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=44940&Cr=bangladesh&Cr1= Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:00 EST The United Nations human rights chief today welcomed the decision of dozens of international companies to sign on to an fire-and-safety agreement in the aftermath of the deadly factory collapse in Bangladesh, while calling for additional actions to overhaul the entire garment sector. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=44933&Cr=nigeria&Cr1= Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:00 EST Members of Boko Haram and other extremist groups in Nigeria could face war crimes charges for deliberate acts leading to ethnic and religious cleansing, the top United Nations human rights official said today. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=44931&Cr=discrimination&Cr1= Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:00 EST Marking the International Day Against Homophobia, United Nations officials today issued a call on Governments worldwide to protect the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) individuals, and strike laws that discriminate against them. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=44930&Cr=death+penalty&Cr1= Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:00 EST The United Nations human rights office today expressed serious concern over Papua New Guinea's announcement that it will resume the death penalty more than half a century since it last carried out an execution, stressing this would represent "a major setback" for the country. 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=44907&Cr=syria&Cr1= Tue, 14 May 2013 00:00:00 EST The mutilation of a Syrian soldier purportedly shown in an internet video is a "truly atrocious act" which should be investigated as a potential war crime, the United Nations human rights chief said today, urging the armed opposition to stop such gross crimes. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=44903&Cr=eritrea&Cr1= Tue, 14 May 2013 00:00:00 EST The international community must keep Eritrea under "close scrutiny", an independent United Nations expert said today, stressing the need to fundamentally transform the East African nation's "current culture of rights denial." http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=44899&Cr=Russia&Cr1= Tue, 14 May 2013 00:00:00 EST Three United Nations independent experts today urged Russian authorities to revise a law that is having "obstructive, intimidating and stigmatizing effects" on the country's non-governmental organizations (NGOs). http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=44889&Cr=iran&Cr1= Mon, 13 May 2013 00:00:00 EST A group of independent United Nations experts today reiterated its call on Iranian authorities for the immediate release of seven Baha'i community leaders imprisoned five years ago this month with 20-year sentences - the longest of any current prisoners of conscience. 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.