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Moldova: Authorities Must Act With Restraint
Tuesday, 14 April 2009, 11:22 am | United Nations
New York, Apr 13 2009 2:10PM The United Nations country team in Moldova has urged the nation’s people to express their dissent peacefully and beseeched the country’s police to show restraint in the wake of violent confrontations following disputed ... More >>
Moldova: Authorities Must Act With Restraint
Tuesday, 14 April 2009, 11:19 am | United Nations
New York, Apr 13 2009 2:10PM The United Nations country team in Moldova has urged the nation’s people to express their dissent peacefully and beseeched the country’s police to show restraint in the wake of violent confrontations following disputed ... More >>
Ban Outlines Laos’ Progress
Tuesday, 14 April 2009, 11:18 am | United Nations
New York, Apr 13 2009 2:10PM Laos has made considerable strides towards reaching the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the eight anti-poverty targets with a 2015 deadline, but the nation must continue its efforts to slash child malnutrition and ... More >>
‘Cowardly’ Killing Of Female Politician
Tuesday, 14 April 2009, 11:16 am | United Nations
New York, Apr 13 2009 12:10PM The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) today strongly condemned the “vicious and deliberate” killing of a female politician on Sunday in Kandahar, calling it a “cowardly act.” More >>
UN Food Agency To Reach Out To 9 Million Afghans
Tuesday, 14 April 2009, 11:14 am | United Nations
New York, Apr 13 2009 11:10AM Almost 9 million people in Afghanistan will benefit from United Nations food aid initiatives this year, the World Food Programme (WFP) announced today, with over 1.5 million reached in all of the South Asian nation’s ... More >>
Return To Relative Calm In Darfu
Tuesday, 14 April 2009, 11:13 am | United Nations
New York, Apr 13 2009 10:10AM The joint United Nations-African Union (AU) peacekeeping mission in Sudan’s war-ravaged Darfur region today reported that the security situation is now relatively calm despite some continuing acts of banditry and carjacking in ... More >>
Sri Lanka: Two-Day Pause In Military Operation
Tuesday, 14 April 2009, 11:12 am | United Nations
New York, Apr 12 2009 12:10PM Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today welcomed the declaration of a two-day ceasefire by the Government of Sri Lanka to allow emergency humanitarian aid to reach thousands of civilians caught up in its conflict with separatist rebel ... More >>
UN Chief Deplores Ditching Of Fiji's Constitution
Saturday, 11 April 2009, 2:28 pm | United Nations
New York, Apr 10 2009 9:10PM Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed dismay on Friday at the decision to scrap Fiji's Constitution and the clear attempt by an unelected executive to prolong rule by setting a new five-year time frame for parliamentary ... More >>
Piracy Off The Coast Of Somalia
Saturday, 11 April 2009, 2:26 pm | United Nations
New York, Apr 9 2009 6:10PM The United Nations envoy to Somalia today condemned the recent upsurge in piracy off the coast of the Horn of Africa nation, calling the hijackings an “insult to international legality.” More >>
Mediation Capacity For Dispute Settlement
Friday, 10 April 2009, 1:44 pm | United Nations
New York, Apr 9 2009 7:10PM With the peaceful settlement of disputes a key element of the United Nations’ mission, the world body’s mediation capacity – which is thwarted by the limited number of experienced mediators and the lack of sufficient ... More >>
Killings Of Top Pakistani Provincial Leaders
Friday, 10 April 2009, 1:42 pm | United Nations
New York, Apr 9 2009 7:10PM The United Nations today voiced its serious concern over the killings of three leaders from Balochistan province, the largest in Pakistan, calling for immediate investigations into their murders. More >>
Ban Urges Calm In Wake Of Fijian Court Ruling
Friday, 10 April 2009, 1:40 pm | United Nations
New York, Apr 9 2009 2:10PM Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called for calm in Fiji following the ruling by the Pacific archipelago’s Court of Appeal that the December 2006 removal of the elected Government was unlawful and the appointment ... More >>
Former Kosovo Minister Held On Contempt
Friday, 10 April 2009, 1:33 pm | United Nations
New York, Apr 9 2009 1:10PM The United Nations war crimes tribunal set up in the wake of the Balkan conflicts of the 1990s has ordered the provisional release of Kosovo’s ex-minister for culture, youth and sport, who was convicted of contempt ... More >>
Worsening Humanitarian Situation In Conflict Zone
Friday, 10 April 2009, 1:30 pm | United Nations
New York, Apr 9 2009 3:10PM Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa today discussed the deteriorating humanitarian situation in the north of the island nation, where thousands of civilians are trapped by fighting ... More >>
People Uprooted By Namibian Floods Tops 54,000
Friday, 10 April 2009, 1:27 pm | United Nations
New York, Apr 9 2009 6:10PM According to the United Nations humanitarian arm, more than 54,000 people have been displaced by heavy floods to date in Namibia. More >>
Tough Challenges In Eastern DR Congo
Friday, 10 April 2009, 12:46 pm | United Nations
New York, Apr 9 2009 4:10PM Although a nascent peace process has led to a “sea change” in the strife-torn eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a top United Nations official said today cautioned that challenges – including rebel ... More >>
Guinea-Bissau: UNSC Welcomes Upcoming Polls
Friday, 10 April 2009, 12:45 pm | United Nations
New York, Apr 9 2009 5:10PM The Security Council today welcomed the convening of presidential polls in Guinea-Bissau this June, following last month’s assassination of the West African nation’s leader, calling for continued international support ... More >>
Burundi: Rebels’ Release Of Child Soldiers
Friday, 10 April 2009, 12:42 pm | United Nations
New York, Apr 9 2009 5:10PM The Secretary-General’s Special Representative on children and armed conflict today welcomed the release of over 100 child soldiers by a key rebel group in Burundi, a move which will allow them the chance to rebuild their ... More >>
UNICEF Lauds First-Ever Children’s Rights Law
Friday, 10 April 2009, 12:38 pm | United Nations
New York, Apr 9 2009 1:10PM The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has hailed the first-ever law recognizing children’s rights launched today in Southern Sudan, extolling the Government for its efforts to create a society in which children can ... More >>
UN Funds $15 Million Agricultural Scheme
Friday, 10 April 2009, 12:37 pm | United Nations
New York, Apr 9 2009 11:10AM Extremely poor people living off the land in El Salvador are set to receive a major cash injection of almost $15 million from the United Nations rural development arm to help finance projects aimed at modernizing agricultural ... More >>
