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16 Jun 2005, 2:18 am
[JURIST] The Task Force on the United Nations [official site], a bipartisan group created by the US Congress in December 2004, released a report [text] Wednesday calling for significant changes in the UN, a number of which echo proposals advanced by the world body itself [JURIST report]. [read post]
28 Oct 2005, 11:33 am
[JURIST] The defense team for Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive] renewed its call for a change of venue [JURIST report] for his trial on Friday, this time asking UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan [official profile] to put pressure on the US and Iraqi government to move the trial to The Hague. [read post]
11 May 2016, 9:09 am
The UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria [advocacy website] on Wednesday called [press release] on factions on both sides of the Syrian civil war to ensure their targets are not unlawful civilian sites such as hospitals. [read post]
15 Mar 2006, 4:16 am
[JURIST] AP is reporting that the UN General Assembly [official website] has approved a resolution [JURIST document] creating a new Human Rights Council by a 170-4 vote, despite US opposition. [read post]
10 Jun 2016, 12:21 pm
[JURIST] The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) [official website] on Friday condemned [press briefing] a recent string of rocket and mortar attacks against residential areas and markets in Taizz, Yemen, from June 3 to June 8. [read post]
26 Oct 2016, 5:49 am
[JURIST] The UN Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (OHCHR) [official website] issued a report [materials] on Tuesday documenting the systemic discrimination of minorities in Myanmar [BBC profile] and calling for concrete steps end these human rights violations. [read post]
8 Sep 2015, 9:21 am
[JURIST] The UN's special representative for migration on Tuesday urged countries worldwide to aid in responding to the growing migration crisis in Europe. [read post]
24 Jun 2010, 7:30 am
[JURIST] UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon [official website] on Wednesday criticized plans to demolish 22 Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem [GlobalSecurity backgrounder], describing them as contrary to international law. [read post]
14 Apr 2014, 1:33 pm
[JURIST] UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran [official website] Ahmed Shaheed on Monday urged [press release] Iran to immediately halt the execution of Reyhaneh Jabbari, a woman sentenced to death of murdering Mortez Abdolali Sarbandi, a former employee of the Iranian Intelligence Ministry [official website, in Persian]. [read post]
18 Oct 2005, 9:29 am
[JURIST] UN Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers Leandro Despouy Tuesday expressed doubts about the fairness of Uzbekistan's ongoing trial of 15 alleged rebels [JURIST report] accused of precipitating the violent May uprising in the town of Andijan [JURIST news archive] that allegedly led to hundreds of casualties when government troops opened fire on protestors. [read post]
29 Apr 2011, 9:14 am
[JURIST] International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website] Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo [official profile] announced [press release] on Thursday his plans to brief the UN Security Council [official website] on May 4 on the progress of his investigation into alleged human rights violations by Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi [BBC profile; JURIST news archive]. [read post]
29 Apr 2005, 9:54 am
[JURIST] The UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) [official website; JURIST news archive] on Thursday sentenced Mika Muhimana, who was a councilor in the western Rwandan province of Kibuyea, to prison for the rest of his life for his role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide [PBS report]. [read post]
15 May 2018, 9:27 am
The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory Michael Lynk [official profile] on Tuesday condemned [press release] Israel's excessive use of force toward unarmed protesters at the Gaza fence. [read post]
12 Jun 2015, 5:47 am
UN Special Rapporteur Miklós Haraszti [official profile] on Thursday warned [press release] that Belarus continues to sentence and imprison political opponents of the government. [read post]
12 Jun 2015, 10:41 am
[JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein and a spokesperson for the EU [press releases] on Thursday demanded that the government of Pakistan reinstate its death penalty moratorium. [read post]
2 Jun 2017, 3:00 pm
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein [official profile] called on the Government of Bahrain [press release] on Friday to investigate the deaths of five protesters that occurred during a security operation last week. [read post]
28 Jul 2006, 10:15 am
[JURIST] The UN Human Rights Committee [official website] slammed current US rights practices in a report [PDF text] released Friday, saying among other things that the US needs to close all alleged secret detention facilities and allow the International Committee of the Red Cross [advocacy website] access to all detainees held at the alleged prisons. [read post]
18 Feb 2011, 12:39 pm
[JURIST] UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon [official profile] on Thursday called for an end to violence against protesters [statement text; video] in Bahrain, referencing recent attempts to quell protests sweeping across the Middle East and North Africa [BBC backgrounder]. [read post]
23 Nov 2015, 11:35 am
A UN human rights expert on Monday advised [press release] Nigerian officials to halt mass, unlawful evictions and demolitions in the region of Badia, Lagos, exoressing concern over the homelessness resulting from a lack of adequate housing and compensation to victims. [read post]
19 Jun 2007, 7:57 am
[JURIST] UN Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers Leandro Despouy [official website] Tuesday urged Iraq to stop carrying out death sentences [press release], saying that the use of capital punishment despite threats of violence against the judiciary and the continued lack of independent tribunals and adequate defense counsel violates the Universal Declaration of Human [read post]
