Collective punishment for Gaza is wrong: U.N.
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Israel has a right to respond to  security threats but should not collectively punish the Gaza  population for rocket attacks from the Palestinian territory,  the U.N. humanitarian affairs chief said on Friday.
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The U.N. Security Council on Monday strongly condemned last week's suicide attack on Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto's homecoming procession as a "heinous act of terrorism" and urged all countries to cooperate in bringing the perpetrators to justice.
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UNITED NATIONS, October 6 (IslamOnline.net &amp; News Agencies) - A United States veto against an Arab-backed draft UN Security Council resolution, demanding Israel to immediately end its running Gaza onslaught, drew flack Tuesday, October 5, for failing
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The U.N. Security Council approved a weak statement Thursday expressing shock and distress at Israel's bombing of a U.N. post in Lebanon that killed four unarmed military observers, but avoiding any condemnation.
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Israel demanded Sunday the United Nations investigate whether Palestinians filmed in the Gaza Strip were militants using a U.N. van to transport rockets for use against Israel.
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The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) strongly condemned on Wednesday the killing of a 10-year-old schoolgirl by Israeli troops in the southern Gaza Strip town of Khan Younis.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan  - Sudan said Sunday it was  disappointed with a U.N. resolution that threatens sanctions if  it does not stop violence in the western Darfur region, adding  it was resentful of the world body.
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The director of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees criticized Israel on Tuesday for using excessive force against Palestinians in Gaza.
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North Korea continues to violate human  rights systematically by torturing, publicly prosecuting and  oppressing its citizens, a United Nations envoy for human  rights in the communist state said on Friday. "There are many  grave negative situations," Vitit Muntarbhorn, a U.N. special  rapporteur, told reporters in Tokyo.
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UNITED NATIONS, Dec. 8 -- U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan scolded governments Friday for failing to halt mass murder in Darfur, saying that the world has not learned the lessons of Rwanda and Srebrenica, where genocidal killings in the early 1990s defied the global ability to stop it.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan urged  the Security Council on Sunday to consider sanctions against  Sudan for "gross violations of human rights" in Darfur.
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North Korea continues to violate human rights systematically by torturing, publicly prosecuting and oppressing its citizens, a United Nations envoy for human rights in the communist state said on Friday. "There are many grave negative situations," Vitit Muntarbhorn, a U.N. special rapporteur, told reporters in Tokyo.
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban  Ki-moon joined Western nations on Wednesday in criticizing the  world body&#39;s own Human Rights Council for picking on Israel as  part of an agreement on its working rules.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan warned world leaders on Tuesday that international law was being "shamelessly disregarded" and cited the U.S. abuse of prisoners in Iraq as an example of such violations.
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The UN secretary general Kofi Annan called on Israel to end its military operation in Gaza. An operation which resulted in killing scores of Palestinians most of them are civilians including children since last Tuesday.
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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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The U.N.'s humanitarian chief called Friday for an end to the rapes plaguing women in war-battered Congo and said the perpetrators, including those wearing military uniforms, must be severely punished.