A United Nations committee has passed a resolution condemning North Korean human rights abuses for the 19th year in a row. The Third Committee of the U.N. General Assembly passed a resolution Wednesday calling on member nations not to forcibly repatriate political
The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved Sandra Day O’Connor for confirmation as the first woman justice on the Supreme Court on this day in history on Sept. 15, 1981. On Sept. 21, O’Connor was confirmed by the full Senate by a vote
Sri Lanka’s president said Sunday he will appoint a committee chaired by a retired Supreme Court judge to investigate allegations made in a British television report that the South Asian country’s intelligence was complicit in the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings that killed
A parliamentary committee in Kenya has launched an inquiry into alleged human rights violations and ethical breaches by a British army training unit that has been active for decades in the country the U.K. calls “our defense partner of choice in East
Iraq’s foreign minister called Monday for the Organization for Islamic Cooperation to form a committee for talks with the European Union over its member countries permitting the desecration of the Quran and to enlist volunteers to file lawsuits to halt the practice.
Suggestions by Tobias Ellwood, chairman of Parliament’s Defence Committee, that the West needs to “re-engage” with the Taliban are “unrealistic and misguided”, an exiled Afghanistan leader has said. After returning from a visit to the country, Mr Ellwood this week uploaded a
The operating budget for the Paris Olympics is “under control,” the president of the organizing committee said Tuesday. With one year to go before the opening ceremony, organizing committee president Tony Estanguet said partnership deals are on track, with 22 new sponsors
Boris Johnson’s allies are being “persecuted” by a “secretive” committee that will tomorrow force a Commons vote because they spoke out in his favour. The Privileges Committee issued a damning report on the conduct of high profile MPs and peers who attacked
The UK’s most senior climate adviser has accused the Government of falling short on its green pledges – and said they must “learn from” Just Stop Oil’s disruptive tactics. But Lord Deben, who chairs the Climate Change Committee, admitted the protest group’s
A 30,000 word report into Boris Johnson and whether he misled Parliament has found the former PM was “deliberately disingenuous” when he “tried to reinterpret his statements to the House to avoid their plain meaning and reframe the clear impression that he