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Wednesday, August 6th, 2008Microchipped passports the Government claim are foolproof can be cloned in minutes, it has been reported. By Jon Swaine Test results suggest that criminals could copy innocent travellers' passports and manipulate their data, replacing the photograph or other information with their own. The apparent flaws cast doubt on the Government's insistence that 3,000 blank passports stolen from a vehicle last week are worthless and could not be used. The security of ...
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UN expert urges U.S. to take steps to avoid unlawful killings
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008Xinhua | UN human rights expert Philip Alston on Monday called on the United States to take immediate steps to improve its system of military justice and to ensure that the death penalty is applied fairly and justly in states such as Alabama and Texas. Alston, the special rapporteur on extra judicial, summary or arbitrary executions, had just concluded an official visit to the United States during which he ...
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UN chief “shocked” over Zimbabwe’s murdered activists
Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Geneva - The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour said she was shocked Wednesday by the news that several more political activists had been found murdered in Zimbabwe.
She condemned the killings as well as the continuing harassment of aid workers, human rights defenders and other members of civil society.
A number of bodies of slain political activists for the opposition party, ...
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John Bolton Escapes Citizen’s Arrest
Thursday, May 29th, 2008
By Stephen Adams - The Telegraph | John Bolton, the former US ambassador to the United Nations, has escaped an attempted citizen’s arrest as he appeared at the Hay Festival. Security guards blocked the path of columnist and activist George Monbiot, who tried to make the arrest as Mr Bolton left the stage.The former ambassador - a key advisor to President George W Bush ...
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UN suspends aid flights after Burma impounds food
Friday, May 9th, 2008
By Rachel Stevenson, Julian Borger, Ian MacKinnon and agencies | The UN today suspended aid flights to Burma after emergency supplies for survivors of cyclone Nargis were impounded by the military government. A spokesman for the UN's World Food Programme (WFP) said its food aid and equipment had been confiscated ...
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UN official decries weakening of press freedom
Monday, May 5th, 2008
Dawn | UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour has decried weakening of press freedom world over, saying that governments are becoming more secretive and offering propaganda disguised as objective information — especially when alleged security-related issues are on the table.
In a message on the occasion of Press Freedom Day, Ms Arbour noted that harassment and secrecy laws were ...
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UN targets US over delay in Syrian nuclear evidence
Saturday, April 26th, 2008
By Anne Penketh |
The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog has reacted with fury at the United States' delay in passing on intelligence, after Washington accused North Korea of helping Syria to build secretly a nuclear reactor.
According to the Central Intelligence Agency the reactor, which may have been part of a nuclear weapons programme, was destroyed by an Israeli ...
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The engineer whose ‘evidence’ led to war in Iraq
Friday, March 28th, 2008An Iraqi engineer who provided the information that became one of the key planks in the Bush administration's case justifying the invasion of Iraq has been tracked down by undercover reporters to a drab residential block in southern Germany. Rafid Ahmed Alwan, code-named Curveball (a baseball term for deception), has been in hiding since the invasion five years ago, and lives under an assumed name. He was questioned by German intelligence ...
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Ex-chief weapons inspector slams Iraq war
Thursday, March 20th, 2008LONDON (AFP) - Hans Blix, the former chief UN weapons inspector, slammed the Iraq war as a "tragedy" and blamed it on leaders ignoring the facts, in a comment piece published Thursday.Writing in The Guardian on the five-year anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq, Blix, who clashed with Washington in the run-up to the Iraq war, described the war as "a ...
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The United Nations Coming For Our Children?
Sunday, February 3rd, 2008Dana Gabriel A global transformation is being manifested through corporations, the media, entertainment, and the educational system. The social engineers and the agents of change wish to purge our children's beliefs, value system, their independence, and their individuality. They are being replaced with more global beliefs, universal values, and interdependence. Their fragile little minds are being molded and shifted into group-think, while parental authority and influence is being undermined. The United ...
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UN expresses “grave concern” over CIA torture
Wednesday, December 19th, 2007UN representative expresses “grave concern” over CIA torture, Guantánamo hearings By Naomi Spencer Following a visit earlier this month to the US military prison at Guantánamo Bay, a United Nations human rights representative reported ongoing abuse, drumhead judicial proceedings, and other violations of international law. The report by the UN official, charging the US government with widespread criminality, has been almost entirely ignored by the US media. In a report to ...
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United Nations To Vastly Expand Global Police Force
Thursday, November 1st, 2007SLOBODAN LEKIC With the world facing new security threats, the U.N. is planning for an unprecedented expansion of its police missions. U.N. officials say a shift in the nature of conflicts requires revamped peacekeeping operations. Traditionally, the U.N. has facilitated peace between warring states by sending its blue-helmeted soldiers to man buffer zones between their armies. But today, interventions are increasingly focused on settling civil wars. "In recent years the character of ...
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War crime lawyers fight UN on top job
Sunday, September 23rd, 2007New secretary general is challenged over 'secret appointment' to replace top tribunal prosecutor Ed Vulliamy in The Hague Sunday September 23, 2007 The Observer The new leadership of the United Nations is facing a defiant challenge from within one of its few recent successes - the war crimes tribunal in The Hague - over who will steer the epic trials towards their close.Prosecution lawyers at the International Criminal ...
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UN probes Ivory Coast abuse
Sunday, July 22nd, 2007The United Nations is investigating allegations of widespread sexual abuse by hundreds of its peacekeepers serving in the Ivory Coast. A Moroccan battalion of 800 troops in Bouake, in the north of the country, were confined to their barracks on Friday and all of the contingent's activities suspended. The UN said an internal investigation "revealed serious allegations of widespread sexual exploitation and abuse" by the unit which is serving in Bouake. The soldiers ...
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WMDs: Thousands killed for a lie and it’s case closed
Saturday, June 30th, 2007The UN Security Council has voted to end a programme charged with looking for suspected weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, after no such weapons were found. Fourteen members of the bloc voted to close the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (Unmovic), with Russia abstaining, Johan Verbeke, council chairman, said. "It's a positive moment because it means the international community has now the necessary confidence to go ahead with Iraq ...
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