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20 May 2008, 9:53 am
[JURIST] Doudou Diene [OAS profile; OHCHR backgrounder], the UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia, and related intolerance, is visiting the US this week to gather first-hand information on issues of race relations [UNHCHR press release]. [read post]
4 Mar 2010, 9:14 am
[JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay [official profile] on Thursday criticized [text] the state of human rights in Sri Lanka, Iran, and several other countries, while presenting her annual report [press release] to the 13th Session [official website] of the Human Rights Council [official website]. [read post]
11 Sep 2015, 7:08 am
[JURIST] UN human rights experts on Wednesday welcomed[press release] a report [text, PDF] pertaining to the enforced disappearance, torture and executions of students from Ayotzinapa in the Mexican state last year. [read post]
14 Apr 2016, 11:36 am
[JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein [official profile], on Thursday urged Iran to stop executions [press release] over drug offenses pending the debate of a law that would remove the mandatory death penalty as punishment for those convicted of drug offenses. [read post]
19 Apr 2016, 8:35 am
[JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein on Monday warned [press release] of an increase in torture and ill treatment in Burundi. [read post]
4 Jun 2011, 2:52 pm
[JURIST] UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon [official profile] on Friday expressed concern [statement text] regarding the escalation of violence in Syria and called for end to the repression by security and military forces. [read post]
27 Sep 2016, 7:27 am
[JURIST] UN human rights expert Dubravka Šimonović [official profile] called [press release] Monday for women to participate in a new peace process between Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT). [read post]
30 Aug 2017, 8:47 am
[JURIST] Multiple UN experts on Tuesday urged [press release] all member states to ratify the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance [text, PDF] as the rates of enforced disappearances are increasing in multiple countries in every region around the world. [read post]
24 Nov 2015, 8:57 am
The UN Human Rights Office for South-East Asia [official website] on Tuesday urged [press release] Thailand to immediately close a military detention center in Bangkok where two high-profile inmates have died in the last month. [read post]
19 Mar 2016, 1:00 pm
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) [official website] addressed the agreement between the European Union (EU) [official website] and Turkey on Friday, stating [press release] that it is important to ensure safeguards in executing the agreement and to respect international and European law in the process. [read post]
15 Apr 2016, 12:31 pm
UN experts commended [press release] Tunisia Friday on the implementation of the National Preventive Mechanism (NPM), a torture prevention body, and recommended that officials ensure that the delegates are "well-resourced and able to function in the shortest time possible. [read post]
3 Jul 2014, 2:27 pm
[JURIST] According to a report [statement] issued by the UN on Tuesday, children continued to be victims of violence and military recruitment in 23 conflict zones around the world in 2013. [read post]
3 Jun 2016, 7:39 am
[JURIST] In his report [report, PDF] issued Thursday, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon [official website] expressed shock at the increasing number of children recruited and killed in armed conflicts in several countries, including Afghanistan, Yemen, Iran and South Sudan. [read post]
9 Mar 2012, 12:41 pm
CUANDO EL BANCO VENDE LA CARTERA A UN DESPACHO DE COBRANZA Y ESTE NO LLEGA A LOS ACUERDOS CON LOS DEUDORES, TOMANDO EN CUENTA UNA DEUDA MAYOR A 50,000.00, ¿QUE PROBABALIDAD DE SER DEMANDADO EXISTE ? [read post]
1 Mar 2014, 7:55 am
[JURIST] UN Special Rapporteur Magdalena Sepulveda [official profile] urged [press release] Guinea-Bissau authorities on Friday to address the needs of those living in the country in extreme poverty. [read post]
15 Apr 2016, 12:06 pm
A delegation from the UN Subcommittee on the Prevention of Torture (SPT) [official website] called on [press release] the Chilean government Thursday to establish a national independent body to monitor "places of detention. [read post]
8 Apr 2014, 8:54 am
[JURIST] The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia [official websites], Surya Subedi, issued a statement [text] on Monday expressing concern that the Cambodian National Assembly [official website] went forward with its second session without the representative MPs of the opposition taking up their seats. [read post]
30 Jan 2015, 9:28 am
[JURIST] A group of three UN special rapporteurs urged [press release] the international community on Friday to provide humanitarian aid and funding to Malawi after it experienced the worst flooding in recent history. [read post]
16 Jul 2004, 2:25 am
The US is opposed to a permanent seat on the UN Security Council for Germany, according to a story published Friday in the Financial Times Deutschland. [read post]
17 Jun 2009, 12:18 am
[JURIST] Five UN officials on Tuesday decried the manner in which Myanmar has conducted [press release] the trial of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi [BBC profile; JURIST news archive]. [read post]
