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UN Remembers Colleagues Killed In Brutal Bombing
Wednesday, 14 October 2009, 10:14 am | United Nations
The United Nations today remembered five fallen colleagues who were working on the frontlines against hunger when their lives were brutally cut short by a suicide bombing last week at the headquarters of the World Food Programme (WFP) in the Pakistani ... More >>
Reported Explosion In Southern Lebanon
Wednesday, 14 October 2009, 10:13 am | United Nations
The United Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon said it is investigating, together with the national armed forces, a reported explosion that occurred on Monday in the southern town of Tayr Felsay. More >>
Recent UN Probe Into Gaza Conflict
Wednesday, 14 October 2009, 10:12 am | United Nations
The Human Rights Council announced today that it will hold a special session on Thursday to discuss the report of the recent United Nations fact-finding mission on the Gaza conflict that took place at the start of the year. More >>
Mounting Humanitarian Crises In Kenya
Wednesday, 14 October 2009, 10:11 am | United Nations
Severe food shortages continue to affect millions of hungry people in Kenya while refugees pour in from neighbouring countries and United Nations agencies brace the population for expected floods, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian ... More >>
Situation Continues To Crumble In Northern Yemen
Wednesday, 14 October 2009, 10:09 am | United Nations
With fighting between Government forces and rebels showing no signs of letting up and stores having run out of basic supplies in northern Yemen, the United Nations refugee agency said today that the humanitarian situation in the area continues to ... More >>
Pact Needed To Prevent Organ Trafficking
Wednesday, 14 October 2009, 10:08 am | United Nations
A new international convention is needed to prevent trafficking in organs, tissues and cells (OTC), protect victims and prosecute offenders, according to a joint study launched today by the United Nations and the Council of Europe. More >>
Ban Pays Tribute To Fallen Blue Helmets In Haiti
Wednesday, 14 October 2009, 10:06 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon paid tribute today to 11 peacekeepers serving with the United Nations mission in Haiti who were killed when a plane crashed last week, hailing them for helping the Caribbean country’s people “fulfil the enormous ... More >>
Food Insecurity Continues Across Parts Of Ethiopia
Wednesday, 14 October 2009, 10:04 am | United Nations
Food security continues to plague many areas of Ethiopia because of drought, according to the latest joint report by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the Famine Early Warning Systems Network. More >>
UNAIDS Chief Praises Innovative Clinic In Bangalor
Wednesday, 14 October 2009, 10:02 am | United Nations
The head of the United Nations agency tasked with fighting the spread of HIV and AIDS has wrapped up his first official trip to India, praising the pioneering work of a Government-run clinic in Bangalore, the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) ... More >>
Wide-Scale Sexual Crimes With Impunity
Wednesday, 14 October 2009, 10:01 am | United Nations
The rampant and brutal abuse of women in war zones continues unchecked, the chair of a United Nations committee said today, urging all nations to ratify the international Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). More >>
Somalia: Professional Security Force
Wednesday, 14 October 2009, 9:58 am | United Nations
A professional, well-organized security force must be established in Somalia by August 2011, the end of the mandate of the current Transitional Federal Government (TFG), if peace and stability are to be assured, the top United Nations envoy for the strife-torn ... More >>
Gorilla Protection Is Important
Wednesday, 14 October 2009, 9:56 am | United Nations
A United Nations conservation expert has called for the protection of gorillas and elephants to be included in global climate negotiations in Copenhagen in December as a major factor in sustaining healthy African forests, a central element in temperature ... More >>
Progress In Timor-Leste Undermined
Tuesday, 13 October 2009, 11:28 am | United Nations
The root causes of the community tensions behind the violence that shook Timor-Leste in 2006 remain, threatening the nascent country’s fragile security, despite its recent peaceful celebration of 10 years since a vote for independence, Secretary-General ... More >>
Iraq: Concern About Status Of Election Laws
Tuesday, 13 October 2009, 11:27 am | United Nations
The senior United Nations envoy in Iraq has voiced concern about the country’s election laws, saying they lack clarity just three months before parliamentary polls are slated to be held. More >>
Afghan Elections Marred By Fraud
Tuesday, 13 October 2009, 11:26 am | United Nations
The top United Nations envoy to Afghanistan has acknowledged that “widespread” fraud took place during the August elections, but stressed that there are mechanisms in place to ensure that the result reflects the will of the people. More >>
Women’s Health And Gender Equality A Reality
Tuesday, 13 October 2009, 11:25 am | United Nations
Fifteen years after a United Nations conference on population vowed to put gender equality and reproductive rights at the centre of development, the number of maternal deaths from childbirth – “a staggering toll of more than half a million women ... More >>
Philippines: UN Aid Chief Pledges Full Support
Tuesday, 13 October 2009, 11:24 am | United Nations
The top United Nations emergency relief official arrived in the Philippines today, pledging full cooperation after two successive storms affected over 6 million people, killing more than 500 and displacing scores of thousands of others, and caused crop ... More >>
Boom In International Trade Fails Workers
Tuesday, 13 October 2009, 11:23 am | United Nations
The surge in world trade in recent years has failed to improve the working conditions and living standards for the majority of workers in poor countries, according to a new United Nations labour agency study launched today. More >>
Productivity Key To Feeding Growing Population
Tuesday, 13 October 2009, 11:22 am | United Nations
Governments must ensure that agriculture becomes more productive if it is to feed a growing world population expected to reach nearly 9.2 billion people by 2050 as well as respond to the environmental challenges ahead, a senior United Nations official ... More >>
Orlando Bloom Named UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador
Tuesday, 13 October 2009, 11:21 am | United Nations
Hollywood actor Orlando Bloom will be working to make the world a better place for young people as he steps into his new role as Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). More >>
