Tag: UN

Ban Ki-moon warns Central African Republic ‘spiralling into anarchy’

November 20, 2013 Central African Republic African Union, Michel Djotodia, Seleka, UN

Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the United Nations, pictured in 2012.Africa Renewal / Flickr / Creative Commons The UN Secretary General Ban-Ki moon said on Monday (Nov. 18) that anarchy in the Central African Republic risks spiralling further out of control, and could need up to 9,000 peacekeepers. In a . . . Read More

Iran’s nuclear programme ‘distracting’ world from rights abuses

November 8, 2013 Iran Barack Obama, Hassan Rouhani, Human rights, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mostafa Bordbar, Saeed Abedini, UN

Former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on a tour of an Iranian nuclear facility.Pere Ubu / Flickr / Creative Commons An Iranian Nobel Prize-winner has warned EU and US officials that Iran’s nuclear programme is distracting them from addressing the country’s human rights abuses. Shirin Ebadi, now living in the UK, . . . Read More

UN: CAR in danger of genocide

November 2, 2013 Central African Republic Central African Republic, Genocide, Seleka, UN

The Central African Republic is at risk of lapsing into genocide, the Unitied Nations Security Council was told on Friday. “This will end with Christian communities, Muslim communities killing each other, which means that if we don’t act now and decisively I will not exclude the possibility of a genocide . . . Read More

Christian woman dies in Eritrean jail, as prisoner of conscience

November 1, 2013 Eritrea Adi Quala, Asylum seekers, UN

Shipping containers, such as these photographed in South Sudan, are used as makeshift prison cells in neighbouring Eritrea. Wehazit Berhane Debesai died during the week of Oct. 14 in an Eritrea prison, though it was not reported if she was being held in a shipping containter.Courtesy Open Doors International . . . Read More

Clerics call on UN military force to secure Central African Republic

October 22, 2013 Central African Republic Bangui, Chad, Seleka, Sudan, UN

Church leaders in the Central African Republic have issued a joint appeal for international action.World Watch Monitor The leaders of the Central African Republic’s 4 million Christians have issued a joint plea for military help to disarm a largely Muslim insurgency and prevent “genocidal interfaith civil war”. Meeting Oct. 3-6 . . . Read More

Sudanese bishop pleads for end to suffering

September 25, 2013 Sudan Barack Obama, Blue Nile, Darfur, Kadugli, Nuba Mountains, Omar al-Bashir, UN

Rev. Andudu Adam Elnail.United to End Genocide / Flickr / Creative Commons A Sudanese bishop has written to U.S. President Barack Obama, calling for prompt actions to save the lives of those still alive in the country’s Nuba Mountains, Blue Nile and Darfur regions. Rev. Andudu Adam Elnail, the Bishop . . . Read More

Church wants political Syria solution

September 20, 2013 Global News -- No Particular Country Damascus, France, Germany, Russia, Syria, Turkey, UK, UN, USA

Church leaders from Syria, Russia, the US, UK, France, Germany and Turkey have called for a political solution as the only way to peace in Syria. They met the UN Secretary General and his Special Envoy to Syria on the same day that Syria’s Deputy Prime Minister said that the . . . Read More

North Korea shocks UN Commission

September 19, 2013 North Korea Human rights, North Korea, UN

The UN Commission of Inquiry set up to investigate human rights violations in North Korea has presented its interim report. “What we have seen and heard so far – the specificity, detail and shocking character of the personal testimony – appears without doubt to demand follow-up action by the world . . . Read More

UN warns of Syria ‘genocide’

September 3, 2013 Syria Genocide, Middle East, Syria, UN

A UN diplomat has warned that if the violence in Syria continues at its present rate, there is a “risk of genocide”. Mokhtar Lamani, who worked with the UN during both the Balkans war and Rwanda, told the BBC that Alawites and Christians were at most risk, and that over . . . Read More

New concern for North Korea

September 3, 2013 North Korea Human rights, Kenneth Bae, Kim Jong-Un, North Korea, Prisons, UN, USA

A new report from The Committee for Human Rights in North Korea states that an “extremely high” number of prisoners are detained on political grounds, while countless others are unaccounted for or have died in detention. “Through this vast system of unlawful imprisonment, the North Korean regime isolates, banishes, punishes . . . Read More

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