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Ban Urges Panel To Meet Sustainability Challenge
Tuesday, 21 September 2010, 3:52 pm | UNDP
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today issued a challenge to the newly-created High-Level Panel on Global Sustainability to find a solution to challenge of lifting people out of poverty while promoting sustainable development. More >>
Continued Commitment Required For Pakistan Floods
Tuesday, 21 September 2010, 3:50 pm | UNDP
The challenge posed by the deadly floods in Pakistan require the international community's continued commitment to relief, recovery and reconstruction in the coming months, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stressed today. More >>
UNDP Calls For USD 89m To Help Pakistanis
Tuesday, 21 September 2010, 3:42 pm | UNDP
The UN today appealed for just over US$2 billion for humanitarian and recovery needs for flood-ravaged Pakistan. Within the context of the UN response, the UNDP put forth a host of recovery programmes designed to help communities get back on their feet. More >>
UNDP Calls ToSupport Pakistan Early Recovery
Sunday, 19 September 2010, 1:08 pm | UNDP
Islamabad, Pakistan, 18 September 2010The United Nations appealed for just over US$2 billion for humanitarian and early recovery needs for flood-ravaged Pakistan. More >>
Internally displaced children are not second class
Wednesday, 15 September 2010, 12:55 pm | UNDP
The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, Ms. Radhika Coomaraswamy, presented her annual report to the Human Rights Council during its 15th session in Geneva today in order to guide the Council’s future ... More >>
Tackling Corruption in the Pacific
Tuesday, 20 July 2010, 11:00 pm | UNDP
[Apia, 19 July 2010] “Resources lost to corruption are resources lost to the poor. This in turn slows the progress towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.” More >>
30 Guadalcanal Victims Testified Before the TRC
Monday, 28 June 2010, 12:43 pm | UNDP
VISALE, 25 June – From Wednesday to Friday this week more 30 victims have testified in the second regional hearing by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Solomon Islands. By telling their stories, many of the victims express relief and a will ... More >>
Missing Navy sailor's name released
Friday, 18 June 2010, 12:53 pm | UNDP
The Royal Australian Navy can confirm the missing sailor presumed drowned, as 28 year old Leading Seaman (LS) Combat Systems Operator Andrew Wakely. More >>
Eight-point action agenda to reduce poverty
Friday, 18 June 2010, 12:51 pm | UNDP
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) launched, today, an extensive assessment of what must be done to advance sustainable development and reduce global poverty. The report, titled What Will It Take To Achieve The Millennium Development Goals? ... More >>
Fiji: Poor Excluded from Financial Services
Wednesday, 2 June 2010, 6:22 pm | UNDP
[Suva - June 02] About 109,000 households in Fiji miss out on savings, credit and other financial services. The untapped savings demand, largely present in the rural areas, stands at least FJD $70 million dollars. Further, the unmet demand for credit, ... More >>
Staking a Claim for Cambodia
Thursday, 27 May 2010, 2:11 pm | UNDP
Cambodia opened an international conference on mining today to discuss the country’s mineral resources sector and steps needed to “responsibly” develop it for the greater good of its citizens. More >>
Asia-Pacific Regional Economic Recovery Steps
Wednesday, 19 May 2010, 12:14 pm | UNDP
Government leaders of the Asia-Pacific region at a UN meeting in Korea today proposed common economic and financial measures aimed at ensuring Asia 's early rebound from the global economic crisis will foster broader economic growth across the Asia Pacific ... More >>
Access to HIV prevention and care services
Monday, 17 May 2010, 3:57 pm | UNDP
More than 90 percent of men having sex with men in the Asia Pacific region do not have access to HIV prevention and care services. HIV prevalence has reached alarming levels among men who have sex with men and transgender populations in many countries ... More >>
UNDP Pacific Centre
Monday, 3 May 2010, 11:47 pm | UNDP
“This is the beginning of a yearlong capacity building programme that aims to build a cadre of Peace builders in the Pacific – representing governments, CROP agencies and Civil Society Organizations – to work together on regional and national Peace ... More >>
Financial Inclusion: Investing in Women
Tuesday, 20 April 2010, 1:19 pm | UNDP
Bringing banking to the doorsteps of rural villagers in Fiji and combining this with training on saving and investing money has led to improvements in their wellbeing. This was revealed by a United Nations report launched in Suva today. The report further ... More >>
Solomon: Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Tuesday, 9 March 2010, 11:17 am | UNDP
Honiara, 8 and 9 March 2010: The first public hearing by the Solomon Islands Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) will be held Tuesday and Wednesday next week. More >>
Helen Clark's Message on Women's Day
Friday, 5 March 2010, 6:19 pm | UNDP
Right now, the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women is gathering in New York to review progress towards gender equality since the groundbreaking Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995. That landmark conference recognized the barriers ... More >>
Disasters: UNDP Responds With Rapid Support Teams
Tuesday, 6 October 2009, 9:15 am | UNDP
Bangkok, 5 October, 2009— UN Development Programme Administrator Helen Clark said today that in reaction to the widespread disasters that struck Asia and the Pacific last week, the United Nations is responding with rapid support teams in Bhutan, Cambodia, ... More >>
Women And Children Hit Hardest By Economic Crisis
Thursday, 9 April 2009, 1:05 pm | UNDP
Phnom Penh, 8 April -- Coming on the heels of a devastating food and oil crisis, which saw 50 percent of households cut back on food, the UN fears the recession in Cambodia’s major export markets will have severe and wide-ranging implications ... More >>
Increasing Cambodia’s Competitiveness
Saturday, 7 February 2009, 2:51 pm | UNDP
PHNOM PENH, 5 FEBRUARY 2009: Despite remarkable recent economic growth and steady progress towards reducing poverty, the effects of the global financial crisis are now being felt in Phnom Penh. The question of what Cambodia can do to mitigate the ... More >>
