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Pakistan: Need for Flood Disaster Risk Reduction
Monday, 15 November 2010, 9:22 am | United Nations
Disaster risk reduction is crucial to strength Pakistan’s capacity to respond and withstand emergencies like the recent floods that killed nearly 2,000 people and caused $9.7 billion in damages to infrastructure, homes, crops and livestock, experts ... More >>
UN Officials Welcome Release Of Aung San Suu Kyi
Sunday, 14 November 2010, 11:27 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the United Nations human rights chief welcomed the freeing on Saturday of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and urged the authorities in Myanmar to release all remaining political prisoners. More >>
Ban Urges Greater Focus By Israel And Lebanon
Friday, 12 November 2010, 5:55 pm | United Nations
Noting that the security situation along the Israeli-Lebanese border is still fragile, Ban has called on both sides to step up efforts to move from the current state of cessation of hostilities, as agreed to in August 2006, to a permanent ceasefire. More >>
UN Elects Board Of Agency For Women’s Empowerment
Friday, 12 November 2010, 5:40 pm | United Nations
Member States today took the next step in enabling the newly-created United Nations agency on gender equality and women’s empowerment to begin its work by electing countries to serve on its Executive Board. More >>
Promise To Prevent Unsafe Abortions Must Be Kept
Friday, 12 November 2010, 5:36 pm | United Nations
More needs to be done to protect women from the dangers of unsafe abortions, a UN official told a forum in Ghana that is examining the extent of the problem in Africa, where some 5.5 million unsafe abortions are performed annually. More >>
Nearly 10,000 Cholera Cases Reported In Haiti
Friday, 12 November 2010, 5:32 pm | United Nations
Some 9,971 cases of cholera, including 643 deaths, have been confirmed in Haiti, the UN reported today, citing figures provide by the Government, which also said cases of the disease have been identified in the capital, Port-au-Prince. More >>
Security Council Condemns Terror Attacks In Iraq
Friday, 12 November 2010, 5:29 pm | United Nations
The Security Council has strongly condemned the recent series of terrorist attacks in Iraq, including today’s bomb blasts in the capital, Baghdad, which have claimed the lives of scores of people and wounded hundreds of others. More >>
UN Urges Increase Of Broadband Worldwide
Friday, 12 November 2010, 5:27 pm | United Nations
The head of the United Nations telecommunications agency urged regulators to build on massive recent growth in mobile cellular penetration worldwide and try to repeat that success with Internet and broadband. More >>
Bosnia And Herzegovina Cannot Afford Stalemate
Friday, 12 November 2010, 4:53 pm | United Nations
The current situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina is marked by a political stalemate and stagnation on key reforms, and requires the continued attention of the international community, the Security Council was told today. More >>
Measures Outlined To Prevent Natural Hazard Losses
Friday, 12 November 2010, 4:50 pm | United Nations
Losses caused by natural disasters across the world could triple to $185 billion annually by the end of this century, without taking into account climate change, according to the findings of a joint study by the UN and the World Bank unveiled ... More >>
Focus On Women And Youth Crucial In Arab Region
Friday, 12 November 2010, 4:38 pm | United Nations
Ensuring jobs for young people and empowering women are vital to advance development in the Arab region, Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro said today, calling on countries to tap the potential of these two important segments of society. More >>
Quick Response To Cholera Saved Lives In Haiti
Friday, 12 November 2010, 4:34 pm | United Nations
Timely response by the Government of Haiti and humanitarian agencies to the cholera outbreak in the country saved lives, with over 11,000 patients having been treated in hospitals since cases were first reported last month, the UN said today. More >>
Global Effort Against TB Bearing Fruit
Friday, 12 November 2010, 4:28 pm | United Nations
An estimated 41 million people have been cured of tuberculosis over the past 15 years through a treatment strategy recommended by the UN health agency, according to a new report, but success remains fragile. More >>
UN Urges An End To Discrimination Against Migrants
Friday, 12 November 2010, 4:18 pm | United Nations
Human rights officials have urged States to end the criminalization of irregular migrants and reduce barriers to mobility by expanding channels for legal migration, deploring the discrimination, abuse and exploitation many are subjected to. More >>
Ban Urges Focus On Development As G20 Leaders Meet
Friday, 12 November 2010, 4:10 pm | United Nations
As leaders of the world’s major economies gather in Seoul to discuss currency policies and trade imbalances, Ban Ki-moon stressed the need to focus on improving the lives of the poor and achieving goals such as slashing poverty and hunger. More >>
Progress On Security Council Reform Rests With UN
Friday, 12 November 2010, 4:07 pm | United Nations
The President of the General Assembly kicked off a debate on reforming the Security Council by urging Member States to show the necessary flexibility needed to make progress on an issue that has been the subject of discussion for 17 years. More >>
Polio Vaccination To Begin After Africa Outbreak
Friday, 12 November 2010, 3:58 pm | United Nations
A United Nations-backed polio immunization campaign targeting three million children and adults in Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Angola will begin on Friday in response to a recent outbreak. More >>
Somalia: UN Condemns Execution of Teenage Girls
Friday, 12 November 2010, 3:55 pm | United Nations
Several independent UN experts today condemned the recent public execution of 2 teenage girls in central Somalia, voicing deep concern that groups such as the Islamic militant Al-Shabaab are taking the Horn of Africa nation “back into the stone age.” More >>
Pakistan: UN Stresses Need For Risk Reduction
Friday, 12 November 2010, 3:50 pm | United Nations
Disaster risk reduction is crucial to strength Pakistan’s capacity to respond and withstand emergencies like the recent floods that killed nearly 2,000 people and caused $9.7 billion in damages to infrastructure, homes, crops and livestock. More >>
Ban Condemns Terror Attacks On Worshippers
Tuesday, 9 November 2010, 5:16 pm | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today strongly condemned today’s terrorist attacks on two mosques in north-western Pakistan, which reportedly left more than 70 people dead, including a number of children. More >>
