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Tribute To Outgoing Registrar Of LebanonTribunal
Wednesday, 13 January 2010, 9:19 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today said that he regrets that the Registrar of the United Nations-backed tribunal set up to try the perpetrators of political killings in Lebanon is stepping down. More >>
Surge In Fighting Uproots More Somalis
Wednesday, 13 January 2010, 9:16 am | United Nations
he United Nations refugee agency warned today that many parts of central Somalia are witnessing a surge in fighting, sparking growing displacement and worsening the plight of an already beleaguered population. More >>
UN: $9 Million In Grants To Empower Women
Wednesday, 13 January 2010, 9:14 am | United Nations
A new fund managed by the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) today announced over $9 million in grants to support initiatives in 26 countries to empower women. More >>
UN Humanitarian Official Visits Cairo And Damascus
Wednesday, 13 January 2010, 9:11 am | United Nations
Senior United Nations humanitarian official Catherine Bragg today begins a four-day mission to Egypt and Syria to boost the world body’s partnerships with actors in the region. More >>
Ban To Enhance Peacekeeping
Wednesday, 13 January 2010, 9:08 am | United Nations
The United Nations and regional organizations will seek to further enhance their burgeoning cooperation in peacemaking and peacekeeping, conflict prevention and crisis management at a high-level two-day retreat beginning today outside New York City. More >>
Ban Urges Global Alliance To Save Biodiversity
Wednesday, 13 January 2010, 9:04 am | United Nations
As the United Nations officially launched the International Year of Biodiversity today, Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon called the failure to protect the world’s natural resources a “wake-up call”. More >>
Jordan:Princess Helps UN Feed Kenyan Children
Tuesday, 12 January 2010, 1:15 pm | United Nations
11 January 2010 – United Nations Messenger of Peace Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein of Jordan blinked back tears as Elizabeth Wanjira, a child living in a slum in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, told her how the meal she eats at school is often the only food ... More >>
Sudan: UN Agency Warns Of Massive Food Deficit
Tuesday, 12 January 2010, 1:12 pm | United Nations
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warned today that Southern Sudan is facing a massive food deficit fuelled by drought and widespread insecurity. More >>
UN Deplores Attack Against Togolese Football Team
Tuesday, 12 January 2010, 1:10 pm | United Nations
The deadly attack against Togo’s national football team has sparked the condemnation of a senior United Nations official, who today stressed that the assault strikes at the heart of the values of tolerance and understanding espoused by sport. More >>
Africa:UN Seeks To End Mother-To-Child HIV/AIDS
Tuesday, 12 January 2010, 1:08 pm | United Nations
The United Nations is seeking to virtually eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV in sub-Saharan Africa, where 390,000 infants became infected with the virus that causes AIDS in 2008, through the use of antiretroviral drugs during and after ... More >>
Lebanon: UN Protests Against Israeli Over-Flights
Tuesday, 12 January 2010, 12:57 pm | United Nations
The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Lebanon has strongly protested to Israel over the significant number of over-flights in Lebanese airspace during the last few days in violation of a Security Council resolution ending the 34-day war between ... More >>
Albania: UN Relief For Albanian Flood Victims
Tuesday, 12 January 2010, 12:51 pm | United Nations
The United Nations is helping Albania respond to flooding in the north of the Balkan country, where more than 4,000 people have already been evacuated from their homes, with up to 20,000 more threatened. More >>
Sudan Parties Must Work Towards Reconciliation
Tuesday, 12 January 2010, 11:00 am | United Nations
During the past five years, considerable progress has been made in the implementation of the CPA and the strengthening of the relationship between the two parties to the Agreement. More >>
Sudan: UN Sends Patrol To Scene Of Ethnic Clash
Monday, 11 January 2010, 10:16 am | United Nations
The United Nations has dispatched a long range military patrol to help defuse tensions and reduce chances of reprisal attacks at the site of deadly ethnic clashes in Southern Sudan where Government and separatist forces fought a two-decades-long war. More >>
Kidman Helps Break Ground On UN-Backed Centre
Monday, 11 January 2010, 10:09 am | United Nations
Nicole Kidman is set to help break ground today on a new centre located in San Francisco to combat violence against women, part of an initiative between the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) and Family Violence Prevention Fund. More >>
Nepal: UN Welcomes Release Of Child Soldiers
Monday, 11 January 2010, 10:05 am | United Nations
The United Nations envoy for children and armed conflict today welcomed the beginning of the discharge of nearly 3,000 young people from the Maoist cantonments in Nepal. More >>
Will Smith To Help UN Feed Hungry In Haiti
Monday, 11 January 2010, 10:01 am | United Nations
Hollywood actor Will Smith and his wife Jada Pinkett-Smith are raising funds to help the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) tackle hunger in Haiti by auctioning a special artwork signed by music artists who performed at the Nobel Peace Prize ... More >>
Lebanon: UN Investigates Large Cache Of Explosives
Monday, 11 January 2010, 9:58 am | United Nations
United Nations peacekeepers, in close coordination with the Lebanese army, are investigating a significant cache of explosives found in southern Lebanon near Israel, the latest such incident in an area where Israel and Hizbollah militants fought a 34-day war ... More >>
UN: Training For Local Judges In Eastern Chad
Monday, 11 January 2010, 9:54 am | United Nations
Some 75 local civil servants from eastern Chad have wrapped up a one-month United Nations-backed training programme aimed at boosting the number of professional magistrates in the strife-torn region. More >>
‘Window Of Opportunity’ To Advance Disarmament
Monday, 11 January 2010, 9:51 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today pledged to continue his efforts to advance the goal of a nuclear-weapon-free world, noting that a number of events over the next few months offer an opportunity to build on the “encouraging” developments of ... More >>
