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7 Feb 2014, 9:54 am
[JURIST] UN Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights [official website], Farida Shaheed [official profile] announced [press release] Friday that she will launch a new study on how marketing and advertising affect cultural rights. [read post]
6 May 2015, 11:38 am
[JURIST] The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) [official website] launched a website on Tuesday aimed at disproving [official website] the myths of albinism, the rare condition which is still misunderstood both socially and medically. [read post]
3 Feb 2007, 3:59 am
[JURIST] The UN Working Group of Experts on People of Africa Descent [official website] Friday called for a global ban on racial profiling [JURIST news archive] at the conclusion of its annual 5-day session [background materials]. [read post]
15 Nov 2004, 7:09 am
Six other aid agencies have also called for immediate action, saying previous UN resolutions have not been backed up [read post]
23 Jul 2010, 1:56 pm
[JURIST] The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) [official website] on Friday named the members [press release] of its fact-finding mission into the May flotilla incident [JURIST news archive], in which Israeli forces raided several Turkish ships bound for the blockaded Gaza Strip [BBC backgrounder]. [read post]
12 May 2012, 1:11 pm
[JURIST] Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights Ivan Simonovic [official profile] on Friday addressed [UN News Centre] the recent increase in violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive] and the resulting human rights violations.The tension between government forces and dissident groups and militia has escalated during the recent weeks and fighting has resumed. [read post]
25 Nov 2013, 9:27 am
[JURIST] The UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief, Heiner Bielefeldt [official profile], on Monday urged [statement] the government of Malaysia to overturn the nation's ban on a Catholic publication's use of the word "Allah" to refer to God. [read post]
27 Jan 2014, 12:08 pm
[JURIST] The UN Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers [official profile] on Monday urged [press release] Qatar [BBC backgrounder] to consolidate its justice system and address its shortcomings. [read post]
22 Mar 2015, 9:14 am
[JURIST] Pakistani Authorities have postponed the execution of an inmate convicted as a minor, a decision welcomed [press release] Friday by a group of independent UN human rights experts. [read post]
3 Jun 2014, 7:08 am
[JURIST] Three independent UN human rights [official website] experts on Monday urged [press release] Pakistan to adopt urgent legislation to put an end to faith-based killings and protect the country's Ahmadiyya Muslim community, whose faith is currently outlawed. [read post]
11 Jun 2016, 9:21 am
The UN Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (OHCHR) [official website] on Friday cautioned [press release] Israel that their response to the deadly Tel Aviv attack earlier this week may be violating international law by implementing prohibitive collective punishment. [read post]
1 May 2018, 10:18 am
UN human rights experts called [press release] for a retrial on Monday following flawed trial procedure and due process violations in the conviction of four men sentenced to death in the Bahraini High Military Court in December. [read post]
27 Jan 2015, 4:09 am
[JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein [official profile] made a statement [text] on Monday ahead of the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, 70 years after the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp was liberated. [read post]
6 Feb 2015, 10:51 am
[JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein [official profile] on Thursdaycalled for [official website] for a change in education practices and governmental activities in order to curtail the state of current worldwide atrocities. [read post]
31 May 2017, 1:26 pm
[JURIST] A new report [text, PDF] released Tuesday by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) [official website] claims that human rights violations within the Central African Republic (CAR)[BBC profile] may amount to war crimes. [read post]
13 Jun 2012, 1:00 pm
[JURIST] The UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs on Wednesday said [statement, PDF; press release] that Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip [BBC backgrounder] must be lifted to prevent further human rights violations. [read post]
8 Sep 2017, 1:37 pm
[JURIST] The US Senate Appropriations Committee unanimously approved [press release] $51.35 billion in funding on Thursday for state and foreign appropriations [text, PDF], including $10 million to help fund the UN agency that oversees the Paris Climate Agreement. [read post]
29 Jul 2016, 11:01 am
[JURIST] Former president of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva [BBC profile] filed a petition with the UN Human Rights Committee [official website] Thursday, claiming his corruption investigation has been riddled with impartiality and abuse of power by the judge. [read post]
29 Aug 2014, 8:47 am
[JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay [official website] announced the findings of a report [press release; full report, PDF] on Friday detailing the harsh war-like conditions in eastern Ukraine that have resulted in the deaths of hundreds of civilians in recent weeks. [read post]
26 Sep 2005, 6:52 pm
[JURIST] UN human rights officials have accused the government of Togo [JURIST news archive] of using over-zealous force at the time of the heavily disputed April presidential elections [JURIST report], saying that government security and armed forces killed 400-500 people and wounded thousands more. [read post]
