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Côte d’Ivoire: UN Meets With Ex-Leaders for Reconciliation
Monday, 8 August 2011, 5:54 pm | United Nations
In an effort to promote reconciliation in Côte d'Ivoire, a senior United Nations official is meeting with former president Laurent Gbagbo and other detained members of his regime to ensure that their human rights are respected. More >>
Cleaning Up Nigerian Oil Pollution Could Take 30 Years
Monday, 8 August 2011, 5:43 pm | United Nations
The environmental restoration of Nigeria’s Ogoniland oil region could prove to be the world’s most wide-ranging and long-term oil clean-up exercise ever, if contaminated drinking water, land, creeks and other ecosystems are to be brought back to full ... More >>
UN Encourages Haitians to Reach Consensus on New Government
Monday, 8 August 2011, 5:41 pm | United Nations
The United Nations has encouraged all political actors in Haiti to search for a consensus amid the ongoing struggle between President Michel Martelly and Parliament over the confirmation of a new prime minister. More >>
Millions of Poor People Will Have Mobile Phone Numbers
Monday, 8 August 2011, 5:39 pm | United Nations
Three million poor people in Africa and South Asia, the majority of them women, will gain access to low-cost mobile phone numbers as part of technology firm Movirtu’s partnership with the United Nations-backed initiative that enlists the private sector ... More >>
UN Chief Urges Syrian Leader To Halt Use Of Violence
Sunday, 7 August 2011, 2:19 pm | United Nations
New York, Aug 6 2011 8:10PM Speaking to Bashar al-Assad by telephone on Saturday, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged the Syrian President to immediately halt the use of force against civilians. Mr. Ban expressed his strong concern and that of ... More >>
Ban Saddened By Loss Of Lives In Helicopter Crash
Sunday, 7 August 2011, 2:18 pm | United Nations
New York, Aug 6 2011 8:10PM Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today voiced his profound sadness at the news of the helicopter crash that took the lives of both Afghan and United States soldiers in Afghanistan. More >>
Measles Outbreak In Somali Refugee Camps In Ethiopia
Sunday, 7 August 2011, 10:35 am | United Nations
New York, Aug 6 2011 10:10AM The United Nations on Saturday voiced alarm at the plight of Somali refugees in the Dollo Ado camps in south-eastern Ethiopia following an outbreak of suspected measles, and called for urgent action to assist an already ... More >>
News Of Al-Shabaab Vacating Somali Capital
Sunday, 7 August 2011, 10:34 am | United Nations
New York, Aug 6 2011 5:10PM The United Nations envoy for Somalia today welcomed the news that the Islamic insurgent group Al-Shabaab has begun to leave the capital, Mogadishu, and called on the strife-torn Horn of Africa nation's government to use ... More >>
Ban Disappointed At Israel's Approval Of More Settlements
Sunday, 7 August 2011, 10:33 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today voiced his deep disappointment at the recent approval by the Israeli Government of plans for more than 900 housing units in East Jerusalem. More >>
Battle Against Acute Malnutrition
Saturday, 6 August 2011, 2:13 pm | United Nations
New York, Aug 5 2011 4:10PM As thousands of desperately malnourished children from famine-wracked Somalia pour into United Nations refugee camps in Kenya and Ethiopia, small sachets of a peanut-based paste are often all that stands between them and ... More >>
Rescue Operations After Deadly Bus Accident
Saturday, 6 August 2011, 2:11 pm | United Nations
New York, Aug 5 2011 4:10PM United Nations peacekeepers in Côte d’Ivoire today helped local authorities in rescue and recovery operations after a crowded bus crashed from a bridge into a lagoon in Abidjan, the largest city, killing 46 people according ... More >>
Reykjavik Earns UN Distinction As A City Of Literature
Saturday, 6 August 2011, 2:10 pm | United Nations
New York, Aug 5 2011 3:10PM The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has designated the Icelandic capital, Reykjavik, as a “City of Literature” in recognition of its efforts to preserve, disseminate and promote ... More >>
Ban Announces Intention To Appoint German Diplomat
Saturday, 6 August 2011, 2:08 pm | United Nations
New York, Aug 5 2011 3:10PM Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced his intention to appoint Martin Kobler of Germany as his Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission to the country (UNAMI). More >>
Experts Urge UK To Resolve Eviction Threat For Irish
Saturday, 6 August 2011, 2:07 pm | United Nations
New York, Aug 5 2011 1:10PM Two United Nations independent human rights experts today urged the United Kingdom Government to find an appropriate solution to the problem of 86 Irish Traveller families faced with forced eviction from their homes due to ... More >>
Audit Of DR Congo’s Debt Necessary For Transparency
Saturday, 6 August 2011, 2:05 pm | United Nations
New York, Aug 5 2011 1:10PM A United Nations human rights expert today urged authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to undertake an audit of the country’s debt as part of a broader effort to improve transparency and accountability in the ... More >>
Deliveries Of Food Aid To Famine-Stricken Somalis
Saturday, 6 August 2011, 2:04 pm | United Nations
New York, Aug 5 2011 12:10PM As more and more Somalis, the majority of them women and children, continue to flee the famine in their homeland, United Nations agencies are ramping up efforts to meet the rising humanitarian needs, especially nutrition ... More >>
Murder Of Dominican Journalist Sparks Condemnation
Saturday, 6 August 2011, 1:55 pm | United Nations
New York, Aug 5 2011 12:10PM The United Nations agency tasked with promoting press freedom today deplored the slaying of a print and television journalist in the Dominican Republic who had spoken out against drug trafficking. More >>
Another UN-AU Peacekeeper Slain After Ambush
Saturday, 6 August 2011, 1:54 pm | United Nations
New York, Aug 5 2011 11:10AM A peacekeeper serving with the joint United Nations-African Union force in Darfur (UNAMID) has been killed and another blue helmet is seriously wounded after an ambush today in the south of the beleaguered Sudanese region. More >>
UN Human Rights Experts Urge Syria To End Use Of Violence
Saturday, 6 August 2011, 1:53 pm | United Nations
New York, Aug 5 2011 10:10AM As the crackdown by the Syrian Government against its own people continues unabated, a group of United Nations human rights experts today renewed their call for an immediate end to the violence used by the authorities against ... More >>
Belarus: UN Calls On Authorities
Saturday, 6 August 2011, 1:51 pm | United Nations
New York, Aug 5 2011 10:10AM The United Nations today voiced its concern about the arrest of the prominent Belarusian human rights defender Ales Bialatski and called on authorities to guarantee his well-being. More >>
