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Timor-Leste & UN Step Up to Dispose of Unexploded Ordinance
Wednesday, 19 October 2011, 11:56 am | UN News
Timor-Leste and the United Nations are stepping up their efforts to uncover unexploded ordnance (UXO) in the small South-East Asian country and strengthen its capabilities to dispose of these deadly objects. More >>
DR Congo:Security Council Wants Credible, Peaceful Elections
Tuesday, 18 October 2011, 2:35 pm | UN News
The Security Council today reiterated its call for credible and peaceful elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), stressing that the country’s Government bore the primary responsibility to ensure that the polls are above reproach. More >>
UN Conference: Reversing Desertification to Combat Poverty
Tuesday, 18 October 2011, 12:18 pm | UN News
Key speakers at the United Nations conference in the Republic of Korea on combating desertification today stressed that restoring degraded lands is crucial to addressing some global challenges, including poverty, food scarcity and the loss of the world’s ... More >>
Investing in People and Green Growth to Eradicate Poverty
Tuesday, 18 October 2011, 11:15 am | UN News
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon cautioned today that progress so far in the fight against poverty risked being reversed by a failure to put people at the centre of development policies and strategies aimed at economic recovery following the global financial ... More >>
UN Stresses Climate Change Adaptation Measures in Africa
Tuesday, 18 October 2011, 11:14 am | UN News
African States have no choice but to implement climate change adaptation measures, given the continent’s vulnerability to the phenomenon, a senior United Nations official said today as the first conference on climate change and development in ... More >>
Israel-Hamas Prisoner Exchange Is a Positive Step, Ban Says
Tuesday, 18 October 2011, 11:12 am | UN News
The recent announcement by Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas to exchange prisoners is a welcome step that should generate positive momentum for ongoing efforts to resolve the Middle East conflict, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today. More >>
Malaria Response for Two Million Somalis At Risk Scaled Up
Tuesday, 18 October 2011, 11:11 am | UN News
The United Nations and its partners are escalating their response measures to prevent a malaria outbreak in Somalia, where two million people already suffering from drought, famine and conflict are at higher risk of contracting the disease during the current ... More >>
Ban Urges Leaders to Heed Public Calls for Economic Justice
Tuesday, 18 October 2011, 11:10 am | UN News
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today reiterated his call for the leaders of the world’s biggest economies to restore public confidence in the global economic system, saying that mass protests in numerous cities around the world are the result of frustrations ... More >>
Ban Urges Syrian Leader to Take Action & Stop Civilian Death
Tuesday, 18 October 2011, 11:09 am | UN News
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged Syrian President Bashar-Al Assad to take decisive action and accept the Human Rights Council’s commission of inquiry into the violence in his country to find out exactly what happened and to put an end to ... More >>
Food Price Swings Threaten To Push Millions More into Hunger
Tuesday, 18 October 2011, 11:07 am | UN News
The United Nations and international figures marked World Food Day today with calls for immediate aid and longer-term solutions, and warnings of factors that keep hundreds of millions mired in hunger, such as price swings and gender discrimination. More >>
Senior UN Official Arrives In DPRK to Assess Food Crisis
Tuesday, 18 October 2011, 11:05 am | UN News
The United Nations humanitarian chief arrived today in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) to assess the extent of the country’s food crisis. During her five-day visit, the Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs Valerie ... More >>
UN Calls for Global 6-Week Truce during Olympics Next Summer
Tuesday, 18 October 2011, 11:03 am | UN News
The United Nations today called for the traditional age-old truce to be observed during next summer’s Olympics in London, urging warring parties around the world to lay down their arms as the Games’ ancient Greek founders did some 2,700 years ... More >>
Rich Countries Must Help Restore Financial Stability
Monday, 17 October 2011, 5:21 pm | UN News
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today said that the world's major economies must shoulder greater responsibility to restore global financial stability, urging them to follow the model of the 2008 London summit of the Group of 20 (G20) when leaders agreed ... More >>
UN Women invites grant proposals, esp. from Arab countries
Monday, 17 October 2011, 10:52 am | UN News
The United Nations women's fund for gender equality on Sunday invited organizations and government agencies to apply for grants, adding that first phase of its 2011--2012 funding cycle will give priority to proposals that seek to empower women and their ... More >>
Ban Sees Switzerland's Decreasing Glaciers from Helicopter
Monday, 17 October 2011, 10:49 am | UN News
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today took a helicopter flight over the Swiss city of Bern to observe the decreasing volume of the country's glaciers and later exchanged views with President Micheline Calmy-Rey on sustainable development and the forthcoming ... More >>
Flood Disaster in South-East Asia, UN Relief Chief Concerned
Monday, 17 October 2011, 10:45 am | UN News
The United Nations humanitarian chief has voiced great concern over the rising impact of storms and flooding on millions of people across South-East Asia, saying the situation is expected to worsen, with river levels still rising and heavy rainfall forecast. More >>
World Must End Myths on Migration and Focus on Benefits
Friday, 14 October 2011, 11:15 am | UN News
The President of the General Assembly today urged the world to dispel entrenched myths about immigration and focus on migrants’ contributions to economic development in countries of origin, transit and destination. More >>
UN: Disaster Risk Reduction Should A Be A Concern for All
Friday, 14 October 2011, 11:13 am | UN News
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today stressed that disaster risk reduction should be a daily concern for everyone, noting that vulnerability to catastrophes is growing faster than the world’s capacity to strengthen resilience, as evidenced by the ... More >>
UN Calls for Sustained Support of Women & Children’s Health
Friday, 14 October 2011, 11:02 am | UN News
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged developing countries today to not lose momentum in their ongoing efforts to improve women and children’s health and warned there is still much to be done to tackle this issue. More >>
Cape Verde Ratifies Treaty for International Criminal Court
Friday, 14 October 2011, 11:01 am | UN News
Cape Verde is the latest Member State to accede to the Rome Statute, the treaty that established the International Criminal Court (ICC) that prosecutes individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. More >>
