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26 Jul 2007, 10:44 am
Norm Coleman (R-MN) [official website] Wednesday urged members of Congress to adopt legislation suspending the United States' annual $3 million contribution to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) [official website; JURIST news archive]. [read post]
14 Feb 2006, 1:01 am
[JURIST] Leading Tuesday's international brief, South Korea has nominated its Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon [official profile] as a candidate for the office of the UN Secretary-General [official website]. [read post]
11 Feb 2009, 3:29 am
[JURIST] US State Department [official website] spokesperson Robert Wood on Tuesday defended the silence of the US delegates [press conference transcript] during the UN Human Rights Council [official website] Universal Periodic Review (UPR) [materials] of potential rights abuses, saying that the US is not actively participating because the administration of President Barack Obama [official [read post]
5 Feb 2008, 10:22 am
[JURIST] Myanmar [JURIST news archive] continues to arrest and detain human rights activists, denying them fair trials in accordance with international principles, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro [official profile; JURIST news archive] said Tuesday. [read post]
28 Apr 2006, 11:02 am
[JURIST] Mohammed ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency [official website], said Friday that Iran [IAEA materials] has enriched uranium in defiance of a March UN Security Council demand [text] that it immediately suspend its nuclear enrichment program [JURIST report]. [read post]
15 Feb 2010, 10:00 am
[JURIST] Iranian official Mohammad Javad Larijani told the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) [official website] Monday that Iran is fulfilling its human rights obligations [video]. [read post]
19 Apr 2006, 2:28 am
[JURIST] Leading Tuesday's international brief, following China and Russia's block of an attempt to implement targeted sanctions [JURIST report] in the UN sanctions committee on Sudan against four Sudanese officials alleged to have intentionally hindered the peace process in the Darfur region [JURIST news archive] of Sudan, the US has proposed an official Security Council [official website] [read post]
6 Jul 2004, 8:01 am
Israel is asking EU members not to vote in support of an expected UN General Assembly resolution reprimanding Israel over its security fence. [read post]
24 Aug 2005, 1:34 pm
[JURIST] An anonymous Western diplomat told AFP Wednesday that the United States is lobbying for Iran to go before the UN Security Council [official website] if it does not comply with a September 3 deadline to stop the nuclear fuel operations it resumed earlier this month [JURIST report]. [read post]
29 Jun 2006, 2:49 pm
[JURIST] Jordan should criminalize torture and end the use of special courts that protect accused police and intelligence officials, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Manfred Nowak [official website] told a press conference following the conclusion of his two-day visit to Jordan [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
17 Jul 2006, 1:55 pm
[JURIST] Making the first US appearance before the UN Human Rights Committee [committee materials] in more than a decade, American officials on Monday defended their position that the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights [text] does not govern many aspects of the war on terror. [read post]
8 Apr 2009, 12:59 am
[JURIST] The government of Bangladesh [JURIST news archive] said Tuesday it is working with the UN to organize war crimes [JURIST news archive] prosecutions for alleged violations stemming from the country's 1971 War of Independence [GlobalSecurity backgrounder] against Pakistan [JURIST news archive] and is considering trial in the International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website; JURIST news [read post]
26 Jul 2005, 9:33 am
[JURIST] Japan, Brazil, Germany and India, known collectively as the G-4 nations, and the African Union reached an agreement Monday to present a single resolution for the UN Security Council expansion [JURIST report]. [read post]
16 Feb 2006, 4:00 am
[JURIST] The Royal Nepalese Army (RNA) and Maoist rebels [BBC backgrounder] are violating international human rights laws [OHCHR press release, PDF], according to a new report [text] released by the UN's Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) [official website] Thursday. [read post]
1 Jun 2007, 3:18 am
[JURIST] Myanmar's extended detention of democracy advocate and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi [advocacy website; BBC profile] violates the Universal Declaration on Human Rights and the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights [texts], the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention [official website] ruled in an opinion [PDF] released Thursday. [read post]
30 Nov 2008, 11:28 pm
Thet Zin and Sein Win Maung were found in February with a copy of a UN special rapporteur's human rights report on Burma [text, DOC], along with videotapes of last year's pro-democracy demonstrations (Independent [read post]
4 May 2006, 1:44 am
[JURIST] As the UN Committee Against Torture [official website] prepares to hold its review of US compliance with international laws banning torture, a US State Department lawyer said Thursday that the US does not outsource torture and claimed that allegations of secret flights and prisons are harming relations between the US and Europe. [read post]
20 Jul 2010, 9:46 am
[JURIST] The UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) [official website] on Monday voted 23-13 to accredit the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) [advocacy website] as a consultative non-governmental organization (NGO). [read post]
25 Apr 2006, 9:00 am
[JURIST] Leading Tuesday's international brief, Iran could be the target of a new UN Security Council [official website] resolution mandating compliance with an International Atomic Energy Agency [official website] order that Iran cease production of enriched uranium [BBC report]. [read post]
13 Oct 2009, 3:47 am
[JURIST] One of the two Afghans on the UN-backed Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) [official website] resigned on Monday, citing "foreign interference. [read post]
