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October 2014
NORTH KOREA: North Korea shows willingness to discuss human rights there, possibly due to pressure from a UN inquiry that accused Pyongyang of crimes against humanity. Reuters, 28 October, 2014. UKRAINE: The European Union and UN condemned plans for elections in rebel-held areas of eastern Ukraine. Reuters, 29 October 2014. GENERAL ASSEMBLY: Rejecting calls for wholesale approaches to disarmament, US speaker tells First Committee results will not be realized overnight. UN News Centre. 21 October 2014. SECURITY COUNCIL: Venezuela gets U.N. seat; Turkey is denied’, New York Times, 16 October 2014, and ‘Turkey loses out on UN Security Council seat’, BBC News, 16 October 2014, and ‘Venezuela elected to UN security council’, Guardian, 16 October 2014. AFRICA: “UN agency reports growing number of refugees as Nigeria insurgency continues”, UN News Centre, 17 October 2014. HUMAN & WOMEN'S RIGHTS: “8 Notable Advances for Women at the UN General Assembly”, Institute for Inclusive Security, 3 October 2014.