Search for: "UN" Results 521 - 540 of 71,293
Sorted by Relevance | Sort by Date
RSS Subscribe: 20 results | 100 results
30 Aug 2005, 7:41 am
[JURIST] The 32 UN ambassadors who make up the intergovernmental negotiating group [JURIST report] named by the UN General Assembly president last week continued negotiations Tuesday on the text to be submitted to September's summit on UN reform [UN materials]. [read post]
12 Oct 2005, 1:16 am
Merimee was France's representative to the UN from 1991-95 and worked as a special adviser to UN Kofi Annan from 1999-2002. [read post]
11 Jun 2014, 5:35 am by Peter Snyder
[JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay [official profile; JURIST news archive] delivered her final address [text] to the UN Human Rights Council [official website] as High Commissioner for Human Rights Tuesday. [read post]
13 Jul 2005, 8:10 am
[JURIST] Despite calls for urgent action by advocacy groups [JURIST report] and a UN panel recommendation, UN officials indicated Wednesday that the UN Security Council was moving slowly on the establishment of a tribunal in investigate the East Timor violence of 1999 [BBC backgrounder], waiting to publish the full UN panel report proposing the establishment of a tribunal [JURIST report] until [read post]
27 Feb 2006, 3:34 pm
[JURIST] The US vowed Monday to reject a proposal to establish a UN Human Rights Council [JURIST report] presented by UN General Assembly President Jan Eliasson [UN profile] last week. [read post]
19 Aug 2003, 5:18 pm
Sergio Vieira de Mello, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and UN special envoy to Iraq, was among those killed in a bomb blast earlier today at UN HQ in Baghdad, Iraq. [read post]
27 Feb 2017, 10:53 am by Lawrenz Fares
[JURIST] UN Secretary-General António Guterres [official website] urged [UN News Centre report] member states of the UN Human Rights Council [official website] to defend human rights in response to the global rise in populism and extremism on Monday. [read post]
24 Nov 2005, 4:16 pm
A draft given to the UN indicates that Syria wants chief UN investigator and German prosecutor Detlev Mehlis to only question suspects and [read post]
19 Apr 2015, 1:13 pm by Dominic Yobbi
[JURIST] UN officials congregating at the 13th UN Crime Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice [official website] in Doha, Qatar ,on Saturday called on [UN News Centre report] member states to implement new standards [text, PDF] for eliminating violence against children. [read post]
3 Jul 2012, 12:59 pm by Rebecca DiLeonardo
[JURIST] UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon [official profile] on Tuesday called on the UN member states to establish a comprehensive arms treaty to limit the flow of conventional arms to terrorists and criminal networks. [read post]
5 Jun 2015, 8:49 am by Colleen Mallick
[JURIST] UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon [official website] announced Wednesday that in light of allegations of sexual abuse in the Central African Republic (CAR) by foreign troops not under UN control, an External Independent Review will be set up to examine the UN's handling of such allegations. [read post]
5 Oct 2007, 11:12 am
Ibrahim Gambari [UN profile] was reporting [press release] to the UN Security [read post]
2 Jun 2008, 6:58 am
[JURIST] The UN's new Universal Periodic Review [UN backgrounder, PDF] has made great strides in protecting human rights but still has far to go, departing UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour [official profile] said in her last address [text; recorded video] to the UN Human Rights Council [official website] Monday. [read post]
22 Jan 2015, 8:29 am by Alexandra Farone
The UN International Commission of Inquiry on the CAR was set up by the UN Security Council [official website] in 2013 with the... [read post]
7 Jun 2018, 6:02 am by Elizabeth Lowman
The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees [official website] and the UN Development Programme [official website] signed [press release] a Memorandum of Understanding with the government of Myanmar on Wednesday that will give the UN agencies access to the Rakhine state. [read post]
13 Jun 2012, 11:28 am by Sung Un Kim
The peacekeepers, who were serving with the UN Operation in the Ivory Coast (UNOCI) [official website], were killed [UN News Centre report] last Friday near the border town of Tai in southwestern... [read post]
19 Aug 2016, 2:58 pm by Mark Casper
The report was put together by the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) and the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) [official websites] and contains numerous accounts from those who have survived ISIL's actions... [read post]