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6 Oct 2010, 6:23 am
[JURIST] The human rights situation in East Timor has continued to improve over the last year, despite the need for further reform, according to a report [text, PDF; press release] released Tuesday by the UN Integrated Mission In Timor-Leste (UNMIT) [official website]. [read post]
7 Oct 2011, 7:32 am
[JURIST] Homicide rates in Central American countries, including El Salvador and Honduras, are reaching a "crisis point," according to a Thursday UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) [official website] report [text, PDF] detailing global rates of homicide. [read post]
20 Jun 2005, 9:42 am
[JURIST] Leading Monday's international brief, Kenyan Foreign Affairs Minister Ali Chirau Mwakwere [Wikipedia profile] has announced that Kenya [government website] would actively be seeking to obtain one of the two permanent regional seats for Africa under the current proposed reform plans [JURIST report] for the UN Security Council [official website]. [read post]
25 Apr 2009, 2:48 am
[JURIST] UN special rapporteur on torture Manfred Nowak [official profile, DOC] said Friday that the US must prosecute Justice Department (DOJ) [official website] lawyers who drafted four recently released top secret memos [JURIST report], which outlined controversial CIA interrogation techniques and their legal rationale. [read post]
3 Feb 2008, 7:10 am
[JURIST] UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights Kyung-wha Kang [official profile] said Sunday that unchecked human rights violations in Nepal remain a barrier to achieving sustainable peace in the country. [read post]
19 Mar 2018, 11:58 am
UN human rights experts on Monday called [press release] for the immediate release of two human rights defenders in Iran after reports emerged that the two defenders had been subjected to beatings in detention. [read post]
23 Mar 2004, 8:09 am
China announced Tuesday that it was suspending its human rights dialogue with the United States after the US announced that it would propose a resolution critical of China's human rights record at the current meeting of the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva. [read post]
19 May 2005, 8:31 pm
[JURIST] A federal judge issued a second 10-day restraining order Thursday blocking US congressional efforts to obtain documents that former investigator Robert Parton took with him when he resigned his role [JURIST report] in the probe of the UN Oil-for-Food Program [official website]. [read post]
4 Aug 2006, 5:15 am
[JURIST] Ahmad Jannati, head of Iran's powerful Guardian Council [official website], on Friday called for the abolition of the United Nations and the UN Security Council [official website] because of its prejudicial stance towards Iran. [read post]
20 Oct 2004, 10:27 am
The decision to add the group followed an official request of the US government that the UN Sanctions Committee include al-Zarqawi's organizations on the list of [read post]
26 Aug 2009, 8:39 am
" The state had ruled the restriction was un-constitutional.Many governing bodies previously had passed the same type of ordinance that restricted where known sex offenders may live.Now, most of them have also repealed the ordinance [read post]
8 Mar 2005, 9:25 am
[JURIST] Initial reactions by Senators on both sides of the aisle prompted speculation Tuesday that Monday's nomination [JURIST report] of Under-Secretary of State John Bolton to be the new US ambassador to the UN could be problematic, or at least controversial. [read post]
14 Sep 2005, 2:25 am
[JURIST] Last-minute amendments to Iraq's draft constitution [JURIST news archive] were finalized Wednesday, according to National Assembly deputy speaker Hussein al-Shahristani, who said the final document has been given to the UN for printing and distribution to the Iraqi people. [read post]
19 Jun 2008, 3:54 pm
[JURIST] The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) [official website] Wednesday criticized the government of Myanmar [A/HRC/8/L.12 text, PDF] for its continued human rights abuses and refusal to cooperate with humanitarian groups. [read post]
28 Jan 2010, 3:14 am
Europe is covered by a different Human Rights Declaration than folks in the U.S.1-28-2010 United Kingdom:A judge's decision to name a 13-year-old rapist violates the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), according to a leading children's rights campaigner.Balal Khan, now 14, of Cobridge, Stoke-on-Trent, was sentenced to three years in a young offenders' institution after admitting [read post]
21 Jan 2006, 5:11 am
[JURIST] In an attempt to help resolve the conflict surrounding Indonesia's annexation of East Timor [JURIST news archive], East Timor President Xanana Gusmao [BBC profile] presented a report [press conference summary] to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Friday detailing alleged widespread atrocities committed by the Indonesian government during its occupation of the country. [read post]
22 Jul 2005, 1:01 pm
[JURIST] The US Department of State urged senators Thursday not to pass the UN Reform Act of 2005 [PDF House version], legislation introduced by Senators Norm Coleman (D-MN)[official website] and Dick Lugar (R-IN) [official website], that cuts the dues the US pays to the United Nations. [read post]
21 Jul 2006, 9:15 pm
[JURIST] Israel found itself on the defensive with the United States as its most vocal ally in a Friday UN Security Council [official website] open meeting in which ambassadors from the Arab world and beyond condemned it for breaching international law in its attacks on Lebanon and, to a lesser extent, in its operations in Gaza in immediate response to the kidnapping of Israeli soldiers. [read post]
14 Nov 2008, 2:03 pm
[JURIST] The Kenyan government Friday said in response to a report [press release] by the UN Committee on Torture [official website] focusing on post-election violence that occurred in the country in late 2007 and early 2008 that it was taking initiatives to eliminate torture and other inhumane treatment. [read post]
7 Aug 2007, 8:34 am
[JURIST] A lawyer for the Palestinian doctor jailed and allegedly tortured with five Bulgarian nurses for allegedly purposely infecting children with HIV in Libya said Tuesday that he intends to file a complaint with the UN Human Rights Committee [official website] against Libya for the abuse Ashraf Alhajouj says he suffered while in detention. [read post]
