UN commission urges prosecution options in North Korea rights reportA UN commission called for either the referral of North Korea to the International Criminal Court (ICC) or the creation of an ad hoc tribunal, lambasting the state as one with no parallel in the modern world in terms of the nature and scope of its alleged human rights violations Monday in a scathing report.18:39 18.02.2014
Human rights lawyers to sue UN over Haitian cholera outbreak – reportLawyers representing the interests of the victims of Haiti’s historic 2010 cholera outbreak vowed Wednesday to take the UN to court in New York in an effort to secure compensation for the thousands of lives lost and hundreds of thousands of illnesses endured as a result of the outbreak, Reuters reported Wednesday.13:34 09.10.2013
Russia second most popular spot for international migrationThe United Nations presented data Wednesday showing that in this time of unparalleled international migration, Russia retains the second largest number of such migrants in the world, after the US.14:56 12.09.2013
US evidence on Syrian chemical attack inconclusive - LavrovThe evidence the US has provided to Russia about use of chemical weapons by government forces in Syria is inconclusive, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Monday.13:36 02.09.2013
UK Government publishes legal theory for Syrian interventionThe UK Government published its legal position Thursday for the use of military force in Syria in response to the suspected chemical attack that occurred on August 21 near Damascus.02:41 30.08.2013
Russia implores US to observe international law as Syria rhetoric mountsThe Russian Foreign Ministry issued a statement Tuesday warning the US and the international community as a whole to remain strictly and prudently observant of international law in light of increasingly fervent reports of a possible military intervention in Syria.17:44 27.08.2013
Russia welcomes accord on Syria chemical arms probeRussia has welcomed an agreement reached between the United Nations and Damascus on sending inspectors to investigate alleged chemical weapons use in Syria, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said.14:32 16.08.2013
UN Security Council convenes emergency meet on Egypt crisis15 members of the UN Security Council gathered Thursday for closed-door consultations on the political crisis in Egypt as violence in the most populous Arab country continues to gain momentum despite attempts by the interim government to stabilized the situation.10:07 16.08.2013
UN leaders urge international community to respect indigenous peoples’ rightsIn honor of the August 9 observance of International Day of the World’s Indigenous People, UN human rights chief Navi Pillay issued a statement imploring the international community do more to honor and strengthen treaties with indigenous peoples.19:21 09.08.2013
ICC prosecutor urges UN to clamp down on military criminals in DarfurProsecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Fatou Bensouda on Wednesday called on the UN Security Council to take urgent measures to punish those responsible for military crimes against civilians in Darfur, Sudan.12:01 06.06.2013
Moscow prosecutors ask court to shut down ICOCRIM officeThe Moscow Prosecutor's Office has asked the court to shut down the Russian branch of the International Committee on the Fight against Terrorism, Organized Crime and Corruption (ICOCRIM).13:22 22.05.2013
International law is in need of review - Constitutional Court chairmanInternational law as a whole needs to be revised, Chairman of Russia's Constitutional Court Valery Zorkin said on Wednesday at the St. Petersburg International Legal Forum.17:17 15.05.2013
UN experts asked to testify in Russian “foreign agent” trialThe Memorial Anti-Discrimination Center (ADC Memorial), a Russian human rights NGO, has asked the UN Committee Against Torture (CAT) to testify in court in connection with the case to label the NGO as a "foreign agent" in accordance with the federal law.14:52 07.05.2013
UN court to hear Japan's whale hunt case in JuneThe International Court of Justice will hear Australia and New Zealand's lawsuit against Japan's whale hunting in the Antarctic in the summer, the court said on its website on Friday.13:49 12.04.2013
Nuclear threats and international law: a complicated relationshipIf North Korea makes good on its threats of nuclear warfare, international law will likely be the last thing on anyone’s mind. The nuclear sparring match presently bouncing back and forth the Pacific begs the question: can international law pass muster to the threat of nuclear warfare? In an effort to create a David that could prove formidable in the face of the nuclear giant, the UN and ICJ focused in great depth on this very issue in the direct aftermath of the Cold War.17:56 10.04.2013
UN General Assembly adopts historic Arms Trade TreatyIn a decisive move toward regulating the grey to black markets that have historically surrounded the global arms trade, the UN General Assembly voted by a landslide Tuesday to approve the world’s first comprehensive arms trade treaty.13:09 03.04.2013
Canada may pull out of UN climate change conventionCanada may exit the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, Liberal MP David McGuinty was quoted as saying by the Responding to Climate Change website on Friday.15:37 29.03.2013
UN fails once again to produce an arms-trade treatyWidespread optimism that the UN Final Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty would culminate in the adoption of a binding legal text regulating the international arms market was abruptly derailed Thursday at the hands of Iran, Syria, and North Korea, who asserted concerns that the draft document did little to ensure the protection of their national interests.14:13 29.03.2013
UN human rights council to investigate abuses in North KoreaThe UN Human Rights Council at its meeting on Thursday decided for the first time to examine allegations of prison camps, slave labor, food deprivation and other human rights abuses in North Korea.10:56 22.03.2013
US criticized for failure to adhere to UN drug conventionsThe Independent Narcotics Control Board (INCB), the independent body charged with implementing the United Nations drug control conventions, criticized the US for slipping up on its requirements under various UN drug treaties by virtue of a series of increasingly liberal marijuana laws that have passed in certain states.17:45 06.03.2013