UN 'slow' to stop DR Congo abuses
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Human Rights Watch says fighters in the DR Congo are committing rape and murder and the UN is "slow" to react.
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The United Nations says it is trying to speed up the arrival of peacekeeping troops in Haiti to help with emergency relief in the wake of Tropical Storm Jeanne, which wreaked havoc in the Caribbean nation earlier this month.
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Two top UN human rights officials on Thursday stopped short of classifying the situation in Sudan&#39;s western Darfur region as a genocide, but said that crimes against humanity and war crimes have &quot;probably occurred on a large and systematic scale.
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1 December 2004 - The United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo today expressed concern about renewed tensions between the DRC and its eastern neighbour over Rwanda&#39;s expressed intentions to attack DRC-based Rwandan
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The United Nations is investigating reports that Rwandan soldiers carried out human rights abuses against civilians in Democratic Republic of Congo last month, a spokeswoman said on Wednesday.
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UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 8 -- The United Nations has delayed the release of a quarterly report on human rights in Iraq to avoid criticizing Washington and Baghdad while they are seeking to rally congressional and international support for the war effort, according to U.N. officials.
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Global efforts to avoid tens of millions of preventable deaths by reducing tobacco use have been slow to take hold, and no country has fully adopted the World Health Organization's recommendations, WHO said on Thursday.
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Sudan&#39;s government made no progress last month in stopping attacks on civilians or prosecuting those behind atrocities in its western Darfur region, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Monday.
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A UN report on Darfur stops short of describing the violence there as genocide, a Sudanese minister says.
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The UN condemns slow progress on reform in Burma, after the crackdown on anti-government protesters.
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Sudan's government made no progress last month in stopping attacks on civilians or prosecuting those behind atrocities in its western Darfur region, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Monday.
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Some 45,000 people die each month in Congo as the world's deadliest humanitarian crisis has failed to improve despite five years of relative peace in the Central African nation, according to a report released Tuesday.
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Following last week&#39;s massacre of at least 160 Congolese Tutsis at a refugee camp near Burundi&#39;s border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Burundian government is speeding up efforts to help the United Nations set up more secure camps in the ...
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A European Union peacekeeping force to be  deployed in Central African Republic must act to halt the  killing of hundreds of civilians by government troops there  since mid-2005, Human Rights Watch said on Friday.
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The Security Council has bemoaned the slow progress in initiating democratic reforms in Myanmar and pressed for an early visit to the country by UN mediator Ibrahim Gambari.
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Darfur's human rights situation has not improved in recent months despite increased efforts by Sudan's government and the United Nations, a group of U.N. investigators said Monday.
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BUJUMBURA/UNITED NATIONS  - UN peacekeepers are scrambling to avoid new bloodshed in the volatile Great Lakes region of Africa following a massacre of Congolese refugees in western Burundi, the United Nations ...