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Flooding Drives Somalis From Their Homes
Wednesday, 11 November 2009, 9:32 am | United Nations
Around 16,000 Somalis have been forced from their homes by severe flooding in the south of the strife-torn country, the United Nations humanitarian arm said today, while underscoring that a funding shortfall is hampering relief efforts. More >>
Eco-Friendly Initiatives Recognized
Wednesday, 11 November 2009, 9:31 am | United Nations
A range of eco-friendly start-up initiatives in Bangladesh, Colombia, India, Niger, Southern Africa and Zimbabwe have won a notable sustainable development award, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) announced today. More >>
UN Again Urges Israeli Settlement Freeze
Wednesday, 11 November 2009, 9:28 am | United Nations
Terming Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ announcement that he will not run for re-election “a loud and clear wake-up call,” a senior United Nations official today called on Israel to freeze all settlement activity in the occupied Palestinian ... More >>
UN Rushes Aid To Flood Victims In El Salvador
Wednesday, 11 November 2009, 9:26 am | United Nations
The United Nations has sent a disaster assessment team to El Salvador and released a $50,000 cash grant to help the small Central American country recover from torrential rainfall that caused massive flooding and triggered landslides, killing at least ... More >>
Efforts To Help South Ossetia’s Displaced
Wednesday, 11 November 2009, 9:25 am | United Nations
An independent United Nations human rights expert who just completed a visit to South Ossetia has called for “more pragmatism and less politics” to improve the situation of those displaced during last year’s armed conflict that pitted Georgia against ... More >>
Poor Across Africa Set To Suffer Food Crisis
Wednesday, 11 November 2009, 9:23 am | United Nations
Despite good global cereal harvests this year, millions of people in dozens of poor countries are in desperate need of emergency humanitarian aid due to stubbornly high food prices, the United Nations agricultural agency warned in a report released today. More >>
50 Million H1N1 Vaccines For Developing Countries
Wednesday, 11 November 2009, 9:21 am | United Nations
A giant pharmaceutical company is slated to donate 50 million doses of the pandemic H1N1 vaccine to the United Nations public health arm, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced today. More >>
Ban Calls On New Lebanese Cabinet
Wednesday, 11 November 2009, 9:19 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged Lebanon’s new national unity government to fully implement the Security Council resolution that ended the war between Israel and Hizbollah three years ago. More >>
Ban Ki-moon Calls on Lebanese Cabinet to End War
Tuesday, 10 November 2009, 1:17 pm | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged Lebanon’s new national unity government to fully implement the Security Council resolution that ended the war between Israel and Hizbollah three years ago. That resolution called for an end to hostilities between ... More >>
UN Agency Applauds China-Africa Food Security
Tuesday, 10 November 2009, 12:58 pm | United Nations
The head of the United Nations food agency today welcomed the declaration by the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation underlining the critical role that investment in food security, agriculture and infrastructure plays in feeding people on the continent. ... More >>
UN: Millions in U.S. Lack Access to Housing
Tuesday, 10 November 2009, 12:52 pm | United Nations
An independent United Nations expert has warned that the United States is an increasingly expensive place to find housing, leaving many more people homeless at a time when the financial crisis is hitting hard across the country. “Millions of people in ... More >>
Ban Ki-moon Confident on Climate Change Talks
Tuesday, 10 November 2009, 12:27 pm | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today voiced confidence for an agreement next month on fighting global warming even as key issues remain unresolved, a day before he travels to Washington D.C. to discuss with senior officials and congressional leaders ... More >>
Conflict-Displaced Yemenis Receive Food Aid
Tuesday, 10 November 2009, 12:24 pm | United Nations
The United Nations World Food Programme and its partners have provided assistance to almost 100,000 people displaced in northern Yemen by the latest round of fighting between Government forces and Al Houthi rebels, the agency reported today.The clashes ... More >>
UN Addresses Underlying Causes of Congo Conflict
Tuesday, 10 November 2009, 12:18 pm | United Nations
While the crisis that plagued eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) last year and threatened to engulf the entire region has eased, some of the factors that led to the fierce fighting and the displacement of hundred of thousands must still ... More >>
UN Calls for Israel to Open Crossing for Goods
Tuesday, 10 November 2009, 12:15 pm | United Nations
The United Nations and its non-governmental organization (NGO) partners today called yet again on Israel to immediately open crossings into the Gaza Strip to give Palestinians access to desperately needed materials, especially in view of the coming winter and ... More >>
Ban Ki-moon: Urges Disarment, Investing in Peace
Tuesday, 10 November 2009, 11:28 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has warned that global military spending now tops $1 trillion per year while funding for development remains woefully low by comparison, in a message urging leaders to harness the growing political will to reduce stockpiles ... More >>
Republic of Congo and UN Launch Stabilzation Fund
Tuesday, 10 November 2009, 11:25 am | United Nations
The United Nations and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have launched a fund to help the vast country recover from years of devastating civil war that ended earlier this decade, and continuing strife in its eastern provinces that has ... More >>
UNESCO: This is No Time for Complacency
Tuesday, 10 November 2009, 11:23 am | United Nations
World leaders cannot afford to be complacent in the quest for freedom, human rights and diversity, 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the incoming head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization warned today. Irina ... More >>
UN: Poor States Face 17% Dept Servicing Rise
Tuesday, 10 November 2009, 11:20 am | United Nations
Poor countries, already hit hard by the global financial and economic crisis in their efforts to fund social and health programmes, are facing a double blow this year with debt servicing increasing by over 17 per cent as a proportion of government ... More >>
UN Crime Chief : UseTreaty to Aid Financial System
Tuesday, 10 November 2009, 11:17 am | United Nations
The United Nations crime tsar today blamed shady trading for the financial crisis that rocked most of the world last year, urging governments to use an international anti-corruption treaty to outline measures to restore trust in the financial system. ... More >>
