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9 Apr 2009, 5:07 am
Judge Sakr Sakr's order [AFP report] comes in response to a request [order, PDF; JURIST report] issued last month by the UN Special Tribunal for Lebanon ( [read post]
31 May 2018, 6:30 am by Jessica Lasky
Women in Afghanistan are often pressured to pursue mediation for violent crimes, and officials are often reluctant to file criminal charges against the accused, even for so-called "honor killings" according to a UN report [text, PDF] released Tuesday. [read post]
28 Jul 2009, 3:22 am
[JURIST] UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon [official website] on Monday called for African, Asian and European countries to strengthen prevention and protection measures [UN News Centre report] against the use of sexual violence in armed conflicts. [read post]
25 Aug 2005, 4:13 am
US Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton [official bio; Wikipedia profile] wrote a confidential letter Wednesday to certain UN envoys [read post]
25 May 2005, 7:53 am
[JURIST] Justice Emmanuel Olayinka Ayoola [profile], President of the Special Court of Sierra Leone [official website], the tribunal created by the UN to hear cases of serious crimes committed during the West African country's civil war, warned [SCSL statement, PDF] the UN Security Council Tuesday that the court was close to financial crisis. [read post]
10 Jul 2007, 1:44 am
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visits ITUJul 09 2007 10:15AM"The UN Secretary-General emphasized the need for connectivity without which "'he whole world would be in darkness' and we would continue to live in a medieval age without the means of communication" [read post]
20 Sep 2016, 6:30 am by Chris Gallagher
The UN Panel unfortunately squandered its 9-month gestation period. [read post]
4 May 2018, 6:36 am by Erin McCarthy Holliday
A UN human rights expert called for "calm and for all sides to exercise restraint" in the Central African Republic (CAR) Thursday, according to a UN statement [press release]. [read post]
5 Jan 2008, 9:38 am
This is the second time Zardari has called for a UN-led inquiry [JURIST report] similar to the ongoing probe into [read post]
29 Apr 2009, 12:29 am
[JURIST] A court-martial in Nigeria [JURIST news archive] sentenced 27 UN peacekeeping troops to life imprisonment Tuesday. [read post]
3 May 2007, 2:02 am
[JURIST] UN Undersecretary-General for Legal Affairs Nicolas Michel [official profile] has been unable to break a deadlock within the Lebanese government preventing approval of an international tribunal to try suspects in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri [JURIST news archive], Michel told the UN Security Council Wednesday. [read post]
13 Oct 2007, 9:12 am
[JURIST] Sri Lankan and visiting UN officials disagreed publicly Saturday on how to approach the country's worsening human rights situation in the midst of ongoing civil conflict. [read post]
12 Feb 2007, 1:19 am
[JURIST] The Philippines government has pledged to cooperate fully with the UN rights official who arrived in the country Monday to investigate the surge of political murders. [read post]
19 Oct 2005, 1:11 pm
[JURIST] Morocco has prevented UN officials from visiting African migrants detained in the country despite repeated requests for access, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees [official website] reported Wednesday. [read post]
29 Nov 2005, 1:23 pm
[JURIST] Syria's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday called for evidence implicating Syrians in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri [JURIST news archive] to be scrutinized in the wake of an admission by Syrian witness, Hosam Taher Hosam, that he testified falsely [JURIST report] to the UN committee investigating the murder [UN materials]. [read post]
11 Oct 2004, 4:20 am
North Korea Monday threatened war if UN sanctions are deployed to bring the recalcitrant country back to the negotiating table of the Six-Party Talks [opening remarks]. [read post]
31 Aug 2005, 12:22 pm
The UN has set a deadline for Saturday by which Iran must halt its atomic fuel production, but Iran has given no indications that it will comply with the demands. [read post]
19 Oct 2009, 5:20 am
[JURIST] The Israeli government on Friday rejected [press release] a UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) resolution [text, PDF; JURIST report] endorsing the final report [JURIST report] of the UN Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict [official website]. [read post]