In California, US District Judge Audrey Collins ruled Friday that the provision of the USA Patriot Act that forbids "assistance" to known terrorist organizations continues to be overly vague, in violation of her 2004 ruling on the same provision...
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UN votes to monitor child soldiers and abuses during armed conflict
The UN Security Council Tuesday unanimously adopted a resoluton to closely scrutinize and keep track of all countries and rebel organizations that abuse children in any way or recruit children as soldiers . Resolution 1612...
A United Nations committee Friday adopted a draft of a new treaty to fight nuclear terrorism after years of negotiations. The draft defines acts of nuclear terrorism and strengthens the framework to combat it. The text now...
DNA tests announced in a Sri Lanka court Monday confirmed that "Baby 81," a baby boy rescued from debris in the wake of the tsunami, does in fact belong to the couple who had launched a legal...
Sri Lankan rebels illegally recruiting child soldiers, UNICEF says
UN Children's Fund officials have confirmed 40 cases of children being abducted or recruited as soldiers by Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebel group since December's tsunami disaster . According...
UNICEF says children in tsunami relief camps being recruited as child soldiers
UNICEF spokesmen said Thursday that they have evidence that Tamil Tiger rebels in northern and eastern Sri Lanka have recruited children in tsunami relief camps as child soldiers to help their ongoing struggle for autonomy...
Sri Lanka bans adoptions to stop post-tsunami abductions, trafficking
The Sri Lankan government, concerned at reports of abduction and trafficking of children in the wake of the December 26 tsunami disaster that killed over 30,000 in Sri Lanka alone, has announced that adoption of children is illegal until...
UN appeals to warring parties not to hijack tsunami relief supplies
UN Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs Jan Egeland Thursday appealed to warring groups in the tsunami affected areas of South Asia to respect ceasefires, suspend their conflicts and stop reported acts of "banditry" that in a few instances he...
Indonesia moves to preempt child trafficking after tsunami as UNICEF issues exploitation warning
The government of Indonesia, concerned over reports of human trafficking in children in the wake of last week's tsunami disaster off the west coast of the country that killed over 100,000 and left other hundreds of thousands homeless, has...
Survivors and families of victims of last week's tsunami disaster in South Asia are falling prey to thieves, rapists, kidnappers and hoaxers. Sri Lanka's Women and Media Collective said Monday that they "have received reports of incidents of rape,...