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UN human rights investigators leaving for Gaza next week
Geneva – UN investigators will travel to the Gaza Strip and Israel next week to investigate possible human rights abuses in Israel’s recent offensive, a spokesman for the council said Friday. The former chief
Read More »Free Expression Assault Continues at UN Human Rights Council
Freedom House condemns the UN Human Rights Council for undermining the universal right to freedom of expression by once again passing a resolution that urges members to adopt laws outlawing criticism of religions. The
Read More »UN Launches Probe of Secret Detention Sites
By Lisa Schlein | U.N. human rights investigators are launching a year-long global investigation into secret places of detention. They note the use of such facilities has increased since the global war on terror
Read More »U.N. report says U.S. rendition policy broke international law
By Julie Sell | LONDON - A U.N. expert is accusing the United States and some of its allies of breaching international law for the so-called extraordinary renditions and subsequent alleged torture of terrorism suspects
Read More »Outrage as Israel bombs UN
Aid workers allege use of banned white phosphorus as Hamas security leader dies in bombing raid on house By Kim Sengupta in Jerusalem Israeli tanks thrust deep inside Gaza City last night as ferocious
Read More »E-Passports ‘can be cloned’
Microchipped passports the Government claim are foolproof can be cloned in minutes, it has been reported. By Jon Swaine Test results suggest that criminals could copy innocent travellers’ passports and manipulate their data, replacing
Read More »UN expert urges U.S. to take steps to avoid unlawful killings
Xinhua | UN human rights expert Philip Alston on Monday called on the United States to take immediate steps to improve its system of military justice and to ensure that the death penalty is
Read More »UN chief “shocked” over Zimbabwe’s murdered activists
Geneva – The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour said she was shocked Wednesday by the news that several more political activists had been found murdered in Zimbabwe. She condemned the killings
Read More »John Bolton Escapes Citizen’s Arrest
By Stephen Adams - The Telegraph | John Bolton, the former US ambassador to the United Nations, has escaped an attempted citizen’s arrest as he appeared at the Hay Festival. Security guards blocked the path of
Read More »UN suspends aid flights after Burma impounds food
By Rachel Stevenson, Julian Borger, Ian MacKinnon and agencies | The UN today suspended aid flights to Burma after emergency supplies for survivors of cyclone Nargis were impounded by the military government. A spokesman
Read More »UN official decries weakening of press freedom
Dawn | UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour has decried weakening of press freedom world over, saying that governments are becoming more secretive and offering propaganda disguised as objective information — especially
Read More »UN targets US over delay in Syrian nuclear evidence
By Anne Penketh | The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog has reacted with fury at the United States’ delay in passing on intelligence, after Washington accused North Korea of helping Syria to
Read More »The engineer whose ‘evidence’ led to war in Iraq
An Iraqi engineer who provided the information that became one of the key planks in the Bush administration’s case justifying the invasion of Iraq has been tracked down by undercover reporters to a drab
Read More »Ex-chief weapons inspector slams Iraq war
LONDON (AFP) – Hans Blix, the former chief UN weapons inspector, slammed the Iraq war as a “tragedy” and blamed it on leaders ignoring the facts, in a comment piece published Thursday.Writing in The
Read More »The United Nations Coming For Our Children?
Dana Gabriel A global transformation is being manifested through corporations, the media, entertainment, and the educational system. The social engineers and the agents of change wish to purge our children’s beliefs, value system, their
Read More »UN expresses “grave concern” over CIA torture
UN representative expresses “grave concern” over CIA torture, Guantánamo hearings By Naomi Spencer Following a visit earlier this month to the US military prison at Guantánamo Bay, a United Nations human rights representative reported
Read More »United Nations To Vastly Expand Global Police Force
SLOBODAN LEKIC With the world facing new security threats, the U.N. is planning for an unprecedented expansion of its police missions. U.N. officials say a shift in the nature of conflicts requires revamped peacekeeping
Read More »War crime lawyers fight UN on top job
New secretary general is challenged over ‘secret appointment’ to replace top tribunal prosecutor Ed Vulliamy in The Hague Sunday September 23, 2007 The Observer The new leadership of the United Nations is facing a
Read More »UN probes Ivory Coast abuse
The United Nations is investigating allegations of widespread sexual abuse by hundreds of its peacekeepers serving in the Ivory Coast. A Moroccan battalion of 800 troops in Bouake, in the north of the country,
Read More »WMDs: Thousands killed for a lie and it’s case closed
The UN Security Council has voted to end a programme charged with looking for suspected weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, after no such weapons were found. Fourteen members of the bloc voted to
Read More »United Nations: U.S. violated international law
Evelyn Leopold The United States apparently violated international law in its military tribunals by using coercion to extract confessions and writing counter-terrorism laws that restrict immigration on questionable grounds, a U.N. investigator said on
Read More »U.N. rights expert investigating U.S. criticizes counterterror laws
The Associated Press A U.N. expert on Friday criticized U.S. counterterrorism laws, expressed concern over the use of military commissions to try civilians, and said there was evidence the CIA had violated international human
Read More »Despite bumper grain crop, 33 countries in food crisis: UN
AFP Despite projections of a bumper grain crop this year, 33 countries will not have enough food, with Iraq and Zimbabwe among the hardest hit, the UN food agency said Tuesday. Countries with “widespread
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