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Aid And Fairer Trade Crucial To African Poverty
Sunday, 5 September 2010, 11:29 am | United Nations
Africans need both foreign aid and fairer trading terms with other regions to achieve the poverty reduction and social development targets by their 2015 deadline, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stressed today. More >>
Ban Stresses Protection For The Vulnerable
Sunday, 5 September 2010, 11:28 am | United Nations
Fiscal prudence and measures to protect the vulnerable can be implemented at the same time, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today, urging richer countries not to abandon their commitments to helping poorer nations to alleviate poverty. More >>
Haiti: UN Mission Launches Community Projects
Saturday, 4 September 2010, 12:25 pm | United Nations
The United Nations peacekeeping force in Haiti has unveiled three drainage and canal rehabilitation projects that it hopes will boost employment and reduce violence in troubled neighbourhoods of a major city. More >>
Economic Growth as a Poverty Reduction Strategy
Saturday, 4 September 2010, 12:21 pm | United Nations
Current poverty reduction approaches that separate poverty from the broader process of economic growth and development are unlikely to succeed and could leave about 1 billion people destitute by 2015, according to a new United Nations report released ... More >>
Attacks Against Pakistan’s Shiite Muslims
Saturday, 4 September 2010, 12:19 pm | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today strongly condemned the terrorist bombings which struck the Pakistani cities of Lahore and Quetta this week and claimed the lives of dozens of civilians and wounded scores more. More >>
Somali: Thousands More Displaced
Saturday, 4 September 2010, 12:18 pm | United Nations
Continuing fighting in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, has caused the displacement of at least 22,000 more civilians and forced relief agencies to curtail their operations in the war-scarred city during the past 12 days, the United Nations reported today. More >>
Collective Responsibility to Protect World Oceans
Saturday, 4 September 2010, 12:16 pm | United Nations
Highlighting the centrality of the marine environment to human well-being, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today stressed the collective global responsibility to protect the world’s oceans. More >>
Economic Recovery Strategies
Saturday, 4 September 2010, 11:52 am | United Nations
Although the global economy is on the cusp of a fragile recovery, governments must take concerted action to create jobs to spur growth and development, according to the heads of the United Nations International Labour Organization (IMF). More >>
Flood-Stricken Pakistan Still Desperate
Saturday, 4 September 2010, 10:21 am | United Nations
Although flood waters are receding in parts of Pakistan, conditions in the thousands of camps that have sprung up in recent weeks are still desperate, the United Nations refugee agency warned today. More >>
Deporting Iraqi Refugees to Unsafe Areas
Saturday, 4 September 2010, 10:19 am | United Nations
The United Nations refugee agency today voiced concern about ongoing deportations of Iraqis from Western European countries back to violence-prone areas of their homeland, stressing that they should continue to benefit from international protection. “We ... More >>
20 Children Among Hundreds Raped in Eastern DRC
Saturday, 4 September 2010, 10:05 am | United Nations
More than two dozen children were among the hundreds of civilians recently raped by members of armed groups active in the far east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the United Nations reported today. More >>
Floods Worsen Misery for Hunger-Stricken Niger
Saturday, 4 September 2010, 10:03 am | United Nations
Already stricken by a severe food crisis brought on by a prolonged drought, the people of Niger have now to contend with floods which have affected more than 200,000 people, the United Nations reported today. More >>
Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Saturday, 4 September 2010, 10:02 am | United Nations
A United Nations-backed conference aimed at advancing the rights of persons with disabilities concluded today with countries underscoring the need to continue building on recent momentum to ensure that the rights of the world’s estimated 650 million ... More >>
Meeting to Examine Turmoil in Wheat Markets
Saturday, 4 September 2010, 10:01 am | United Nations
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) will hold a special meeting later this month to examine the recent spike in wheat prices and help avoid any repeat of the recent global food crisis. More >>
Report On Human Rights In DRC Relased Next Month
Friday, 3 September 2010, 11:04 am | United Nations
The report documenting the most serious human rights violations committed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) between 1993 and 2003 will be made public on 1 October, the United Nations announced today. More >>
Darfur: UN-AU Envoy Meets World Bank Officials
Friday, 3 September 2010, 11:03 am | United Nations
The head of the joint United Nations-African Union peacekeeping mission in Darfur today called for World Bank assistance to ensure that the “dividends of peace are made evident” to promote a sustainable peace in the war-ravaged Sudanese region. More >>
UN Moves Quickly To Immunize Children From Polio
Friday, 3 September 2010, 10:59 am | United Nations
The United Nations is moving swiftly to vaccinate 1.5 million children after a polio case was detected in an area of north-eastern Afghanistan which had been free of the disease for more than a decade. More >>
Tragedy Unfolding In Southwest Pakistan
Friday, 3 September 2010, 10:56 am | United Nations
The UN refugee agency today called for boosting relief efforts in the flood-hit province of Balochistan in south-western Pakistan, where 2 million people have been affected by the recent disaster and the humanitarian situation is deteriorating. More >>
World Cannot Afford Worsening Disasters
Friday, 3 September 2010, 10:54 am | United Nations
The world cannot afford escalating disasters of the kind witnessed in Pakistan and Russia, the top UN climate change official said today, underscoring the need for governments to take swift action to lead the world towards a low-carbon future. More >>
Somali Government Asked To Do More For Citizens
Friday, 3 September 2010, 10:45 am | United Nations
The United Nations political chief has voiced his solidarity with the people of Somalia during a one-day visit to the Horn of Africa nation, and encouraged its leaders to focus on governing the country. More >>
