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Azerbaijan: UN Concerned By Human Rights Restrictions
Monday, 7 October 2013, 11:05 am | UN News
Voicing deep concern at tightened restrictions on the right of assembly in Azerbaijan and the harassment of journalists, three independent United Nations experts today called on the Government to facilitate the work of human rights defenders and civil ... More >>
Palestinian Refugee Children Return To School in Lebanon
Monday, 7 October 2013, 11:03 am | UN News
With their numbers swelled by the flow of refugees from Syria, tens of thousands of Palestinian children in Lebanon returned to school for the 2013/14 school year today with new learning and other materials provided by the United Nations and the ... More >>
Viet Nam: UN Alarmed By Conviction of Human Rights Lawyer
Monday, 7 October 2013, 11:02 am | UN News
The United Nations human rights office today urged the Government of Viet Nam to review the conviction of human rights lawyer Le Quoc Quan, who was sentenced to 30 months in prison and fined $60,000 for alleged charges of tax evasion. More >>
UN Mission to Disable Syria’s Chemical Production Facilities
Thursday, 3 October 2013, 11:44 am | UN News
The joint team of United Nations and international inspectors overseeing the destruction of Syria’s chemical weapons production facilities completed its first day of work in Damascus, a UN spokesperson announced today, adding that dismantling of the facilities ... More >>
Syria: UN Urges All Sides to Give Access to Humanitarian Aid
Thursday, 3 October 2013, 11:08 am | UN News
Gravely concerned by the deepening “humanitarian tragedy” in Syria, the United Nations Security Council today urged the Syrian Government to immediately allow cross-border aid deliveries and called on all parties to the conflict to agree on humanitarian ... More >>
UN and Malawi Launch Relief Operation for Food Aid
Thursday, 3 October 2013, 11:06 am | UN News
With nearly one and a half million people in need of food assistance in Malawi, the United Nations, the Government and other partners have launched a relief operation to meet growing needs owing to bad weather and high food prices. More >>
Kenyan Accused of Bribing Witness in Ruto Case
Thursday, 3 October 2013, 11:06 am | UN News
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued an arrest warrant for a man accused of bribing a prosecution witness in the case against Kenyan Deputy President William Ruto. More >>
Israel Insists on Sanctions against Iranian Nuclear Threat
Thursday, 3 October 2013, 10:48 am | UN News
Addressing the United Nations today, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that the only way diplomacy will stop Iran’s “feverish efforts” to acquire nuclear weapons is to keep up international pressure through “tough” sanctions ... More >>
Some 74,000 Tuberculosis Deaths Could Be Prevented Each Year
Thursday, 3 October 2013, 10:46 am | UN News
The deaths of more than 74,000 children from tuberculosis (TB) could be prevented each year through measures outlined in the first action plan developed specifically on TB and children, which was launched today by the United Nations health agency ... More >>
UN To Boost Support for Countries Hosting Syrian Refugees
Thursday, 3 October 2013, 10:45 am | UN News
Participants at a United Nations meeting in Geneva today agreed on urgent action to mitigate the economic and social impacts of the humanitarian crisis spawned by the Syrian conflict on neighbouring countries struggling under the weight of more ... More >>
Construction of Massive Steel Plant in India Must Be Halted
Thursday, 3 October 2013, 10:42 am | UN News
United Nations independent experts today called on Indian authorities to immediately halt the construction of a massive steel plant in the eastern state of Odisha – formerly known as Orissa – which threatens to displace more than 22,000 people ... More >>
DPRK Urges Financial Support for Sustainable Development
Thursday, 3 October 2013, 10:41 am | UN News
International efforts towards achieving universally accepted anti-poverty targets have not produced due results, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs, Pak Kil Yon of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) told the United Nations today, urging ... More >>
Serbia: Protection of Gay Rights Needed As Pride Parade Off
Thursday, 3 October 2013, 10:40 am | UN News
The United Nations human rights office today urged Serbian authorities to ensure the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community can exercise their rights to freedom of expression and association, following the Government’s decision to ... More >>
One In Eight People Worldwide Still Chronically Hungry - UN
Thursday, 3 October 2013, 10:38 am | UN News
Some 842 million people – roughly one in eight – suffered from chronic hunger in the period from 2011 to 2013, the vast majority of them in developing regions, says a new report released today by the three United Nations food agencies. More >>
UN Chief Condemns Murder of Students at Nigerian College
Thursday, 3 October 2013, 10:16 am | UN News
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon “strongly condemns” the murder on Sunday of more than 40 students and the wounding of several others by gunmen at an agricultural college in north-eastern Nigeria, his spokesperson said today. More >>
Belize Chastises Rich Nations for Abandoning Global Partners
Tuesday, 1 October 2013, 1:15 pm | UN News
Developed nations have not honoured their commitments to provide the assistance poor countries need to achieve the global anti-poverty targets known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the Foreign Minister of Belize told United Nations Member ... More >>
UN Refugee Chief Urges Greater Support of Syria's Neighbours
Tuesday, 1 October 2013, 12:46 pm | UN News
The United Nations refugee chief today called on Syria’s neighbours to continue to keep their borders open and provide protection to those fleeing the conflict, and on the international community to help these countries shoulder the burden. More >>
Conflict in Syria ‘A War on Terror,’ Deputy PM Tells UN GA
Tuesday, 1 October 2013, 12:42 pm | UN News
The conflict ravaging Syria is not a civil war but a war on terror, the country’s Deputy Prime Minister said today in his turn at the rostrum at the high-level debate that opens the annual session of the United Nations General Assembly. More >>
Middle East: Gulf State Ministers Support Nuclear-Free Zone
Tuesday, 1 October 2013, 12:41 pm | UN News
In their addresses to the United Nations General Assembly today, the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Bahrain and Oman reiterated their support for making the Middle East a zone free of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction, urging greater ... More >>
Eritrea Foreign Minister Urges General Assembly to Reform UN
Tuesday, 1 October 2013, 12:40 pm | UN News
The United Nations is debilitated by chronic weaknesses and shortcomings and must be reformed, the Foreign Minister of Eritrea today said, urging also that sanctions against its country be lifted. More >>
