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UN: Climate Change Linked to Natural Disasters?
Tuesday, 10 November 2009, 11:13 am | United Nations
A United Nations-backed gathering of experts kicked off today in Panama to initiate for the first time an assessment of the effect climate change has on the future threat of natural disasters and how nations can better manage an expected rise in severe ... More >>
Communication Tech Experts Gather in Beirut
Tuesday, 10 November 2009, 11:09 am | United Nations
More than 750 policymakers from the world of information and communication technology (ICT) are meeting in Beirut at an event co-hosted by the United Nations telecom agency where they can share experiences and forge common approaches to navigating today’s ... More >>
Pakistani Farmers Get Help to Boost Production
Tuesday, 10 November 2009, 11:06 am | United Nations
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (http://www.fao.org/) and the European Union (EU) have partnered to provide seed and fertilizer to almost 100,000 farmers in rural Pakistan who were hit by the surge in food prices last year. According ... More >>
Joint African Force: Sudanese Must Not Impede Aid
Tuesday, 10 November 2009, 11:03 am | United Nations
The joint African Union-United Nations mission assisting in restoring peace and stability in Darfur has called on one of the major rebel groups in the Sudanese region to stop impeding its work, while deploring the harassment and detention of its personnel. ... More >>
UN: Health Care for Women Still Below Need
Tuesday, 10 November 2009, 10:57 am | United Nations
Many of the world’s countries continue to fail to meet the health-care needs of women at key stages of their lives, such as when they reach adolescence or when they are elderly, a new United Nations report has found. The report, issued today by the ... More >>
New Geneva Museum to Focus on Communication Tech
Monday, 9 November 2009, 1:49 pm | United Nations
The United Nations telecommunications agency announced today that it has signed an agreement with the United Arab Emirates to build a new museum that will focus on the impact of information communications technology (ICT) on people's lives. The ... More >>
Bam Ki-moon: Election Prep Can Now Proceed in Iraq
Monday, 9 November 2009, 1:43 pm | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon welcomed today's approval by Iraqi lawmakers of amendments to electoral laws, saying the move -- which follows weeks of deadlock -- means national parliamentary polls can be held in January as scheduled. A majority of members in ... More >>
UN: Probe to Investigate Kenyan Violence
Monday, 9 November 2009, 11:38 am | United Nations
The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has announced that he will ask the tribunal to open an investigation into the deadly post-election violence in Kenya in December 2007 and January 2008. Luis Moreno-Ocampo, speaking after a ... More >>
Ban Ki-moon:Welcomes Madagasar Power Share Deal
Monday, 9 November 2009, 11:14 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today welcomed the power-sharing agreement reached by Madagascar''s current and former leaders and urged them to implement the deal to resolve months of political wrangling in the Indian Ocean country. Madagascar''s ... More >>
Sec. Clinton on Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew
Monday, 9 November 2009, 9:12 am | United Nations
Good evening, and please be seated. I want to welcome all of you to the Ben Franklin Room here on the eighth floor of the State Department for such a special occasion. It is indeed an honor for me to welcome His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, ... More >>
General Assembly Backs Findings of UN Gaza Report
Friday, 6 November 2009, 3:15 pm | United Nations
The General Assembly today endorsed the report of the United Nations investigation which found that both Israeli forces and Palestinian militants were guilty of serious human rights violations during the conflict in the Gaza Strip at the start of the ... More >>
Migiro: Africa's Anti-Poverty Goals in Peril
Friday, 6 November 2009, 3:13 pm | United Nations
Africa’s efforts to meet the global anti-poverty targets known as the Millennium Development Goals ( http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/) by their 2015 deadline are threatened by the impact of the global financial crisis on the continent’s economies, ... More >>
Peacekeepers Involved in Abuse are Being Punished
Friday, 6 November 2009, 2:53 pm | United Nations
Dozens of United Nations peacekeepers implicated in cases of sexual abuse and exploitation have been disciplined and punished, a spokesperson for the world body said today. The UN has imposed a zero-tolerance policy against sexual abuse and exploitation ... More >>
Sec. Clinton's Remarks with German Prime Minister
Friday, 6 November 2009, 1:51 pm | United Nations
SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, my goodness, we have a good crowd today. Well, we have had an excellent conversation, and I welcomed the new foreign minister to Washington so early in his tenure, and I am looking forward to spending more time with him when ... More >>
Ban Ki-moon: We Must Face Challenges Together
Friday, 6 November 2009, 1:29 pm | United Nations
No country, however, powerful, can tackle alone the multiple challenges facing the world, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today, stressing the need to work together on issues such as climate change, the economic crisis and global peace and security.“We ... More >>
Criminal Trial of Former Congo Leader in April
Friday, 6 November 2009, 1:17 pm | United Nations
The International Criminal Court (ICC) announced today that the trial of Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo, a former senior official of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) who has been charged with war crimes, will begin in April 2010. Mr. Bemba, the former ... More >>
Drugs, Crime Threaten Stability in Guinea-Bissau
Friday, 6 November 2009, 1:06 pm | United Nations
The prospects for political stability in Guinea-Bissau appear to be good but are threatened by drug trafficking and organized crime, United Nations officials warned the Security Council today. “Although there seems to be a downward trend in the ... More >>
Malnutrition on the Rise in Rural Tajik Children
Friday, 6 November 2009, 1:03 pm | United Nations
Young children in rural Tajikistan are increasingly likely to be malnourished because of a lack of food, poor water quality and high prices for many basic products, United Nations aid agencies said today, warning that the children are now at greater risk ... More >>
Former Rwandan Tea Industry Exec Jailed
Friday, 6 November 2009, 1:00 pm | United Nations
The former head of the government office that controlled the Rwandan tea industry was today sentenced to eight years in prison after being found guilty by a United Nations tribunal over his role in the African country’s 1994 genocide. A three-judge ... More >>
UNESCO Unveils Winners of Three Prizes for Science
Friday, 6 November 2009, 12:56 pm | United Nations
An Indian professor, a Vietnamese professor, a Tunisian expert in water management and the organization responsible for Spain’s national park system are the winners of three awards announced today by the head of the United Nations agency tasked with ... More >>
