UN unhappy with Saddam trial
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In a blow to US, the United Nations has turned down its request to assist Iraqi judges and prosecutors trying ousted President Saddam Hussein.
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Description: UN Secretary General Kofi Annan upset the Bush Administration earlier this year when he called the Iraq War illegal and the attack on Fallujah dangerous.
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Secretary of State Colin L. Powell yesterday expressed strong disapproval of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan&#39;s description of the US-led war in Iraq as illegal, saying the comment was &quot;not a very useful statement to make at this point.
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The United Nations on Sunday painted a  damning portrait of women's rights in Iran, saying they had  insufficient right of appeal against violence and were being  sentenced to death on flimsy evidence.
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United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Kofi Annan&#39;s declaration that the invasion of Iraq contravened the UN charter greatly annoyed the countries participating in the war, especially the US.
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NEW YORK A dangerous outgrowth of the deadly bombing of the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad a year ago has been an orgy of outrage and self-pity that has increasingly paralyzed the UN&#39;s capacity to respond meaningfully to needs in Iraq that it
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Saddam Hussein was thrown out of court   again on Monday and his lawyers did not show up at all, but the   new judge appointed by the Iraqi government in mid-trial   pressed on with hearing Kurdish witnesses to alleged genocide.
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NEW YORK -- US President George W. Bush yesterday scolded the United Nations for failing to join his crackdown on &quot;murderers.
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The United Nations has rejected an Iraqi request to train about 30 judges and prosecutors to try Saddam Hussein and his close associates.
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UNITED NATIONS -- Benon Sevan, the official accused of improperly receiving lucrative rights to purchase oil from Saddam Hussein's government while he was running the U.N. oil-for-food program in Iraq, discouraged his staff from probing allegations of corruption and helped block efforts by the U.N. anti-corruption unit to assess where the program was vulnerable to abuse, according to senior U.N. officials.
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Britain has told a United Nations human rights panel that nine cases of alleged torture or mistreatment involving British soldiers in Iraq are under investigation or ready to be brought to trial, a source close to the UN panel said.
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Iraq lacks any true spirit of reconciliation despite parliament's decision to let former members of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party return to government jobs, the United Nations' Baghdad envoy said on Wednesday.
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Iraq's plan to push ahead with early trials of Saddam Hussein's deputies risks launching an unfair process that is flawed and discredited in the eyes of the world, a leading human rights group said on Friday.
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The United Nations has rejected  a request from Iraqi leaders to train some 30 judges and  prosecutors who would be trying former President Saddam  Hussein, in part because Baghdad has the death penalty, a U.N.  spokesman said on Friday.
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Delays in the trial of Charles Taylor have caused much finger-pointing at the U.N.-backed special court.
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Saddam Hussein and other detained members of the deposed Iraqi regime will face trial within âa few weeks,â Iraqâs minister of state said today.
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Saddam Hussein&#039;s defense team on Wednesday accused a prosecution witness of perjury and demanded the court be halted to allow an investigation into the veracity of all those the prosecution has brought to the stand during the 7-month-old trial.