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Somalia: Security Council Calls For Peace Strategy
Saturday, 25 June 2011, 2:21 pm | United Nations
New York, Jun 24 2011 2:10PM The Security Council today reiterated the need for a comprehensive and inclusive strategy to encourage the restoration of peace and stability in Somalia, stressing that a peace agreement signed in neighbouring Djibouti in 2008 ... More >>
Assistance In Wake Of Floods In The Philippines
Saturday, 25 June 2011, 2:19 pm | United Nations
United Nations humanitarian agencies have been asked to provide enough food, medical supplies, latrines and other items to help up to 180,000 people hit by widespread floods on the Philippine island of Mindanao. More >>
Mozambique Should Stop Deporting Asylum-Seekers
Saturday, 25 June 2011, 2:18 pm | United Nations
The United Nations refugee agency today called on Mozambique to stop deporting Somali and Ethiopian asylum-seekers. More >>
Drugs And Crime Threaten Global Peace
Saturday, 25 June 2011, 2:17 pm | United Nations
New York, Jun 24 2011 1:10PM Illicit drugs and transnational organized crime can undercut security and development in countries and across regions, a top United Nations official told the Security Council today, stressing the need for concerted action ... More >>
Australian Coast Added To UN Heritage List
Saturday, 25 June 2011, 2:16 pm | United Nations
The Kenya Lake System in the Great Rift Valley, Australia’s Ningaloo Coast and the Ogasawara Islands of Japan were today added to the World Heritage List, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) reported. More >>
Cholera Cases Increasing In Haiti And Dominican Republic
Saturday, 25 June 2011, 2:14 pm | United Nations
Cases of cholera are on the rise in Haiti and neighbouring Dominican Republic, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) reported today, saying more than 18,000 new cases in Port-au-Prince, the Haitian capital, have been recorded recently. More >>
YEMEN: UN Experts To Conduct Human Rights Mission
Saturday, 25 June 2011, 2:13 pm | United Nations
The United Nations will send a mission to Yemen next week to assess its human rights situation after hundreds of persons have died this year during clashes between Government forces and protesters, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) reported ... More >>
Bahrain Trials Bear Marks Of ‘Political Persecution,’
Saturday, 25 June 2011, 2:12 pm | United Nations
New York, Jun 24 2011 10:10AM The United Nations human rights office today spoke out against the harsh sentences, including life imprisonment, handed down this week to several activists in Bahrain, saying their trials bear the marks of “political ... More >>
Lebanon: UN Staff Protect Rights of Domestic Workers
Friday, 24 June 2011, 2:25 pm | United Nations
The United Nations Country Team (UNCT) in Lebanon today announced a code of conduct for UN staff to follow if they employ domestic workers, just one week after international standards were adopted to protect their rights. More >>
Guatemala: Arrest of Top Military Figure for Sexual Violence
Friday, 24 June 2011, 2:05 pm | United Nations
A United Nations envoy today welcomed the arrest of a former top Guatemalan military figure accused of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, saying the arrest sends a strong signal that justice can prevail in the Central American country. More >>
12 Nations/EU Join UN Protocol on Sharing Genetic Resources
Friday, 24 June 2011, 1:55 pm | United Nations
Twelve nations and the European Union today added their signatures to a United Nations treaty on the equitable sharing of the planet’s genetic resources in a ceremony at UN Headquarters. Representatives from Austria, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, ... More >>
Give Aid Directly To Haitian Institutions to Rebuild Better
Friday, 24 June 2011, 1:50 pm | United Nations
A new United Nations report says that the international community can help create jobs and support the Haitian Government in ensuring basic services by investing directly in the country’s people and institutions. More >>
UN and Philippine Authorities Assist Flood-Affected Families
Friday, 24 June 2011, 1:48 pm | United Nations
United Nations aid agencies are supplying blankets, plastic mats and tarpaulins to families on the Philippine island of Mindanao, where floods have displaced nearly 400,000 people this month. More >>
US Troop Withdrawal Marks ‘Transition’ For Afghans, Ban Says
Friday, 24 June 2011, 1:47 pm | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today welcomed United States President Barack Obama’s decision to start withdrawing troops from Afghanistan as the “beginning of a transition” for the Afghan Government. More >>
Widows to Play Meaningful Role in Society via Empowerment
Friday, 24 June 2011, 1:42 pm | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged societies to ease the hardship that widows endure when their husbands die by respecting their rights to such social entitlements as access to inheritance, land tenure, employment and other means of livelihood. More >>
UN Welcomes G20 Decisions Aimed At Boosting Food Security
Friday, 24 June 2011, 1:40 pm | United Nations
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomed today’s declaration adopted by the Group of 20 (G20) as a message that the world’s largest economies are serious about helping the poor and strengthening food security. More >>
ICC Prosecutor to Probe Côte D’Ivoire Post-Election Violence
Friday, 24 June 2011, 1:36 pm | United Nations
The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has requested authorization to open an investigation into war crimes and crimes against humanity allegedly committed in Côte d’Ivoire following the presidential run-off held last November. More >>
UN To Investigate Reports of Rape in Eastern DR Congo
Friday, 24 June 2011, 1:34 pm | United Nations
The United Nations is dispatching some of its peacekeepers to a town in the far east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to investigate reports of recent rapes, a spokesperson said today. More >>
New Prime Minister in Place, UN Urges Somalis to Move On
Friday, 24 June 2011, 1:28 pm | United Nations
The United Nations envoy dealing with Somalia today congratulated Abdiweli Mohamed Ali on his appointment as the country’s new Prime Minister and stressed the importance of all parties working together to carry out priority tasks such as finalizing the ... More >>
UN Encourages Cooperation on Iranian Sanctions Violations
Friday, 24 June 2011, 1:25 pm | United Nations
The chair of the United Nations committee monitoring the arms embargo imposed on Iran today encouraged Member States to cooperate with the world body in investigating alleged violations of the sanctions imposed on the country over its nuclear programme. More >>
