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	September 17, 2012 | News covering the UN and the world Sign up  |  E-Mail this  |  Donate As anti-U.S. protests wane, UN officials trace unrest to film While anti-U.S. protests were quieting across some two dozen countries in the Muslim world, thousands of Afghans took to the streets Monday, shouting "death to America," and the leader of Hezbollah in Lebanon called for a week of renewed protests against an anti-Islamic film. U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice said the film was behind what she called a spontaneous protest at the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya -- which claimed the lives of four Americans, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens, and led to the arrests of several dozen Libyans. UN rights chief Navi Pillay called the film "malicious," adding that it "should be deprived of the oxygen of publicity." 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UN Dispatch War crimes, foreign fighters increasing in Syria The secret list of suspected war criminals in Syria has been updated by a commission of the United Nations Human Rights Council, whose lead investigator, Paulo Pinheiro, said that an "extraordinary body of evidence" points to an escalation in indiscriminate attacks on civilians, many of them children, by the country's security forces. The number of foreign fighters was on the rise, according to the commission, which found that opposition forces were also guilty of war crimes. BBC (9/17), The New York Times (tiered subscription model) (9/17), The Washington Post/The Associated Press (9/17), CNBC/Reuters (9/17)        UN probes Pakistan's little-publicized disappearances A United Nations delegation is visiting Pakistan to investigate allegations of endemic kidnappings, torture and murder at the hands of the country's security forces against Baluch people agitating for independence. Since last year more than 300 corpses, many bearing signs of torture, were discovered after they were dumped by abductors, according to human rights groups. Reuters (9/17), The Huffington Post (9/14)      Palestinian statehood: Is the 2-state solution finished? The bid by Palestinians to gain recognition at the United Nations, widely seen as an alternative to decades of failed negotiations with Israel, began with great fanfare, but is now flagging. As Palestinian leaders prepare to state their case before the General Assembly, observers are asking whether chances for a two-state solution are finished. BBC (9/14)        Other News WFP partners with MasterCard to improve "digital food" delivery AlertNet/News Blog/World Food Programme (9/13)      Cote d'Ivoire newspaper suspensions draw UN criticism Reuters (9/14)      Newest Millennium Village to gauge effectiveness Currently 14 Millennium Villages are situated throughout Africa as part of an anti-poverty initiative under United Nations auspices and devised by Jeffrey Sachs, head of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. The latest village project -- designed to help 30,000 people living in poverty in northern Ghana -- provides, too, for the first independent evaluation of the program's effectiveness. 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