Scorned U.N. rights body seeks identity
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The United Nations' top human rights body, scorned by the U.S. administration and shunned by the only two countries it has sought to scrutinize, is still trying to set the rules for combatting atrocities a year after its creation by the General Assembly.
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The UN Security Council condemned illegal armed groups in Haiti it said were performing unauthorized law enforcement and called on the transitional government
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Member nations of the U.N. Human Rights Council must soon allow their own records to be scrutinized to show the body can be taken seriously, a top rights official said Thursday.
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GENEVA -- A U.N. human rights team investigating crimes against humanity in Sudan's Darfur region zeroed in on the international community Monday for the first time, accusing the world's governments of an "inadequate and ineffective" response to widespread atrocities.
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Angered at Secretary-General Kofi Annan&#39;s dismissal of allegations against the UN&#39;s top investigator, union leaders representating over 5,000 UN employees met for a second day on Friday to decide what action to take.
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Cambodia complained to United  Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday about a  damning human rights assessment of the country by Ban's special  rapporteur.
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The NZ Herald has the story.  More coverage can be found by performing a Google News search for "un congo sex abuse".    Details of the story include the fact that over 150 counts by at least 30 staff members are being investigated, and that this isn't the first time that the U.N. has been so accused.
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The rights group Amnesty International has issued a scathing report on Nigeria, calling the rape of women by its security forces &quot;endemic&quot; while the government fails to bring the attackers to justice.
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GENEVA, Aug 18  - United Nations human rights investigators on Wednesday called on Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo to identify and hold accountable those behind the massacre of at least 160 Congolese Tutsi refugees.
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Europe and the United States increasingly tolerate autocrats posing as democrats out of pure self-interest, in countries such as Pakistan, Kenya, Nigeria and Russia, as human right abuses go on, Human Rights Watch charged Thursday.
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Several U.N. Security Council  nations expressed misgivings about a draft resolution  introduced by Russia on Monday that would create a new  blacklist of terrorist suspects subject to extradition.
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Pro-Beijing media launched a scathing attack Friday on a report alleging human rights violations ahead of Hong Kong's weekend election, and a Chinese official lashed out at the "wicked" watchdog group that prepared it.
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Eritrea said on Thursday five U.N.   security staff expelled this week were spies and challenged the   world body's secretary-general, Kofi Annan, to "put his house   in order" before criticizing the Horn of Africa state.
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Violations of human rights by the US are undermining international laws, a leading rights group says.
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UNITED NATIONS,â Security Council veto number 29 on the part of the United States against a draft resolution in favor of the rights of the Palestinian people has once again exposed the incapacity of this body, PL reports.
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Powerful governments and armed groups are spreading fear to divert attention from human rights abuses, exacerbating polarization in an increasingly dangerous world, Amnesty International said yesterday in its annual assessment of rights worldwide.
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The new United Nations human rights  watchdog earned mixed reviews Tuesday after its treatment of  Cuba and Israel caused friction among major powers.