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Survivors Of Libyan Boat Tragedy Give Fresh Accounts
Saturday, 14 May 2011, 1:14 pm | United Nations
New York, May 13 2011 11:10AM As United Nations officials voice concern about the growing number of people dying at sea as they try to flee the ongoing fighting in Libya, the UN refugee agency has received fresh accounts from the survivors of a ... More >>
Escalating Human Rights Violations Across Middle East
Saturday, 14 May 2011, 1:11 pm | United Nations
UN Officials Warn Of Escalating Human Rights Violations Across Middle East New York, May 13 2011 10:10AM United Nations human rights officials today voiced deep concern about the situation in Syria, Bahrain and Yemen, where rights violations have escalated ... More >>
UN Welcomes 100th Ratification of UN Disability Convention
Friday, 13 May 2011, 3:01 pm | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today hailed Colombia’s signing of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities as an “important milestone,” emphasizing the treaty’s role in providing inclusion and development for persons ... More >>
Humanity’s Consumption of Natural Resources Unsustainable
Friday, 13 May 2011, 2:58 pm | United Nations
Humanity’s current voracious consumption of resources cannot be sustained, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) cautioned in a new report today, warning that the world was already running out of cheap and sources of some essential materials ... More >>
Kosovo Heading Towards Phase of Greater Stability, UN Says
Friday, 13 May 2011, 2:55 pm | United Nations
Kosovo appears to be heading towards a period of increased political stability that should in turn promoter greater dialogue between representatives of Kosovo and Serbia, a senior United Nations official told the Security Council today. More >>
UN Urges Governments to Accelerate Emissions Reduction Talks
Friday, 13 May 2011, 2:27 pm | United Nations
The top United Nations climate change official today urged governments to step up the pace of negotiations on the further reduction of emissions of the hazardous greenhouse gases blamed for global warming, ahead of the next UN climate change conference in ... More >>
Partnerships and Civilian Capacities Key to UN Peacebuilding
Friday, 13 May 2011, 12:12 pm | United Nations
The United Nations has often missed the opportunity to support countries emerging from conflict to strengthen peace and enhance national institutions by not paying attention to national ownership, failing to build partnerships and inefficiently ... More >>
UN Welcomes Study Into Extent of Sexual Violence in DR Congo
Friday, 13 May 2011, 12:08 pm | United Nations
The United Nations envoy leading the world’s body efforts to eliminate sexual violence during conflict has welcomed the release of a new study on sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) that indicates the prevalence of the crime ... More >>
Three Cities Win UN-Backed Award for Disaster Risk Reduction
Friday, 13 May 2011, 12:04 pm | United Nations
New York, May 12 2011 - Cities in the Philippines, Argentina and Canada have won United Nations-backed awards for their efforts to strengthen disaster preparedness, the UN office tasked with assisting countries strengthen disaster risk reduction ... More >>
UN Agencies Hail Successful Trial Results of Anti-Hiv Drugs
Friday, 13 May 2011, 12:00 pm | United Nations
UN Agencies Hail Successful Trial Results of Anti-Hiv Drugs New York, May 12 2011 - United Nations agencies fighting HIV/AIDS today lauded the results of an international study that shows that if an HIV-positive person immediately follows an appropriate ... More >>
Sexual Exploitation Of Children On Rise In Mauritius - UN
Friday, 13 May 2011, 11:57 am | United Nations
Mauritian children are increasingly vulnerable to sexual exploitation, due to a combination of poverty, family dysfunction, social taboos, alcohol and drugs, an independent United Nations human rights expert warned today. More >>
Haiti: UN Mission Calls for Explanation on Election Results
Friday, 13 May 2011, 11:54 am | United Nations
The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti has called on the country’s electoral authorities to explain as soon as possible why their results from three districts in recent legislative elections do not match the figures of local and international ... More >>
Global Tourism Continues to Rebuild, UN Data Reveals
Friday, 13 May 2011, 11:50 am | United Nations
International tourism continues to recover from the global financial crisis and downturn of 2008-09, rising in every region of the world except the Middle East and North Africa during the first two months of this year, according to new United Nations ... More >>
Armenian and Palestinian Sites Win UNESCO Prize
Friday, 13 May 2011, 11:17 am | United Nations
An Armenian site featuring remnants of buildings from the Bronze Age through Hellenic and early Christian times and a Palestinian village and its surroundings that have seen 4,000 years of cultivation of vines and olives are the winners of a United Nations ... More >>
Libya: UN Concerned as Fighting Blocks Aid Delivery in West
Friday, 13 May 2011, 10:36 am | United Nations
he head of the United Nations food aid agency said today that fighting in the Western Mountains of Libya is preventing humanitarian staff from distributing supplies and urged all parties to the conflict to observe a truce so aid workers can assess requirements. More >>
Ban Urges Balance Between Resource Use And Environmentalism
Thursday, 12 May 2011, 1:41 pm | United Nations
ecretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged the world to must find ways to bring global resource consumption and the resulting environmental impact within safe limits and called for international cooperation in the effort to achieve sustainable development. More >>
Disturbing Trend Of School Attacks During Armed Conflicts
Thursday, 12 May 2011, 12:00 pm | United Nations
An increasing number of parties to armed conflicts around the world are deliberately attacking schools or forcing them to close in a disturbing and growing trend, according to a United Nations report released today. More >>
Security Council Issues Warning Over Violence In Sudan
Thursday, 12 May 2011, 11:39 am | United Nations
Security Council members today expressed deep concern about the situation in the disputed Abyei area of Sudan and urged the two sides to the peace pact that ended the country’s long-running north-south civil war to reach an agreement on the area’s ... More >>
Libya: UN Urges Immediate End To Attacks Against Civilians
Thursday, 12 May 2011, 11:24 am | United Nations
Libyan authorities must stop attacking civilians during their conflict with opposition groups, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has told the country’s Prime Minister, calling for an immediate and verifiable ceasefire so that humanitarian workers can reach ... More >>
Afghanistan: UN Welcomes Creation Of Anti-Corruption Panel
Thursday, 12 May 2011, 10:56 am | United Nations
New York, May 11 2011 - The United Nations has welcomed today’s inauguration of an independent committee in Afghanistan tasked with monitoring and evaluating corruption in Afghanistan, where the problem continues to hold back or slow the pace of economic ... More >>
