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Fight Against Heart Attacks, Strokes And Cancers
Thursday, 9 July 2009, 12:31 pm | United Nations
New York, Jul 8 2009 11:10AM The United Nations health agency today launched a network of leading global experts and groups to help boost efforts to combat noncommunicable diseases, such as heart attacks, strokes and cancers, and to ensure these issues ... More >>
Violence Against Afghan Women Widespread
Thursday, 9 July 2009, 12:30 pm | United Nations
New York, Jul 8 2009 10:10AM Violence against women, including rape, is widespread in Afghanistan, according to a new United Nations report, which details the extent of the problem against a backdrop of impunity and a failure by authorities to protect ... More >>
UN-Backed AIDS Fund Reaches Over 2 Million People
Thursday, 9 July 2009, 12:29 pm | United Nations
New York, Jul 8 2009 3:10PM More than 2 million people living with HIV have been reached with life-saving treatment thanks to the United Nations-backed Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, marking a 30 per cent jump from last year. More >>
Bill Clinton Wraps Up First Visit To Haiti
Thursday, 9 July 2009, 12:28 pm | United Nations
New York, Jul 8 2009 3:10PM Former United States President Bill Clinton is wrapping up a three-day visit to Haiti today, his first since being appointed United Nations Special Envoy for the impoverished Caribbean nation. More >>
Key Issues Between Lebanon And Neighbours
Thursday, 9 July 2009, 12:27 pm | United Nations
New York, Jul 8 2009 4:10PM The formation of new Governments in Lebanon and Israel bodes well for the implementation of the Security Council resolution that helped to end their 2006 war, a senior United Nations envoy said today, while lamenting ... More >>
Africa: Release Of Almost 200 Child Soldiers
Thursday, 9 July 2009, 12:26 pm | United Nations
New York, Jul 8 2009 1:10PM The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has welcomed the release of nearly 200 child soldiers by a Central African rebel group and called for more demobilizations in the conflict-torn country. More >>
Iranian Kurd Refugees In Iraq Relocated
Thursday, 9 July 2009, 12:25 pm | United Nations
New York, Jul 8 2009 12:10PM The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has shut down a makeshift camp, home to nearly 200 Iranian Kurds refugees, in the no-man’s land on the Iraqi-Jordanian border, relocating them to another site on ... More >>
Direct Investment Policies Of G20 Nations
Thursday, 9 July 2009, 12:24 pm | United Nations
New York, Jul 8 2009 1:10PM A review conducted by the United Nations trade and development arm shows that the Group of 20 (G20) countries have for the most part refrained from taking policy measures that restrict foreign direct investment (FDI), but warns that ... More >>
Effort Needed To Aid Displaced Pakistanis
Wednesday, 8 July 2009, 10:44 am | United Nations
New York, Jul 7 2009 6:10PM The top United Nations relief official kicked off a four-day visit to Pakistan today, urging that no effort be spared to tackle the humanitarian crisis involving over 2 million people uprooted by fighting between Government forces ... More >>
Water Management Key To Tacking Afghan Poverty
Wednesday, 8 July 2009, 10:41 am | United Nations
New York, Jul 7 2009 6:10PM The inefficient management of Afghanistan’s water resources is critical to both the country’s widespread poverty and deadly tribal conflicts over territory, a United Nations envoy said today, calling for better management ... More >>
Gaza Conflict: Public Hearings In Geneva
Wednesday, 8 July 2009, 9:47 am | United Nations
New York, Jul 7 2009 5:10PM The United Nations Human Rights Council’s fact-finding probe into rights violations committed during the recent Gaza conflict heard from victims, witnesses and experts from southern Israel and the West Bank over two days ... More >>
DRC Still Faces Security, Humanitarian Challenges
Wednesday, 8 July 2009, 9:40 am | United Nations
New York, Jul 7 2009 5:10PM The security and humanitarian situation in the far east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) continues to crumble, despite the recent signing of a peace pact between the Government and a key militia, Secretary-General ... More >>
Mass Arrests In Iran Spark Grave Concerns
Wednesday, 8 July 2009, 9:37 am | United Nations
New York, Jul 7 2009 4:10PM Six United Nations human rights experts today voiced grave concerns about the mass arrests and ill-treatment of opposition supporters, clerics, journalists, students and others in the weeks following last month’s contested ... More >>
Haiti: Clinton Visits City Devastated By Hurricane
Wednesday, 8 July 2009, 9:36 am | United Nations
New York, Jul 7 2009 5:10PM The United Nations Special Envoy to Haiti, the former United States president Bill Clinton, today visited the city of Gonaïves – which was devastated by floods last year – as part of his efforts to boost hurricane ... More >>
Nepal: Concern About Promotion Of Army Officer
Wednesday, 8 July 2009, 9:33 am | United Nations
New York, Jul 7 2009 3:10PM The top United Nations human rights official in Nepal has raised concerns with the country’s defence ministry about the proposed promotion of an army officer who commanded a battalion responsible for acts of torture, arbitrary ... More >>
West Africa Pillaged By Organized Crime
Wednesday, 8 July 2009, 9:32 am | United Nations
New York, Jul 7 2009 2:10PM With West Africa the main hub for cocaine transiting from Latin America to Europe, organized crime is arresting development in the region while lining the pockets of a select few, according to a new United Nations report ... More >>
Name Issue: Former Yugoslav Republic Of Macedonia
Wednesday, 8 July 2009, 9:31 am | United Nations
New York, Jul 7 2009 2:10PM The United Nations envoy tasked with mediating talks between Greece and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia in the dispute over the latter’s name is in the region for discussions with representatives of both ... More >>
Secretary-General’s Top Envoy To Iraq
Wednesday, 8 July 2009, 9:30 am | United Nations
New York, Jul 7 2009 2:10PM Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today that he has chosen the second most senior official in the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to be the UN’s top envoy in Iraq. More >>
Awareness About HIV Prevention
Wednesday, 8 July 2009, 9:28 am | United Nations
New York, Jul 7 2009 1:10PM United Nations agencies plan to use hundreds of thousands of post offices around the world as part of a new campaign to raise awareness about HIV prevention at a time when more than 7,400 new infections occur every day. More >>
Kosovars Displaced By War Face Reintegration
Wednesday, 8 July 2009, 9:27 am | United Nations
New York, Jul 7 2009 1:10PM More than one decade after the Balkan wars concluded, Kosovars uprooted by fighting then continue to face serious challenges in returning home and local integration, a United Nations human rights expert said today. More >>
