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UN Urges Countries To Tap Into Social Sciences
Saturday, 26 June 2010, 11:31 am | United Nations
Disparities in research capacity among social scientists across the world have reduced the capacity of the field to contribute to human welfare, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization said in a report launched today. More >>
UN To Monitor For Toxic Waste In Ivorian Port
Saturday, 26 June 2010, 11:29 am | United Nations
A laboratory has been set up in the Ivorian port city of Abidjan to improve the monitoring of hazardous materials under a project backed by the UN that aims to prevent a repeat of a notorious incident in which thousands of people were sickened by toxic waste More >>
Ethnic Tensions Remain High in Kyrgyzstan
Friday, 25 June 2010, 3:13 pm | United Nations
Ethnic tensions and rumours of impending violence persist in Kyrgyzstan, and refugees and displaced persons who have started to return home after the deadly clashes earlier this month must be given a guarantee of safety, a senior United Nations official ... More >>
Darfur: UN-African Union Mission Urges Calm
Friday, 25 June 2010, 3:11 pm | United Nations
The joint African Union-United Nations peacekeeping mission in Darfur said today it has received reports of tribal clashes in the west of the region that led to a number of deaths and injuries, and called on the parties involved to cease hostilities. More >>
UN Projects Helping Youth After Chernobyl
Friday, 25 June 2010, 3:09 pm | United Nations
The tennis star and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Goodwill Ambassador Maria Sharapova will head from the Wimbledon tournament, where she is currently competing, to Belarus to visit an area in the southeast affected by the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear ... More >>
Invest More in the Developing World
Friday, 25 June 2010, 3:07 pm | United Nations
As major economies continue to cope with the global financial crisis, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged businesses to think differently about how and where they devote resources, stressing the importance of investing in developing nations to ... More >>
Gains And Remaining Challenges in DR Congo
Friday, 25 June 2010, 3:00 pm | United Nations
Much of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) currently enjoys a measure of peace but a number of challenges remain, particularly in the violence-prone east of the vast African nation, according to the outgoing United Nations envoy there. More >>
Pledge of Sustained Support for Afghanistan
Friday, 25 June 2010, 2:58 pm | United Nations
Members of the Security Council wrapped up their visit to Afghanistan today, voicing their continued support for the country’s efforts to build a lasting peace and stressing the need for free and fair elections, improved governance and the upholding ... More >>
Policies to Protect Children
Friday, 25 June 2010, 2:57 pm | United Nations
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and partners called today on business leaders to create a set of universal principles to ensure that their companies’ actions have a positive impact on youth. More >>
Plan to Demolish Homes in East Jerusalem
Friday, 25 June 2010, 2:55 pm | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has voiced deep concern at the news that the municipality of Jerusalem has advanced planning for the demolition of existing homes and the construction of further settlements in the Silwan area in the east of the city. More >>
Corporations to Enhance Partnership with UN
Friday, 25 June 2010, 2:50 pm | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon tonight urged corporate executives to strengthen their engagement with the United Nations in its efforts help countries achieve the internationally-agree social development and poverty alleviation goals before their target date of 2015. More >>
Medical Aid After Ethnic Violence in Kyrgyzstan
Friday, 25 June 2010, 2:48 pm | United Nations
The United Nations and its humanitarian partners are stepping up emergency medical aid in Kyrgyzstan, where the UN warned of a larger and more intractable crisis unless relative calm is maintained and reconciliation efforts begin soon after recent ethnic ... More >>
All Parties in Burundi Participate in Elections
Friday, 25 June 2010, 2:47 pm | United Nations
The Security Council has urged Burundi’s political parties to participate fully in the country’s legislative elections next month, and work to ensure the proper conduct of the presidential poll scheduled for Monday, amid reports that the opposition ... More >>
Vetting Process for Upcoming Afghan Polls
Friday, 25 June 2010, 2:45 pm | United Nations
The top United Nations envoy in Afghanistan today voiced discontent with the process of vetting candidates ahead of September’s parliamentary elections, stating that it has not produced a satisfactory result. More >>
Legal Environment for Effective AIDS Response
Friday, 25 June 2010, 2:44 pm | United Nations
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) today launched the Global Commission on HIV and the Law, which will highlight the role played by the legal environment in facilitating or hindering universal access to prevention, treatment, care and ... More >>
Relief Efforts in Flood-Affected Myanmar
Friday, 25 June 2010, 2:42 pm | United Nations
United Nations aid agencies are widening their relief efforts in western Myanmar, where more than 60 people have been killed and thousands of other villagers forced out of their homes by floods brought on by monsoonal rains. More >>
UN Report Card on Anti-Poverty Goals
Friday, 25 June 2010, 2:40 pm | United Nations
The world continues to make advances towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), despite the global economic downturn, but the rate of improvement remains too slow and countries must step up their efforts if the MDGs are to be achieved by their ... More >>
Shift towards New Drugs And New Markets
Friday, 25 June 2010, 2:39 pm | United Nations
Amphetamine-type stimulants and prescription medications are increasingly becoming the drugs of choice globally, according to a new United Nations report, which also notes that drug use has stabilized in developed nations while it seems to be rising ... More >>
Cyprus: Round of UN-Backed Reunification Talks
Friday, 25 June 2010, 2:36 pm | United Nations
The Greek Cypriot leader and his Turkish Cypriot counterpart today held another round of talks aimed at reunifying the Mediterranean island of Cyprus, a United Nations official said, with discussions focused this time on property issues. More >>
Mobile Telephone Expansion in Developing World
Friday, 25 June 2010, 2:34 pm | United Nations
Nearly two billion additional mobile telephone connections were recorded across the world between 2006 and last year, the vast majority of them in developing countries, the United Nations Telecommunications Union (ITU) said in figures released today, ... More >>
