http://www.un.org/news A world of news from the world organization. en-us Copyright 2009, UN News Centre http://www.un.org/News/dh/latest/media/nslogo.gif http://www.un.org/news 140 Latest from the UN News Service http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33071&Cr=icty&Cr1= Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST The United Nations tribunal set up to deal with the worst war crimes committed during the Balkan conflicts of the 1990s has ordered that the trial of Serbian Radical Party leader Vojislav Šešelj, which had been adjourned in February amid allegations that witnesses had been intimidated, resume on 12 January 2010. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33064&Cr=fishing&Cr1= Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST A landmark treaty that aims to shut down ports to illegal fishing vessels has been approved by the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), the United Nations agency announced today. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33038&Cr=democratic&Cr1=congo Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST The trial against two former Congolese rebel leaders for crimes allegedly committed by their militias in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in 2003 is set to begin tomorrow in The Hague at the International Criminal Court. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33007&Cr=democratic&Cr1=congo Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST The top United Nations envoy to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) today welcomed the arrest of two leaders of a rebel Rwandan militia on suspicion of carrying out crimes against humanity and war crimes in the eastern region of the DRC. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=32996&Cr=pakistan&Cr1= Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST The independent United Nations commission charged with examining the facts and circumstances behind the December 2007 assassination of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto met recently with former President Pervez Musharraf. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=32987&Cr=ictr&Cr1= Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST The United Nations-backed tribunal tasked with trying atrocities committed during the 1994 Rwandan massacre of ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus today acquitted a priest who had been charged with genocide and crimes against humanity, a day after it did the same in the case of the brother-in-law of the country's former president. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=32966&Cr=sierra+leone&Cr1= Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST The United Nations-backed tribunal trying the worst acts committed during the decade-long brutal civil war in Sierra Leone today transferred its detention centre to the national prison service. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=32961&Cr=corruption&Cr1= Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST The head of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has welcomed a new mechanism to monitor and implement a global treaty to fight corruption, the result of week-long negotiations in Doha, Qatar. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=32940&Cr=icty&Cr1= Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST The Appeals Chamber of the United Nations tribunal set up to deal with the worst crimes committed during the Balkan wars of the 1990s today cut four years off the 33-year sentence imposed on a former Bosnian Serb army general who commanded much of the siege of Sarajevo. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=32878&Cr=Kenya&Cr1= Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has announced that he will ask the tribunal to open an investigation into the deadly post-election violence in Kenya in December 2007 and January 2008.