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UN calls for new body to prosecute Myanmar crimes
Sep 10, 2018 10:11The United Nations (UN)’s new human rights chief has called for the establishment of “an independent international mechanism” to prepare criminal indictments against Myanmar’s military for atrocities committed against the Rohingya Muslim community.
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ICC says it has jurisdiction over Myanmar crimes against Rohingya
Sep 06, 2018 14:34The International Criminal Court says it has jurisdiction to probe the forced deportations of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar to neighboring Bangladesh as a possible crime against humanity.
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UN to gather Yemen conflicting sides in Geneva
Sep 04, 2018 07:06The sides to the Yemeni conflict are to convene in Geneva for the first time since 2016 under the auspices of the United Nations (UN) in an attempt to revive stalled peace talks.
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Ex-Dutch defense minister appointed UN Iraq envoy
Sep 01, 2018 10:58A Dutch former defense minister has been appointed as the United Nation's envoy to Iraq, to head a mission which plays an essential role in the country's political and economic spheres.
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Russian envoy blocks publication of UN report critical of North Korea
Aug 31, 2018 14:17The Quds Force of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has killed four members of a terrorist group during clashes in the country’s southeastern border with Pakistan.
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Trump administration to end US funding to UN agency that aids Palestinian refugees
Aug 31, 2018 08:26The administration of US President Donald Trump has decided to cancel all US funding to the United Nations aid program for Palestinian refugees, part of a policy to impose maximum pressure on the Palestinians to satisfy Israeli interests and Zionist constituencies in the US.
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UN hints Myanmar leader complicit in Rohingya genocide
Aug 30, 2018 09:07The United Nations (UN)’s top human rights official says Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi should have resigned last year over a state-sponsored campaign of terror against Rohingya Muslims in the country’s northwestern state of Rakhine.
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Refugees rejected by Italy tortured, raped: UN
Aug 29, 2018 06:47African refugees who were rejected by Italy last week said they had been held by smugglers for up to two years in Libya and many had been beaten, tortured and raped, the UN migration agency said on Tuesday.
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US lawyer: ICJ "lacks prima facie jurisdiction to hear Iran's claims"
Aug 28, 2018 09:54The US lawyer has called on the International Court of Justice (ICJ) – the United Nations' highest court --to dismiss the Iranian lawsuit calling for a lifting of sanctions against the Islamic Republic.
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Saudi strikes on Yemen may amount to war crimes: UN experts
Aug 28, 2018 06:14United Nations human rights experts have raised the alarm at the high rate of civilian casualties in aerial assaults by Saudi Arabia and its allies on Yemen, saying the strikes “may amount to war crimes.”