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Antivirals For H1N1 Not Needed
Monday, 24 August 2009, 12:38 pm | United Nations
New York, Aug 21 2009 2:10PM Otherwise healthy people infected with the H1N1 virus do not need to be treated with antiviral drugs, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) said today as it issued new guidelines in the use of the drugs against the ... More >>
Malaria Control Efforts In Uganda
Monday, 24 August 2009, 12:36 pm | United Nations
New York, Aug 21 2009 2:10PM Two senior United Nations officials are currently in Uganda to review the country’s progress in controlling malaria, which every year kills an estimated 1 million people, most of them children in Africa. More >>
Displaced Central Africans Need Urgent Aid
Monday, 24 August 2009, 12:35 pm | United Nations
New York, Aug 21 2009 12:10PM The United Nations refugee agency today highlighted the plight of a group of over 2,000 displaced civilians who are living in a previously inaccessible and remote area of northern Central African Republic (CAR) and are in ... More >>
Ugandan Rebels Drive Thousands From Their Homes
Monday, 24 August 2009, 12:33 pm | United Nations
New York, Aug 21 2009 12:10PM Fresh attacks carried out by a notorious Ugandan rebel group have uprooted thousands of people and spreading panic in southern Sudan, forcing the United Nations to suspend its humanitarian work in the area, the world body's ... More >>
Survivors Of Mediterranean Boat Tragedy
Monday, 24 August 2009, 12:32 pm | United Nations
New York, Aug 21 2009 11:10AM The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) says it is shocked by the accounts heard from five Eritreans who are allegedly the sole survivors of a boat tragedy in the Mediterranean Sea in which some 75 others ... More >>
Civilians Trapped Amid Fighting In Northern Yemen
Monday, 24 August 2009, 12:30 pm | United Nations
New York, Aug 21 2009 11:10AM The United Nations is helping civilians caught up in violence between Government troops and rebels in the mountains of northern Yemen, with the world body estimating that over 100,000 people have been affected by the ... More >>
Security Council Lauds ‘Historic’ Afghan Elections
Monday, 24 August 2009, 12:29 pm | United Nations
New York, Aug 21 2009 10:10AM The United Nations Security Council has welcomed the holding of Afghanistan’s “historic” presidential and provincial council elections, while condemning the actions of those who sought to disrupt the 20 August polls. More >>
Southern Sudan Faces Worsening Food Shortage
Monday, 24 August 2009, 12:28 pm | United Nations
Urgent financial assistance is needed to ensure that Southern Sudan can avert severe hunger among its inhabitants, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) warned today, calling for over $50 million to cover the food gap. More >>
Potential Cholera Outbreak In Zimbabwe
Monday, 24 August 2009, 12:27 pm | United Nations
New York, Aug 20 2009 5:10PM The conditions that led to the worst cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe’s history last year, including poor water and sanitation infrastructure, remain and the disease could return this year, an official with the United Nations ... More >>
UN And Ivorian Officials Focus On Food Security
Monday, 24 August 2009, 12:25 pm | United Nations
New York, Aug 20 2009 3:10PM Achieving national food security in Côte d’Ivoire and addressing the needs of the smallholder farmers and the rural poor were among the topics discussed during a visit by the head of the United Nations International ... More >>
Yemen : UN Releases Emergency Funds
Monday, 24 August 2009, 12:23 pm | United Nations
New York, Aug 20 2009 1:10PM The United Nations has released over $200,000 in emergency funding to meet health needs in northern Yemen , the scene of deadly fighting between Government troops and rebels. More >>
Round-Table Talks On Darfur Peace Process
Monday, 24 August 2009, 12:22 pm | United Nations
New York, Aug 20 2009 1:10PM The joint African Union-United Nations peacekeeping operation in Darfur (UNAMID) convened a round-table discussion with the signatories to the 2006 pact that aims to bring peace to the Sudanese region. More >>
Haitian Farmers Boost Food Production
Monday, 24 August 2009, 12:21 pm | United Nations
New York, Aug 20 2009 12:10PM A United Nations scheme to combat high food prices in Haiti has yielded fruit by significantly boosting production, making food available at lower cost and increasing farmers’ incomes, the world body announced today. More >>
UN And Republic Of Korea Partner
Monday, 24 August 2009, 12:19 pm | United Nations
New York, Aug 20 2009 11:10AM The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has joined forces with the Republic of Korea (ROK) to support the East Asian nation’s quest for a sustainable ‘green’ economic future in the midst of a global recession. More >>
Prime Minister-Designate On Southern Lebanon
Monday, 24 August 2009, 12:17 pm | United Nations
New York, Aug 20 2009 10:10AM The head of the United Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon and Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri today discussed the security situation in the country’s south, and developments relating to the Security Council resolution ... More >>
Election Day Going Well In Afghanistan
Monday, 24 August 2009, 12:16 pm | United Nations
New York, Aug 20 2009 10:10AM The top United Nations envoy to Afghanistan said he was pleased with the way the country’s elections were taking place and there had been less violence than he had feared, during a visit to a local polling station ... More >>
Religion Should Promote Peace, Not Violence
Thursday, 20 August 2009, 5:29 pm | United Nations
The recent attacks on Christian communities in the village of Korian in the Toba Tek Singh District of the state of Punjab on July 30 and in nearby Gojra on August 1 are of grave concern to Interfaith Cooperation Forum (ICF), a regional network ... More >>
Frontlines: UN Staff Give A Helping Hand
Thursday, 20 August 2009, 5:27 pm | United Nations
New York, Aug 19 2009 8:10PM Humanitarian work typically takes place in conflict zones, or following natural disasters, or in remote areas where food is scarce and the need for immediate assistance is high. Grain sacks are hauled and distributed, ... More >>
5 Years After Tsunami, Indonesia Better Prepared
Thursday, 20 August 2009, 5:26 pm | United Nations
New York, Aug 19 2009 7:10PM The devastating tsunami which hit Indonesia so hard in December 2004 had two positive effects: it pushed the population to reflect and improve its mechanisms for managing catastrophes, and in the country’s Aceh province ... More >>
Ratification Of UN-Backed Nuclear Treaty
Thursday, 20 August 2009, 5:25 pm | United Nations
New York, Aug 19 2009 7:10PM The total number of countries that have ratified the United Nations-backed Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) has inched closer to 150 after Liberia ratified the agreement this week. More >>
