AFP - Police forced Zimbabwe opposition chief Morgan Tsvangirai on Friday to halt his campaign to topple Robert Mugabe at a run-off poll, his party said after he was detained for the second time in a week.
AP - The United States says it is fed up with the United Nations Human Rights Council and will only participate in its debates when absolutely necessary. -- read full article
Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:31:28 GMT - Yahoo! News: United Nations
Reuters - In an attempt to further distance
itself from the U.N. Human Rights Council, the United States
said on Friday it would only engage the body when there was an
issue of "deep national interest." -- read full article
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AFP - Pakistan's new government has officially asked the United Nations to investigate the assassination of Benazir Bhutto last December, UN spokeswoman Michele Montas said Friday.
AP - The United Nations Security Council received assurances from Chad and Sudan that they will try to reconcile following last month's rebel attack on Sudan's capital that Khartoum blamed on Chad, France's ambassador to the U.N. said Friday.
AFP - Zimbabwe opposition chief Morgan Tsvangirai was forced Friday to halt his campaign to topple Robert Mugabe at a run-off poll this month after being detained by police for the second time in a week.
AP - World leaders at a U.N. summit embraced an ambitious strategy to combat a food crisis that is causing violent riots and threatening to push up to a billion people across the globe into hunger.
Reuters - The United States has quietly informed
Western allies of its intention to walk away from the U.N.
Human Rights Council, diplomatic sources said on Friday. -- read full article
Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:52:11 GMT - Yahoo! News: United Nations
AFP - A United Nations committee on Friday asked the United States to investigate claims that children detained by the US in Iraq and Afghanistan have been subject to "cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment."
Reuters - United Nations experts on child rights
criticized the United States on Friday over detention of
juveniles at Guantanamo, in Afghanistan and Iraq, and voiced
concern that some may have suffered cruel treatment.
AP - Myanmar should investigate reports that inmates were shot to death in a Yangon prison as Cyclone Nargis ravaged the country last month, a U.N. human rights expert said Friday. -- read full article
Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:16:32 GMT - Yahoo! News: United Nations
AP - The U.N.'s top humanitarian official says at least 2 million people in Zimbabwe are facing a greater risk of starvation, homelessness and disease. -- read full article
Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:24:23 GMT - Yahoo! News: United Nations
AP - Refugees and aid workers in eastern Chad told U.N. Security Council members Friday that their biggest worries are insecurity and banditry, which have been on the rise in the area for months.
Reuters - The International Criminal
Court prosecutor said on Thursday he would seek new indictments
next month against top officials, accusing Sudan's "entire
state apparatus" of involvement in crimes in Darfur.
AP - The United States on Thursday expressed outrage over what it called Zimbabwe's unjust detention of U.S. diplomats and protested the envoys' treatment at the United Nations.
