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Challenges Faced by Libya’s Interim Leaders Are Many
Tuesday, 27 September 2011, 12:25 pm | United Nations
While life in the Libyan capital appears to be returning to normal, the interim authorities face numerous challenges as they seek to restore stability, including national reconciliation and establishing control over large stocks of arms, a top United Nations official ... More >>
Travel Publisher & UN Give Relief Workers Vital Information
Tuesday, 27 September 2011, 12:17 pm | United Nations
The United Nations has teamed up with the travel publisher Lonely Planet to provide first responders in humanitarian emergencies with vital information about a destination before they deploy. More >>
West Africans Call For UN Involvement against Piracy
Tuesday, 27 September 2011, 12:16 pm | United Nations
Top West African officials are calling for greater United Nations and international support to prevent the region’s coasts from becoming a haven for pirates and to fight growing drug and arms trafficking. More >>
UN Pays Tribute to Late Environmentalist Wangari Maathai
Tuesday, 27 September 2011, 12:14 pm | United Nations
The United Nations today paid tribute to Professor Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and one of Africa’s foremost environmental campaigners, who died on Sunday. More >>
Protection of Intellectual Property in Digital Age Progress
Tuesday, 27 September 2011, 12:12 pm | United Nations
The United Nations agency entrusted with defending intellectual property such as trademarks, patents and copyrights opened its annual meeting today reporting progress on issues ranging from audiovisual performances to protecting the traditional knowledge ... More >>
Jamaica: Tighter Regulation Needed of Small Weapons
Tuesday, 27 September 2011, 12:10 pm | United Nations
An international regime is needed to regulate the sale and transfer of small and light weapons, Jamaica’s Deputy Prime Minister told the General Assembly’s annual general debate today. More >>
Portugal: Financial Crisis Must Be Tackled with Cooperation
Tuesday, 27 September 2011, 11:04 am | United Nations
Portugal has called at the United Nations for concerted efforts to tackle global financial instability and create conditions for economic growth and jobs, stressing the need to correct inequalities and strengthen international monetary security. More >>
World Must Do Better to Tackle Human Trafficking
Tuesday, 27 September 2011, 10:57 am | United Nations
The President of the General Assembly today called for redoubled efforts to tackle human trafficking, which the United Nations anti-crime agency says is a multi-billion dollar industry and one that enslaves some 2.4 million people at any given time, ... More >>
South-East Asians Call For Strong UN Role on World Stage
Tuesday, 27 September 2011, 10:55 am | United Nations
The role of the United Nations in dealing with a host of global issues from resolving conflicts and combating terrorism to boosting development and countering climate change was highlighted at the General Assembly’s annual general debate by South-East ... More >>
Calls for Harnessing Potential of World’s Poorest Nations
Tuesday, 27 September 2011, 10:52 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called for harnessing the potential of the world’s poorest nations, which may be at the bottom of the development ladder but are rich in resources, both human and material. More >>
Yemen: Security Council Urges End to Attacks on Civilians
Monday, 26 September 2011, 11:54 am | United Nations
The Security Council has urged all sides in Yemen to refrain from violence, including attacks against unarmed and peaceful civilian demonstrators, and called on them to abide by their obligations under international law. More >>
Kyrgyzstan Calls On UN to Retrieve Funds Stolen from Public
Monday, 26 September 2011, 11:52 am | United Nations
The United Nations should develop clear standards and procedures to help countries retrieve public funds that have been embezzled by dictators and kleptocrats, Kyrgyzstan’s President Roza Otunbaeva told world leaders gathered for the General Assembly’s ... More >>
Zimbabwe: Misuse of Responsibility to Protect Principle
Monday, 26 September 2011, 11:48 am | United Nations
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe warned today about the misuse of the principle of responsibility to protect, telling the General Assembly that it should not be deployed arbitrarily or unfairly to attack an individual country. More >>
Nuclear Safety Action Plan Endorsed at Conference in Vienna
Monday, 26 September 2011, 11:45 am | United Nations
The general conference of the United Nations atomic energy agency today unanimously endorsed an action plan on nuclear safety that is intended to enhance transparency in the ongoing global effort to set effective safety standards. More >>
DR Congo:UN Mission to Move from Peacekeeping to Development
Monday, 26 September 2011, 11:44 am | United Nations
With peace returning to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), President Joseph Kabila today called for a reappraisal of the United Nations mission which had helped to bring stability to the vast country, moving its focus away from peacekeeping to ... More >>
Latin American States at UN Suggest Transaction Tax
Monday, 26 September 2011, 11:42 am | United Nations
Blaming speculation for the high price of food and oil, and arrogance and greed for the global economic crisis, the Dominican Republic called at the United Nations today for new market rules and proposed a 5 per cent tax on financial transactions to spur ... More >>
New Global Order Needed To Defeat Tyranny--Iranian Leader
Monday, 26 September 2011, 11:36 am | United Nations
Iran’s President today called for a new global order, telling the General Assembly that “slave masters and colonial powers” dominate international affairs, oppressing other nations and causing misery and disorder to peoples around the world. More >>
Countries Must Treat Sexual Violence as Security Threat
Monday, 26 September 2011, 11:33 am | United Nations
Sexual violence in conflict represents a threat to peace and security and is not just a health or human rights issue, top United Nations officials told Member States today at a mini-summit on preventing and responding to sexual violence in conflict. More >>
UN Help Needed to Curb Youth Violence
Sunday, 25 September 2011, 8:11 pm | United Nations
New York, Sep 24 2011 10:10PM Youth violence has reached epidemic levels in the Caribbean, a top official from Saint Kitts and Nevis said today, urging United Nations agencies to help the region’s countries curtail the growing problem. More >>
Cyprus: UN Chief Calls on Both Sides to Take Steps
Sunday, 25 September 2011, 8:09 pm | United Nations
New York, Sep 24 2011 10:10PM Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today that he expected the two sides in the Cyprus problem will make substantial progress before he holds formal talks with them next month as part of long-running United Nations-backed efforts ... More >>
