Archive for the ‘United Nations’ Category
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
(Aug. 23) — As many as 200 women were systematically gang-raped by Rwandan and Congolese rebels over a four-day period last month less than 20 miles from a U.N. peacekeeping base in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the United Nations and aid groups reported.
The Associated Press reported that four baby boys were also raped in the attacks that began in a key mining district on July 30. U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky told reporters today the rebels blocked a key road during the raping and looting spree.
The eastern Congo is known as the “rape capital of the world” where savage mobs use sexual violence to subdue the population and vie for control of the “conflict minerals” used to make cell phones and laptops around the world.
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Friday, August 20th, 2010
VOA News 12 August 2010
A leading international human rights group is calling on the United States and other countries to support a United Nations panel investigating alleged rights abuses during Sri Lanka’s civil war.
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Friday, August 20th, 2010
Ron Corben | Bangkok 10 August 2010
The United Nations special rapporteur on human rights in Burma has met with human rights groups and former political prisoners during a visit to Thailand. The information he gathered from the meetings is expected to be part of a report to the United Nations.
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Friday, August 20th, 2010
The United Nations Security Council has extended its peacekeeping mission in Sudan’s western Darfur region for another year [until July 31, 2011].
The 15-nation council agreed unanimously on Friday to the mission’s extension, telling Unamid, the joint African Union/UN peacekeeping force, to focus primarily on protecting civilians and aid deliveries.
It also condemned a recent surge of violence in Darfur and called on the Sudanese government to stop hindering the work of Unamid.
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Friday, August 20th, 2010
By Sandy Williams Thursday, July 29, 2010
Bettina Peter, CNN, edition.cnn.com
United Nations (CNN)—The security situation in war-ravaged Darfur shows no sign of improvement as fighting has intensified between rebel groups and the Sudanese government, the United Nations Security Council was told Tuesday.
“We are alarmed,” U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice said after hearing the report. “This deteriorating security situation is unacceptable and it needs to be effectively addressed.”
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon pointed out in his latest report that incidents of violence over recent months have surpassed bloodshed in the same time period last year by far.
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Thursday, July 22nd, 2010
GENEVA (Reuters) – Rebels in Sudan’s Darfur region and the United Nations will sign a deal this week to protect children, an independent mediation group said on Monday, in a move that appears aimed at stopping the use of child soldiers.
The Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue said Darfur’s Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) and the United Nations children’s agency UNICEF would sign the agreement in Geneva on Wednesday.
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Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
(AFP) – Jul 9, 2010
WASHINGTON — The United States, Britain and Norway said Friday they were “deeply concerned” by Sudan’s curtailment of human rights since April elections and voiced alarm about a deterioration in Darfur.
The three powers issued a joint statement as Sudan enters the final year of a 2005 peace deal that halted a 22-year north-south civil war, saying that a “tremendous amount of work” was needed to ensure stability moving forward.
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Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
July 15, 2010
Megan Flemming is a policy analyst at the Save Darfur Coalition.
On Monday, the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) Pre-Trial Chamber judges issued a second arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, this time for three counts of genocide. Darfur activist groups here in the U.S. welcomed the news while calling on world leaders to prevent the type of retaliation against the people of Darfur that Bashir masterminded after the first arrest warrant in March 2009. As the world responds to the ICC’s milestone decision, it’s worth highlighting why this case and the overall push for justice for Darfur is so essential and urgent: without accountability, a negotiated peace will be little more than a long-term ceasefire.
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Thursday, July 15th, 2010
We’ve plenty to protest about in the US, but on the streets there is no dissent. Why is our liberal mood so paralytic?
Community organiser and Chicagoan Saul Alinsky, circa 1946: ‘I love this goddamn country, and we’re going to take it back.’ Photograph: Myron Davis/Time & Life/Getty
In my middle-class neighbourhood, you can organise people around dog-walking exchanges, the crimewatch duty roster, mutual baby-sitting, earthquake preparedness and dire household emergencies. But even the most liberal-minded among us seem totally spooked by the currently toxic idea of politically organising our private economic tragedies into any form of communal resistance to Bush-Obama’s class warfare – skyrocketing unemployment, home foreclosures, bank failures, vanished investments and social service cuts that directly affect us. Politics? Ugh. Please, don’t bother me. I’d rather talk about Tony Soprano’s latest session with his leggy shrink.
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Thursday, June 17th, 2010
Maneuver to Evade Scrutiny Shows Need for Follow-Up
(Geneva, 15 June 2010) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran welcomed a statement by a broad, cross-regional group of 56 countries, expressing serious concern about the human rights crisis in Iran, which was issued today at the United Nations Human Rights Council.
Iran along with a number of supporting states attempted to block the statement, but their procedural maneuver was dismissed by a ruling by the Council President, in which he allowed the statement to be read.
The statement, read by Norway on behalf of the 56 signatories, called on the Iranian government “to allow freedom of expression, freedom of the media and of assembly; to take all measures necessary to ensure the protection of religious minorities; to respect the human rights of prisoners and detainees; to ensure equal treatment of women and girls in law and practice; and to conduct an independent investigation regarding killings, arrests and detentions following the demonstrations following the 2009 elections.”
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