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More Resilient African Economies
Friday, 26 June 2009, 12:16 pm | United Nations
New York, Jun 25 2009 3:10PM Deeper regional integration is crucial for building stronger and more resilient African economies, particularly in light of the current global financial crisis which has hit the continent hard, the United Nations says ... More >>
Dresden Dropped From UN World Heritage List
Friday, 26 June 2009, 12:14 pm | United Nations
New York, Jun 25 2009 1:10PM The United Nations cultural agency today removed Germany’s Dresden Elbe Valley from its World Heritage List due to the building of a four-lane bridge in the heart of the cultural landscape, marking only the second time that ... More >>
Lebanon Tribunal Launches Webpage
Friday, 26 June 2009, 12:12 pm | United Nations
New York, Jun 25 2009 4:10PM Individuals who have information regarding the February 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri and other recent political killings can now provide that to the Prosecutor at the United Nations-backed ... More >>
Somalia Clashes Force Another 26k From Their Homes
Friday, 26 June 2009, 12:11 pm | United Nations
New York, Jun 25 2009 4:10PM Ongoing clashes between Government forces and insurgents have uprooted another 26,000 people from the Somali capital, Mogadishu, in the past five days, the United Nations refugee agency reported today. More >>
Afghanistan On Agenda As Ban Heads To Italy
Friday, 26 June 2009, 12:08 pm | United Nations
New York, Jun 25 2009 5:10PM Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon departs later today for Trieste, Italy, for a series of meetings with international partners focusing on the Middle East and Afghanistan, his spokesperson said today. More >>
‘Green’ Economy Vital To Promoting Development
Friday, 26 June 2009, 12:07 pm | United Nations
New York, Jun 25 2009 5:10PM Nearly two dozen agencies of the United Nations system have banded together to issue an urgent call for nations to ‘green’ their economies to address the multiple crises that are dampening progress towards reaching development ... More >>
Speeding Up Darfur Peace Process
Friday, 26 June 2009, 12:06 pm | United Nations
New York, Jun 25 2009 5:10PM The latest round of public hearings examining the origins of the ongoing conflict in Darfur, which erupted in 2003 and has led to over 300,000 deaths, wrapped up today, a United Nations spokesperson told reporters in New York. More >>
Financial Crisis: More Of World’s Poor Into Hunge
Friday, 26 June 2009, 12:04 pm | United Nations
New York, Jun 25 2009 6:10PM The United Nations committee tasked with building alliances in the global fight against hunger has warned that the world financial crisis will aggravate malnutrition among the most vulnerable in developing countries. More >>
Insurance Policy Greatly Benefits Poor Farmers
Thursday, 25 June 2009, 1:52 pm | United Nations
New York, Jun 24 2009 5:10PM The fragile livelihoods of millions of poor farmers in developing countries, often devastated by adverse weather conditions, have been fortified by an innovative insurance scheme, according to a United Nations-backed ... More >>
Conspiracy Of Silence: Sexual Violence In Wartime
Thursday, 25 June 2009, 1:51 pm | United Nations
New York, Jun 24 2009 6:10PM Women’s rights activists, senior military figures and top United Nations officials met in New York this week to discuss what the world body’s former humanitarian chief Jan Egeland described as “one of the biggest ... More >>
UN Supports Liberian Security Forces
Thursday, 25 June 2009, 1:49 pm | United Nations
New York, Jun 24 2009 6:10PM The handing over of new training facilities to the Liberian National Police (LNP) signals a boost in efforts to achieve a fully-functional democratic security force in the West African nation, said the top United Nations envoy to Liberia. More >>
Ban Calls On G8 To Combat Climate Change
Thursday, 25 June 2009, 1:48 pm | United Nations
New York, Jun 24 2009 5:10PM Climate change and development top the list of challenges requiring action that Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has laid out in a letter to leaders of the Group of Eight (G8) industrialized nations ahead of their upcoming summit. More >>
Darfur: Reports Of Calm Although Banditry Persists
Thursday, 25 June 2009, 1:46 pm | United Nations
New York, Jun 24 2009 5:10PM The joint United Nations-African Union peacekeeping mission in Darfur (UNAMID) today reported that the security situation in the war-torn western Sudanese region was calm although banditry remains a problem. More >>
Attack On Afghan Aid Workers
Thursday, 25 June 2009, 1:45 pm | United Nations
New York, Jun 24 2009 12:10PM The acting United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator in Afghanistan, Tekeste Tekie, today called for better security for aid workers, after three national staff of a local non-governmental organization (NGO) were killed ... More >>
Situation In Iran Discussed by Ban
Thursday, 25 June 2009, 1:44 pm | United Nations
New York, Jun 24 2009 4:10PM Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has voiced his concern regarding the situation in Iran and his dismay over the post-election violence, particularly the use of force against civilians, in his talks with Iranian human rights activist ... More >>
UN To Tackle Global Economic Crisis
Thursday, 25 June 2009, 1:42 pm | United Nations
New York, Jun 24 2009 3:10PM As high-level delegates from around the globe gathered in New York today to discuss how to address the economic meltdown while taking the interests of all nations into account, top United Nations officials issued urgent ... More >>
Direct Threat To Gains In AIDS Response
Thursday, 25 June 2009, 1:41 pm | United Nations
New York, Jun 24 2009 2:10PM The global economic crisis that has forced cutbacks in Government spending also threatens efforts to mount an effective response to HIV and AIDS, according to the head of the United Nations agency coordinating the fight ... More >>
Greater Investment In Drug Control Needed
Thursday, 25 June 2009, 1:40 pm | United Nations
New York, Jun 24 2009 1:10PM Amid an increasingly brutal struggle for a bigger slice of the $50 billion global cocaine market between Central American drug cartels, the head of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has warned that legalizing ... More >>
2009: Foreign Direct Investment Plummeted
Thursday, 25 June 2009, 1:39 pm | United Nations
New York, Jun 24 2009 2:11PM Global foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows dropped by more than 50 per cent in the first quarter of 2009, with the outlook remaining gloomy for the rest of the year, the United Nations agency that promotes commerce ... More >>
UN Prevents Locust Outbreak In East Africa
Thursday, 25 June 2009, 1:37 pm | United Nations
New York, Jun 24 2009 10:10AM United Nations-backed emergency efforts have successfully contained a massive Red Locust outbreak in Tanzania and upheld the livelihoods of millions of farmers, marking the first time that biopesticides have been used on ... More >>
