UN calls for probe into alleged eastern Ethiopia rights abuses
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A United Nations panel on Wednesday recommended an independent probe into alleged human rights violations in Ethiopia&#39;s Ogaden region, where the army has cracked down on rebels.
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The joint UN - Afghan election commission has asked the United Nations to appoint a panel of independent experts to investigate claims of voting fraud in Saturday&#39;s presidential election in Afghanistan.
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A U.N. human rights mission on Monday accused Sudan's government of orchestrating and taking part in gross violations in Darfur and called for urgent international action to protect civilians there.
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The UN Human Rights Council will hold a special session on violations in Sudan's strife-torn western region of Darfur on Tuesday, after a rebuke from Kofi Annan that it has not paid enough attention to rights violations in the province.
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Reports of rape are still rife in Darfur, western Sudan, perpetrators of abuses act with impunity, and civilians are being pressured to return to insecure areas, a UN team said on Monday.
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Afghanistan's top human rights official urged the country to confront the horrors of its past, saying Saturday that war crimes dating back more than 20 years should be prosecuted and rights abusers should be purged from public office.
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The United Nations is  investigating about 150 allegations of sexual abuse by U.N.  civilian staff and soldiers in the Congo, some of them recorded  on videotape, a senior U.N. official said on Monday.
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The United Nations new human rights watchdog agreed on Wednesday to send a high-level mission to Sudan's Darfur to probe allegations of worsening abuses against the civilian population.
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Human Rights Watch has called on the United Nations Security Council to take substantive action against what it claims are ongoing rights violations in the western Sudanese region of Darfur.
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A delegation sent by the U.N.'s top human rights official began a mission Wednesday to look into reports of brutality and serious abuses in the weeks of deadly violence since the country's disputed presidential election.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan told the U.N. Human Rights Council on Tuesday to immediately address the escalating atrocities in Darfur by sending an independent team of investigators to the volatile Sudanese region.
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Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi blames the UN for playing a damaging role in the Somali crisis.
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The new U.N. human rights watchdog agreed on Wednesday to send a high-level mission to Sudan's Darfur to probe allegations of worsening abuses against civilians.
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Amnesty International urges the UN to probe alleged war crimes committed in Lebanon, a year on from the conflict.
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The United Nations has launched investigations into about 150 allegations of sexual abuse by its civilian and military peacekeeping personnel in the Democratic Republic
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A United Nations investigator said on  Tuesday that "political killings" continued apace in Sri Lanka  and called for international human rights monitors to be sent  to the island.
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Ethiopian rebels declared a ceasefire Sunday to allow a United Nations mission to tour the eastern Ogaden region and assess alleged rights violations and a worsening humanitarian situation.