http://www.un.org/news A world of news from the world organization. en-us Copyright 2013, UN News Centre http://www.un.org/apps/news/en/images/content/logo_ncs_sm_rss.png http://www.un.org/news 143 Latest from the UN News Service http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=44974&Cr=indigenous&Cr1= Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:00 EST Indigenous peoples in Latin America have undergone an unprecedented mobilization in the past 20 years, but political participation, particularly among women, is still low, the United Nations said in a new report released today. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=44918&Cr=guatemala&Cr1= Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 EST Establishing truth and justice in Guatemala is essential to ensuring that heinous crimes such as arbitrary executions, rape and forced displacement - committed during the country's civil war - do not take place again and to ending impunity, a group of independent United Nations experts said today. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=44884&Cr=guatemala&Cr1= Mon, 13 May 2013 00:00:00 EST The top United Nations human rights official today welcomed the conviction of José Efraín Ríos Montt, Guatemala's former de facto head of State, to 80 years in prison for genocide and crimes against humanity. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=44817&Cr=Mexico&Cr1= Fri, 03 May 2013 00:00:00 EST A United Nations independent expert today urged the Mexican Government to strengthen the national structures that protect human rights, in particular the right to life, and reduce the involvement of the military in policing to reduce the use of force in the country. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=44814&Cr=labour&Cr1= Thu, 02 May 2013 00:00:00 EST Despite progress and innovation in key sectors of the United States' economy, too many loopholes remain to adequately protect human rights from adverse business practices, a group of United Nations independent experts today warned. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=44801&Cr=Guantánamo&Cr1= Wed, 01 May 2013 00:00:00 EST With some 100 prisoners at the Guantánamo Naval Base on a hunger strike, a group of United Nations independent human rights experts today reiterated their calls on the United States to shut down the detention centre. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=44788&Cr=Argentina&Cr1= Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:00:00 EST A United Nations expert today called on Argentina to ensure the independence of its judiciary, following reforms passed earlier this month that affect the election process of the Magistrates Council which appoints and removes judges. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=44747&Cr=paraguay&Cr1= Thu, 25 Apr 2013 00:00:00 EST Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed peaceful general elections in Paraguay that attracted wide participation, reiterating the United Nations' willingness to work with the newly elected authorities and people in the South American country. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=44743&Cr=UN+Headquarters&Cr1= Wed, 24 Apr 2013 00:00:00 EST With an extensive renovation of the great General Assembly Hall imminent, United Nations officials today paid tribute to architect Oscar Niemeyer and other members of the UN board of design in a ceremony that revisited the inception of the iconic Headquarters project. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=44734&Cr=guatemala&Cr1= Tue, 23 Apr 2013 00:00:00 EST A senior United Nations official today urged judicial authorities in Guatemala to ensure that legal proceedings continue without interference against the country's former head of State and former head of intelligence who stand accused of atrocities committed in the Central American nation over 30 years ago.