UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan told delegates at the opening of the second session of the UN Human Rights Council Monday that the Council should pay more attention to the Darfur...
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UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan Monday welcomed Friday's agreement by a UN General Assembly committee on the draft terms of a new UN disability rights treaty. In a statement released by his official spokesman in...
Working Text, International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, UN General Assembly Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities, August 28,...
UN panel approves disability rights treaty but US will not sign
A UN General Assembly panel late Friday approved by consensus a draft disability rights treaty, clearing the way for its formal adoption by the Assembly at its 61st annual session beginning in September prior to being open...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour Wednesday urged the adoption of an increasingly-problematic draft of the International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities , a proposed treaty to protect the...
UN disability rights treaty talks frustrated by disagreement, US opposition
A UN committee charged with creating worldwide standards to protect persons with disabilities has been swamped with 150 proposed amendments to the draft convention currently under discussion. The Eighth Session of the committee on the UN...
Delegates meet to iron out differences on UN disability rights treaty
Delegates from around the world will meet Monday in New York in a bid to resolve differences left after a drafting session earlier this year to frame a 33-article draft convention designed to protect the rights...
JURIST Contributing Editor Geoffrey S. Corn, Lt. Col. US Army (Ret.) and former Special Assistant to the Judge Advocate General for Law of War Matters, now a professor at South Texas College of Law, says that use of force in...
Proportionality and the Use of Force in the Middle East Conflict
JURIST Contributing Editor Mary Ellen O'Connell of Notre Dame Law School says that the principle of proportionality in the use of force is a necessary, sensible and humane doctrine of international law that Israel and Hezbollah would do well to...
United Nations delegates working to draft the first-ever treaty to protect the rights of disabled individuals worldwide have nearly completed their task and resolved many issues of concern after a three-week drafting session [UN...