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Financing For Poorer Countries Key
Sunday, 26 July 2009, 3:31 pm | United Nations
New York, Jul 24 2009 6:10PM “Sealing the deal” on a climate change pact this December in Copenhagen, Denmark, hinges largely on securing the financing needed to help developing countries tackle global warming, the top United Nations climate ... More >>
UN Calls On Somali Diaspora To Reject Violence
Sunday, 26 July 2009, 3:30 pm | United Nations
New York, Jul 24 2009 6:10PM Violence will not solve Somalia’s problems, the top United Nations envoy to the struggling country said today, urging the diaspora to continue supporting peace efforts in the face of rising efforts by opposition militants ... More >>
Fresh Fighting In Eastern DR Congo
Sunday, 26 July 2009, 3:29 pm | United Nations
New York, Jul 24 2009 10:10AM The latest outbreak of fighting in the troubled South Kivu province in the far east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), pitting Government forces against Rwandan rebels, has forced 35,000 people from their homes, ... More >>
Senior UN Aid Official To Visit CAR
Sunday, 26 July 2009, 3:28 pm | United Nations
New York, Jul 24 2009 2:10PM A senior United Nations aid official heads to the Central African Republic (CAR) this weekend for a five-day visit to assess the humanitarian situation and spotlight the perilous situation faced by the impoverished country’s ... More >>
Ivorian Ex-Fighters Build New Businesses
Sunday, 26 July 2009, 3:27 pm | United Nations
New York, Jul 24 2009 7:10PM >From raising chickens and growing tomatoes to washing cars and renting out party equipment, combatants from Côte d’Ivoire’s civil war are finding jobs in hundreds of new enterprises and projects under a pilot United ... More >>
Serb Political Leader Jailed By UN Tribunal
Sunday, 26 July 2009, 3:26 pm | United Nations
New York, Jul 24 2009 2:10PM The United Nations tribunal for the former Yugoslavia today gave the leader of the Serbian Radical Party a 15-month jail term after finding him guilty of contempt of court for publishing the names of three protected witnesses ... More >>
Recession’s Impact On Pacific Island Nations
Sunday, 26 July 2009, 3:25 pm | United Nations
New York, Jul 24 2009 11:10AM With the effects of the current global economic turmoil being felt acutely in Pacific island nations, social policies placing an emphasis on dialogue, community ownership and human rights is essential to mitigate the impact ... More >>
Death Toll From Influenza Outbreak Nears 800
Sunday, 26 July 2009, 3:24 pm | United Nations
New York, Jul 24 2009 4:10PM Influenza A(H1N1) is continuing to spread through all corners of the world, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) reported today, putting the global death toll from the pandemic at around 800. More >>
Ban Invites Mauritanians To Pursue Dialogue
Sunday, 26 July 2009, 3:22 pm | United Nations
New York, Jul 24 2009 2:10PM Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called on the leadership and people of Mauritania to consolidate their country’s democratization and reconciliation by pursuing dialogue in the wake of the recently concluded presidential elections. More >>
$200 Mil Needed For Over 500,000 Displaced In Chad
Friday, 24 July 2009, 11:37 am | United Nations
New York, Jul 23 2009 7:10PM The United Nations today called for an additional $200 million to provide aid to more than half a million people uprooted by violence in Chad and the neighbouring Central African Republic (CAR) and Darfur region of western ... More >>
400,000 Displaced Pakistanis Returning Home
Friday, 24 July 2009, 11:36 am | United Nations
New York, Jul 23 2009 6:10PM Almost 400,000 people, out of the more than 2 million who escaped Government-militant clashes in northwest Pakistan, have now returned to their homes, the top United Nations relief official in the country announced today. More >>
China And UN Sign Pact
Friday, 24 July 2009, 11:35 am | United Nations
New York, Jul 23 2009 6:10PM In a move to help China and other developing Asian countries improve the quality of their statistical reporting, the United Nations has signed its first-ever trust-fund agreement for technical cooperation with the world’s ... More >>
Bureaucratic Delays May Threaten Ivorian Elections
Friday, 24 July 2009, 11:34 am | United Nations
New York, Jul 23 2009 6:10PM The bureaucratic complications involved in planning and running the electoral process form the greatest obstacle to holding twice-delayed presidential elections in Côte d’Ivoire on schedule by their new date of 29 November ... More >>
Geneva Headquarters Given ‘Green’ Seal Of Approval
Friday, 24 July 2009, 11:33 am | United Nations
New York, Jul 23 2009 6:10PM The United Nations’ Geneva headquarters has joined a select group of environmentally-friendly entities, having been awarded a prestigious certificate recognizing its ‘green’ efforts. More >>
Deadly Attacks By Rebels In Eastern DR Congo
Friday, 24 July 2009, 11:32 am | United Nations
New York, Jul 23 2009 5:10PM The United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has deplored an attack this week by Rwandan rebels on Congolese armed forces in the DRC’s far east that has left at least 16 civilians dead. More >>
Angelina Jolie Urges Donors To Step Up Support
Friday, 24 July 2009, 11:31 am | United Nations
New York, Jul 23 2009 3:10PM Academy award-winning actress and Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations refugee agency Angelina Jolie today called for greater support for the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who remain displaced. More >>
UN Unveils Offensive To Curb Animal Virus
Friday, 24 July 2009, 11:30 am | United Nations
New York, Jul 23 2009 10:10AM A major United Nations-backed drive to bring food and mouth disease (FMD) – a highly contagious viral disease affecting cloven-hoofed animals which can easily hop borders between nations – under global control has ... More >>
Free Academic Journal Access To Poorest Nations
Friday, 24 July 2009, 11:29 am | United Nations
New York, Jul 23 2009 11:10AM The United Nations has partnered with the scientific publishing industry to provide research institutions in least developed countries free access to online journals, the UN World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) ... More >>
Latest Round Of UN-Backed Cyprus Talks
Friday, 24 July 2009, 11:28 am | United Nations
New York, Jul 23 2009 2:10PM Immigration, asylum and citizenship issues topped the agenda during today’s round of the ongoing United Nations-backed talks between Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot leaders on the possible reunification of the Mediterranean ... More >>
Opposition’s Efforts To Topple Somali Government
Friday, 24 July 2009, 11:27 am | United Nations
New York, Jul 23 2009 1:10PM Repeated attempts to overthrow Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government (TFG) are a source of deep concern, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a new report, calling on the international community to continue its support ... More >>
