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Security Council Urges Iraq To Fulfil Pledges To Kuwait
Saturday, 18 December 2010, 7:30 pm | United Nations
New York, Dec 17 2010 7:10PM The Security Council today called on Iraq to fulfil the commitments it has made to find Kuwaiti or third country nationals, property and archives lost in Saddam Hussein’s invasion of his small neighbour more than ... More >>
Ban Calls 2010 ‘A Big Year For The United Nations’
Saturday, 18 December 2010, 6:54 pm | United Nations
In his end-of-year “state of the world” news conference, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today "http://www.un.org/apps/news/infocus/sgspeeches/statments_full.asp?statID=1039" >called 2010 “a big year for the United Nations,” with progress on issues from ... More >>
Ban Appeals For More Funds To Fight Cholera
Saturday, 18 December 2010, 6:36 pm | United Nations
Haiti: Ban Appeals For More Funds To Fight Cholera, Sets Up Panel To Probe Its Origins More >>
Dwindling Funding Could Leave Flood Survivors Without Aid
Saturday, 18 December 2010, 6:35 pm | United Nations
New York, Dec 17 2010 2:10PM Even as Pakistanis displaced by the devastating floods that hit their country this year continue streaming back to their homes, many of them destroyed by the deluge, the United Nations and its partners warned today that ... More >>
Murder Underlines Dangers Faced By Pakistani Journalists
Saturday, 18 December 2010, 6:34 pm | United Nations
A senior United Nations official has called on Pakistani authorities to probe the murder of a journalist gunned down in the south-western province of Balochistan this week, the fourth media professional to be killed in the country in less than two ... More >>
Ban Demands Outgoing President Step Down
Saturday, 18 December 2010, 6:32 pm | United Nations
The United Nations ramped up its efforts to resolve the violent post-electoral crisis in Côte d’Ivoire today, demanding that outgoing President Laurent Gbagbo step down in the face of opposition leader Alassane Ouattara’s clear victory and intensifying ... More >>
United States’ Backing For Indigenous Rights Treaty Hailed
Saturday, 18 December 2010, 6:30 pm | United Nations
New York, Dec 17 2010 1:10PM The announcement by President Barack Obama that the United States supports the landmark United Nations treaty outlining the rights of the world’s estimated 370 million indigenous peoples was hailed today at the world ... More >>
Asia-Pacific Statisticians Agree To Boost Regional Capacity
Saturday, 18 December 2010, 6:27 pm | United Nations
Statistics experts from Asia and the Pacific, meeting under the auspices of the United Nations, today agreed to implement a strategic plan designed to strengthen the capacities of countries in the region to develop statistical records on population, social-economic ... More >>
Sweden’s Forcible Repatriation Of Iraqis
Saturday, 18 December 2010, 6:26 pm | United Nations
The United Nations refugee agency today deplored Sweden’s decision this week to forcibly repatriate a group of 20 Iraqis, including five people from the minority Christian community who are originally from Baghdad. More >>
Sudan: UN Expert Urges Release Of Detained Journalists
Saturday, 18 December 2010, 6:24 pm | United Nations
An independent United Nations expert today called on the Sudanese Government to promptly bring 11 detained human rights activists and journalists before a court of law or release them immediately. More >>
New Programme to Combat West Africa’s Growing Drug Trade
Friday, 17 December 2010, 10:17 am | United Nations
With drug traffickers in West Africa increasingly adjusting their tactics to avoid counter-narcotics efforts, the United Nations and partner organizations today launched a comprehensive, integrated programme to combat drug trafficking and organized crime ... More >>
Côte D’ivoire: UN Urges Restraint Amidst Growing Violence
Friday, 17 December 2010, 9:54 am | United Nations
The UN peacekeeping mission in Côte d’Ivoire today called for all parties to show restraint and to remain calm amidst reports of violent clashes, including the use of mortars and heavy weaponry, in the country’s capital city Abidjan. Côte d’Ivoire ... More >>
UN Helping Train Dr Congo Police on Security in Mining Areas
Friday, 17 December 2010, 9:50 am | United Nations
UN peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are helping train national police officers to secure trade centres in the mineral-rich Kivu provinces in the country’s east. The absence of trained officers has led to a serious loss of revenue ... More >>
Burundi: Security Council Sets Up New Peace Body
Friday, 17 December 2010, 9:47 am | United Nations
The Security Council today set up a “significantly scaled-down” United Nations operation in Burundi to help the Central African country as it embarks on the latest stage of its recovery from decades of civil war and ethnic fighting. In a unanimously ... More >>
UN Highlights Issues for Sustainable Development Talks
Friday, 17 December 2010, 9:45 am | United Nations
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is stepping up its efforts to ensure that gender, reproductive health and other population dynamics figure high on the agendas of upcoming global environmental and sustainable development discussions. Agency ... More >>
UN Goodwill Ambassador Recognized for Human Trafficking Work
Friday, 17 December 2010, 9:37 am | United Nations
Recognizing her real-life role in the fight against human trafficking, the Academy Award winning actress and UN Goodwill Ambassador, Mira Sorvino, was awarded the Global Advocate of the Year Award by the UN press corps at an event in New York on Wednesday ... More >>
UN: Financial Crisis Slashed Global Wage Growth by Half
Friday, 17 December 2010, 9:31 am | United Nations
The financial and economic crisis cut global wage growth by half in 2008 and 2009, according to a new United Nations report. “This study shows another face of the lingering employment crisis,” the Director-General of the UN International Labour ... More >>
ICC Prosecutor Requests Summons Against Six Kenyans
Thursday, 16 December 2010, 12:53 pm | United Nations
The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) today requested that the tribunal issue summons against six Kenyan citizens for alleged crimes committed during the violence that erupted following the country’s general elections in December ... More >>
Panel of Experts to Probe Origin of Cholera in Haiti
Thursday, 16 December 2010, 12:51 pm | United Nations
The United Nations is exploring the establishment of an international scientific panel to look into the source of the cholera epidemic in Haiti. “We are calling for an international panel and we are in discussions with WHO [the UN World Health ... More >>
UN: ‘Creative Industry’ Sector Can Help Spur Economic Growth
Thursday, 16 December 2010, 11:33 am | United Nations
Demand for products from the “creative industry” sector – which includes items such as videos, music, video games, and new formats for TV programmes – can help national economies, including those of developing countries, to recover from the ... More >>
