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Girls Take UN School Project To Silicon Valley
Thursday, 29 April 2010, 4:57 pm | United Nations
Three teenagers studying in a United Nations-funded school in a refugee camp in the West Bank have been chosen to join 1,500 finalists, Nobel Laureates and leading scientific minds in the world’s largest pre-college science fair. More >>
UN & Pharmaceutical Firm Combat Cancer In Africa
Thursday, 29 April 2010, 4:54 pm | United Nations
The United Nations atomic energy agency and the pharmaceutical firm Roche today launched an initiative to help combat a growing cancer epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa. More >>
Nepal: Maoist Commander Violates Arms Agreement
Thursday, 29 April 2010, 4:51 pm | United Nations
The United Nations political mission in Nepal today called for an investigation and appropriate disciplinary action after a Maoist army platoon commander was discovered to be travelling on public transport with a hand grenade. More >>
Prevention Best Bet Against Workplace Hazards - UN
Thursday, 29 April 2010, 4:39 pm | United Nations
The head of the United Nations labour arm today called for enhanced prevention in the face of emerging risks in the workplace as he marked this year’s World Day for Safety and Health at Work. More >>
UN Warns Of Increased Foot-And-Mouth Threat
Thursday, 29 April 2010, 4:35 pm | United Nations
Three recent incursions of foot-and-mouth disease in Japan and the Republic of Korea, which were officially free of such outbreaks, has led the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to issue a call today for increased global surveillance. More >>
Cyprus: UN Says Talks Should Start As They Ended
Wednesday, 28 April 2010, 5:19 pm | United Nations
Negotiations on the unification of Cyprus should continue where they left off, the United Nations envoy tasked with steering the talks said today as he made his first public remarks since the election of a new Turkish Cypriot leader. More >>
UN Chief Sees Deprivation Among Niger’s Hungry
Wednesday, 28 April 2010, 5:01 pm | United Nations
The top United Nations humanitarian official today traveled to south-eastern Niger to assess the human impact of a grave food crisis that has affected more than half of the West African country’s 14 million people. More >>
Sierra Leone: UN Maternal And Child Health Drive
Wednesday, 28 April 2010, 5:00 pm | United Nations
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the Sierra Leonean Government have embarked today on a new initiative to provide free health care for pregnant women, lactating mothers and children under five across the West African nation. More >>
Tackling Sex Violence Must Include Ending Impunity
Wednesday, 28 April 2010, 4:57 pm | United Nations
Fresh from her visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which she described as the “rape capital of the world,”a UN official urged the Security Council to make the prevention of sexual violence a priority, and stressed the need to end impunity. More >>
Ban Requests Boosting Of Haiti Mission’s Capacity
Wednesday, 28 April 2010, 4:52 pm | United Nations
Ban Ki-moon today urged the Security Council to endorse a rapid strengthening of the technical capacity of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti to enable it provide better support to recovery efforts following January’s earthquake. More >>
Sudan: Ban Urges Peaceful Resolution
Wednesday, 28 April 2010, 4:49 pm | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called on Sudanese authorities and political parties to peacefully resolve any disputes arising from this month’s presidential and parliamentary elections as he commended the country’s people for taking part ... More >>
Security Council On Somali Piracy Problem
Wednesday, 28 April 2010, 4:39 pm | United Nations
The Security Council put forward today the possibility of establishing international tribunals to try pirates, as its members called for tougher legislation aimed at prosecuting and jailing suspects caught off the coast of Somalia. More >>
Need For Cambodian Garment Factories To Diversify
Wednesday, 28 April 2010, 4:37 pm | United Nations
The global downturn has shed light on the need for Cambodian garment factories to both expand and diversify their markets to include those in Asia to reduce reliance on those in the United States and the European Union, according to a UN report. More >>
Ban Lauds Jordan’s Queen For Children’s Book
Wednesday, 28 April 2010, 4:33 pm | United Nations
A cultural food fight between “gooey” peanut butter and jelly and “icky” hummus sandwiches leads to global acceptance – at least at the grade-school level – in a colourful picture book launched today by Queen Rania of Jordan. More >>
Ban Calls For Religious Leaders To Foster Dialogue
Wednesday, 28 April 2010, 4:30 pm | United Nations
Religious leaders have a vital part to play in promoting dialogue between different cultures and societies at a time when globalization has left many people feeling discontented, Ban Ki-moon has told an international gathering of leaders. More >>
Children Over-Exposed To Radiation In CT Scans
Wednesday, 28 April 2010, 4:28 pm | United Nations
The United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has cautioned that children in some countries are being over-exposed to radiation when undergoing computed tomography (CT) scans, increasing their risk of developing cancer. More >>
UN Urge Rich NationsTo Help End Child Malnutrition
Wednesday, 28 April 2010, 4:09 pm | United Nations
The UN food agency today urged leaders of the Group of 8 (G8) industrialized nations to make combating child malnutrition a pillar of the their summit in Canada in June, saying poor nutrition is responsible for the death of 3.5 million children every ... More >>
Darfur: Ban Relieved At Release Of Peacekeepers
Wednesday, 28 April 2010, 4:07 pm | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today expressed his relief at the release of four peacekeepers serving with the joint African Union-United Nations mission in the war-torn Sudanese region of Darfur who were set free after having spent more than two weeks in captivity. More >>
China To Remove Travel Restrictions Based On HIV
Wednesday, 28 April 2010, 4:04 pm | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) today hailed the decision by the Chinese Government to lift the country’s travel ban for people living with HIV. More >>
UN Welcomes Returns Of Displaced Sri Lankans
Wednesday, 28 April 2010, 4:01 pm | United Nations
Following a three-week pause due to parliamentary polls and holidays, Government-backed returns of people uprooted by decades of fighting to their home areas has resumed in northern Sri Lanka, a move welcomed by the United Nations High Commissioner for ... More >>
