UN urged to treat suicide bombs as crimes against humanity
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The Simon Wiesenthal Center on Thursday said that in the wake of last week's murder of former Pakistani premier Benazir Bhutto it was calling on the United Nations to designate suicide bombings as a crime against humanity.
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Following on from yesterday&#39;s horrific car bombing in Baghdad which claimed the lives of 47 people, the UN has warned that a &quot;lack of security&quot; is undermining the world body&#39;s efforts to assist in elections set for January.
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UNITED NATIONS  A year after the bombing of UN headquarters in Baghdad killed 22 people, the United Nations remains a target for attacks in Iraq and UN staff angrily allege that major security ...
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The US State Department&#39;s counter-terrorism co-ordinator, Cofer Black, has urged Bangladesh&#39;s government to bring to justice those responsible for a string of bomb blasts in the country.
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The UN secretary-general warned that violence against women has reached "hideous" levels in some countries trying to recover from conflict
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi  Annan intends to tell world leaders on Tuesday to respect human  life, whether civilians or prisoners of war in Iraq, villagers  in Sudan or children in northern Uganda or Russia.
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Top United Nations human rights official  Louise Arbour called on Tuesday for investigation of alleged  abuses in Falluja, Iraq, including disproportionate use of  force and the targeting of civilians.
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United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has made a stinging attack on war with Iraq. Mr Annan said the conflict was illegal and violated the UN Charter.
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UNITED NATIONS -- UN envoys told the Security Council yesterday that war crimes had probably taken place on &quot;a large and systematic scale&quot; in Sudan's Darfur region and called for foreign police to help stop abuses.
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The Asian Human Rights Commission asked the United Nations Tuesday to intervene to end extra-judicial killings in Sri Lanka, where it said at least 50 people were killed in the last month alone.
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Those behind the "cold-blooded murder" of 22 people at the United Nations office in Baghdad one year ago must be held to account, no matter how long it takes to find them, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Thursday.
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Those behind the "cold-blooded murder"  of 22 people at the United Nations office in Baghdad one year  ago must be held to account, no matter how long it takes to  find them, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Thursday.
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UNITED NATIONS UN Secretary General Kofi Annan (KOH&#39;-fee AN&#39;-nan) is calling for &quot;an unprecedented global response&quot; to the tsunami that&#39;s killed at least 119 thousand people in south Asia.
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Nobel peace laureate Desmond Tutu urged Israel on Wednesday to prosecute soldiers responsible for the deaths of 19 Palestinian civilians in a shelling attack on a Gaza town last year.
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BANGKOK - The United Nations has warned its staff in Thailand to be careful following threats by a separatist group to stage attacks in Bangkok in revenge for the deaths of 85 Muslim protesters in the south last week.
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The U.N. Security Council on Thursday condemned a deadly bus bombing in Iran, granting a request made by Tehran amid a dispute with the council over its nuclear program.
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Foreign Secretary Jack Straw condemned the suicide bus bombings which killed or injured dozens of Israelis today. Mr Straw described the attacks as unjustifiable