Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged the Turkish Cypriot leader to grasp the current political window of opportunity to reach a settlement in the dispute over the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. In a meeting at United Nations Headquarters in New York, Mr. Ban and DerviŞ Eroğlu discussed the situation in Cyprus, where UN-backed [Read More]
Human trafficking is one of the most lucrative illicit businesses in Europe, according to a United Nations report launched today at an event where Spain became the first country on the continent to join the UN Blue Heart Campaign against trafficking in people. The report Trafficking in persons to Europe for sexual exploitation, [Read More]
The United Nations war crimes tribunal for former Yugoslavia terminated appellate proceedings today against the former head of Bosnian Muslim forces during the Balkan wars of the 1990s, who had died in April. The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) convicted Rasim Delić in 2008 to three years imprisonment [Read More]
Former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega goes on trial in France for money laundering, facing a prison sentence of 10 years. [Read More]
The head of the Belgian Church-backed body investigating clerical sex abuse resigns over a series of police raids last week. [Read More]
