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UN Reports Strong Surge In Investments In Green Energy
Saturday, 9 July 2011, 3:12 pm | United Nations
Global investment in green energy rose by 32 per cent last year, driven largely by wind farms in China and small-scale solar panels on rooftops in Europe, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) said in a new report on renewable energy trends ... More >>
UN Reports Progress Towards Poverty Alleviation
Saturday, 9 July 2011, 3:11 pm | United Nations
Some of the world’s poorest countries have made impressive gains in the fight against poverty, but the least developed countries still lag in efforts to improve living standards, the United Nations said today in a "http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/11_MDG%20Report_EN.pdf" ... More >>
World Cereal Prices Drop Slightly
Saturday, 9 July 2011, 3:09 pm | United Nations
Cereal prices dropped slightly in the world markets in June, but were still 71 per cent higher than a year ago, with the fall attributable to improved weather conditions in Europe and the lifting of Russia’s export ban, the United Nations Food and Agriculture ... More >>
Decision To Drop Ban On Humanitarian Aid
Saturday, 9 July 2011, 3:08 pm | United Nations
New York, Jul 8 2011 11:40AM The top United Nations relief official for Somalia today welcomed an announcement by Al-Shabaab insurgents that they would lift their ban on international aid, but asked for guarantees against workers being targeted or ... More >>
UNESCO Chief Condemns Murder Of Colombian Journalist
Saturday, 9 July 2011, 3:06 pm | United Nations
The head of the United Nations agency defending press freedom today "http://www.unesco.org/new/en/media-services/single-view/news/director_general_condemns_murder_of_colombian_journalist_luis_eduardo_gomez/" >condemned the murder of independent Colombian journalist Luis Eduardo Gómez, killed by unidentified gunmen on 30 June. More >>
Legally Binding Controls Needed For Private Security
Saturday, 9 July 2011, 3:00 pm | United Nations
New York, Jul 8 2011 2:10PM A group of independent United Nations experts today called for the adoption of binding international regulations to control the activities of private security companies. More >>
UN Creates New Mission To Assist South Sudan
Saturday, 9 July 2011, 2:59 pm | United Nations
On the eve of South Sudan’s independence, the Security Council today voted unanimously to set up a new United Nations mission to help Africa’s newest nation consolidate peace and lay the foundation for longer-term state-building, conflict prevention ... More >>
Efforts To Ensure Access To Decent Education For All
Saturday, 9 July 2011, 2:57 pm | United Nations
UN High-Level Forum Urges Greater Efforts To Ensure Access To Decent Education For All More >>
Progress Towards Peace And Stability In West Africa
Saturday, 9 July 2011, 2:56 pm | United Nations
The Security Council today voiced satisfaction with the progress countries in West Africa are making towards greater peace and stability, welcoming the positive developments in post-conflict recovery and peacebuilding, particularly in Guinea and Niger, as ... More >>
Jazzman Herbie Hancock Named Unesco Goodwill Ambassador
Saturday, 9 July 2011, 2:48 pm | United Nations
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) will designate United States jazz musician Herbie Hancock as a Goodwill Ambassador later this month, the agency announced today. More >>
Ban And Libyan Official Discuss Transition
Saturday, 9 July 2011, 1:42 pm | United Nations
New York, Jul 8 2011 11:40AM Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the Prime Minister of Libya today discussed the need to end the fighting and ensure a transition that brings peace to the country, and agreed that the United Nations Special Envoy should ... More >>
Time For Killings In Syria To Stop, Says UN Chief
Saturday, 9 July 2011, 1:41 pm | United Nations
New York, Jul 8 2011 11:40AM Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called once again on Syrian authorities to stop their bloody crackdown on protesters and to allow access for the United Nations to assess the humanitarian and human rights situation in the ... More >>
Somali Refugee Camps In Ethiopia And Kenya
Saturday, 9 July 2011, 1:40 pm | United Nations
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, António Guterres, today began a four-day visit to Ethiopia and Kenya to check on the care provided to refugees fleeing Somalia. More >>
Greek Cypriot And Turkish Cypriot Leaders Agree
Saturday, 9 July 2011, 1:39 pm | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today that the leaders of the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot communities had accepted his offer for an enhanced United Nations mediation role in talks aimed at reunifying the Mediterranean island, adding that ... More >>
Central African Republic Face ‘Serious’ Challenges
Saturday, 9 July 2011, 1:38 pm | United Nations
New York, Jul 8 2011 11:40AM The United Nations is sparing no effort to assist the Central African Republic (CAR) in confronting serious challenges, including poverty, corruption and impunity, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative in that ... More >>
UN Concerned at High Malnutrition Rate among Somali Refugees
Wednesday, 6 July 2011, 12:02 pm | United Nations
As the influx of Somali refugees into neighbouring Kenya and Ethiopia continues unabated, the United Nations refugee agency today voiced concern about unprecedented levels of malnutrition among the new arrivals, especially children. More >>
UN Removes Former Bosnian Serb Military Chief from Hearing
Tuesday, 5 July 2011, 3:44 pm | United Nations
The former head of the Bosnian Serb armed forces during the Balkan conflicts of the 1990s was today removed from a hearing at the United Nations tribunal trying him on genocide charges after he continually interrupted the presiding judge. More >>
UN to Study More Than 350 Cases of Enforced Disappearances
Tuesday, 5 July 2011, 3:42 pm | United Nations
The United Nations human rights experts tasked with helping families determine what happened to their relatives who have disappeared will this week review more than 350 cases of enforced disappearances around the world. More >>
Ban Supports Greece Sending Humanitarian Aid to Gaza
Tuesday, 5 July 2011, 12:45 pm | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has voiced support for a Greek Government initiative to use vessels from that country to deliver humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip through regular existing channels, in consultation with the United Nations. More >>
Darfur Fighters to Lay Down Arms in Disarmament Exercise
Tuesday, 5 July 2011, 12:43 pm | United Nations
More than 400 ex-combatants from both sides of the long-running Darfur conflict will lay down their arms this week and take part in a disarmament and reintegration exercise run by the United Nations-African Union peacekeeping force (UNAMID) in the Sudanese ... More >>
