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18 Aug 2011, 8:02 am
[JURIST] Syrian government forces cracking down on the opposition may be committing crimes against humanity, according to a report [text, PDF; press release] published Thursday by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) [official website]. [read post]
25 Oct 2011, 7:57 am
[JURIST] The UN Security Council [official website] adopted a resolution [text] Monday urging member states to make piracy a crime and establish anti-piracy courts [webcast] because of the rise in maritime piracy crime off the coast of Somalia. [read post]
10 Jul 2012, 11:49 am
[JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay [official profile; JURIST news archive] on Tuesday urged [press release] the government of Kyrgyzstan [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive] to ensure the protection of human rights and the rule of law. [read post]
28 Aug 2012, 8:32 am
[JURIST] UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon [official profile] on Monday urged the international community to prevent the illegal trade of weapons [statement; press release], which are responsible for killing more than 500,000 people every year. [read post]
28 Apr 2017, 9:59 am
UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression, David Kaye, is joined in conversation by Nani Jansen Reventlow, a Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center and Adviser to the Cyberlaw Clinic, about his upcoming thematic report on digital access and human rights, as well as the most burning issues regarding free speech online and digital rights including encryption, fake news, online gender-based abuse and the global epidemic of internet censorship. [read post]
23 Jun 2015, 7:33 am
[JURIST] A report [text, DOC; materials] released Monday by the UN Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza Conflict [official website] found that both Israel and Hamas may have committed war crimes during the conflict. [read post]
12 Jan 2016, 1:02 pm
UN human rights experts called [press release] Monday for a review of the UK's draft Investigatory Powers bill [text, PDF]. [read post]
15 Jan 2011, 8:00 am
[JURIST] UN Special Rapporteur Richard Falk on Friday alleged that Israeli authorities had committed several illegal acts [press release] in the Palestinian territories [UNICEF backgrounder] since the start of the year, making the prospect of a viable Palestinian state unlikely. [read post]
13 Aug 2016, 8:45 am
A spokesperson for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) [official website] reiterated previous calls [press release] to Australia Friday to end offshore detention on Nauru. [read post]
2 Nov 2020, 6:16 pm
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7 Nov 2007, 10:22 am
In his report [PDF text] to the General Assembly's Third Committee [official website], UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and [read post]
1 Oct 2010, 11:55 am
[JURIST] The UN on Friday released a report on war crimes [text, PDF] and human rights abuses in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). [read post]
23 May 2011, 12:55 pm
[JURIST] Continued ethnic violence in Myanmar presents "serious limitations" to the government's transition to democracy, according to Tomas Ojea Quintana [official profile; JURIST news archive], a UN Special Rapporteur for human rights in Myanmar. [read post]
18 Jul 2012, 10:44 am
[JURIST] UN Special Rapporteur on arbitrary executions Christof Heyns [official website] on Tuesday urged the US not to execute [press release] two individuals with "psychosocial disabilities" who are set to be put to death in Georgia and Texas. [read post]
23 Sep 2015, 6:04 am
[JURIST] Two UN human rights experts on Tuesday called on [press release] the Philippines government to investigate the deaths of three human rights defenders in the province of Surigao del Sur, Mindanao. [read post]
22 Dec 2014, 1:41 pm
[JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein on Monday expressed deep regret [press release] at the lifting of the moratorium on the death penalty in Pakistan and Jordan [JURIST report] in recent days, stressing that no judiciary can be infallible. [read post]
21 Dec 2016, 6:10 am
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein [official website] called Tuesday for a murder investigation [press release] of Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte after Duterte admitted to killing people while he served as mayor of Davao. [read post]
31 Jan 2017, 1:10 pm
[JURIST] In a statement [text] Tuesday, UN Secretary-General António Guterres expressed "concerned [over] the decisions that around the world have been undermining the integrity of the international refugee protection regime. [read post]
23 Oct 2015, 8:13 am
[JURIST] Governments must commit themselves to further action to globally improve housing conditions and urban development, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to housing Leilani Farha [official profile] said [press release] Thursday. [read post]
30 Sep 2015, 6:29 am
[JURIST] The UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights [official website] on Tuesday expressed deep concern [press release] over human rights abuses committed by the World Bank [official website], going as far as to call the World Bank a "human rights-free zone. [read post]
