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Lebanon: Improved Conditions for Refugees
Friday, 25 June 2010, 2:27 pm | United Nations
The top United Nations refugee official has wrapped up a visit to Lebanon by urging authorities to improve conditions for refugees living there, while urging the governments in Iraq and elsewhere to create conditions so that the displaced can return to their ... More >>
‘Citizen Ambassadors’ to film anti-poverty goals
Thursday, 24 June 2010, 5:16 pm | United Nations
23 June 2010 – The United Nations launched today a video contest inviting people from around the world, particularly youth, to tell leaders what the anti-poverty Millennium Development Goals ( MDGs ) mean to them by uploading short films on the ... More >>
Somalia: Political Reconciliation, Basic Security
Wednesday, 23 June 2010, 12:47 pm | United Nations
Encouraging reconciliation between warring political groups and boosting basic public security are critical to stabilizing Somalia, the incoming United Nations envoy to the troubled Horn of Africa country said today. More >>
Universal Access to Energy Utilities
Wednesday, 23 June 2010, 12:46 pm | United Nations
Nearly a million people in rural Nepal have access to energy thanks to two United Nations development programmes which show that early investment by national governments and communities can attract private financing and extend access to utilities, according ... More >>
UN Convention on Intangible Cultural Heritage
Wednesday, 23 June 2010, 12:45 pm | United Nations
Nepal has become the latest country to sign a United Nations convention designed to safeguard intangible cultural heritage, such as folklore, oral traditions, social rituals and the performing arts, the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ... More >>
Farmers Can Benefit by Working with Investors
Wednesday, 23 June 2010, 11:35 am | United Nations
Investments in agriculture in developing countries can be structured in a way that they become an alternative to large-scale land acquisitions to ensure that small-scale farmers do not lose their land rights, according to the findings of a United Nations-backed ... More >>
Agroecological Farming to Feed World
Wednesday, 23 June 2010, 11:34 am | United Nations
Agroecological farming, which improves food production and farmers’ incomes while at the same time protecting the soil, water and climate, could feed an estimated world population of nine billion people by 2050 and go a long way to save the climate, ... More >>
Canadian G-G as Special Envoy for Haiti
Wednesday, 23 June 2010, 10:50 am | United Nations
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) announced today that it is designating Canada’s Governor-General Michaëlle Jean to be the agency’s Special Envoy for Haiti, the country where she was born but later left ... More >>
UN Ability to Aid Palestinian Refugees Hampered
Wednesday, 23 June 2010, 10:47 am | United Nations
The head of the United Nations agency tasked with supporting Palestinian refugees has urged the international community to bridge a $103 million budget deficit, saying any further funding shortfall would continue to undermine its ability to provide ... More >>
UN Helps Panama Strengthen Maritime Security
Wednesday, 23 June 2010, 10:45 am | United Nations
In an effort to strengthen maritime security in Central America, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and Panama today launched a joint programme intended to prevent illicit and counterfeit goods from entering markets through sea ports. More >>
Need to Strengthen, Sharpen Peacekeeping Machinery
Wednesday, 23 June 2010, 10:42 am | United Nations
United Nations officials today stressed the need to ensure that the world body is equipped with the requisite human, material and financial resources, and the backing of Member States, to field successful peace operations, as they marked the 10th anniversary ... More >>
Sri Lanka: Panel to Advise on Human Rights Issues
Wednesday, 23 June 2010, 10:39 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today appointed a panel of experts to advise him on accountability issues relating to alleged violations of international human rights and humanitarian law during the final stages of the conflict in Sri Lanka that ended ... More >>
Security Council Deplores Deadly Ambush
Wednesday, 23 June 2010, 9:58 am | United Nations
New York, Jun 22 2010 12:10PM The Security Council has joined the chorus of United Nations condemnation of yesterday’s ambush by unknown assailants in Darfur in which three soldiers serving with the African Union-United Nations peacekeeping force were ... More >>
Coca Cultivation in South America
Wednesday, 23 June 2010, 9:45 am | United Nations
The cultivation of the raw material for cocaine has declined significantly in Colombia, the world’s leading producer of coca, but the situation in Peru remains worrying with the amount of the narcotic grown there consistently rising, the United Nations ... More >>
Talks Between Ban Ki Moon And Greek Premier
Wednesday, 23 June 2010, 9:40 am | United Nations
The United Nations-backed efforts to reunify the island of Cyprus and the ongoing dispute over the name of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia have topped the agenda during talks between Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Greek Prime Minister ... More >>
UN Reaching Thousands Uprooted by Kyrgyz Crisis
Wednesday, 23 June 2010, 9:38 am | United Nations
Despite security concerns in southern Kyrgyzstan which are hampering aid delivery, United Nations agencies are reaching thousands of civilians uprooted by the recent violence with critical relief supplies. More >>
Somali Migrant Killed in Gun Battle
Wednesday, 23 June 2010, 9:37 am | United Nations
The United Nations refugee agency is working with the Yemeni Government to gain access to a group of Africans who were detained following a weekend incident in which one man was killed and two women were seriously wounded during a gun battle between the ... More >>
Niger: Farming Projects to Alleviate Food Crisis
Tuesday, 22 June 2010, 2:25 pm | United Nations
The United Nations agriculture agency is implementing nine projects worth nearly $18 million in Niger in support of farmers and pastoralists who are facing an alarming food crisis as a result of the prolonged drought in the Sahel region of West Africa. More >>
Iceland: Same-Sex Marriage Legal
Tuesday, 22 June 2010, 2:24 pm | United Nations
Iceland deserves credit for eliminating barriers to same-sex marriage, which will become legal in the Nordic country this weekend, the United Nations human rights chief says. More >>
UN Brings Together Cocoa Producers And Consumers
Tuesday, 22 June 2010, 2:23 pm | United Nations
Major cocoa exporting and importing countries have gathered in Geneva today for a United Nations-hosted meeting to finalize the details of a new agreement designed to make trade in the commodity fairer and sustainable. More >>
