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8 Aug 2006, 9:24 am
[JURIST] The UN Security Council [official website] approved a resolution Tuesday that encourages Secretary-General Kofi Annan [official profile] to work more closely with the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) [official website]. [read post]
18 Jan 2005, 6:15 am
[JURIST] Attorney General John Ashcroft is expected to announce Tuesday afternoon the first charges in the governemnt's investigation into alleged corruption in the UN-administered oil-for-food program [official website]. [read post]
16 Oct 2003, 8:34 am
The UN General Assembly will likely schedule an emergency meeting Monday to consider a Palestinian plea to block Israel from building a security fence. [read post]
15 Feb 2016, 3:30 am
To facilitate innovation, especially on ‘diseases of poverty’ the UN and... [read post]
16 Sep 2005, 5:46 am
[JURIST] The Nepalese army has resorted to systematic torture to gain intelligence and confessions in its continuing fight against Maoist rebels in the country, the Special Rapporteur of the UN Commission on Human Rights [official website] said Friday. [read post]
25 Mar 2004, 8:53 pm
In international law news Thursday, calling the resolution "one-sided," the US has vetoed a UN Security Council resolution that would have condemned Israel for its targeted assassination of Hamas leader Ahmed Yassin. [read post]
21 Jan 2006, 7:03 am
[JURIST] Syrian President Bashar al-Assad [BBC profile] on Saturday indicated he plans to reject a second interview request from UN investigators running the probe into the bus bombing that killed former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
31 Mar 2005, 1:13 pm
[JURIST] US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Mark Lagon has said the United States will seek international censure of Cuba's human rights record by presenting a resolution at the annual meeting of the UN Commission on Human Rights [official website]. [read post]
6 Mar 2009, 1:04 am
[JURIST] UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions [official website] Philip Alston on Friday called for an independent investigation into the Thursday killings of Kenyan human rights activists Oscar Kamau Kingara [advocacy profile] and John Paul Oulu. [read post]
15 Mar 2009, 3:39 am
[JURIST] Rights activists in Kenya [JURIST news archive] have faced threats since the release in February of a UN report [text] accusing the government of widespread extrajudicial executions, prompting some to leave the country or go into hiding [AP report], according to AP Saturday. [read post]
23 Feb 2006, 7:01 am
[JURIST] Leading Thursday's international brief, Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir [BBC profile] has been named among possible target for UN Security Council [official website] sanctions being considered against high-ranking officials in the Sudanese government that are thought to be complicit in human rights abuses currently occurring in Darfur [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
21 Feb 2005, 12:23 pm
[JURIST] Retired Bosnian Serb general Milan Gvero agreed on Monday to voluntarily surrender to the UN war crimes tribunal at The Hague. [read post]
27 Jul 2006, 9:43 am
Purificacion Valera Quisumbing [official profile] said that Manila has not complied with UN requirements [read post]
10 Jul 2009, 4:15 am
[JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay [official profile] said Thursday that human rights violations committed during recent Somalian conflicts may amount to war crimes [press release]. [read post]
5 Apr 2020, 3:31 pm
Via LLRX – Business as (Un)Usual: Library Business Continuity Amid COVID-19 – Ellyssa Valenti Kroski, Director of Information Technology/Marketing, The New York Law Institute, shares proactive steps her organization took to transition to a remote workplace during the pandemic, the technology and processes they implemented, and important tips for preparing your own library. [read post]
26 Feb 2004, 11:38 am
The BBC has now posted video of UK Prime Minister Tony Blair's comments at a London press conference this morning on the legality of the British government's bugging of the offices of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan in the run-up to the Iraq war, as alleged earlier Thursday by former Labor Cabinet minister Clare Short in a BBC radio interview. [read post]
30 Jul 2006, 10:42 am
[JURIST] Iran [JURIST news archive] will stop considering international incentives to end its uranium enrichment program if the UN Security Council [official website] passes a resolution sanctioning the country, Iranian Foreign Ministry [official website] spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi [Wikipedia profile] stated Sunday. [read post]
9 Jan 2008, 12:38 pm
[JURIST] A Palestinian doctor detained in Libya [JURIST news archive] for eight years after being accused of deliberately infecting hundreds of children with the HIV virus filed a complaint with the UN Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) [official website] against Libya Wednesday, alleging he was tortured during his detention. [read post]
14 Apr 2014, 12:09 pm
[JURIST] United Nations child rights experts on Monday praised [press release] the new Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a Communications Procedure [text, PDF], which grants children access to international human rights protections by allowing minors to complain directly to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRD) [official website] about the violation of their rights. [read post]
17 Jun 2005, 7:59 am
[JURIST] By a vote of 221-184 the US House of Representatives has passed the United Nations Reform Act of 2005 [PDF text] calling for broad reforms at the UN and allowing the US to withold up to 50 percent of funding if reform goals are not met. [read post]
