U.N. urges cooperation with rights panel
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon pleaded Monday for all nations to cooperate with the Human Rights Council, which began its first session of 2007 after being created a year ago to replace a commission whose critics complained was highly politicized.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi  Annan intends to tell world leaders on Tuesday to respect human  life, whether civilians or prisoners of war in Iraq, villagers  in Sudan or children in northern Uganda or Russia.
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GENEVA, Aug 18  - United Nations human rights investigators on Wednesday called on Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo to identify and hold accountable those behind the massacre of at least 160 Congolese Tutsi refugees.
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UNITED NATIONS A high-level panel is calling for changes in the United Nations to better handle global threats in the 21st century.
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A United Nations human rights body said  on Friday it had asked the United States to spell out the legal  status and treatment of people it is detaining in Afghanistan,  Guantanamo Bay and Iraq by the end of the year.
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U.N. envoys told the Security Council on Thursday that war crimes had probably occurred on "a large and systematic scale" in Sudan's Darfur region and called for foreign police to help stop abuses.
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Diplomats at a U.N. conference urged the United States on Tuesday to take the lead among 10 countries that have yet to ratify a global treaty banning nuclear test explosions.
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Decrying what he described as &quot;shameless&quot; disregard for the rule of law around the globe, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan yesterday urged world leaders gathered at the General Assembly to do everything within their power to restore respect for
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Members of the U.N.'s new human rights watchdog agreed in principle Tuesday to a compromise on how to launch investigations into some of the world's worst rights offenders, sparing the body from the potentially embarrassing prospect of failing to set its own rules.
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The UN urges an independent investigation into reports of human rights abuses in Ethiopia's Ogaden region.
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A panel commissioned by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to draft a plan to broaden the UN Security Council is expected to issue its recommendations tomorrow.
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A U.N. human rights team on Monday said the world has an urgent obligation to protect civilians in Darfur from war crimes and crimes against humanity in which the Sudanese government is playing a major role.
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A human rights organization has called for the creation of an international body to monitor Sudanese police in the war-torn Darfur region of western Sudan, following a recent police raid on a Darfur camp.
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United Nations members should be made to  share information on terror suspects with Interpol to make it  easier to enforce a U.N. blacklist, a top official of the world  police body says.
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The vision of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is under strain, the UN's human rights chief warns.
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Governments and rebel groups  found to be forcing children into combat or sexual slavery  should be punished if they fail to stem the abuses, U.N.  Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Wednesday.
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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.