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Ban Urges Leaders To Consolidate Peace In Africa
Tuesday, 11 August 2009, 1:47 pm | United Nations
New York, Aug 10 2009 12:10PM While tensions in Africa’s Great Lakes region have eased in the past year, there are still serious issues to be dealt with, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today, calling on leaders there to move quickly to carry out existing ... More >>
Top UN Official Calls On Asia-Pacific Nations
Tuesday, 11 August 2009, 1:44 pm | United Nations
New York, Aug 10 2009 12:10PM The time has come for countries in Asia and the Pacific to translate their growing economic clout into positive political influence to help set the global AIDS agenda and the response to the epidemic, the head of the United ... More >>
Latest Round Of UN Climate Change Talks Kick Off
Tuesday, 11 August 2009, 1:40 pm | United Nations
New York, Aug 10 2009 11:10AM With 118 days left until the start of the United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen, where nations are aiming to conclude a new pact to curb greenhouse gas emissions, the latest round of talks has started today ... More >>
UN Partnership Boosts Technology In Arab Region
Tuesday, 11 August 2009, 1:39 pm | United Nations
New York, Aug 10 2009 9:10AM The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has teamed up with a Jordanian-based business services company to promote information and communication technology (ICT) to support education, science ... More >>
Insecurity Impacting Preparations For Afghan Polls
Tuesday, 11 August 2009, 1:36 pm | United Nations
New York, Aug 9 2009 12:10PM Insecurity is having a serious impact on preparations for Afghanistan's upcoming elections, especially for women, according to the United Nations and the country's human rights body, which added that despite attacks and ... More >>
Top Un Envoy Condemns 'Abhorrent' Bombings in Iraq
Tuesday, 11 August 2009, 1:34 pm | United Nations
New York, Aug 9 2009 10:10AM A top United Nations official has strongly condemned the recent bombings that targeted worshipers in two of Iraq's major cities, leaving dozens of innocent civilians dead or injured. More >>
Low Health Standards Impeding Indigneous Rights
Tuesday, 11 August 2009, 1:28 pm | United Nations
New York, Aug 9 2009 10:10AM The low standards of health among indigenous communities is perpetuating the gap in many countries between the recognition of their rights and the actual situation on the ground, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today, ... More >>
Rape Used As A Weapon In African Wars
Sunday, 9 August 2009, 11:34 pm | United Nations
New York, Aug 7 2009 1:10PM Warning that rape is being used as a weapon of war with the same efficient brutality as a gun or a grenade, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called on the Security Council to set up an independent commission of inquiry ... More >>
Global Recession And The Latin American Economies
Sunday, 9 August 2009, 11:33 pm | United Nations
New York, Aug 7 2009 12:10PM Higher unemployment figures, lower economic growth, falling trade and stubborn fiscal deficits are among the lingering effects the global financial crisis will have on Latin American countries, the top United Nations official ... More >>
Summit Between Leaders Of DR Congo And Rwanda
Sunday, 9 August 2009, 11:32 pm | United Nations
New York, Aug 7 2009 3:10PM Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed yesterday’s summit between the leaders of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda, the first official bilateral meeting since the neighbouring African nations broke ... More >>
Humanitarian Situation In Zimbabwe Still Grave
Sunday, 9 August 2009, 11:32 pm | United Nations
New York, Aug 7 2009 3:10PM With not enough food to feed all 12.5 million Zimbabweans and funding requirements to provide urgently-needed aid only half met, the United Nations humanitarian arm today warned that the situation in the Southern African ... More >>
More Women Police Officers Needed
Sunday, 9 August 2009, 11:31 pm | United Nations
New York, Aug 7 2009 5:10PM The ranks of female police officers serving in United Nations peacekeeping operations around the world need an urgent boost to more effectively protect and assist women against the rampant use of sexual abuse as a weapon in armed ... More >>
First Batch Of Burundian Refugees
Sunday, 9 August 2009, 11:30 pm | United Nations
New York, Aug 7 2009 11:10AM After living in Tanzania for over three decades, thousands of Burundian refugees have been granted citizenship by the host Government, in the first large-scale naturalization of its kind in Africa, the United Nations refugee ... More >>
Possible Violent Reprisals In Southern Sudan
Sunday, 9 August 2009, 11:29 pm | United Nations
New York, Aug 7 2009 5:10PM The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today expressed fears of a wave of deadly retaliatory attacks on the heels of the massacre of more than 100 people in southern Sudan earlier over the weekend. More >>
Access Hampering Aid Efforts In Afghanistan
Sunday, 9 August 2009, 11:28 pm | United Nations
New York, Aug 7 2009 3:10PM While much of the current international attention is on the upcoming elections in Afghanistan, there are a number of humanitarian issues still facing the country, a senior United Nations official stressed today, adding ... More >>
Dream Of Nuclear-Weapon-Free World
Sunday, 9 August 2009, 11:27 pm | United Nations
New York, Aug 7 2009 1:10PM Despite the continued presence of thousands of nuclear weapons in global arsenals, it is possible to achieve the goal of ridding the world of this deadly scourge, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told a gathering in the Japanese ... More >>
UN Lacks Access To 500,000 Hungry Somalis
Sunday, 9 August 2009, 11:26 pm | United Nations
New York, Aug 7 2009 1:10PM Lack of access has prevented the United Nations from delivering food to 500,000 of its planned 3.3 million beneficiaries in Somalia over the past month, principally in Mogadishu and the south of the battle-scarred country. More >>
Slash Prices Of Essential AIDS Medicines
Sunday, 9 August 2009, 11:25 pm | United Nations
New York, Aug 7 2009 10:10AM A top United Nations official has hailed agreements reached by the Clinton Foundation with pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and Matrix to reduce the prices of antiretroviral drugs for people living with AIDS and tuberculosis ... More >>
Thousands Of Congolese Displaced
Sunday, 9 August 2009, 11:24 pm | United Nations
New York, Aug 7 2009 9:10AM Some 12,500 people in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have been uprooted from their homes in the past month by attacks by the Ugandan rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), the United Nations refugee agency ... More >>
UN Forces In Africa Call For More Troops
Sunday, 9 August 2009, 11:23 pm | United Nations
New York, Aug 6 2009 6:10PM The military chiefs of the United Nations’ largest and most complex peacekeeping operations urged Member States today to provide the troops and equipment necessary to carry out their missions in the war-ravaged regions ... More >>
