This happened last week but was only reported yesterday evening.
A United Nations employee was caught with child pornography as he entered the country last week at Halifax Stanfield International Airport.
Jose Antonio Ortega Osona, 40, a Spanish citizen who lives in New York, pleaded guilty Friday in Dartmouth provincial court to a Criminal Code charge of [...]

French-language news site les quotidiennes reports on a UN-sponsored symposium on honour crime to be held in Geneva on Saturday, 4 April.  The translation posted below comes from Google, with some editing for intelligibility by this blogger.
According to the United Nations, more than 5,000 women and girls each year are victims of “honor crimes”. [...]

This video was made available by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), which today launched an international campaign to raise public awareness about human trafficking. Several high-tech publicity tools are being utilised to draw attention to the fight against modern slavery, including Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.
It’s called the Blue Heart Campaign [...]

Freedoms of speech and religion are under threat around the world. Religious persecution watchdog organisation International Christian Concern cites several recent instances in this disturbing trend.
Hate speech and anti-conversion laws are cropping up around the globe in what, on the surface, seems to be an effort to protect religious freedoms. In reality, these laws [...]

Carla Del Ponte is one fearless prosecutor. Her investigations of Sicilian mafia, Slobodan Milosevic, and Rwandan genocide earned her powerful enemies and death threats. Her memoir Madame Prosecutor is proving extremely controversial—so much so that she has been forbidden to talk about it.
She alleges that the United Nations and NATO failed adequately to [...]

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) today released a global assessment of the fight against human trafficking. A few signs of progress are reported in a small number of countries but , overall, trafficking of human beings seems to be growing. Most countries are still ignoring or denying the modern-day [...]

Two journalists making a documentary on how the United Nations handles human rights issues were ejected from a UN meeting in Geneva earlier this week.  The subjects under discussion at the meeting were freedom of expression and “defamation of religion”.  The expulsion was ordered at the behest of the Organisation of Islamic Conference.
Two journalists from [...]

The Canadian Islamic Congress yesterday issued a sternly worded press release denouncing last week’s vote by Canada against the United Nations “Human Rights” Council resolution condemning Israel’s military action in Gaza.
The Canadian Islamic Congress today added its voice to growing protests over Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s decision on Monday to have Canada vote against a [...]

Jody Williams was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997 for her work with the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, so she seemed a good choice to investigate Darfur for the UN Human Rights Council.
Apparently Ms Williams has more integrity than the morally bankrupt UNHRC bargained for. She resisted efforts to water down her [...]

It’s a good day to be Canadian.
Canada was the sole member of the United Nations Human Rights Council to vote against a resolution condemning Israel. Strangely, the council’s own press release does not name the no-voter.
The Human Rights Council concluded its ninth Special Session today by adopting a resolution on the grave violations of [...]

Admiral Dennis C. Blair has been nominated for Director of National Intelligence in the Obama administration. International news sources and bloggers are recalling his support for the perpetrators of civilian massacres in East Timor in 1999, when he was Commander-in-Chief of the US Pacific Command.
East Timor was occupied by Indonesian troops from 1975 to [...]

Iran is seriously ticked off with Canada. That just breaks my heart.
Iran’s foreign ministry sources said on Tuesday that the Islamic Republic should respond to the Canadian-sponsored UN resolution criticizing Iran’s so-called violation of human rights ‘fittingly’.
“Canada has been deprived of positive relations with the Islamic Republic as a result of its anti-Iran resolution [...]

US President George W Bush spoke yesterday at the Saudi-sponsored UN gabfest on religion and peace. It was probably his last opportunity to address the United Nations, and he made the most of it. He risked the ire of America’s putative ally, Saudi Arabia, by emphasising the right to change one’s religion.
While he [...]

Saudi Arabia is leading a UN conference on religion and peace. Once again, the UN allows itself to be used to lend legitimacy to a malicious cause.
Seven years after 15 Saudis hijacked U.S. jetliners and flew them into the World Trade Center, Saudi Arabia is leading a UN forum in New York this week [...]