On 30 November 2011, the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011) amended the entry specified below to its Al-Qaida Sanctions List of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council resolution 1989 (2011) adopted under Chapter VII […]
Speakers Focus on Occupation, Regional Uprisings to Demand More Democracy Stressing that popular uprisings across the Middle East were demanding greater inclusiveness and democracy, General Assembly delegates called today for peace and justice ? as well as ?re-energized? efforts to resolve old regional conflicts ? to reign across the region, as it adopted six […]
Approximately 700 high school students from the United States, Canada, France, Mexico and Romania will participate in the fourteenth annual United Nations Student Conference on Human Rights from 30 November to 2 December under the theme Discrimination and Human Rights Defenders. The three-day conference is being organized by the Department of Public Information as part of the commemoration […]
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, observed on 3 December: It is 30 years since the United Nations first observed the International Year of Disabled Persons under the theme “Full Participation and Equality”. During that period, there has been significant progress in raising awareness about the rights […]
Countering what he described as the ?dominant narrative of failure? in Haiti, Nigel Fisher, Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General for that country, said that painting a falsely negative picture could drive interest, attention and support away from the recovering country at a critical ?turning point?. Speaking at a headquarters press conference today, Mr. Fisher […]
The Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria had concluded that Syria?s army and security forces committed crimes against humanity in their repression of a largely civilian population in the context of peaceful protests, members of the United Nations-backed panel said today. ?We have identified patterns of human rights violations by Syria?s army and security […]
On 28 November 2011, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1533 (2004) concerning the Democratic Republic of the Congo added the following individual to the List of individuals and entities subject to the measures imposed by paragraphs 13 and 15 of resolution 1596 (2005), as renewed by paragraph 3 of resolution 1952 […]
The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President José Filipe Moraes Cabral (Portugal): On 28 November, the members of the Security Council heard a briefing on the situation in Yemen from the United Nations Special Adviser, Jamal Benomar, and the Deputy Director for the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs’ […]
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon?s message delivered to the sixteenth session of the Conference of States Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention, delivered by Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, in The Hague, 28 November: As the International Year of Chemistry comes to a close, your Conference can add meaning to […]
Children must be separated from adult combatants as soon as possible to facilitate their transition back to civilian life and prevent further abuse, the Special Representative of the Secretary‑General for Children and Armed Conflict, Radhika Coomaraswamy, urged today during a Headquarters press conference on her recent missions to the Central African Republic and Somalia. […]
