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26 Aug 2005, 8:14 am
Lebanese news reports said that German prosecutor Detlev Mehlis [JURIST report] would meet "a Syrian representative" in Geneva within 24 hours, citing a UN official in New York. [read post]
8 Jul 2009, 1:37 am
The head of the four person UN Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict [official website], former South African Constitutional [read post]
9 Jun 2007, 3:39 am
[JURIST] The United Nations (UN) responded Friday to a class action lawsuit filed against the UN and the Netherlands [JURIST report] earlier in the week by thousands of survivors of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive], insisting [press briefing transcript] it was immune under Article 2 Section 2 of the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United [read post]
14 Nov 2007, 12:38 pm
The UN Human Rights Committee [official website] is scheduled to vote on the resolution Thursday; if it passes, it will go to the full General Assembly later this year. [read post]
1 Jul 2011, 9:16 am by Julia Zebley
[JURIST] Officials from the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) [official website] appealed [UN News Centre report] to Texas Governor Rick Perry [official website] Friday to stop the execution of Mexican national Humberto Leal Garcia [advocacy website], alleging he did not receive a fair trial. [read post]
24 Nov 2016, 8:23 am by Alexandra Farone
Over one million of those patents were filed [UN News Centre report] in China, and over 500,000 were filed in the US. [read post]
16 Feb 2005, 9:54 pm
The letter is in response Coleman's congressional probe [hearing agenda] into the UN oil-for-food program. [read post]
23 Feb 2004, 2:02 pm
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan Monday released a copy of a UN report concluding that although elections are not possible in Iraq at the moment, they can be organized eight months after the establishment of a legal framework for the process (by the end of 2004 or shortly thereafter if work on a constitutional structure were completed by May 2004, as presently envisaged). [read post]
25 Mar 2003, 3:34 pm
UPDATE [4:31 PM ET]: More details on Wednesday's scheduled Security Council meeting are now available direct from the United Nations [UN News report]. [read post]
14 Nov 2004, 9:01 am
[JURIST] Iran announced Sunday that it has submitted a letter to the UN stating that it would suspend uranium enrichment activities as part of a deal with the European Union to avoid UN Security Council sanctions. [read post]
14 Jun 2005, 1:39 am
The conference is part of the UN Secretary General's study on violence against children [PDF]. [read post]
24 Jul 2008, 1:49 pm
[JURIST] UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon announced Thursday that he has appointed South African judge Navanethem Pillay [ICC profile] as the new UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, replacing departing commissioner Louise Arbour [JURIST report]. [read post]
17 Jun 2005, 9:11 am
The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention [official website] visited 13 [read post]
8 Nov 2014, 6:21 pm by William Helbling
The investigation was lead by the two UN experts to assess the practice of the right to life laws of Gambia and to identify examples of cruel and unusual punishment by authorities. [read post]
19 Feb 2008, 1:42 am
Ban also reiterated that "the recognition of states" is a decision for other states and not the UN [read post]
15 Nov 2005, 7:21 am
[JURIST] Manfred Nowak, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture [official website], on Tuesday called for unrestricted inspections of the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
20 Jun 2009, 2:24 am
[JURIST] A three-member independent commission established by the UN to investigate the assassination [JURIST report] of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto [BBC obituary; JURIST news archive] will begin its work on July 1, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon [official website] announced [text; press release] Friday. [read post]