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Ellen Tordesillas (Free subscription) | yesterday
... of the crime” in Ampatuan town is eerily similar to that he had found as a United Nations expert serving in the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Barren hills, marked in places by an occasional clump of nipa huts, flanked a narrow dirt road that led to the scene of the carnage that claimed the lives of at least 57 people, including at least 29 journalists. As he surveyed the area,...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
Geneva - The United Nations said Monday it aimed to study the legality of the ban on the building of new minarets in Switzerland as a result of the country's referendum on Sunday. A spokesman for the UN High Commission on Humanr Rights said in Geneva...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
An independent United Nations human rights expert today condemned the series of stonings that have been taking place in Somalia, and called for an urgent end to such "cruel, inhuman and degrading" practices.
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i On Global Trends (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
Al-Shabaab militiamen in southern SomaliaAn independent United Nations human rights expert today condemned the series of stonings that have been taking place in Somalia, and called for an urgent end to such “cruel, inhuman and degrading” practices.Shamsul Bari said the public stonings, floggings and summary executions carried out by Islamist armed groups in central and southern Somalia...
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France24 (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
UN efforts to disarm the Rwandan-Hutu rebels in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo have failed and international action is needed to restrict their financing, according to a new report by UN experts.
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France24 (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
According to UN experts, FDLR rebels have built up corrupt international trade in minerals which gives them financial support and disables peace efforts in the eastern part of the country.
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The Age (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Rwandan Hutu rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo have thwarted UN-led attempts to disarm them militarily and global action is needed to cut off their financing, UN experts say.
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Canadian Online Health News (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
GENEVA - The number of people worldwide infected with the virus that causes AIDS - about 33 million - has remained virtually unchanged for the last two years, United Nations experts said Tuesday.
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
... that featured posters of three white sheep kicking a black sheep off a red and white Swiss flag. UN experts and human rights activists condemned the campaign as overtly racist. This time the SPP has plastered the country with posters showing the same flag as a base for several black minarets, portrayed as missiles, alongside a woman clad in a black burqa. Church leaders, the Jewish community...
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
This wednesday (November 25th), Oxfam met with UN Security Council Ambassadors to present over 6500 signatures from concerned citizens in more than 130 countries,...
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News (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Three U.N. experts arrived in the West African nation, the world's top supplier of aluminum ore bauxite, on Wednesday to investigate the crackdown in which security forces used guns, steel pipes and knives on unarmed demonstrators gathered in a Conakry stadium.
