UN to discuss child abuse claims
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The UN says it will discuss the issue of child abuse by UN troops, following allegations uncovered by the BBC.
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UNICEF spokesperson Paula Claycomb speaks in Khartoum, Sudan, Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2004. Claycomb expressed hope that the meeting of the United Nations security council in Nairobi, to begin Thursday, would encourage a comprehensive peace deal in Sudan.
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Sexual abuse of girls by U.N. peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was widespread and ongoing despite many revelations and probes, the U.N. watchdog agency reported on Friday.
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United Nations (UN) personnel will prepare &quot;the first motion of non-confidence in the organization&#39;s history&quot; against UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who has faced a series of scandals.
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International and Sri Lankan human rights campaigners called for a United Nations inquiry into abuses against civilians by Tamil Tiger rebels and government forces on the strife-torn island.
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UNITED NATIONS -- The UN is investigating about 150 allegations of sexual abuse by UN civilian staff members and soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with some evidence recorded on videotape, a senior UN official said yesterday. The accusations include pedophilia and rape, said Jane Holl Lute, an assistant secretary general in the peacekeeping department. Lute said that there ...
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UN officials are in Cambodia to discuss funding for a tribunal to bring to justice leaders of the bloody Khmer Rouge.
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A United Nations commission will examine Indonesia's efforts to punish those responsible for human rights abuses in East Timor in 1999, Indonesia and East Timor said Friday.
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Children in Sudan are still being recruited to fight and suffer a wide range of abuse from killings and abductions to rape and sexual violence, especially in Darfur, according to a new U.N. report.
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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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UN Secretary General Kofi Annan will urge the world body's Human Rights Council to hold a special session on violations in Sudan's strife-torn region of Darfur, warning that the Council's reputation is at stake.
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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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A three-strong team of experts will   travel to Lebanon on Saturday to begin a probe into allegations   of human rights violations by Israel during last month's war, a   top United Nations official announced on Monday.
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SEOUL - South Korean officials will meet with the UN nuclear watchdog this month to explain about controversial uranium enrichment tests conducted four years ago, Foreign Minister Ban Ki-Moon said on Saturday.
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UNICEF (news - web sites)&#39;s Executive Director Carol Bellamy sits in a meeting at the United Nations (news - web sites) in New York, December 30, 2004.
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Victims in child abuse cases involving Church of England officials call for fresh inquiries into possible similar cases.
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A report on how a paedophile was watched in the weeks before he abused a girl of three is to be published.