Reuters - U.N. Secretary-General Ban
Ki-moon on Thursday named South African judge Navanethem Pillay
as the world body's new human rights chief, despite initial
U.S. concerns about her background.
Reuters - The U.N. Security Council was
split on Thursday over how to push Myanmar to improve human
rights and adopt democratic reforms as a U.N. special envoy
prepared for a key visit to the Asian nation.
AP - A Swiss-led, five-nation panel proposed Thursday that the United Nations assert itself as leader of a global fight against terrorism and establish a new agency or program to coordinate that effort. -- read full article
AFP - The United States warned Myanmar's military rulers that they must cooperate with UN mediator Ibrahim Gambari or face increased pressure from the Security Council.
AP - One of South Africa's leading female jurists who won acclaim defending apartheid opponents was nominated Thursday to serve as the next United Nations high commissioner for human rights.
Reuters - U.N. Secretary-General Ban
Ki-moon on Thursday named South African judge Navanethem Pillay
as the world body's new human rights chief, succeeding
outspoken Canadian Louise Arbour, a U.N. spokeswoman said.
AFP - Cambodia has asked the UN Security Council to postpone a formal meeting on its tense military standoff with Thailand pending talks next week between the two countries' foreign ministers, Vietnam's UN envoy said Thursday.
Reuters - The United Nations human rights
committee said on Thursday Britain should ease back on tough
"anti-terror" measures and take firm action to combat "negative
public attitudes" towards Muslims. -- read full article
Reuters - The African Union said on
Wednesday it was incapable of stabilizing the situation in
Somalia and urged the United Nations take over peacekeeping
operations in the lawless Horn of Africa country.
Reuters - The U.N. Security Council will
hold a special meeting on a border dispute between Cambodia and
Thailand that has sparked fears of a military clash, France and
Vietnam said on Wednesday.
AFP - The Security Council is mulling whether to take up the tense military standoff between Cambodia and Thailand as the two neighbors massed more troops along their border, Vietnam's UN ambassador said Wednesday.
AFP - The UN Security Council has "good reasons" to be unsure about sending large numbers of peacekeepers to Sudan's Darfur region, its outgoing head of peacekeeping said in an interview published Thursday.
AP - With some 4,000 troops massed along the Thai-Cambodian border, United Nations Security Council members say they will try to keep a standoff from escalating into war.
AFP - The UN Security Council is expected to discuss a tense military standoff between Cambodia and Thailand this week as more troops amassed along the border, officials said Wednesday.
AFP - Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah has spelled out his terms for further prisoner swaps with Israel, according to a letter from UN chief Ban Ki-moon to the president of the Security Council seen here Wednesday.
