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Reserve Soldiers Keep The Peace In The Solomons
Monday, 13 July 2009, 6:19 pm | United Nations
An Australian Military Camera Team has just returned from the Solomon Islands with the first imagery taken since November 2008 of Australian soldiers deployed to the Pacific nation on Operation ANODE. More >>
Free And Fair Elections Must Be Ensured
Sunday, 12 July 2009, 5:07 pm | United Nations
REPORT New York, Jul 10 2009 3:11PM Côte d’Ivoire’s political parties have the responsibility for ensuring that much-delayed presidential elections, now scheduled to take place on 29 November, are held on time and are free, fair and transparent, ... More >>
Israel Barrier Must Come Down, UN says
Friday, 10 July 2009, 12:35 pm | United Nations
New York, Jul 9 2009 6:10PM On the fifth anniversary of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) finding that Israel’s building of a barrier in the occupied Palestinian territory was illegal, a United Nations independent human rights expert today spoke ... More >>
Global Small Arms Sales Reached $2.9 Billion
Friday, 10 July 2009, 12:34 pm | United Nations
New York, Jul 9 2009 5:10PM The value of the global trade in small arms and light weapons is estimated to have risen by 28 per cent between 2000 and 2006 to reach $2.9 billion, according to United Nations customs data presented in the 2009 edition ... More >>
Benin: Response As Heavy Floods Take Toll
Friday, 10 July 2009, 12:33 pm | United Nations
New York, Jul 9 2009 2:10PM United Nations humanitarian agencies operating in Benin are conducting rapid assessments to determine how they can best assist the thousands of people caught up in the heavy floods that have struck the West African country. More >>
Ancient Babylon Archaeological Site Damaged
Friday, 10 July 2009, 12:32 pm | United Nations
New York, Jul 9 2009 1:10PM The ancient site of Babylon – home to the Hanging Gardens, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World – has been significantly damaged due to its use as a military base by coalition forces in Iraq from 2003-2004, according ... More >>
Without Global Support, Somalia Will Fail
Friday, 10 July 2009, 12:30 pm | United Nations
New York, Jul 9 2009 4:10PM If the international community allows Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government (TFG) – forged in a process of consensus – to fail, the poverty-stricken Horn of Africa nation will be taken over by opposition groups employing tactics of ... More >>
UN War Crimes Tribunal Rejects Karadžić
Friday, 10 July 2009, 12:30 pm | United Nations
New York, Jul 8 2009 7:10PM The United Nations war crimes tribunal for the 1990s Balkan conflicts today rejected an application by the former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadžić that he should be granted immunity from prosecution because of ... More >>
Uprooted Pakistanis Express Desire To Return Home
Friday, 10 July 2009, 12:29 pm | United Nations
New York, Jul 8 2009 7:10PM Displaced Pakistanis, driven from their homes by fighting between Government forces and militants in north-west of the country, today expressed their desire to return home as soon as possible to the top United Nations relief ... More >>
Mobile Communications During Disasters
Friday, 10 July 2009, 12:27 pm | United Nations
New York, Jul 9 2009 10:10AM The United Nations telecom agency has teamed up with a United States-based wireless services provider to improve mobile communications in preparing for disasters and in responding once they strike. More >>
Boosting Business In Africa
Friday, 10 July 2009, 12:26 pm | United Nations
AGENCY New York, Jul 9 2009 10:10AM The United Nations and the African Union today launched a new tool, designed in partnership with the Microsoft Corporation, to help map investment flows on the continent and provide business leaders the information ... More >>
Proposed Climate Change Measures Insufficient
Friday, 10 July 2009, 12:24 pm | United Nations
New York, Jul 9 2009 1:10PM Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today that the cuts in greenhouse gas emissions proposed by the world’s largest economies are not deep enough, and warned that much more effort is needed if governments are to reach a ... More >>
ICC Receives Materials On Kenyan Violence
Friday, 10 July 2009, 12:23 pm | United Nations
New York, Jul 9 2009 3:10PM The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) today received sealed information about persons suspected of being responsible for last year’s post-election violence in Kenya from Kofi Annan, the former United ... More >>
UN-Backed Tribunal For Lebanon Killings
Friday, 10 July 2009, 12:19 pm | United Nations
New York, Jul 9 2009 4:10PM Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed David Tolbert of the United States as the Registrar of the United Nations-backed tribunal set up to try the perpetrators of recent political killings in Lebanon, including the February ... More >>
Israel Barrier Still Under Construction
Friday, 10 July 2009, 12:18 pm | United Nations
New York, Jul 8 2009 5:10PM Five years after the International Court of Justice (ICJ) found that Israel’s building of a barrier in the occupied Palestinian territory was illegal, the situation has not improved, the United Nations human rights arm ... More >>
UNPA And Iraq Partnership
Friday, 10 July 2009, 12:17 pm | United Nations
New York, Jul 9 2009 11:10AM The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the Iraqi Government have agreed to step up their collaboration in promoting national development in the strife-torn nation. More >>
UN-Backed Talks Between Cypriot Leaders
Friday, 10 July 2009, 12:17 pm | United Nations
New York, Jul 9 2009 2:10PM Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot leaders held another round of United Nations-backed talks today, discussing security and guarantees as part of their efforts to try to reach a solution that will unify the Mediterranean ... More >>
Insecurity In Eastern DR Congo
Friday, 10 July 2009, 12:16 pm | United Nations
New York, Jul 8 2009 6:10PM The precarious security situation in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where rebel fighters are continuing attacks against several villages, is a major obstacle to assistance programmes in the area, the United ... More >>
Initiative To Rid West Africa Of Organized Crime
Friday, 10 July 2009, 12:14 pm | United Nations
New York, Jul 8 2009 6:10PM To combat organized crime and drug trafficking wreaking havoc in West Africa, the United Nations today launched a new initiative to tackle the scourge in the region, where $1 billion worth of cocaine transits through annually. More >>
Ban En Route To Italy To Meet With G8 Leaders
Thursday, 9 July 2009, 12:33 pm | United Nations
New York, Jul 8 2009 1:10PM Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is heading today to the Italian city of L’Aquila, where he will meet with the leaders who are attending the annual summit of the Group of Eight (G8) industrialized nations, after wrapping ... More >>
