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17 Jan 2015, 7:25 am
[JURIST] UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon [official profile] joined El Salvador in a ceremony [press release] Friday commemorating the twenty-third anniversary of the signing of the Chapultepec Peace Accords [PDF]. [read post]
12 Dec 2004, 11:30 am
[JURIST] The Bush administration has bugged the communications of UN International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei in an effort to find evidence that could be used to oust him from his position and replace him with someone more to Washington's liking, according to three White House officials cited in a story in Sunday's Washington Post. [read post]
27 Mar 2008, 10:51 am
HRW's press release comes two weeks before the UN Human Rights Council [official website] is scheduled to hold the first [read post]
11 Jun 2015, 7:40 am
[JURIST] According to an unreleased report obtained by the Associated Press [official website], some members of a UN peacekeeping [official website] mission engaged in sexual exploitation with more than 200 Haitian women, telling them that they had to in order to obtain necessary food and medication. [read post]
5 Feb 2014, 10:15 am
[JURIST] The UN international expert on transitional justice Pablo de Greiff on Wednesday, urged [press release] Spanish authorities to trust their democracy and "not postpone measures for justice, truth and reparation for the victims of human rights violations" committed during the 1936-39 Spanish Civil War [BBC backgrounder] and the Franco era. [read post]
18 Jun 2007, 1:00 pm
[JURIST] Senior UN officials from the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) [official websites] Monday urged [press release] countries to cooperate in the capture of numerous fugitives who remain at large. [read post]
20 Jan 2017, 6:36 am
UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders Michel Forst [official website] on Thursday condemned [press release] the execution of Raramuri indigenous activist Isidro Baldenegro Lopez. [read post]
31 Jan 2014, 10:48 am
[JURIST] The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights [official website] spokesperson Rupert Colville on Friday voiced extreme concern [press release] about the increasing amount of violent attacks on members of the media in Egypt. [read post]
3 May 2016, 1:28 pm
[JURIST] Three UN human rights experts on Tuesday urged [press release] action to address the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, saying it iis "[n]ot just about water, but human rights. [read post]
20 May 2016, 6:36 am
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein [official profile] on Thursday welcomed the measures [press release] being taken by pharmaceutical giant Pfizer to prevent the use of its drugs in state-sponsored execution by lethal injection. [read post]
2 Dec 2013, 5:55 am
[JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay [official profile] said Monday that there is growing evidence that the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad [BBC profile] is committing war crimes and crimes against humanity during the nation's ongoing civil war [JURIST backgrounder]. [read post]
16 Sep 2016, 4:41 pm
[JURIST] The UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan [official website] concluded [press release] its first visit to South Sudan on Thursday and expressed concern regarding the ongoing pattern of human rights violations in South Sudan. [read post]
30 Aug 2017, 12:44 pm
[JURIST] The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) [official website] issued a report [text, PDF] on Wednesday highlighting the human rights violations abuses that have been committed in Venezuela amid this year's anti-government protests. [read post]
15 Sep 2011, 10:56 am
[JURIST] The UN Security Council [official website] on Wednesday extended the terms for prosecutors from the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and Rwanda (ICTR) [official websites] until December 31, 2014. [read post]
19 Mar 2014, 9:48 am
[JURIST] UN human rights experts on Tuesday called for [press release] a full investigation into the death of Chinese human rights activist Cao Shunli. [read post]
4 Jun 2014, 7:28 am
[JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay [official website] called [press release] on Chinese authorities Tuesday to release activists that have been detained for "creating a disturbance" by discussing the twenty-fifth anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. [read post]
16 Mar 2006, 7:27 am
[JURIST] Manfred Nowak [official profile, DOC], the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture [official website] told reporters Thursday that the European Union should push the US to close its detention center at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] due to documented human rights violations [OHCHR report], and that EU countries should put some of the detainees on trial in their own courts. [read post]
26 Oct 2011, 3:05 pm
BUENAS TARDES, MI NOMBRE ES ROLANDO MONTALVO CHAGALA, INICIE UN CREDITO HIPOTERACARIO CON BBVA BANCOMER Y NO HE RECIBIDO LA VIVIENDA POR TENER PROBLEMAS DE FILTRACIÓN Y ACABADOS, DADO A LO ANTERIOR ME ATRASE EN LOS PAGOS AL BANCO DESDE EL MES DE MARZO DE 2011, QUE PROBLEMAS LEGALES ME PUEDE CAUSAR SI NO QUIERO CONTINUAR PAGANDO EL CREDITO. [read post]
14 Oct 2011, 11:17 am
[JURIST] UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food [official website], Olivier De Schutter [official profile], announced on Thursday that he supports a Mexican constitutional reform which recognizes the right to food [press release]. [read post]
29 Nov 2013, 7:17 am
[JURIST] A UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) [official website] issued a 60-page multimedia report [materials] on Friday that Syrian refugee children are suffering trauma from the Syrian Civil War [JURIST backgrounder], which has killed over 120,000 people. [read post]
