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22 May 2018, 10:39 am
In his speech [press release] marking the 25th Anniversary of the Vienna Declaration, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein said, "human rights all around the world are no longer a priority to countries. [read post]
22 Mar 2016, 8:24 am
[JURIST] The UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief Heiner Bielefeld called [statement] Tuesday on Denmark to be more inclusive to all of its citizens [press release]. [read post]
21 Jul 2006, 1:36 pm
[JURIST] Christine Chanet [ICJ profile], the chair of the UN Human Rights Committee [official website], criticized the United States in comments to reporters Friday, accusing the US of avoiding its duty to submit to hearings regarding US conformity to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights [text]. [read post]
16 Oct 2007, 2:36 pm
[JURIST] UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon [official website] on Tuesday called for an increased effort to uphold the "fundamental human right" to food for some 854 million around the world who suffer from chronic hunger. [read post]
21 Dec 2009, 12:40 pm
[JURIST] The Guinean military junta committed crimes against humanity during the September 28 incidents at Conakry [BBC backgrounder], according to a report by a UN fact-finding mission leaked Monday. [read post]
23 Jan 2012, 10:26 am
[JURIST] The Maldives Minister of Foreign Affairs [official website] asked the UN Sunday to help them resolve [press release] what they are calling a judicial system failure over the detention of senior criminal court Judge Abdulla Mohamed. [read post]
3 Apr 2015, 12:23 pm
[JURIST] UN special rapporteur on freedom of religion and belief, Heiner Bielefeldt [official profile, PDF], on Thursday praised [press release] Lebanon's tradition of religious tolerance in a region plagued by religious fanaticism as a "ray of hope. [read post]
14 May 2015, 10:24 am
[JURIST] The Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) [TRAC backgrounder] committed "grave violations of international humanitarian law" in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) at the end of 2014, the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) reported [text, PDF; press release] Wednesday. [read post]
23 Jun 2015, 9:04 am
[JURIST] The UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights [official website] on Monday released a report [text, DOC] calling on Ireland to "take all necessary steps, including a referendum on abortion, to revise its legislation on abortion. [read post]
5 Feb 2016, 8:57 am
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein [official profile] on Friday urged nations affected by the Zika virus to review their laws and allow women access to contraceptive devices and abortion [press release]. [read post]
16 Mar 2012, 10:52 am
[JURIST] The UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances [official website] expressed concern [press release] on Wednesday over the state of enforced disappearances in Mexico. [read post]
7 Jun 2012, 12:58 pm
[JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay [official profile] on Thursday urged [statement; press release] the Pakistani government to continue to work to improve its human rights situation. [read post]
17 Jun 2012, 8:48 am
[JURIST] The UN Security Council [official website] on Sunday demanded the immediate release [press release] of a group of four staff members from the International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website] detained in Libya earlier this month. [read post]
5 Jun 2011, 4:56 pm
[JURIST] A report [text, PDF] by UN Special Rapporteur Rashida Manjoo [official profile, DOC] has said that there is a continued prevalence of violence and discriminatory treatment of women in the US, with a heightened impact on poor, minority and immigrant women. [read post]
13 Mar 2014, 9:56 am
[JURIST] Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website] on Tuesday urged [press release] the UN Human Rights Committee [official website] to find that US electronic surveillance programs [JURIST backgrounder] violate fundamental human rights. [read post]
4 Feb 2014, 4:22 am
[JURIST] The UN Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children, Joy Ngozi Ezeilo [official profile] on Friday urged [press release] the island nation of Seychelles to establish a National Action Plan to combat human trafficking, and to hasten to pass the draft anti-trafficking bill currently circulating in its legislature. [read post]
13 Dec 2016, 7:01 am
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein [official website] on Tuesday accused [press release] Syrian pro-government forces of going door to door and systematically killing civilians in at least four neighborhoods. [read post]
2 Apr 2015, 8:45 am
[JURIST] The UN Human Rights Committee [official website] on Thursday released its observational findings [press release] on human rights abuses in Russia [text], concluding that Russia must repeal laws that limit free speech and permit discrimination based on sexual orientation and race. [read post]
21 Jul 2005, 9:53 am
[JURIST] Swiss ambassador to the United Nations, Peter Maurer told the UN Security Council's counter-terrorism committee on Wednesday [PDF Swiss statement] that Switzerland believed that although targeted economic and travel sanctions against individuals were useful in countering terrorism, the scope of such sanctions must be more carefully defined. [read post]
26 Mar 2009, 10:14 am
[JURIST] The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) [official website] passed a resolution Thursday calling for laws against defamation of religion, in preparation for next month's Durban Review Conference [official website] on racism, discrimination, and xenophobia. [read post]
