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8 Jan 2007, 6:33 am
[JURIST] The White House said Monday that President Bush intends to nominate [announcement] Zalmay Khalilzad [official profile], current US ambassador to Iraq, to serve as the next US ambassador to the UN [mission website]. [read post]
7 Jun 2004, 9:51 am
Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq's top Shiite cleric, has said that a UN resolution on Iraq that mentions an interim constitution endorsing autonomy for Kurds would have "dangerous consequences. [read post]
10 May 2007, 2:27 am
[JURIST] Syria [JURIST news archive] will take no part in the establishment of a UN tribunal to try suspects in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri [JURIST news archive] if the tribunal acts to undermine the country's sovereignty, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told members of the New People's Assembly [SANA report] Thursday. [read post]
15 Apr 2016, 11:22 am
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) [official website] expressed concerns [press release] on Wednesday over the fighting between Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) army and the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) rebel forces, which has caused tens of thousands of people in the eastern DRC region to become intentionally displaced. [read post]
4 Mar 2009, 11:21 pm
[JURIST] The US is resuming active participation as an observer in the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) [official website, JURIST news archive], according to interim Charge d'Affaires to the US Mission in Geneva Mark Sorella [official profile] in his address [statement text] to the council Wednesday. [read post]
20 Sep 2007, 7:16 am
CJR has “un-recused” himself from Stoneridge, the closely watched case which asks whether shareholders can sue to hold third parties â [read post]
4 Jun 2007, 2:42 am
[JURIST] Thousands of survivors of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive] filed a class action lawsuit against the United Nations and the Netherlands Monday, alleging that both are liable for their failure to protect civilians, many of whom were refugees that relocated to the Srebrenica enclave declared [S/Res 819, PDF] to to be a "safe area" by the UN Security [read post]
27 Mar 2006, 2:44 pm
[JURIST] Abdul Rahman [Wikipedia profile], currently facing the death penalty [JURIST report] in Afghanistan [ JURIST news archive] for converting from Islam to Christianity, has appealed for asylum, UN spokesman Adrian Edwards said Monday. [read post]
22 Apr 2006, 10:22 am
[JURIST] The UN human rights chief in Iraq [JURIST news archive] said Friday that officials in that country are holding thousands of detainees in violation of Iraqi law and expressed concern about ongoing human rights [JURIST news archive] violations. [read post]
26 Jul 2009, 6:46 am
[JURIST] UN Assistant Secretary-General for Rule of Law and Security Institutions in the Department of Peacekeeping Operations [official website] Dmitry Titov [official profile] has called conditions in a Goma, Congo prison "inhumane" and said that it is the worst in Africa. [read post]
29 Mar 2005, 9:03 am
[JURIST] Fifty-nine former US diplomats have sent a letter to US Senate Foreign Relations Committee [official website] chairman Richard Lugar, calling on the Senate to reject the nomination of John Bolton for US ambassador to the United Nations [US Mission to the UN official website]. [read post]
6 Apr 2005, 1:09 pm
[JURIST] The US Senate voted Wednesday to cut the current US share of funding UN peacekeeping forces, rejecting a Democratic proposal to maintain current funding for the next two years 40-57 [Senate roll call]. [read post]
30 Jun 2010, 9:05 am
[JURIST] The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) [official website] on Tuesday released a report [text, PDF] detailing the ongoing problem of human trafficking in Europe. [read post]
8 Dec 2009, 5:15 pm
But wait, it's not just Africa: For his part, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said drug trafficking was also affecting peacekeeping efforts in Afghanistan, Haiti, Guinea-Bissau and elsewhere. [read post]
21 Sep 2004, 5:31 am
In his address to the UN General Assembly Tuesday, President Bush stressed America's dedication to human rights and human dignity around the world. [read post]
7 Apr 2006, 12:41 am
[JURIST] The UN human rights chief in Haiti [JURIST news archive] has accused the interim government of imprisoning 4,000 people "preventively" for months or years without facing charges or trials. [read post]
29 May 2007, 11:12 am
[JURIST] UN human rights envoy Yash Ghai [appointment notice] arrived in Cambodia [JURIST news archive] Tuesday to prepare his latest report on the country's rights situation but encountered opposition from Cambodian authorities who claim that Ghai's previous reports were distorted. [read post]
9 Feb 2009, 9:37 am
[JURIST] The Chinese delegation to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) [official website] defended China's human rights record Monday while presenting a report [text, PDF] in compliance with the UNHRC's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) [official website] process. [read post]
15 Oct 2013, 1:04 am
Bonnie J Schucha’s ‘“Whatever Tribal Precedent There May Be”: The (Un)Availability of Tribal Law’, has been published on SSRN: This article explores the costs and benefits of publishing tribal law. [read post]
9 Mar 2007, 7:48 am
[JURIST] The Cambodian government uses systematic human rights and civil liberty violations to maintain its hold on power, according to a report by UN special rights representative Yash Ghai [appointment notice] and obtained by AFP. [read post]
