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UN Urges Bangladesh To Ensure NGO Access For People Fleeing
Thursday, 9 August 2012, 11:24 am | UN News
UN Urges Bangladesh To Ensure Ngo Access For People Fleeing Myanmar’s Rakhine State New York, Aug 7 2012 11:10AM The United Nations refugee agency today urged Bangladeshi authorities to ensure that non-governmental organizations (NGOs) can ... More >>
Ban Urges Great Lakes Group To Help Resolve Security Crisis
Thursday, 9 August 2012, 11:13 am | UN News
Ban Urges Great Lakes Group To Help Resolve Security Crisis In Eastern DR Congo New York, Aug 7 2012 2:10PM United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today renewed his call for the Great Lakes regional grouping to help resolve the security crisis ... More >>
DR Congo: Need of Relief for Displaced Persons in North Kivu
Wednesday, 8 August 2012, 4:52 pm | UN News
The United Nations humanitarian chief today discussed ways to boost relief efforts to the more than 270,000 people that have been displaced from their homes by violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) North Kivu province. More >>
Syria Experiencing Critical Shortage in Medicines – WHO
Wednesday, 8 August 2012, 4:50 pm | UN News
The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) today said that, according to reports it has received, Syria is experiencing critical shortages in medicines and pharmaceutical products. More >>
High Prevalence of Child Abuse in East Asia and the Pacific
Wednesday, 8 August 2012, 4:49 pm | UN News
The high prevalence of physical abuse is causing long-term damage to the lives of far too many children in East Asia and the Pacific, warns a new report by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). More >>
Bangladesh Must NGO Access for People Fleeing Myanmar
Wednesday, 8 August 2012, 4:48 pm | UN News
The United Nations refugee agency today urged Bangladeshi authorities to ensure that non-governmental organizations (NGOs) can continue to provide assistance to unregistered people who have fled the violence in neighbouring Myanmar’s Rakhine state, after ... More >>
UN Calls for Independent Probe into Violence in Darfur
Monday, 6 August 2012, 12:21 pm | UN News
The United Nations today urged Sudan to launch an independent investigation into the reported use of excessive force by Government security forces during a protest in Darfur on Tuesday, which resulted in eight deaths and injured more than 50 people. More >>
UN Envoy Welcomes Saudi Decision On Female Athletes
Tuesday, 17 July 2012, 11:55 am | UN News
UN Envoy On Sport For Peace Welcomes Saudi Decision On Female Athletes At Olympics New York, Jul 12 2012 1:10PM The United Nations envoy on sport for peace today welcomed the decision made by Saudi Arabia to send female athletes to London to compete in ... More >>
30,000 Gaza students in UN school get computers from Korea
Friday, 13 July 2012, 12:44 pm | UN News
30,000 Gaza students in UN school to benefit from computers from Republic of Korea July 13, 2012 0 comments More >>
UNESCO Adds 20 New Sites to Network of Biosphere Reserves
Thursday, 12 July 2012, 12:39 pm | UN News
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) today added 20 new sites to its global list of biosphere reserves, bringing the total to 599 in 117 countries. More >>
UN-Arab League: Need to Implement Syrian 6-Point Peace Plan
Thursday, 12 July 2012, 12:28 pm | UN News
The Joint Special Envoy for the United Nations and the League of Arab States for Syria, Kofi Annan, today reaffirmed the importance of implementing a six-point plan to halt the violence in the Middle Eastern country, and stressed that the international ... More >>
UN Health Agency Commits To Boosting Reproductive Healthcare
Thursday, 12 July 2012, 12:22 pm | UN News
The World Health Organization (WHO) today committed to a series of actions aimed at improving family planning and reproductive health services in developing countries. More >>
Security Council Welcomes Holding Of Elections in Libya
Thursday, 12 July 2012, 12:21 pm | UN News
The Security Council has welcomed the holding of Libya’s first national elections this past weekend – the North African country’s first in nearly five decades. “The members of the Security Council congratulate the Libyan people on this occasion ... More >>
Nigerian City of Port Harcourt Named 2014 World Book Capital
Thursday, 12 July 2012, 12:19 pm | UN News
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) today announced the selection of the Nigerian city of Port Harcourt as the 2014 World Book Capital. More >>
Ban Voices Concern over M23 Renegades in DR Congo and Rwanda
Thursday, 12 July 2012, 12:15 pm | UN News
In calls with the leaders of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today expressed grave concern over reports that an armed group of former soldiers in the eastern DRC is receiving external support, ... More >>
Options for Future of UN Supervision Mission in Syria
Thursday, 12 July 2012, 12:12 pm | UN News
In a report to the Security Council on the work of the United Nations Supervisory Mission in Syria (UNSMIS), Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has noted the “valuable role” the Mission can play in the Middle Eastern country, and outlined options ... More >>
Ban warns of ‘dangerous standstill’ in Peace Process
Thursday, 12 July 2012, 9:45 am | UN News
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today warned of the current “dangerous standstill” in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, and called on the international community to help steer the situation towards negotiations and a historic peace process. More >>
Eurozone Risks Losing 4.5 Million Jobs over Next Four Years
Wednesday, 11 July 2012, 12:15 pm | UN News
If current economic policies do not change quickly, the Eurozone may lose 4.5 million jobs over the next four years, the United Nations warned in a new report today, adding that this would increase the risk of social unrest and would further erode citizen’s ... More >>
World Population Day and Access to Reproductive Health Care
Wednesday, 11 July 2012, 12:13 pm | UN News
Marking World Population Day, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called for more to be done to help those who most need access to reproductive health care. “I call for urgent concerted action by Member States to bridge the gap between demand and ... More >>
UNICEF Warns of Cholera Upsurge in Africa’s Sahel Region
Wednesday, 11 July 2012, 12:12 pm | UN News
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) today warned that a recent upsurge in the Sahel of cholera – which has already killed more than 60 people and sickened about 2,800 there this year – is putting more and more people, especially malnourished ... More >>
