US rights group urges release of Iranian activist (AP)

AP – A U.S. human rights group urged U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to secure the release of a prominent Iranian journalist and activist who goes on trial Saturday on charges that carry the death penalty.
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Lebanon complains to UN about Israel ’spy ring’ (AFP)

AFP – Lebanon has filed a complaint with the United Nations over what it says is an Israeli spy ring in the country, giving a list of 141 suspected agents, a diplomat said on Friday.

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UN to release Congo ‘genocide’ report in October (AP)

AP – A report detailing hundreds of gruesome attacks against civilians in Congo over a 10-year period won’t be released until October, the U.N.’s top human rights official said Thursday, after Rwanda angrily protested the findings in a draft version.
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Rwanda considers pulling its peacekeepers from Darfur (Reuters)

Reuters – Rwanda is considering pulling out all its troops from United Nations peacekeeping missions, starting with Darfur, after a leaked draft U.N. report said Rwandan troops may have committed genocide in Congo.

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UN denies Ban pressure to change Congo report (AP)

AP – The U.N.’s human rights office says it hasn’t come under pressure from Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to alter a forthcoming report accusing the Rwandan army of committing possible genocide in Congo in the 1990s.
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Outrage Grows Over Failure to Protect DRC Civilians (OneWorld.net)

OneWorld.net – UNITED NATIONS, Aug 28 (IPS) – As details emerged this week of the U.N.’s knowledge of rebel
activity in the villages where nearly 200 women were
systematically gang raped by armed groups in the eastern
Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) late last month, human
rights groups are demanding an investigation into the U.N.’s
failure to prevent [...]

Rwanda threatens to withdraw peacekeepers (AP)

AP – Rwanda has threatened to withdraw its troops from United Nations peacekeeping operations if the world body publishes a report accusing the Rwandan army of committing possible genocide in Congo in the 1990s, Rwanda’s foreign minister says in a letter sent to the U.N.
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U.N. fears for children as Pakistan floods threaten town (Reuters)

Reuters – Flood waters threatened to engulf two towns in southern Pakistan on Saturday, a month after the disaster began, as the United Nations warned that tens of thousands of children risked death from malnutrition.

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UN panel: minorities in Iran face discrimination (AP)

AP – A United Nations panel says Arabs, Kurds and other minorities in Iran face discrimination because of their ethnicity.
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US ‘deeply concerned’ over reports of mass rape in DRCongo (AFP)

AFP – The United States said Wednesday it was “deeply concerned” about reports of mass rape in Democratic Republic of Congo, and would work with the local government and the United Nations to bring the culprits to justice.

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