• 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...

   

• 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...

   

• 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....

   

• 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...

   

• 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...

   

• 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...

   

• 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...

   

• 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...

   

• 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...

   

• 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...

   

• 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...

   

• 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...

   

• 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...

   

• 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...

   

• The United Nations Coming For Our Children?

  Dana Gabriel A global transformation is being manifested through corporations, the media, entertainment, and the educational...

   

• UN expresses “grave concern” over CIA torture

  UN representative expresses “grave concern” over CIA torture, Guantánamo hearings By Naomi Spencer Following a visit...

   

• 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...

   

• War crime lawyers fight UN on top job

  New secretary general is challenged over ‘secret appointment’ to replace top tribunal prosecutor Ed Vulliamy...

   

• UN probes Ivory Coast abuse

  The United Nations is investigating allegations of widespread sexual abuse by hundreds of its peacekeepers serving in the...

   

• 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,...

   

• 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...

   

• 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...

   

• 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...