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Angelina Jolie Meets Haitian Quake Survivors
Thursday, 11 February 2010, 11:08 am | United Nations
Hollywood actress and United Nations Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie is in Haiti where she met with survivors of last month's devastating earthquake as well as some of the local and international aid workers assisting in the relief effort. More >>
Opium Production In Afghanistan May Fall In 2010
Thursday, 11 February 2010, 11:06 am | United Nations
The cultivation of opium -- raw material for the world's deadliest drug, heroin -- in Afghanistan could drop this year, the head of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said today, as bad weather is forecast during the country's current ... More >>
Benin: UN Urge Hygiene To Prevent Cholera Spread
Wednesday, 10 February 2010, 11:27 am | United Nations
Officials from the United Nations health agency and the Beninese Government are urging the West African nation’s citizens to be extra vigilant in observing good hygiene amid a recent cholera outbreak that has already claimed several lives. More >>
UN: Curbing Sexual Violence In Conflict
Wednesday, 10 February 2010, 11:06 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s newly appointed Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict promised today a more coherent and effective battle against the scourge, citing recent mass rapes in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and ... More >>
Latrine Shortage Could Worsen Health In Haiti
Wednesday, 10 February 2010, 10:44 am | United Nations
Sanitation has become a pressing need in Haiti and the lack of it could pose health problems for the nearly 1 million people living in temporary settlements ahead of the rainy season, United Nations officials warned today. More >>
UN Watchdog Helps Iran Combat Money-Laundering
Wednesday, 10 February 2010, 10:42 am | United Nations
Iran has teamed with the United Nations anti-crime agency to set up a financial intelligence unit tasked with tackling the spread of money-laundering in the country, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) announced today. More >>
Sri Lanka: UN Urges Due Process For Army Chief
Wednesday, 10 February 2010, 10:40 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called on authorities in Sri Lanka to ensure the rights and safety of the defeated presidential candidate and former army chief that was arrested yesterday, and said he intends to speak to the country’s President ... More >>
Crisis For Pakistan’s Displaced Far From Over
Wednesday, 10 February 2010, 10:37 am | United Nations
The top United Nations humanitarian official in Pakistan has called on the international community not to forget the vulnerable civilians displaced in the country’s northwest, urging donors to contribute to a $537 million appeal launched to meet immediate relief ... More >>
Kenya: UN To Dramatize Love – And HIV Infection
Wednesday, 10 February 2010, 10:36 am | United Nations
The United Nations and MTV are reaching out young Kenyans to highlight that HIV is not a death sentence though a new three-part television series exploring the lives and love of a group of friends in Nairobi. More >>
UN To Restore Haiti’s Shattered Weather Services
Wednesday, 10 February 2010, 10:33 am | United Nations
With the rainy season and its flood risks due in April and hurricanes shortly after, Haiti urgently needs operational meteorological services to forestall further disasters after last month’s devastating earthquake, the United Nations weather agency reported ... More >>
Pacific Nations Call On World To Deliver On Aid
Wednesday, 10 February 2010, 10:32 am | United Nations
Fourteen island developing nations in the Pacific Ocean wrapped up a United Nations-backed meeting today with a call to the global community to honour its commitments to help them weather the fallout from global economic crises and recent natural disasters. More >>
UN Uses Nuclear Technology To Improve Nutrition
Wednesday, 10 February 2010, 10:27 am | United Nations
The United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is working to boost the nutrition of children at risk of malaria, tuberculosis and other infectious diseases through state-of-the-art nuclear technology. More >>
Needs Of Haiti’s Disabled Must Not Be Forgotten
Wednesday, 10 February 2010, 10:25 am | United Nations
A group of United Nations experts today stressed that the needs of Haitians with disabilities must be included in the relief, recovery and reconstruction processes following the earthquake that battered the small Caribbean nation last month. More >>
UN Chief Heads To DPR Korea For Talks
Tuesday, 9 February 2010, 1:23 pm | United Nations
The top United Nations political official will arrive in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) tomorrow for talks with senior Government officials after wrapping up meetings in Beijing and Seoul. More >>
UN Urges Sudanese To Press Ahead In 2010
Tuesday, 9 February 2010, 1:20 pm | United Nations
The outgoing United Nations envoy in Sudan has lauded recent developments in the country’s electoral process, and urged the parties to the north-south peace agreement to press ahead during what will be a crucial year for the nation. More >>
Ban Calls For Olympic Truce Ahead Of Games
Tuesday, 9 February 2010, 1:19 pm | United Nations
The United Nations is calling for the traditional age-old truce during the XXI Winter Olympics which open in Vancouver, Canada, this Friday, urging warring parties to lay down their arms as the Games’ ancient Greek founders did some 2,700 years ago. More >>
Iranian Uranium Enrichment Worries UN
Tuesday, 9 February 2010, 12:35 pm | United Nations
The head of the United Nations atomic watchdog expressed concern at Iran’s announcement today that it will step up its enrichment of uranium, with the country having still not signed an international agreement on fuel for its civilian nuclear research site ... More >>
Financial Crisis Should Spur ‘Clean’ Growth
Tuesday, 9 February 2010, 12:27 pm | United Nations
Instead of belt-tightening in this time of financial crisis, resources must be redirected to spur ‘clean’ economic growth in developing nations, according to a report from the United Nations trade agency issued today. More >>
Red Cross Worker Abducted In Eastern Chad
Tuesday, 9 February 2010, 12:23 pm | United Nations
Another international aid worker abducted in the strife-torn Sudanese-Chadian border area has been released in a move hailed by the joint African Union-United Nations peacekeeping mission in Darfur (UNAMID), which has had some of its own members kidnapped. More >>
Iraq: Killing Of Female Election Candidate
Tuesday, 9 February 2010, 12:22 pm | United Nations
The leading United Nations official in Iraq today strongly condemned the assassination of a female candidate in the northern city of Mosul ahead of the start of the electoral campaign for the 7 March general elections. More >>
