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Ethiopia’s Drought Survivors Need Help
Wednesday, 26 August 2009, 11:25 am | United Nations
New York, Aug 25 2009 4:10PM The United Nations humanitarian wing reported today that a critical water shortage in Ethiopia’s Somali region is threatening the health of the local communities who are being forced to use abandoned ponds and wells for ... More >>
Half Of Somalia’s Population Could Go Hungry
Wednesday, 26 August 2009, 11:24 am | United Nations
New York, Aug 25 2009 3:10PM Half of Somalia’s population is in need of humanitarian assistance, according to a new United Nations report which finds that the conflict engulfing the Horn of Africa nation is pushing increasing numbers of people into ... More >>
Congolese Leader Should Remain In ICC Custody
Wednesday, 26 August 2009, 11:23 am | United Nations
New York, Aug 25 2009 2:10PM Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo should remain in the custody of the International Criminal Court (ICC) until the start of his trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity, the Court’s Prosecutor stated as he appealed the decision ... More >>
US Investigation Into Alleged CIA Abuses
Wednesday, 26 August 2009, 11:21 am | United Nations
New York, Aug 25 2009 1:10PM The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, has welcomed the decision by the United States Attorney-General to appoint a special prosecutor to look into whether Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officers ... More >>
Recovery Efforts With Pakistani Authorities
Wednesday, 26 August 2009, 11:20 am | United Nations
New York, Aug 25 2009 1:10PM United Nations officials have wrapped up a mission to Swat district in Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province (NWFP) to discuss the strengthening of humanitarian assistance to those uprooted by military operations ... More >>
Health, Education Efforts In Republic Of Congo
Wednesday, 26 August 2009, 11:19 am | United Nations
New York, Aug 25 2009 12:10PM The Republic of Congo has received a $500,000 influx from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to boost health, nutrition and education initiatives to help ease the impact of the global economic crisis on the ... More >>
UNICEF: Violence In Northern Yemen
Wednesday, 26 August 2009, 11:18 am | United Nations
New York, Aug 25 2009 11:10AM The head of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has called for “immediate and secure” access to people uprooted by escalating clashes – mostly children and women – between Government forces and rebels in ... More >>
Kenya: Dire Food Situation
Wednesday, 26 August 2009, 11:16 am | United Nations
New York, Aug 25 2009 10:10AM The United Nations food agency today issued a warning that Kenya faces a dire hunger crisis due to failed rains, appealing today for $230 million to feed nearly 4 million Kenyans – nearly one-tenth of the African nation’s ... More >>
Race To Change Perceptions About Timor-Leste
Tuesday, 25 August 2009, 8:52 pm | United Nations
New York, Aug 24 2009 10:10AM It may lack the glamour or the pedigree of the Tour de France, but the inaugural Tour de Timor – which starts today in the capital, Dili – can probably claim to be a more gruelling race than its storied peer, with ... More >>
Refugee Children Winners In FC Barcelona
Tuesday, 25 August 2009, 8:51 pm | United Nations
New York, Aug 24 2009 10:10AM Refugee children were the winners in last week’s highly anticipated match-up between top football teams Manchester City and FC Barcelona, with the latter’s members sporting jerseys emblazoned with the logo of a campaign ... More >>
Afghanistan Awaits Election Results
Tuesday, 25 August 2009, 8:48 pm | United Nations
New York, Aug 24 2009 12:10PM The top United Nations envoy for Afghanistan today urged patience and calm as the country’s Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) responds to the complaints that have been received following last week’s historic ... More >>
African Mission Donates Supplies To Women’s Prison
Tuesday, 25 August 2009, 8:48 pm | United Nations
New York, Aug 24 2009 1:10PM The joint African Union-United Nations peacekeeping mission in Darfur today donated supplies to a women’s prison in the western Sudanese region. More >>
Secretary-General To Depart For Austria
Tuesday, 25 August 2009, 8:46 pm | United Nations
New York, Aug 24 2009 2:10PM Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will depart on Thursday on a three-nation trip that will include the 30th anniversary celebrations of the United Nations headquarters in Austria, an official visit to Norway that will also ... More >>
UN Special Envoy For Assistance To Pakistan
Tuesday, 25 August 2009, 8:45 pm | United Nations
New York, Aug 24 2009 4:10PM Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed the current French Ambassador to the United Nations as his Special Envoy for Assistance to Pakistan, a newly-created position, it was announced today. More >>
Voter Identification In Côte D’Ivoire
Tuesday, 25 August 2009, 8:44 pm | United Nations
New York, Aug 24 2009 4:10PM The top United Nations envoy to Côte d’Ivoire said today that the processing of data from the nationwide identification and voter registration operation ahead of November’s presidential election is “going well.” More >>
Dialogue Can Spur Understanding
Monday, 24 August 2009, 12:48 pm | United Nations
New York, Aug 23 2009 4:10PM Marking the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition, the head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) today underscored the importance of dialogue in ... More >>
Youth To Mobilize Against Climate Change
Monday, 24 August 2009, 12:46 pm | United Nations
New York, Aug 23 2009 4:10PM Youth-organized rallies will be held in 100 cities across the globe to push governments to 'seal the deal' on an ambitious agreement to curb greenhouse gas emissions later this year, the United Nations Environment Programme ... More >>
UN Best Suited To Oversee Global Economic Overhaul
Monday, 24 August 2009, 12:43 pm | United Nations
New York, Aug 21 2009 5:10PM The United Nations is the only institution with the legitimacy to oversee democratic reforms of the global economic system to pull the world out of the current recession, Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz ... More >>
UN Continues Providing Humanitarian Aid To Somalia
Monday, 24 August 2009, 12:42 pm | United Nations
New York, Aug 21 2009 4:10PM The United Nations is continuing its efforts to ameliorate the dire humanitarian situation in Somalia, rushing food and other vital items to the war-wracked Horn of Africa nation. More >>
Pakistani Returns To North-West Top 1 Million
Monday, 24 August 2009, 12:41 pm | United Nations
New York, Aug 21 2009 4:10PM Around 1.6 million of the over 2 million people displaced by conflict in Pakistan’s north-west have returned to their villages, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said today, citing ... More >>
