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5 May 2011, 2:09 pm
[JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay [official profile] on Thursday urged the government of Bahrain [OHCHR materials] to release detained activists [press release] and exercise restraint against protesters. [read post]
15 Jun 2011, 10:05 am
[JURIST] The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) [official website] announced Wednesday that Rwandan genocide suspect and former Hutu militia leader Bernard Munyagishari was transferred from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to the UN Detention Facility in Tanzania on Tuesday. [read post]
21 Feb 2007, 7:41 am
[JURIST] The number of extra-judicial killings in the Philippines is critically high, according to UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions [official website] Philip Alston [NYU Law profile], who on Wednesday reported on his 10-day investigation into the surge of political murders in the Philippines [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
12 Nov 2008, 10:56 am
[JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay [official profile] on Tuesday urged [press release] Afghan President Hamad Karzai [official website; BBC profile] to put a stop to executions and join nations calling for a death penalty moratorium. [read post]
24 May 2012, 10:05 am
[JURIST] Both the Syrian government and anti-government groups are killing opponents, torturing children as young as 10 years old and committing other human rights abuses, a UN-appointed group of human rights experts reported [text, PDF] Thursday. [read post]
3 Apr 2015, 10:44 am
[JURIST] A United Nations internal inquiry [report] on Thursday concluded that members of the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) used "unauthorized and excessive force" resulting in the deaths of three civilian protesters and the injuries of four other individuals in January. [read post]
25 Jul 2017, 7:34 am
[JURIST] In a statement [press release] to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights [official website], Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Myanmar Yanghee Lee [UN profile] voiced her concern on Monday over the worsening human rights situation in Myanmar. [read post]
12 Feb 2018, 10:31 am
A group of UN human rights experts said [press release] Monday that the detention of two Supreme Court judges in the Maldives is an attack on the independence of the judiciary and undermines the court's ability to work freely and effectively. [read post]
14 Mar 2006, 8:15 pm
[JURIST] UN officials from the Office of Administration of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal are urging the timely start of the genocide trial of aging Khmer Rouge [JURIST news archive] leaders, noting the weekend death of Slobodan Milosevic in the fifth year of his high-profile war crimes trial at The Hague. [read post]
6 Apr 2007, 4:41 am
[JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour [official profile] released [press release] two reports Friday detailing alleged rapes and disappearances carried out by militia soldiers in the Darfur region of Sudan [JURIST news archives] at the end of 2006. [read post]
3 Mar 2008, 10:43 am
[JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour [official profile] Monday called on Israel [press release] to conduct an impartial investigation into the deaths of Palestinians during recent Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip [BBC backgrounder], noting that as an occupying power Israel "bears a particular responsibility under international human rights and humanitarian law to [read post]
28 Mar 2010, 10:22 am
[JURIST] The UN Human Rights Committee [official website] has called on Uzbekistan to carry out an independent investigation into the May 2005 Andijan clashes [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive] between Uzbek protesters, soldiers and police that human rights groups claim killed up to 500 people [JURIST report]. [read post]
10 Nov 2010, 10:47 am
[JURIST] UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro [official profile] on Tuesday praised the nations that have signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) [text; official website] and urged more states to join the convention [statement] at the First Meeting of States Parties [official website]. [read post]
18 Mar 2011, 2:05 pm
[JURIST] The UN peacekeeping operation (UNOCI) [official website] in the Ivory Coast [BBC country profile; JURIST news archive] on Thursday denounced the shelling of a market [press release, in French] in the capital Abidjan which killed 25 to 30 civilians and injured scores more, calling it a possible war crime. [read post]
8 Nov 2016, 4:42 am
The UK has infringed upon the rights of disabled persons starting with welfare reforms in 2012 [BBC report], according to a report [text, DOC] issued Monday by the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities [official website]. [read post]
21 May 2004, 1:50 pm
Following up on a story reported Thursday on JURIST's Paper Chase, the UN Security Council has delayed a vote that would determine whether any US peacekeepers who committed war crimes would continue to enjoy immunity from prosecution in the International Criminal Court at The Hague. [read post]
23 Jul 2005, 12:03 pm
[JURIST] A senior Royal Nepalese Army [official website] official said Saturday that six Nepalese soldiers who were part of a UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo [BBC country profile] have been convicted of sexual abuse. [read post]
7 Mar 2007, 4:22 am
[JURIST] The US State Department [official website] announced Tuesday that once again the United States will not run [press briefing transcript; video] for a seat on the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council [official website; JURIST news archive]. [read post]
30 Jul 2010, 8:29 am
[JURIST] The UN Human Rights Committee [official website] on Friday called on Israel to cooperate [report, DOC] with an international inquiry 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]
22 Feb 2011, 11:27 am
[JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay [official profile] said Tuesday that the Libyan government's response to recent protests may amount to crimes against humanity [press release]. [read post]
