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5 Dec 2005, 8:09 am
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad agreed to the questioning in late November [JURIST report], with the hope that it would correct numerous alleged errors in the UN probe that led to a [read post]
22 Mar 2005, 11:28 am
[JURIST] In Tuesday's international brief, a report submitted to the UN Human Rights Commission [official website] by UN Special Rapporteur Doudou Diene has called on Germany and the EU to increase efforts to ban political groups based on racist, xenophobic, or hate policies. [read post]
3 Nov 2004, 1:04 am
[JURIST] A UN panel reviewing election results in Afghanistan has certified Hamid Karzai as the official winner, it was announced Wednesday. [read post]
21 Feb 2008, 7:42 pm
[JURIST] The US must do more to meet its obligations to fight racial discrimination under the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination [text], UN rights experts from the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) [official website] said Thursday in a scheduled session to review US compliance with the treaty. [read post]
27 Jul 2006, 7:48 pm
[JURIST] The current Mideast conflict [JURIST news archive] has halted the UN International Independent Investigation Commission [UN materials] probe into the February 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri [JURIST news archive], Beirut's Daily Star newspaper reports Friday. [read post]
14 Jul 2006, 4:37 am
Churkin reportedly told the UN Security Council [official website] that he does not think the "international community has legal, political or [read post]
31 Oct 2005, 6:03 pm
[JURIST] Three UN human rights experts who were invited [JURIST report] last Friday by the Pentagon to examine conditions at Guantanamo Bay prison [JURIST news archive] said [UN press release] Monday that they will refuse the invitation unless they are allowed to interview detainees. [read post]
23 Mar 2006, 10:23 am
[JURIST] Leading Thursday's international brief, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Jan Egeland [official profile] has called on Sudan [government website] to accept the presence of a UN peacekeeping force in Darfur [JURIST news archive] as essential to protecting Sudan's citizens. [read post]
29 Oct 2007, 1:06 pm
[JURIST] A group of senior lawyers from the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) [official website] have sent a letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon urging the promotion of the current ICTY deputy prosecutor, American David Tolbert [UN press release], to ICTY chief prosecutor when Carla Del Ponte [official profile] steps down from the position at the end of this [read post]
8 Jan 2008, 12:02 am
[JURIST] United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said Monday that the UN "needs some strengthened investigative capacity" to combat fraud and increase transparency. [read post]
8 Oct 2004, 6:54 am
The resolution creates a working group to monitor actions taken by countries against terrorists beyond the work done by a the UN committee covering [read post]
22 Sep 2009, 2:29 am
Both groups urged UN member states to seize the [read post]
16 Oct 2005, 7:32 am
[JURIST] The UN human rights chief in Haiti [JURIST news archive] said Friday that the human rights situation in the Caribbean nation had become "catastrophic". [read post]
31 Mar 2009, 8:35 am
[JURIST] UN Deputy Secretary for Legal Affairs Pamela O'Brien [official profile] apparently signaled a shift in official UN position by expressing sympathy for Rwanda's desire to try any remaining genocide suspects in Rwanda after the International Criminal Tribunal For Rwanda (ICTR) [official website] is supposed to stop functioning in 2010, according to a Monday report [New Times report]. [read post]
22 Jun 2006, 8:43 am
The Optional Protocol, adopted in December 2002 by the UN General Assembly, was [read post]
15 Jul 2006, 12:21 pm
[JURIST] The UN Security Council voted unanimously Saturday to adopt a compromise resolution on recent missile tests [JURIST news archive] by North Korea (DPRK) [JURIST news archive] directing it to stop the launches and calling on member states to impose weapons-related sanctions, but did not invoke Chapter 7 [text] of the UN Charter as proposed by Japan in an earlier draft [JURIST report], [read post]
7 Apr 2005, 1:42 am
[JURIST] UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan told the much-criticized UN Commission on Human Rights [official website] Thursday that its declining credibility had "cast a shadow" over the whole United Nations and that the institution needed to frame a new permanent human rights body to prevent and more effectively address worldwide abuses and suffering. [read post]
3 May 2005, 2:57 am
The novel idea arose as Jean Ping [UN profile], president of the UN General Assembly [official website], noted that [read post]
13 Sep 2012, 12:51 pm
Based on a UN report not yet released to the public, she noted [AP report] that such harassment has taken the form of public statements and smear campaigns as well as physical threats, arrests, beatings, torture... [read post]
1 Apr 2010, 9:11 am
Though admitting that fraud was widespread, Karzai accused [Al Jazeera report] UN and EU representatives, particularly former deputy head of the UN-backed mission [read post]
