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Iraq: UN To Facilitate Absentee Voting
Saturday, 6 February 2010, 12:09 pm | United Nations
A large number of Iraqi refugees sheltering in neighbouring countries will be able to vote in Iraq’s parliamentary elections early next month with help from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the agency announced today. More >>
Internet Access For Visually Impaired
Saturday, 6 February 2010, 12:07 pm | United Nations
Nearly 200 cyber experts and other stakeholders seeking access to the Web for scores of millions of people with visual and other disabilities wrapped up a four-day United Nations workshop in Geneva today, stressing the need for universal access despite ... More >>
UN-Finnish Project To Develop Land Record Software
Saturday, 6 February 2010, 12:06 pm | United Nations
A new $2.4 million project between the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Finland aims to help countries develop affordable land administration systems to improve tenure security and land governance. More >>
Haiti: Donations To Restore Educational System
Saturday, 6 February 2010, 12:02 pm | United Nations
With hundreds of Haitian schools destroyed or damaged by last month’s devastating earthquake, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has launched a public appeal for donations to help re-establish the education ... More >>
DR Congo: UN Sounds Alarm Over Armed Attacks
Saturday, 6 February 2010, 11:59 am | United Nations
The emergency relief wing of the United Nations voiced deep concern today over the dire humanitarian situation and safety of more than 1 million people forced to flee their homes in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as a result of violent ... More >>
Somalia: Malnutrition Rampant In Young
Saturday, 6 February 2010, 11:58 am | United Nations
A widespread humanitarian crisis persists in war-torn Somalia, with an estimated 3.2 million people, or 42 per cent of the population, in need of emergency aid or livelihood support, and one in six children acutely malnourished and requiring specialist ... More >>
Ban Sends Report To General Assembly On Gaza
Saturday, 6 February 2010, 11:57 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has transmitted a report to the General Assembly on the follow-up to the report made by the United Nations fact-finding mission into the deadly conflict in the Gaza Strip at the start of last year. More >>
Taliban Pact Must Guarantee Rights Of Afghan Women
Saturday, 6 February 2010, 11:55 am | United Nations
Any agreement between the Afghan Government and the Taliban should include a clear commitment to protect women’s human rights, the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women said today. More >>
Security Threats Merit Closer Ties With UN
Saturday, 6 February 2010, 11:53 am | United Nations
The head of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) today called for boosting the body’s partnership with the United Nations to tackle threats to peace and security. More >>
UN Aiding Peruvian Alpaca Farmers
Saturday, 6 February 2010, 11:50 am | United Nations
Livestock farmers in the central and southern regions of Apurimac, Ayacucho, Huancavelica, Puno and Cusco are in a serious crisis, according to FAO, as the rains threatened their means of livelihood. On Monday, Peru's Civil Defence announced that some 37,000 ... More >>
UN: Serbian Leader Faces Contempt Of Court Charges
Saturday, 6 February 2010, 11:48 am | United Nations
The leader of the Serb Radical Party was today charged with contempt of court by the United Nations war crimes tribunal for the Balkans over allegedly revealing details about protected witnesses in his own trial. More >>
Bill Clinton Arrives In Haiti As UN Coordinator
Saturday, 6 February 2010, 11:45 am | United Nations
The former United States president Bill Clinton flew into Haiti today in his expanded role as United Nations coordinator of international quake relief efforts, and immediately pledged to see the tasks through to its successful conclusion "long after the television ... More >>
Dozens Of Additional UN Police Start Work In Haiti
Saturday, 6 February 2010, 11:43 am | United Nations
More than 100 additional United Nations police officers are already on the ground to help Haiti, which was devastated by a massive earthquake last month, following a call by the Security Council for extra forces to support the beleaguered Caribbean ... More >>
Malaysia: Second Global Model UN Of Young People
Friday, 5 February 2010, 11:44 am | United Nations
Some 1,000 of the best university-level students worldwide are expected to take part in a Global Model United Nations Conference in Malaysia in July as the world body seeks to harness the energy and intellect of Earth’s younger citizens in achieving ... More >>
UN Seeks To Scale Up Cash-For-Work Initiative
Friday, 5 February 2010, 11:34 am | United Nations
The United Nations is seeking to scale up its cash-for-work programme that is enabling Haitians to earn an income as they help their country recover from last month’s devastating earthquake, and the world body is calling on donors to help fund the ... More >>
Whales, Dolphins And Porpoises Suffer As By-Catch
Friday, 5 February 2010, 11:32 am | United Nations
Large-scale fishing operations are seriously threatening the lives of the majority of toothed whale populations, which include dolphins and porpoises, warned a new United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report released today. More >>
UNESCO Panel To Identify How To Bolster Tolerance
Friday, 5 February 2010, 11:30 am | United Nations
The head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has set up an expert group to find ways to increase tolerance around the world, as part of her commitment to promoting a “new humanism” to pursue a rapprochement ... More >>
Haiti: UNICEF Seeks $1.2 Billion To Aid Women
Friday, 5 February 2010, 11:28 am | United Nations
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) today launched an appeal for $1.2 billion to help provide life-saving emergency support to women and children impacted by the most severe humanitarian crises around the world, including the Haitian earthquake. More >>
Timor-Leste Receives Live-Saving Equipment - UN
Friday, 5 February 2010, 11:27 am | United Nations
To help combat high maternal mortality rates in Timor-Leste, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has supplied equipment to assist in child delivery to a hospital in the capital of the fledgling nation. More >>
UN Urges Immediate Cancellation Of Haiti’s Debt
Friday, 5 February 2010, 11:25 am | United Nations
An independent United Nations human rights expert today called for the immediate cancellation of Haiti’s external debt to allow it to recover from the devastating earthquake that struck the nation last month and move towards reconstruction. More >>
