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Delay To Afghan Polls Ensures Better Preparations
Monday, 25 January 2010, 10:22 am | United Nations
The top United Nations official in Afghanistan has welcomed today''s decision to postpone the country''s parliamentary elections by four months, saying it will give election authorities more time to prepare for the polls. More >>
UN Reaches 2 Million Haitians With Meals
Monday, 25 January 2010, 10:21 am | United Nations
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is now delivering daily meals to some 2 million Haitians as it continues to ramp up operations in the cities and towns hardest hit by the recent catastrophic earthquake in the Caribbean country. More >>
UN Climate Change Official Calls For Global Action
Monday, 25 January 2010, 10:20 am | United Nations
The failure of last month’s United Nations summit in Copenhagen to agree on ambitious and immediate global action to combat climate change means that the task has become more, not less urgent, a senior UN official said in an opinion piece published today. More >>
UN Staff Recall Sacrifice Of Slain Colleague
Monday, 25 January 2010, 10:19 am | United Nations
United Nations staff have paid tribute to Alec Collett, a former staff member whose remains were found last year, 24 years after he was abducted in Lebanon while working with the world body to highlight the plight of Palestinian refugees. More >>
Sudan: UN Report Cites Challenges For Peace Deal
Monday, 25 January 2010, 10:16 am | United Nations
The parties to the 2005 peace accord that ended Sudan’s north-south civil war have made important breakthroughs, but a return to violence is still a very real possibility, warns a new United Nations report. More >>
Northern Kosovo Remains A Flashpoint Of Tensions
Monday, 25 January 2010, 10:14 am | United Nations
Northern Kosovo remains a flashpoint amid continuing tensions between Kosovo Serb and Kosovo Albanian communities there despite a greater understanding over reconstruction of destroyed housing by the communities, the top United Nation official there said ... More >>
UN Official Killed In Haiti’s Quake Laid To Rest
Monday, 25 January 2010, 9:58 am | United Nations
Senior United Nations official Hédi Annabi, lauded by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as a “true citizen of the world” and a “mild man with the heart of a lion,” was laid to rest in the soil of his Tunisian homeland today, nine days after he died ... More >>
New Head Of Joint African Union-UN Peacekeepers
Monday, 25 January 2010, 9:40 am | United Nations
Veteran Nigerian diplomat Ibrahim Gambari, who most recently served as top United Nations envoy for Myanmar, arrived in Sudan today to assume his new duties as Joint Special Representative and head of the joint African Union-UN peacekeeping mission ... More >>
Israel Compensates UN For Damages
Monday, 25 January 2010, 9:39 am | United Nations
Israel has paid the United Nations $10.5 million for damage to the world body’s properties in Gaza during last year’s Israeli offensive against Hamas. More >>
A Rose By Any Other Name - Battle For Biodiversity
Monday, 25 January 2010, 9:22 am | United Nations
The United Nations has mobilized the fashion and cosmetics industries in an “eco-fashion” battle to curb the unprecedented loss of the world’s biodiversity, from over-harvesting wild species for their skins or natural fibres to pollution caused by manufacturing ... More >>
UN To Assess Protection Issues In Haiti
Monday, 25 January 2010, 9:20 am | United Nations
A team of United Nations staff dealing with human rights and displacement is headed to quake-hit Haiti today to assess a range of protection issues in the wake of the disaster that has left one third of the country’s 9 million inhabitants in need ... More >>
Quake Offers Reconstruction Opportunities
Monday, 25 January 2010, 9:18 am | United Nations
As relief efforts continue in the wake of the devastating quake which struck Haiti last week, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today emphasized the need to rebuild the impoverished Caribbean nation and “turn disaster into opportunity.” More >>
Health Care Must Adapt – UN Expert
Monday, 25 January 2010, 9:17 am | United Nations
Governments, United Nations agencies and others have been slow to adapt to the changing nature of conflict in their efforts to provide health care to those affected by violence, according to a new study co-authored by an expert with the UN refugee agency. More >>
Nepal: UN Envoy Encourages Resolution
Monday, 25 January 2010, 9:15 am | United Nations
A top United Nations envoy has encouraged Nepalese parties to work productively to advance the country’s fragile peace process and create the conditions to permit the world body to wind up its work there. More >>
Bowling And Batting For A Greener Planet
Monday, 25 January 2010, 9:13 am | United Nations
Pushing ahead with its efforts to promote eco-friendly sports, the United Nations teamed up with Indian cricket today to reduce its carbon footprint and tap into the vast popularity of the sports’ stars to raise environmental awareness among the ... More >>
‘Anti-Homosexuality Bill’ Threatens HIV Fight
Monday, 25 January 2010, 9:10 am | United Nations
The so-called ‘Anti-Homosexuality Bill’ under consideration by the Ugandan Parliament not only violates the fundamental human rights of Ugandans, but will also impede efforts to combat HIV, a United Nations independent expert warned today. More >>
UN Staff Recall Sacrifice Of Slain Colleague
Sunday, 24 January 2010, 11:58 am | United Nations
New York, Jan 22 2010 6:10PM United Nations staff have paid tribute to Alec Collett, a former staff member whose remains were found last year, 24 years after he was abducted in Lebanon while working with the world body to highlight the plight of Palestinian ... More >>
Agency Reaches 2 Million Haitians With Meals
Sunday, 24 January 2010, 11:56 am | United Nations
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is now delivering daily meals to some 2 million Haitians as it continues to ramp up operations in the cities and towns hardest hit by the recent catastrophic earthquake in the Caribbean country. More >>
Top UN Official Killed In Haiti Quake Laid To Rest
Sunday, 24 January 2010, 11:55 am | United Nations
New York, Jan 22 2010 4:10PM Senior United Nations official Hédi Annabi, lauded by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as a “true citizen of the world” and a “mild man with the heart of a lion,” was laid to rest in the soil of his Tunisian homeland ... More >>
Challenges For North-South Peace Deal In Sudan
Sunday, 24 January 2010, 11:53 am | United Nations
The parties to the 2005 peace accord that ended Sudan’s north-south civil war have made important breakthroughs, but a return to violence is still a very real possibility, warns a new United Nations report. More >>
