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10 Jul 2014, 9:45 am
[JURIST] Ground combat engagements have surpassed improvised explosive devices (IEDs) as the most common cause of conflict-related civilian deaths and injuries in Afghanistan, the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) [official website] reported [text, PDF] Wednesday. [read post]
24 Mar 2011, 7:20 pm
hace diez años adquiri una enciclopedia e hice algunos pagos pero perdi las fichas y por problemas ya no pude pagar y despues de tanto tiempo me llego un requerimiento de embargo por 11,500.00 cuando la deuda era de 4,500.00 es el primer documento que recibo que puedo hacer ?? [read post]
30 Aug 2016, 6:56 am
A UN expert on Monday urged [press release] the participants of the upcoming 21st Century Panglong Conference in Myanmar to prioritize human rights in their discussions. [read post]
28 Aug 2017, 10:22 am
Guatemala's Constitutional Court issued an order Sunday blocking the expulsion of the lead UN anti-corruption official only hours after President Jimmy Morales ordered his expulsion. [read post]
28 Mar 2008, 3:45 pm
[JURIST] UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon [official website] Friday condemned a film made by far-right Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders [personal website, in Dutch] that criticizes the Koran, calling it "offensively anti-Islamic. [read post]
28 Dec 2008, 10:55 am
[JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay [official profile; JURIST news archive] Sunday condemned [statement text] what she called Israel's "disproportionate use of force" against Hamas targets in Gaza and urged the Israeli government to "uphold international humanitarian law principles, especially those relating to proportionality in the use of military force and the prevention [read post]
6 Feb 2015, 9:44 am
Simonovic confirmed [UN report] that rights violations continue, despite a decrease in fighting. [read post]
21 Oct 2016, 10:42 am
UN High Commissioner for of Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein [official profile] on Friday expressed outrage [press release] over the human rights crisis in Syria, stating that, "[t]he violations and abuses suffered by people across the country, including the siege and bombardment of eastern Aleppo, are not simply tragedies; they also constitute crimes of historic proportions. [read post]
12 Sep 2012, 10:35 am
[JURIST] The UN Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Somalia Shamsul Bari on Wednesday welcomed [press release] the elections of the new president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud [BBC profile] and the new Speaker of the Parliament Mohamed Sheikh Osman Jawaari, urging them to respect the rule of law and human rights. [read post]
13 Apr 2006, 3:59 am
[JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour [official profile] on Thursday expressed shock and dismay [press release] at the use of violence and arbitrary detention by police and security forces in the ongoing unrest [JURIST news archive] over pro-democracy protests in Nepal [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
18 Mar 2014, 6:36 am
[JURIST] At the completion of a five day assessment of Jordan's implementation of water and sanitation access for all, UN Special Rapporteur on the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation Catarina de Albuquerque [official profile] released a preliminary report [press release] concluding that Jordan's current access system to water and sewage creates injustices. [read post]
19 Jan 2008, 2:17 pm
[JURIST] UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories John Dugard [academic profile] said Friday that Israel's recent attack on a Hamas government office in Gaza which injured around 50 civilians and the killings of some 40 Palestinians in the past week should be considered war crimes [statement], noting that the attacks violate the Fourth Geneva Convention's ban on [read post]
21 Nov 2016, 11:30 am
[JURIST] A proposed Israeli law legalizing more than 100 outposts in the occupied West Bank would violate Israeli and international law, stated [statement] a UN Special Rapporteur on Monday. [read post]
1 Feb 2008, 8:24 am
[JURIST] The UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women [official website] Friday called for Saudi Arabia [JURIST news archive] to abolish laws that give men complete guardianship over women. [read post]
13 Jan 2017, 11:29 am
The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) [official website] on Friday urged [press briefing] the governments of European countries to do more to protect refugees from freezing conditions. [read post]
15 Jan 2008, 7:56 am
[JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour [official website] Tuesday urged [OHCHR press release] the Sri Lankan government to abide by international law as a 2002 ceasefire with the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) [group website; CFR backgrounder], or "Tamil Tigers," expires Wednesday. [read post]
2 Sep 2015, 10:02 am
[JURIST] UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression David Kaye [official profile] spoke out [press release] Tuesday against prison sentences handed down to three Al Jazeera journalists in Egypt earlier this week. [read post]
1 Jul 2011, 8:58 am
[JURIST] UN Office of the Commissioner on Human Rights [official website] Independent Expert on foreign debt and human rights, Cephas Lumina, warned Greece that implementation of the latest batch of austerity measures to solve its economic crisis [BBC backgrounder] could result in serious violations of basic human rights, Lumina said in a statement [press release] released Friday. [read post]
2 Mar 2018, 11:39 am
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein [official profile] on Friday warned [press release] Syria that air strikes, shelling and use of toxic agents in Eastern Ghouta likely constitute war crimes. [read post]
17 Mar 2012, 12:34 pm
[JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay [official website] stated on Thursday that Guatemalan government authorities remain willing to solve human rights issues in the country but nonetheless have failed to comply [press release] with the 1996 Peace Accords [text] which ended the country's 36-year civil war. [read post]
