GENEVA: Subsidiaries of Libya's sovereign wealth fund are no longer subject to a freeze on their assets abroad under an informal easing of UN sanctions targeting the regime of late leader Muammar Gaddafi, a UN panel of experts said on (...)
GENEVA: The United Nations human rights office called on Friday for a full investigation into the death of Libyan leader Moamar Qaddafi and voiced concerns that he may have been executed.
Images filmed on mobile phones before and after Qaddafi's (...)
GENEVA: The United Nations top human rights official called on Friday for international action to protect Syria's civilians, saying its "ruthless repression" of anti-government protesters could drive the country into full-blown civil war.
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GENEVA: Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC) wants to vet 3,000 mainly sub-Saharan migrants stranded in the southern town of Sabha before they are evacuated abroad to ensure that none were mercenaries fighting for deposed leader Moammar (...)
GENEVA: African and Middle East countries looking to reclaim more than $1 billion allegedly stashed in Switzerland by "kleptocrat" leaders will need to untangle a vast web of accounts to prove their criminal cases, experts say.
Switzerland said (...)
GENEVA: Switzerland has Some 410 million Swiss francs traced to former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stashed in the Alpine country, the Foreign Ministry said on Monday.
Some 360 million Swiss francs ($415.8 million) of potentially illegal (...)
GENEVA: UN investigators said on Friday they would start next week to probe alleged human rights violations committed in Libya by both forces loyal to Moammar Qaddafi and rebels trying to topple him.
The independent three-member commission of (...)
GENEVA: Often criticized for failing to tackle abuses in authoritarian countries, the UN human rights office has leapt into action recently to denounce leaders clinging to power in Ivory Coast, Tunisia and Egypt.
The marked shift in its response (...)
GENEVA: Last year tied for the hottest year on record, confirming a long-term warming trend which will continue unless greenhouse gas emissions are cut, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Thursday.
The first 10 years of the (...)