Kenya to table torture report before UN team
Source: Daily Nation
Geneva :: Switzerland | updated 2013-05-12 13:30:38 -0700 | disasters-news
Switzerland Kenya will this week appear before the UN Committee Against Torture (CAT) in Geneva for a review of measures it has adopted in the last four years to prevent and punish acts of torture. A government delegation will be...
UN official warns Egypt law could prompt crackdown
Source: The Boston Globe
Geneva :: Switzerland | updated 2013-05-08 14:06:12 -0700 | disasters-news
The U.N.'s top human rights official is urging Egypt's government to make sure that a draft law on civil groups doesn't allow a security crackdown on them. Navi Pillay, the U.N. high commissioner for human rights, says the draft law...
UN commission: Syrian rebels used sarin gas
Posted by: saleh1966
Geneva :: Switzerland | updated 2013-05-09 15:35:49 -0700 | disasters-news
The independent United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Syria has evidence from victims and medical staff in Syria that the deadly nerve agent sarin has been used by rebel forces in their fight against President Bashar al-Assad's regime forces. However,...
'Legal or illegal, I will do it': Melvyn Bragg says he'll kill himself rather than succumb to ...
Source: Mail Online UK
Zurich :: Switzerland | updated 2013-05-05 11:55:27 -0700 | disasters-news
Veteran arts broadcaster Melvyn Bragg has revealed that he plans to kill himself if he ever discovers he has dementia. The 73-year-old presenter of BBC Radio 4's In Our Time said he would go ahead with his plans whether or...
Warner claims $6M FIFA gift was to back Blatter
Source: The Orange County Register
Geneva :: Switzerland | updated 2013-04-26 06:39:42 -0700 | disasters-news
Trinidad to support Sepp Blatter's first election as president.
Iran awaits European Union's response on dialogue with world powers
Posted by: StephenManual
Geneva :: Switzerland | updated 2013-04-29 09:25:59 -0700 | disasters-news
Iran’s controversial nuclear program remains a source of concern for world powers and they all don’t want to see the Islamic Republic with nuclear weapons. Efforts have been underway for more than a decade to get Iran’s nuclear program halted...
New documentary suggests Edward VIII's former lover got away with murder
Source: Mail Online UK
Zurich :: Switzerland | updated 2013-04-19 16:28:12 -0700 | disasters-news
Now the man who stumbled upon it, Andrew Rose, reveals all... EST, 19 April 2013 The sensational 1923 murder trial of Marguerite Alibert, then known as the Princess Fahmy Bey, has fascinated me for almost 20 years...On trial for her...
Wardrobe Essential: The Stylish Sneaker
Source: Robb Report
Zurich :: Switzerland | updated 2013-04-14 04:23:43 -0700 | disasters-news
Once confined to the street, the everyday sneaker has been transformed into a versatile and fashionable shoe that is appearing with more than just casual wear and is even seen as a counterpart to the slim, contemporary suit. The stylish...
France acquits mum over son's Jihad shirt
Source: The Daily Telegraph
Court :: Switzerland | updated 2013-04-10 09:19:53 -0700 | disasters-news
France has acquitted a mother on trial for dressing her three-year-old son in a T-shirt reading "I am a bomb" and "Jihad, Born on September 11." Bouchra Bagour, 35, was on trial in Avignon on charges of defending terrorism after...
UN bemoans that it's short of cash, as Syrian refugee funds dwindle
Posted by: Nina Rai
Geneva :: Switzerland | updated 2013-04-29 22:51:19 -0700 | disasters-news
Giving its bleakest warnings ever, the United Nations on Friday declared that it would soon be unable to cope with the massive influx of Syrian refugees fleeing the civil war there and pouring into Jordan and nations in its periphery....
Kofi Annan claims it is too late for foreign military intervention in Syrian crisis
Posted by: saleh1966
Geneva :: Switzerland | updated 2013-03-29 16:10:19 -0700 | disasters-news
On Tuesday night, speaking at the Graduate Institute in Geneva, the Ghanaian diplomat and former UN and the Arab League mediator for the Syrian crisis, Kofi Annan said it's "too late" for military intervention in Syria. He added that providing...
KPMG Captures Two International Accounting Bulletin Awards
Source: PR Newswire
Zurich :: Switzerland | updated 2013-03-19 14:00:42 -0700 | disasters-news
International is a double recipient of 2013 International Accounting Bulletin (IAB) Awards, which were presented in According to IAB, the global magazine covering the professional services industry, the Awards recognize organizations that have risen above their peers in the past...
Bankrupt Bhakti Park couple kills their kids, themselves
Source: Daily News & Analysis
Sion :: Switzerland | updated 2013-03-18 15:22:47 -0700 | disasters-news
A couple and their two children were found dead in a plush flat in Wadala's Bhakti Park on Monday morning. The bodies of Donatus Anthony, 49, his wife Elizabeth, 45, son Jesson, 12, and daughter Vivian, 4, had decomposed and...
Number of Syrian refugees hits 1 million, UN says
Posted by: saleh1966
Geneva :: Switzerland | updated 2013-03-09 15:07:37 -0800 | disasters-news
The flow of Syrian refugees arriving in neighboring countries has now exceeded 1 million since conflict in Syria erupted in March 2011, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Antonio Guterres, said on Wednesday. Guterres stated in a statement...
UN Rights Inquiry: Time to refer Syrian war crimes to ICC
Posted by: saleh1966
Geneva :: Switzerland | updated 2013-02-21 15:16:23 -0800 | disasters-news
A report issued by human rights experts of the United Nations, released in Geneva on Monday, said that both Syrian state forces and rebels were committing war crimes, though it said the government camp carried more blame. At a press...
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