U.N. Says U.S. Not Done Enough on Guantanamo
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The United States has done too little to  improve treatment of prisoners at its Guantanamo Bay naval base  and risks doing more harm than good in the battle against  terror, U.N. human rights investigators said Friday.
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GENEVA  - A United Nations human-rights panel expressed concern Britain limits its adherence to the global treaty against torture when it comes to its troops' actions in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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Better data is needed to determine the magnitude of human trafficking so it can be targeted effectively, and some countries are not taking the problem as seriously as they should, the top U.N. anti-crime official said Tuesday.
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With multiple nations putting forward projects for a tsunami-warning system, the United Nations said Wednesday it should set up the system and extend it globally, but the United States voiced doubts about the U.N. ability to run such a program.
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MANILA -- A United Nations human rights expert criticized the Philippine military and government yesterday for not doing enough to solve a wave of political killings, many of which he said could be linked to government security forces.
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The United Nations' top human rights official said Friday that waterboarding Â a tactic used by the U.S. in its battle against terror Â qualifies as torture.
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After insisting for years the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay was vital to national security, U.S. officials are now trying to shut it down but are having trouble coming up with a plan to do it.
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U.N. measures aimed at crippling al Qaeda have had little impact on the threat of terrorism and need to be tightened, a panel of outside experts reported on Thursday.
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The United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution on Friday calling on states to strengthen cooperation in the fight against terrorism, including extraditing
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The United Nations human rights chief Saturday urged Afghanistan and the international community to do more to prosecute war criminals from more than two decades of devastating conflict that ravaged the country.
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Violations of human rights by the US are undermining international laws, a leading rights group says.
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A United Nations investigator said on Thursday he strongly suspected the CIA of using torture on terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay, suggesting many were not being prosecuted to keep the abuse from emerging at trial.
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Egypt has asked the United States to hand  over five detainees held at the U.S. base at Guantanamo in  Cuba, the state news agency MENA said on Thursday.
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The top U.N. official on torture said Friday that a bill before the U.S. Congress could deprive terrorism suspects of a fair trial and was especially troubling after the mistreatment of prisoners at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison.
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The U.N. human rights chief expressed concern Wednesday at recent U.S. legislative and judicial actions that she said leave hundreds of detainees without any way to challenge their indefinite imprisonment.
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The United Nations should find ways to demonstrate political independence, regain the neutrality it lost after the Sept. 11 attacks and better communicate with the world's 1 billion Muslims, a top U.N. official said Monday.
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The U.S. military announced Thursday that it has sent home two Afghans and three Tajikistani detainees at Guantanamo Bay, leaving fewer that 400 prisoners at the naval base.