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  • Ban Ki-moon appoints new UN human rights chief 25 Jul 2008 20:36 GMT
    ... Ban Ki-moon appoints new UN human rights chief n judge Nayanethem Pillay ... judge Nayanethem Pillay to the position of United Nations high commissioner for human rights. Ms Pilly's ... on the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, since 1995. The current commissioner, Louise Arbour ...

  • Sudan: Government Sends Ultimatum to UN Over General Karake 25 Jul 2008 20:28 GMT
    ... Sudan: Government Sends Ultimatum to UN Over General Karake KIGALI, 07/25- Rwanda will pull its troops from the Sudanese ... Zalmary Khalilzad, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, to inform U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon ...

  • New UN Human Rights Chief From the Continent 25 Jul 2008 19:56 GMT
    ... Prior to that, she served – as both Judge and President – on the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), which she joined in 1995. Mr. Ban’s spokesperson said that Judge Pillay’s nomination was ...

  • Pillay nomination welcomed 25 Jul 2008 19:55 GMT
    ... African government has welcomed the decision by UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon to nominate Judge ... judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. In that capacity, she played a key role in ...

  • Rwanda: Progress in Judicial Reforms Falls Short [press release] 25 Jul 2008 19:34 GMT
    ... The Rwandan government has made notable progress in reforming ... courts. The ICTR was established by the United Nations to try crimes of genocide, war ...

  • Anglicans lead march to protest poverty 25 Jul 2008 19:30 GMT
    ... leaders to do more to meet the UN Millennium Development Goals set in 2000 to tackle ... communion’s bishops, including most from Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda and Uganda, are staying away. – AFP "> ...

  • Progress in Judicial Reforms Falls Short 25 Jul 2008 18:55 GMT
    ... The Rwandan government has made notable progress in reforming ... courts. The ICTR was established by the United Nations to try crimes of genocide, war ...

  • Indian-origin woman named UN rights commissioner 25 Jul 2008 18:08 GMT
    ... bus driver, has been appointed the new UN High Commissioner of Human Rights. Pillay, 67, is ... judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and led the landmark decisions defining rape as an ...

  • EU poverty reduction programme in Rwanda wins UN Public Service Award 25 Jul 2008 16:54 GMT
    ... ...

  • U.N. report cites 'lessons' from Sudan attack 25 Jul 2008 16:52 GMT
    ... by Reuters on Thursday, says that the United Nations had identified several "lessons" to be ... how peacekeepers behaved during the conflicts in Rwanda and the Balkans. UNMIS is a 10,000-strong ...

  • US hails SA judge as rights chief 25 Jul 2008 16:51 GMT
    ... a South African judge as the next UN high commissioner for human rights. Zalmay Khalilzad, US ... on the UN war crimes tribunal for Rwanda. In 1967 she became the first woman to start ...

  • Indian-origin judge is new UN human rights chief 25 Jul 2008 16:14 GMT
    ... judge Navanethem Pillay has been named the United Nations' new human rights chief, despite some initial ... to lawyers. Officials and diplomats at the UN said the US had at one stage ... president on the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda which she had joined in 1995. ...

  • » UN calls upon SA judge 25 Jul 2008 15:15 GMT
    ... Navanethem Pillay, the newly-appointed UN high commissioner for human rights, is the daughter ... serving on the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Under Pillay's presidency, the court handed down a landmark ...

  • SAfrican lawyer nominated as UN human rights chief 25 Jul 2008 14:16 GMT
    ... UNITED NATIONS - One of South Africa's leading ... judge to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in 1995. She became that court's president ...

  • South Africa lawyer nominated as UN rights chief 25 Jul 2008 13:14 GMT
    ... nominated Thursday to serve as the next United Nations high commissioner for human rights. Navanethem ... judge to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in 1995. She became that court's president ...


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