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DRC: Blue Helmets Help When Plane Overshoots
Friday, 20 November 2009, 11:09 am | United Nations
United Nations peacekeepers helped passengers and provided emergency medical treatment today after an airliner with 117 passengers on board over-ran the airstrip in Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). More >>
Hundreds Of Thousands Of Pakistanis Need Aid
Friday, 20 November 2009, 11:07 am | United Nations
United Nations agencies and their humanitarian partners are assisting hundreds of thousands of civilians uprooted by the latest military operations in Pakistan which intensified nearly three weeks ago. More >>
More Must Be Done To Protect Children’s Rights
Friday, 20 November 2009, 11:05 am | United Nations
Despite considerable progress over the past 20 years in improving the lot of the world’s children, including a 28 per cent drop in annual mortality of those under five from 12.5 million to an estimated 8.8 million, their rights are still far from ... More >>
Cambodian Troops Arrive To Bolster Force In Chad
Friday, 20 November 2009, 11:04 am | United Nations
The United Nations mission set up to protect civilians and facilitate humanitarian aid in Chad and Central African Republic (CAR) received a boost this week with the arrival of troops from Cambodia. More >>
Prisoner Access To Sanitation Is A Human Right
Friday, 20 November 2009, 11:03 am | United Nations
The United Nations today marked World Toilet Day, stressing access to proper sanitation as a human right due to all, with a particular focus on “forgotten” prisoners and detainees in state institutions. More >>
UN And Iraq Agree On Plan To Boost Governance
Friday, 20 November 2009, 11:02 am | United Nations
The United Nations and Iraq have agreed on the basics of a new development partnership to strengthen Iraqi governance, social services and economic growth over the next five years. More >>
Leaders Of Rwandan Rebel Militia Arrested
Friday, 20 November 2009, 10:54 am | United Nations
The top United Nations envoy to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) today welcomed the arrest of two leaders of a rebel Rwandan militia on suspicion of carrying out crimes against humanity and war crimes in the eastern region of the DRC. More >>
Spain Doubles Aid For UN Food Operation
Friday, 20 November 2009, 10:53 am | United Nations
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) received a boost today for its emergency relief efforts feeding millions of hungry people in the Horn of Africa, with the announcement of a $112 million donation from Spain. More >>
Tour Of Sri Lankan Displacement Camps
Friday, 20 November 2009, 10:52 am | United Nations
The United Nations humanitarian chief today continued his mission to Sri Lanka with visits to camps in Vavuniya and Mannar, where a large number of the civilians displaced by the recently-ended conflict between the Government and Tamil rebels are still ... More >>
Israeli Violence Threatens 250k Palestinians
Thursday, 19 November 2009, 12:24 pm | United Nations
Nearly 250,000 Palestinians in 83 communities on the West Bank are at risk of heightened violence in so-called “price tag” revenge attacks that Israeli settlers may launch against a large-scale attempt by Israel to evacuate outposts it considers illegal, ... More >>
After The Iraqi Presidential Veto
Thursday, 19 November 2009, 11:54 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon voiced the hope today that Iraq would move forward on holding national elections slated for January after the Presidency Council’s decision to veto the electoral law. More >>
UN Food Summit Ends Without Specific Targets
Thursday, 19 November 2009, 11:53 am | United Nations
The three-day United Nations summit on world food security wrapped up in Rome today with its host lamenting that it produced neither measurable targets nor specific deadlines for ending a scourge that afflicts more than 1 billion people around the ... More >>
Access To Food Still Difficult For Tajik Families
Thursday, 19 November 2009, 11:52 am | United Nations
The 2009 harvest in Tajikistan is exceptionally good, but access to food remains difficult for vulnerable families in the Central Asian nation, according to the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO). More >>
Anti-Piracy Efforts In Somalia
Thursday, 19 November 2009, 11:51 am | United Nations
Piracy off Somalia’s coast is a symptom of wider problems ashore, and any strategy to tackle it must also deal with its root causes and strengthen regional capacity, the United Nations envoy to the country warned today. More >>
$13M Appeal For Flood Victims In El Salvador
Thursday, 19 November 2009, 11:50 am | United Nations
The United Nations and its partners launched a $13 million Flash Appeal for El Salvador today to provide immediate aid for six months to 75,000 victims of Hurricane Ida, covering food, shelter, water and sanitation, education, agriculture and early recovery. More >>
Tree-Planting Photos Win UN Environmental Contest
Thursday, 19 November 2009, 11:49 am | United Nations
Photos of Kenyans planting trees and Moroccan women turning plastic bags into handbags today won a United Nations-backed eco-themed contest focused on Africa, which profiles ordinary people working to preserve the environment and reduce the effects of climate ... More >>
Inquiry Into Deadly Guinea Crackdown Begins
Thursday, 19 November 2009, 11:47 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon met today with the members of the International Commission of Inquiry set up to probe September’s violent crackdown on unarmed demonstrators in Guinea, ahead of the team’s visit to the country next week. More >>
Independent UN Probe Into Bhutto Killing
Thursday, 19 November 2009, 11:47 am | United Nations
The independent United Nations commission charged with examining the facts and circumstances behind the December 2007 assassination of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto met recently with former President Pervez Musharraf. More >>
Aid To Repatriate 60,000 Nationals From DR Congo
Thursday, 19 November 2009, 11:46 am | United Nations
Angola has requested the re-activation of a tripartite mechanism with the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the United Nations refugee agency to repatriate some 60,000 Angolans still in DRC in the wake of the mutual expulsion of scores of thousands ... More >>
Role Of Civil Society In Peace Talks
Thursday, 19 November 2009, 11:45 am | United Nations
The top United Nations-African Union official for Darfur has highlighted the role of civil society groups in the search for a solution to the strife that has plagued the Sudanese region, encouraging their full participation in the peace talks that ... More >>
