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The UN Security Council passed a resolution 12-0 Tuesday imposing sanctions on four individuals for acts or abuses committed in the troubled Darfur region of Sudan and calling for the conclusion of a peace agreement for...

JURIST Special Guest Columnist John Pace, former Secretary of the UN Commission on Human Rights, says that the creation of a new Human Rights Council to replace the Commission could be a major step forward for human rights protection, but...

Leading Monday's international brief, an Afghani man is on trial for criminal charges punishable by death related to his conversion from Islam to Christianity over 16 years ago while working for a Christian aid organization in Pakistan. Abdul Rahman...

JURIST Guest Columnist Daniel Joyner of the University of Warwick School of Law in the United Kingdom says that now that Iran has been referred to the UN Security Council over its nuclear program, some Council action under Chapter VII...

Prince Zeid Ra'ad Zeid al-Hussein, Jordan's UN ambassador and advisor to the secretary-general on the sexual exploitation and abuse in United Nations peacekeeping operations, has told the UN Security Council that it could be three or four...

US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton and representatives from other UN member countries resumed negotiations Wednesday on the creation of a new UN rights watchdog to replace the Human Rights Commission . At the closed...

US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton has promised to push for major changes in the United Nations in an interview published Monday in the Washington Post, including reforms to the international body's human rights panel. Bolton...

Rwandan Foreign Minister Charles Murigande told the UN General Assembly Sunday that Rwanda is dissatisfied with United Nations reforms pushed through at the 2005 World Summit last week. The agreement [PDF...

Swiss authorities have announced that they are investigating four people in connection with the now defunct UN Oil-for-Food program , all of whom are suspected of money laundering and bribery. The four suspects have not...

BBC News is reporting that UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has accepted responsibility for mismanagement of the now defunct UN Oil-for-Food program . The Independent Inquiry Committee investigating the program delivered its final...