UN rights envoy cancels Cambodia visit after scathing report
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The United Nations rights envoy to Cambodia has cancelled a visit to the country, officials said Monday, just days after the release of his scathing report on the government's rights record.
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Former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan had to postpone a mediation trip to Kenya because of flu and is recuperating, a U.N. official said Wednesday.
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The fledgling U.N. Human Rights Council ended its second session Friday after failing to approve any decisions addressing the world's worst abuses.
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UN envoy fails to secure meeting on five-day visit as 'political crisis' deepens
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Sudan will not allow a UN human rights team to visit unless they replace a member of the delegation who Khartoum says is biased, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Monday.
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Britain's suspended ambassador to Uzbekistan described human rights abuse in the Central Asian state as &quot;brutal&quot;, and argued that his outspoken criticism of it had embarrassed London and cost him his job, in an interview published.
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The UN envoy to Gambia is reportedly expelled after criticising the president's claim to be able to cure HIV/Aids.
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The government has removed its ambassador to Uzbekistan after he accused the Central Asian state of supplying the West with bogus information obtained through torture.
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UN officials are in Cambodia to discuss funding for a tribunal to bring to justice leaders of the bloody Khmer Rouge.
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Should an ambassador speak out over human rights even if this upsets his or her own government? The question has been posed by the dismissal from his post as British ambassador to Uzbekistan
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A top U.N. rights envoy condemned on  Wednesday the arrest and jailing of opposition activists in  military-ruled Myanmar and said he had received credible  reports of rights violations in border areas.
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British diplomat Paddy Ashdown said Sunday he had withdrawn from consideration for a U.N. post as a so-called "super envoy" to Afghanistan after Afghan officials said he was not their preferred candidate.
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Cambodia renewed its call Friday for the United Nations to find money for a genocide tribunal as the country marked the 26th anniversary of the end of the Khmer Rouge's brutal rule.
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Systematic rights violations are key to the Cambodian government's grip on power, a United Nations envoy warned in a report accusing the administration of refusing to improve its rights record.
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Israeli official accuses UN's top humanitarian envoy of putting Israel on a par with terrorists
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Two Cambodians who human rights groups say were framed for the 2003 murder of a prominent union leader called on the King on Friday to quash their conviction after the surprise postponement of their appeal hearing.
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U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour has criticized Afghanistan's parliament for granting immunity to all Afghans involved in the country's 25 years of war.