Myanmar: U.N. Orders Vital Inquiry into Severe Rights Violations
Accountability Needed for Gross Violations in Rakhine, Kachin, and Shan States After weeks of negotiations, the United Nations Human...
Fortify Rights International
Mar 25, 2017
U.N. Peacekeeping Faces Overhaul as U.S. Threatens to Cut Funding
United Nations peacekeepers patrolling areas around Bentiu, in South Sudan, last month. More than 200,000 civilians are sheltering on...
New York Times 1
Mar 25, 2017
The U.N. Has Agreed to Investigate Myanmar's Alleged Abuse of Rohingya
Asia is 8 months pregnant as she stands for a photo with her son in the Balu Kali refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on Jan. 17,...
TIME (Time Magazine)
Mar 24, 2017
U.N. Takes Step Toward Future Prosecutions Against North Korea
The United Nations Human Rights Council adopted a resolution on Friday that authorizes the use of criminal justice experts to devise...
New York Times 1
Mar 24, 2017
Powerful resignation letter by UN’s Rima Khalaf about removal of UN apartheid report
The following is the resignation letter by ESWA Executive Secretary Rima Khalaf in response to the formal request by UN Secretary General...
IsraelPalestineNews
Mar 23, 2017
UN report decries Israeli settlements' 'alarming pace'
srael plans to build 6,000 new housing units in Palestinian areas [Mikkel Bahl/Danwatch] The UN's special rapporteur on the occupied...
Al Jazeera
Mar 22, 2017
GENOCIDE 1971: Govt moves to get UN recognition
By Inam Ahmed and Shakhawat Liton At the end of his ruthless massacre and war against an unarmed people, General Amir Abdullah Khan...
Daily Star
Mar 21, 2017
Trump budget: UN sounds alarm over foreign aid cuts
The United States provides 28 percent of the United Nations budget for peacekeeping missions [Siegfried Modola/Reuters] US President...
Al Jazeera
Mar 17, 2017
US won’t participate in UN Human Rights Council without reforms
By Edith M. Lederer U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson arrives at Haneda international airport in Tokyo, as the first stop of his...
Associated Press 1
Mar 15, 2017
White House Seeks to Cut Billions in Funding for United Nations
State Department staffers have been instructed to seek cuts in excess of 50 percent in U.S. funding for U.N. programs, signaling an...
Foreign Policy
Mar 14, 2017
Rapporteur ‘disappointed’ UN rights panel divided on Myanmar
Yanghee Lee, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, delivers her report, during the 34th session of the Human...
Associated Press 1
Mar 13, 2017
South Africa revokes ICC withdrawal
South Africa issued a notice to formally revoke its withdrawal from the International Criminal Court on Tuesday. The decision comes after...
The Guardian
Mar 8, 2017
