]
22 Jun 2011, 9:11 am
[JURIST] A UN official on Tuesday denounced continued human rights abuses [statement] against civilians in the South Kordofan region of the Sudan [BBC backgrounder]. [read post]
21 Aug 2016, 10:03 am
The United Nations (UN) [official website] on Friday said that it is becoming increasingly alarmed by "catastrophic" levels of suffering in Nigeria, as more rights violations are being exposed while the anti-Boko Haram military campaign advances [UN News Centre report]. [read post]
25 Apr 2015, 11:59 am
[JURIST] The United Nations (UN) [official website] on Friday reported [UN report] that the intense fighting in Yemen has claimed the lives of approximately 551 civilians, 115 of which were children. [read post]
29 Nov 2007, 4:12 pm
[JURIST] UN International Independent Investigation Commission (IIIC) [authorizing resolution; UN materials] head Serge Brammertz [ICC profile; JURIST news archive] told the UN Security Council Wednesday that unspecified "persons of interest" have been identified and other progress has been made in the international investigation into the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq [read post]
27 Oct 2011, 7:37 am
The comments came during a meeting with Mahinda Samarasinghe [UN News Centre report], the Special Envoy of the President of Sri Lanka on Human Rights, as part of the UN's ongoing dialogue with the Colombo government [VOA report]. [read post]
30 Jul 2015, 8:07 am
The new tribunal was introduced [UN News Centre report] to create a larger technical investigation into the crash. [read post]
4 Sep 2014, 9:21 am
According to the report, released by the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) and the UN Human Rights Office, approximately 150,000 people have fled the country altogether, while 100,000 remain internally displaced. [read post]
16 Oct 2014, 8:03 am
The UN Joint Human Rights Office in the DRC (UNJHRO) [UN country page] urged the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) [BBC... [read post]
10 Aug 2017, 8:54 am
The Codification Division of the UN Office of Legal Affairs recently added new lectures to the UN Audiovisual Library of International Law. [read post]
5 Apr 2017, 12:07 pm
UN Secretary-General António Guterres voiced deep regret [press release] regarding US decision to cut financial support for the UN population agency. [read post]
6 Jan 2017, 2:01 pm
[JURIST] The UN announced [UN News Centre report] on Friday that Yanghee Lee [official profile], the UN Special Rapporteur on Myanmar, will travel to the country to assess the human rights situation following concerns over the safety of refugees in Kachin State and reports of increased violence in Rakhine State. [read post]
