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Ban Ki-moon: Afghan President Must Ensure Freedom
Wednesday, 4 November 2009, 2:46 pm | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has urged Afghan President Hamid Karzai – re-elected after his opponent, Abdullah Abdullah, withdrew from the run-off planned for next week – to take all steps necessary to ensure that the people of the South Asian ... More >>
Migiro: UN Efforts Can Reach Anti-Poverty Goals
Wednesday, 4 November 2009, 12:45 pm | United Nations
Greater coordination among United Nations agencies is crucial to helping countries, including those in the Arab region, slash poverty, hunger, illiteracy and a host of other scourges, Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro told a meeting in Beirut ... More >>
UNESCO Pays Tribute After Death of Levi-Strauss
Wednesday, 4 November 2009, 12:29 pm | United Nations
The world has lost one of its greatest thinkers with the death of ( http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=41819&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html ) Claude Lévi-Strauss, the head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ( http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=29008&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html ... More >>
UNICEF Begins Aid in North-Eastern Kenya
Wednesday, 4 November 2009, 11:03 am | United Nations
The United Nations Children’s Fund ( http://www.unicef.org) is leading UN relief efforts in north-eastern Kenya, where recent torrential rainfall has brought flooding at the same time as much of the rest of the country endures a prolonged drought. ... More >>
New UN Measures Will Help Consumers
Wednesday, 4 November 2009, 10:55 am | United Nations
The United Nations telecom agency is set to introduce measures that will help consumers know if the information and communications technology (ICT) equipment they are buying will work with other devices. The new conformity and inter-operability programme ... More >>
UN Report: Real Wages Stall in Economic Crisis
Wednesday, 4 November 2009, 10:37 am | United Nations
Real wages appear to be stagnating worldwide for the second consecutive year, underlining the fragility of any potential recovery from the global economic crisis, the United Nations International Labour Organization ( http://www.ilo.org/global/About_the_ILO/Media_and_public_information/Press_releases/lang--en/WCMS_116503/index.htm) ... More >>
Maoists Stage Protest in Nepal
Wednesday, 4 November 2009, 10:28 am | United Nations
The United Nations today called on Nepal's Government and other parties in the Asian country to ensure that the human rights of all people are protected and respected as protests organized by the former Maoist rebels are held throughout the State. ... More >>
UN Refugee Agency Aids Angolans from Congo
Wednesday, 4 November 2009, 10:25 am | United Nations
The United Nations refugee agency has rushed relief items to help tens of thousands of Angolans expelled from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) last month. A Boeing 747 jet from Johannesburg, South Africa, touched down in Angola’s capital, ... More >>
UN: Asian-Pac Corporate Leadership Must Be Legit
Wednesday, 4 November 2009, 10:18 am | United Nations
Businesses in the Asia-Pacific region are becoming better corporate citizens but often only for display and not for any lasting impact, a leading United Nations official told a regional gathering on trade and investment today. Noeleen Heyzer, the Executive ... More >>
UN Calls for Greater Research on Marine Ecosystems
Wednesday, 4 November 2009, 10:15 am | United Nations
Greater scientific research is essential to better understand the potential impact of activities on marine biodiversity beyond the coastal areas that fall under national jurisdiction as the more remote areas are just as vulnerable, says a new United Nations ... More >>
UN Peacekeeping Chief Calls for Congo Probe
Tuesday, 3 November 2009, 3:31 pm | United Nations
The head of United Nations peacekeeping has called for a joint investigation into the targeted killing this year of dozens of civilians in the far east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) by elements of the country’s military. Alain Le Roy, ... More >>
Ban: Stock Exchanges Can Promote Sustainability
Tuesday, 3 November 2009, 3:29 pm | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged leaders of stock exchanges and financial institutions to better manage and integrate environmental, social and governance issues into their business practices. In a video ( http://www.un.org/apps/sg/sgstats.asp?nid=4203 ... More >>
Police Forces in Liberia Halt Prison Escape
Tuesday, 3 November 2009, 3:15 pm | United Nations
Police officers serving with the United Nations peacekeeping force in Liberia have helped foil an attempted mass jail break this weekend from a prison in the West African nation’s capital, Monrovia. As many as 50 prisoners tried to escape about 2:20 ... More >>
Post Harvest Losses Worsen Hunger for Poor
Tuesday, 3 November 2009, 3:02 pm | United Nations
The plight of the hungry in developing countries is needlessly aggravated by farmers losing up to half of their crops after gathering the harvest, the United Nations agricultural agency said today, stressing that adequate investment and training could ... More >>
UN: Truckloads of Goods ENter Gaza From Israel
Tuesday, 3 November 2009, 2:49 pm | United Nations
The Office of the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process ( http://www.unsco.org/Default.asp) reports that nearly 80 truckloads of goods entered Gaza from Israel yesterday through the Kerem Shalom crossing. The majority of the ... More >>
UN Envoy Discusses Iraqi Sovereignty
Tuesday, 3 November 2009, 2:25 pm | United Nations
A senior United Nations political official held talks today in Baghdad with Iraq’s Prime Minister and defence and national security ministers as part of his discussions with the country’s leadership on Iraq’s security and sovereignty. Oscar Fernandez-Taranco, ... More >>
African-UN Force Aims to Reduce Ethnic Tensions
Tuesday, 3 November 2009, 2:10 pm | United Nations
The joint African Union-United Nations peacekeeping mission in Darfur has participated in a reconciliation ceremony in the north of the region that is aimed at halting a spate of recent inter-tribal clashes that have killed at least two dozen people. ... More >>
UN Maritime Agency to Repress Somalian Piracy
Tuesday, 3 November 2009, 1:27 pm | United Nations
The head of the United Nations International Maritime Organization ( http://www.imo.org/) has pledged that his agency will help Somalia repress piracy off its coast and in the Gulf of Aden, including through assisting in the creation of a national coast ... More >>
Five Nations Sign On to Tackle Deforestation
Tuesday, 3 November 2009, 1:25 pm | United Nations
Five countries today "> joined the United Nations initiative aimed at combating climate change by creating incentives for poorer countries to reverse the trend of deforestation and invest in more sustainable forms of development. Argentina, Cambodia, Ecuador, ... More >>
Sierra Leonean Judge Elected to War Crime Tribunal
Tuesday, 3 November 2009, 1:13 pm | United Nations
A Sierra Leonean judge has taken over as the new President of the Special Court for Sierra Leone ( http://www.sc-sl.org/), the United Nations-backed war crimes tribunal set up to deal with the worst acts committed during the long and brutal civil war ... More >>
