Activist's death troubles U.N. agency
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The United Nations on Friday said it was "very disturbed" by the death in prison of a human rights activist and journalist in Turkmenistan, and called for an independent investigation.
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Kosovo's top U.N. official on Wednesday fired the police commissioner after weekend clashes between police and ethnic Albanian protesters led to the deaths of two people. Joachim Ruecker, the U.N. official in charge of administering Kosovo, said he had demanded the resignation of U.N. police commissioner Stephen Curtis, effective immediately, in the wake of the violence.
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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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The United States said on Friday it was troubled by the case of an Afghan journalist sentenced to death for blasphemy and that the U.S. ambassador in Kabul planned to raise the matter with Afghan authorities.
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A Sudanese national working for the   International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), who was   abducted in Sudan's Darfur region by an armed group two weeks   ago, is dead, the humanitarian agency said on Wednesday.
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Leading human rights activist Munir (38), who died earlier this week while on a flight to the Netherlands, will be buried Sunday (12/9/04) in his hometown of Malang, East Java province.
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Â· 'Political assassination' sparks fresh violenceÂ· UN secretary general warns of catastrophe
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A United Nations employee who police believe jumped to her death from the 19th floor of U.N. headquarters was a computer expert with joint Uruguayan-Austrian citizenship, the U.N. said on Tuesday.
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A U.S. government aid official who was critically wounded in a shooting attack on his vehicle in Khartoum on Tuesday has died, a U.S. embassy official said.
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The U.N. special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings said on Friday he plans to investigate deaths caused by the U.S. military and contractors in Iraq, including the recent Blackwater case in Baghdad.
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GENEVAUN Secretary-General Kofi Annan yesterday met survivors and families of the 22 workers killed in a suicide bombing that shattered United Nations offices in Baghdad last year  an attack many employees refer to as &quot;our Sept. 11.&quot; ...
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A United Nations peacekeeper who was among a small group of reinforcements sent to Darfur was shot to death at his residence &#151; the U.N.'s first casualty since its long-negotiated arrival in the troubled region, officials said Saturday.
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The African Union and United Nations say gunmen in Darfur have killed a U.N. peacekeeper there.
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Carol Bellamy has witnessed her share of horrors as head of the United Nations children's agency for the past 10 years, from traumatized Iraqi children to starving Sudanese babies to frightened tsunami orphans. Through it all, she says, she's tried to push forward.
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United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon has voiced deep concern about the safety of aid workers in Sri Lanka after the murder of two Red Cross volunteers, his office said, as Japan's peace envoy flew to the war-battered island.
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Dozens reported killed as opposition leader dismisses result deemed irregular by international observers
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U.N. officials fear that Secretary General Kofi Annan may have lost the confidence of the organization's most powerful constituent, the U.S.