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UN holds first-ever meeting in response to anti-Semitism

January 22, 2015 11:37:36 AM

The UN General Assembly is holding a daylong informal meeting Thursday devoted to anti-Semitism in response to a global increase in violence against Jews. The meeting was requested by 37 countries in a letter to the General...

January 22, 2015 08:30:00 AM

JURIST Guest Columnist Laurie Blank, of Emory University School of Law, discusses the protection of UN premises during armed conflict and argues that, while critically important, such inviolability cannot be absolute in light of the fundamental purposes of the law...

January 17, 2015 10:25:25 AM

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon joined El Salvador in a ceremony Friday commemorating the twenty-third anniversary of the signing of the Chapultepec Peace Accords . The accords, signed on January 16, 1992, marked the conclusion of...

January 15, 2015 12:57:00 PM

Spain's High Court on Thursday ordered an initial investigation of the time Amedy Coulibaly spent in Spain prior to the terrorist attacks in Paris last week. Coulibaly is one of the gunmen associated with the...

January 15, 2015 12:56:40 PM

UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Valerie Amos said Wednesday that humanitarian workers are increasingly being called on to deal with the consequences of crises that arise out of complex situations, including poor governance, political paralysis, underdevelopment, poverty and...

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Palestine and the ICC: what's next?

January 14, 2015 05:00:00 PM

JURIST Guest Columnist Victor Kattan of the National University of Singapore Law Faculty, discusses the reasons for and consequences of Palestine's accession to the ICC and considers possible scenarios for developments around the Palestine question...Israel's decision to delay transferring Palestinian customs...

January 13, 2015 11:28:17 AM

In his address to the Indian Council of World Affairs Monday, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on India to be a world leader in peace, human rights and sustainable development. He urged India to...

January 11, 2015 01:39:30 PM

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon , briefing the General Assembly on Thursday, presented his report which proposes a new development agenda and called 2015 a "time for global action." The Secretary General said this year...

January 7, 2015 01:40:27 PM

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday spoke out against the attack against the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo , expressing his shock and appall at at the actions of the terrorists who carried it out. The...

January 7, 2015 01:05:10 PM

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon accepted documents submitted by Palestine on Tuesday which will allow Palestine to become a member of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in April. As a member of the ICC,...

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