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UN Ramps Up Aid As Clashes Drive Out More Somalis
Saturday, 13 February 2010, 11:39 am | United Nations
The United Nations refugee agency is stepping up efforts to provide emergency relief to civilians displaced by the latest surge in fighting in the Somali capital, where some 24 people have reportedly been killed and another 40 injured since Wednesday. More >>
Ban Unveils New High-Level Panel On Climate Change
Saturday, 13 February 2010, 11:36 am | United Nations
The leaders of the United Kingdom and Ethiopia will head up a new high-level group launched by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today, intended to mobilize financing swiftly to help developing countries combat climate change. More >>
Roadblocks Remain For Peace In Middle East - Ban
Saturday, 13 February 2010, 11:29 am | United Nations
Daunting challenges remain in the search for lasting peace in the Middle East, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today, calling for the prompt resumption of political talks and the swift delivery of concrete results. More >>
UN Decries Disarmament Forum Lack Of Progress
Friday, 12 February 2010, 1:58 pm | United Nations
The Conference on Disarmament, the world’s sole multilateral disarmament negotiating forum, faces becoming irrelevant to international relations given its recent lack of progress, a senior United Nations official warned today. More >>
UN Praise Improving Security Situation In Haiti
Friday, 12 February 2010, 1:56 pm | United Nations
Almost a month after a catastrophic earthquake struck Haiti, senior United Nations officials said today that the security situation in the Caribbean country has recovered to being nearly the same as it was before the disaster and that the thousands of ... More >>
Sudan: Positive Steps, But Lack Of Progress - UN
Friday, 12 February 2010, 11:56 am | United Nations
Despite positive steps by the Sudanese authorities towards human rights in the country’s different regions, deficiencies persist in key areas, an independent United Nations expert said today. More >>
Preserving Biodiversity Vital For Economic Growth
Friday, 12 February 2010, 11:54 am | United Nations
Saving the world’s myriad diverse species, which are being lost to human activity at an unprecedented rate that some experts put at 1,000 times the natural progression, is vital not just for environmental reasons but for the economic well-being of humankind, ... More >>
UN Telecom Agency Plans Wireless Hotspot In Haiti
Friday, 12 February 2010, 10:46 am | United Nations
The United Nations telecommunications agency is working with a Singaporean wireless broadband equipment provider to set up fast wireless phone and Internet connections to assist aid workers and local authorities in Haiti where the terrestrial network ... More >>
UN To Hold Talks On Macedonia Name Issue
Friday, 12 February 2010, 10:38 am | United Nations
The United Nations envoy tasked with mediating talks between Greece and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia in the dispute over the latter’s name will travel to the region later this month for further discussions, it was announced today. More >>
Rwandan Soldier Given 15 Years for War Crimes
Friday, 12 February 2010, 9:52 am | United Nations
The United Nations-backed tribunal tasked with trying atrocities committed during the 1994 massacre in Rwanda of ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus today handed down a 15-year prison sentence to a former soldier, convicting him of direct and public ... More >>
Grounds For Hope In Darfur Conflict - UN
Friday, 12 February 2010, 9:31 am | United Nations
Although sporadic fighting persists in Sudan’s Darfur region, where the Government and rebels have waged a deadly seven-year war, and formal talks for a political solution have not yet been possible, recent positive developments give rise for some optimism, ... More >>
Iraq: UN Calls On Leaders To Safeguard Of Polls
Friday, 12 February 2010, 9:20 am | United Nations
The top United Nations envoy to Iraq today called on the country’s political leaders to step up their efforts to ensure that next month’s Council of Representatives election is free and fair, with campaigning for the polls set to start tomorrow. More >>
Hazardous Medical Waste Targeted UN-Indian Project
Friday, 12 February 2010, 9:18 am | United Nations
The United Nations agency that promotes industrial development for poverty reduction and environmental sustainability has teamed up with the Government of India in a $40-million pilot project to help the country’s healthcare system dispose of hazardous ... More >>
UN Expert Hopes To Meet With Aung San Suu Kyi
Friday, 12 February 2010, 9:15 am | United Nations
A United Nations independent human rights expert today voiced hope that he will be able to hold talks with pro-democracy leader and Nobel Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi when he visits Myanmar next week. More >>
Somalia: Amid Roar Of Guns, UN Reaches 600,000
Thursday, 11 February 2010, 1:43 pm | United Nations
Despite fighting that has displaced hundreds of thousands of people in Mogadishu, health workers have fanned out across the war-torn capital of Somalia in a three-month United Nations-backed campaign that has immunized nearly 300,000 women of child-bearing ... More >>
UN Aid As Niger Faces Severe Food Shortages
Thursday, 11 February 2010, 1:42 pm | United Nations
With 7.8 million people in Niger - or three fifths of the population - facing moderate to severe food insecurity, the United Nations and its non-governmental organization (NGO) partners today appealed for international aid to help the Government of the ... More >>
UN-Backed Talks On Western Sahara Dispute Begin
Thursday, 11 February 2010, 1:40 pm | United Nations
The latest round of United Nations-backed talks between the parties in the dispute over the status of Western Sahara kicked off today in New York state. More >>
Ban Voices Concern To Sri Lankan Leader
Thursday, 11 February 2010, 1:38 pm | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has expressed his concerns about recent developments in Sri Lanka, where a defeated presidential candidate has been arrested and Parliament dissolved, to the leader of the South Asian country and announced plans to dispatch ... More >>
Fiji Human Rights To Undergo Scrutiny
Thursday, 11 February 2010, 11:53 am | United Nations
Fiji will today have its human rights record examined by the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva. The examination is a part of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process, a process that involves a review of the human rights records of all ... More >>
Teachers And Students Increasingly Under Attack
Thursday, 11 February 2010, 11:10 am | United Nations
A new report by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has found that politically and ideologically motivated attacks against teachers, students and schools are on the rise, calling for greater community involvement to ... More >>
