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Timor-Leste: Police Officer Investigated
Tuesday, 5 January 2010, 9:42 am | United Nations
The police officer under investigation for last week’s deadly shooting in Timor-Leste has been suspended from duty, the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the country, known as UNMIT, announced today. More >>
Displaced Colombians Seek Unconventional Shelter
Tuesday, 5 January 2010, 9:39 am | United Nations
As the number of people driven from their homes to escape violence across Colombia topped three million in 2009, the United Nations refugee agency said today that more and more of the forcibly displaced are seeking safety on scraps of land that no one ... More >>
UN Envoy In Iraq Expresses Hope For 2010 Polls
Friday, 1 January 2010, 2:24 pm | United Nations
Looking ahead to 2010, the top United Nations envoy to Iraq expressed hope today for a united Iraqi Government following the elections scheduled for early next year, reaffirming the world body’s support for the country’s governance strategies. More >>
Ban To Extend Probe Into Bhutto Killing
Friday, 1 January 2010, 2:22 pm | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is to extend the mandate of the independent United Nations commission charged with examining the facts and circumstances behind the December 2007 assassination of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto by ... More >>
DR Congo: UN Rushes Food To Displaced Thousands
Friday, 1 January 2010, 2:20 pm | United Nations
The United Nations is rushing food to thousands of displaced Congolese in northwest Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where tribal clashes have driven 130,000 people from their homes. More >>
UN Agency Mobilizes Iraqis To Help Fellow Refugees
Friday, 1 January 2010, 2:18 pm | United Nations
The United Nations refugee agency has marshalled some 80 Iraqi women to volunteer assistance to their fellow refugees spread out over a number of large cities in Syria, in an innovative move aimed at overcoming the unique challenges faced by this vulnerable ... More >>
UNICEF Speaks Out Against Child Deaths
Friday, 1 January 2010, 2:16 pm | United Nations
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) today lamented the deaths of a number of Nigerian children in clashes in the north of the country, with most of those taking part in the violence being young people. More >>
UN Agency Sets Steps To Realize Green Economy
Friday, 1 January 2010, 2:14 pm | United Nations
he United Nations environmental agency has identified three priority areas in the race to mitigate climate change based on harnessing the benefits of ecosystems, from coral reefs to forests, coupled with non-fossil fuel technology that exploits solar, ... More >>
UN Agency Distributes 35,000 Tents To Pakistanis
Friday, 1 January 2010, 2:12 pm | United Nations
The United Nations refugee agency has rushed assistance to hundreds of thousands of Pakistanis driven from their homes by an intense military assault against militants in South Waziristan since October, including around 35,000 tents and 54,000 aid kits. More >>
Colonial Jewel In Peru’s Capital To Be Restored
Friday, 1 January 2010, 2:10 pm | United Nations
As part of a United Nations-backed plan to restore historical architectural gems that have deteriorated into slums, residents of Rimac, one of the poorest neighbourhoods in Peru’s capital, Lima, will start registering property titles as of 2010 in an ... More >>
UN Receives Pledge From Central African Rebel
Friday, 1 January 2010, 2:08 pm | United Nations
The force commander of United Nations peacekeepers in the Central African Republic (CAR) has been assured by the leader of a major armed group that it will respect the rights of refugees amid heightening tensions in the country’s northeast. More >>
UN Welcomes Pakistan’s Protection Of Refugees
Friday, 1 January 2010, 2:05 pm | United Nations
The United Nations refugee agency today welcomed Pakistan’s decision to continue extending hospitality for the next three years to some 1.7 million registered Afghan refugees living within its borders. More >>
Experts Call For End To Expulsion Of Lao Hmong
Friday, 1 January 2010, 2:03 pm | United Nations
Reports of ongoing forcible return of a large number of ethnic Lao Hmong, despite a chorus of international protests, including from Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, have sparked the concern of independent United Nations human rights experts. More >>
UN Calls For Support Of World’s Hungry Billion
Friday, 1 January 2010, 1:59 pm | United Nations
ith the number of chronically hungry people topping one billion for the first time in history, a coordinated effort to feed the world is crucial for the coming year, the head of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said today. More >>
UN Maritime Dedicates 2010 To 1.5 mil Sailors
Friday, 1 January 2010, 1:55 pm | United Nations
As merchant sailors around the world face the perils of pirate-infested waters off Somalia, the risks of accidents at sea or abandonment in port, the United Nations agency entrusted with setting comprehensive regulations for shipping is dedicating ... More >>
‘Curry King’ Shows Refugees Nutritious Food
Friday, 1 January 2010, 1:50 pm | United Nations
Britain’s renowned “Curry King” has been giving poor refugee women in Bangladesh lessons on concocting nutritious dishes using United Nations food rations along with locally grown fruit and vegetables. More >>
Iran: UN Rights Chief Shocked By Deadly Violence
Friday, 1 January 2010, 1:47 pm | United Nations
Expressing her shock at the recent uptick in deadly violence in Iran, the top United Nations human rights official today called on the nation’s Government to rein in its security forces. More >>
Refugees Continue To Pour Into Eastern Sudan
Friday, 1 January 2010, 12:40 pm | United Nations
On the opposite side of Sudan from the better-known crisis of refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the conflict-plagued Darfur region, refugees are flocking into the eastern part of the vast African country at the rate of 1,800 each month More >>
Timor-Leste: Deadly Police Shooting
Friday, 1 January 2010, 12:38 pm | United Nations
The United Nations today confirmed its participation in the criminal investigation of a deadly shooting allegedly committed by the police in the capital of Timor-Leste, and has called on the people of the nation to respect the law. More >>
UN Brings New Year Cheer To Tajik Widow
Friday, 1 January 2010, 12:36 pm | United Nations
The United Nations distributed enough food to feed 250,000 people for two months in impoverished Tajikistan last month, but it is the smile in the eyes of a 42-year-old widow on a cold winter’s day in the mountains that puts a face on the statistics ... More >>
