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12 Sep 2011, 10:11 am
[JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay [official profile] on Monday said that at least 2,600 people have been killed in Syria in the crackdown on anti-government protesters in the country. [read post]
7 Dec 2016, 9:46 am
UN experts are concerned that Jiang has been detained, possibly while traveling on a train bound for Beijing following his visit with the... [read post]
2 Jun 2017, 6:59 am
The experts recommended following the guidelines set forth in the UN Declaration of the Rights... [read post]
19 Jul 2017, 8:09 am
UN Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein [official website] on Tuesday expressed concerns [UN report] that the Libyan National Army (LNA) has committed and will continue to commit summary executions of men that have been taken prisoner. [read post]
22 Nov 2015, 10:38 am
[JURIST] Janos Pasztor, the UN Assistant Secretary-General on Climate Change, on Friday, announced [press release] that the upcoming UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Paris on November 30th must serve as the turning point for climate law throughout the world. [read post]
9 Jun 2010, 7:47 am
In a UN daily press briefing, associate spokesman Farhan Haq said Ban... [read post]
2 Sep 2016, 5:58 am
The UN experts are calling on an educational transformation as they have... [read post]
12 Apr 2006, 2:08 am
[JURIST] In the wake of a request [press release, PDF] from the UN-supported Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) [official website] that the trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] be transferred for security reasons, members of the UN Security Council said Tuesday that they were having difficulty finding a country willing to take in Taylor after a [read post]
1 Dec 2014, 7:38 am
[JURIST] UN Independent Expert on human rights and international solidarity Virginia Dandan has urged states attending the UN Framework Convention for Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC) in Lima, Peru, to commit to a new legally binding agreement on greenhouse gas emissions. [read post]
17 Mar 2014, 9:17 am
[JURIST] Chairperson of the UN Commission of Inquiry (COI) on Human Rights in North Korea Michael Kirby on Monday compared the alleged crimes of the North Korean regime to those of Nazism, apartheid and the Khmer Rouge. [read post]
2 Dec 2011, 5:10 am
[JURIST] Top UN officials with the UN Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) [official website] decried [press release] post-election violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Thursday and called for restraint. [read post]
1 Dec 2011, 12:03 pm
[JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay [official profile] stated on Thursday that the death toll in Syria during the eight-month uprising [JURIST news archive] has surpassed 4,000 [video and transcript]. [read post]
1 Aug 2015, 4:59 pm
[JURIST] A United Nations [official website] expert on Friday exposed [UN report] the worsening situation in ISIL controlled territory where an estimated eight million people are currently living in fear. [read post]
30 Mar 2005, 8:29 pm
[JURIST] The UN Security Council vote on whether to refer war crimes in the Darfur region of Sudan has been delayed after a US request, UN representatives said Wednesday. [read post]
24 Jan 2011, 11:00 am
The report cited the increasing "use of dialogue and cooperation in lieu of public pressure" by UN Secretary General Ban... [read post]
10 Apr 2016, 1:56 pm
[JURIST] A UN human rights expert on Friday called on [press release] the international community to put an end to financial secrecy in wake of the recent release of thousands of confidential financial documents known as the "Panama Papers" [materials]. [read post]
26 Sep 2017, 10:19 am
UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov warned [UN News Centre report] on Monday that continued illegal settlements in East Jerusalem are threatening the hopes for a two-state solution in the area and undermining Palestinian belief in peace prospects. [read post]
16 Nov 2015, 11:10 am
UN Special Rapporteurs Makarim Wibisono and Christof Heyns [official profiles] expressed concern [press release] Monday over ongoing violence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) and Israel. [read post]
15 Aug 2010, 7:25 am
[JURIST] UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon [official website] Friday praised [press release] the United Kingdom's recent ratification of a treaty designed to extend legal safeguards to UN and humanitarian personnel participating in relief efforts. [read post]
18 Jun 2014, 6:25 am
" The Commission was established by the UN Human Rights Council in August 2011 to investigate and record all violations of international human rights law during the Syria conflict. [read post]
