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14 Jun 2005, 3:53 am
[JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour, formerly a justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, said Monday in an interview that the Canadian high court will likely have to revisit a 2002 deportation ruling that may conflict with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights [text], banning the deportation of suspects to countries where they face a real risk of torture [read post]
16 Feb 2016, 7:33 am
[JURIST] A UN human rights expert on Monday urged [press release] the UK and Sweden to accept the recent decision which determined that Julian Assange [BBC profile], founder of the controversial website WikiLeaks [website], has been arbitrarily detained since 2010. [read post]
10 Apr 2003, 10:51 am
A report Thursday from the Kuwait News Agency says that Iraq's UN ambassador and former Baghdad University law dean Mohammed Aldouri, quoted in reports Wednesday as saying that the "game is over" in Iraq, has left the United States and flown to the Netherlands:[He] left New York, landed in Paris on Thursday morning as a transit, and left for the Netherland, a french police source told KUNA. [read post]
12 Sep 2012, 1:18 pm
[JURIST] UN Special Rapporteur on torture Juan Mendez [official website] on Wednesday called on the Egyptian government and courts to stop permitting evidence acquired through torture [press release] to be admitted in any legal proceedings including military trials. [read post]
18 Jan 2017, 5:00 am
The UN Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) [official website] reported Monday that more than 100 journalists were killed [press release] in the line of duty in 2016. [read post]
20 Apr 2015, 11:11 am
UN rights experts warned [press release] the EU on Monday that repression of irregular migration cannot be the only solution to the recurrent grave problem of masses of people drowning at sea. [read post]
10 Jun 2016, 7:41 am
Independent experts for the UN determined [press release] Thursday that an Irish woman was "subjected to discrimination and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment," when seeking an abortion. [read post]
17 Dec 2013, 7:00 am
[JURIST] The UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) [official website] on Monday urged [press release] Cambodia to set up an independent national body to monitor detention centers in order to fulfill its international obligations under the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture (OPCAT) [text, PDF]. [read post]
16 Jun 2005, 8:49 am
[JURIST] The commander of Dutch UN troops in Srebrenica in 1995 told a preliminary hearing at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia [official website] Thursday that he did not know Serbian forces had begun killing Muslim men and boys until it was too late. [read post]
27 Mar 2006, 11:21 am
[JURIST] A UN delegation led by Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs Nicolas Michel [official profile] arrived in the south African nation of Burundi Monday to help establish a truth and reconciliation commission [BBC report] and war crimes court. [read post]
1 Apr 2010, 10:04 am
[JURIST] The UN International Labour Organization (ILO) [official website] on Wednesday reiterated [study, PDF; executive summary, PDF] its call on the international community to take a "rights based approach" to international migration. [read post]
4 Oct 2006, 4:13 am
[JURIST] Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website] on Tuesday criticized [press release] the decision of the UN Human Rights Council [official website] to close access to its examination of last year's uprising in Andijan [JURIST news archive] that resulted in the massacre of unarmed Uzbek civilians [BBC backgrounder]. [read post]
24 Nov 2015, 4:09 am
[JURIST] The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia, Rhona Smith, warned [press release] Monday that the increasing polarization of the political parties in Cambodia is reaching a breaking point. [read post]
20 Mar 2024, 9:26 am
Un proyecto de ley que propone enmendar el Código Municipal de Puerto Rico con el fin de ampliar los tipos de profesionales que pueden dirigir las Oficinas de Ordenación Territorial en los municipios, fue aprobado por el Senado en su sesión del 26 de febrero de 2024. [read post]
21 Oct 2014, 8:41 am
US, EU want UN to stress low cost of climate change fight; draft document - (Reuters) - The United States and European Union want the U.N. to stress the low cost of fighting climate change in a draft handbook on the issue that it is compiling, a leaked document showed on Tuesday. [read post]
15 Jun 2015, 7:44 am
An international group of high-ranking military officials and diplomats has found that Israel met or exceeded international standards during its 2014 conflict with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, according to a report [PDF] from the group published by UN Watch [advocacy website] on Friday. [read post]
24 Apr 2015, 8:45 am
[JURIST] The systematic anti-foreigner language used in British tabloids for decades, and a recent article in The Sun [media website] calling migrants "cockroaches," moved the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to take action on Friday, calling on UK officials and the media to curb incitement to hatred. [read post]
11 May 2015, 2:26 pm
[JURIST] A group of UN human rights experts said Monday that the Government of Paraguy "failed in its responsibility to act with due diligence" [press release] towards a 10-year-old girl who was raped and became pregnant. [read post]
17 Jul 2005, 5:04 am
[JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour [official website] has called for ex-Liberian president Charles Taylor, currently in exile in Nigeria, to stand trial before the Special Court for Sierra Leone [JURIST news archive] on 17 counts of war crimes committed during his 15-year rule. [read post]
8 Jul 2015, 9:40 am
[JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein [official profile] on Tuesday expressed concern [press release] over a new national security law which increases China's cyber security powers. [read post]
