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Priorities In Afghanistan Clear
Saturday, 21 March 2009, 1:22 pm | United Nations
New York, Mar 19 2009 8:10PM International priorities in Afghanistan – including security, long-term institution-building and stability throughout the coming elections – remain valid, but what is lacking is adequate resources and political will, the ... More >>
Webcast: Battlestar Galactica Humanitarian Forum
Friday, 20 March 2009, 2:07 pm | United Nations
UN Public Information Department, Sci Fi Channel to co-host a panel with Battlestar Galactica creators to raise profile of humanitarian concern. The discussion will explore some of the themes that are of importance to both the United Nations and ... More >>
Kosovo: Pace Of UN Mission Picking Up
Friday, 20 March 2009, 1:25 pm | United Nations
New York, Mar 19 2009 7:10PM Despite a perception among many Kosovo Albanians that the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Kosovo has run its course, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon wrote in a new report that it has stepped up the pace of its adaptation ... More >>
Liberia: Underlying Fragility Despite Progress
Friday, 20 March 2009, 1:23 pm | United Nations
New York, Mar 19 2009 5:10PM While characterizing Liberia’s security situation as relatively stable, the top United Nations envoy to the West African nation today cautioned that significant challenges remain in the areas of security and the rule ... More >>
UN Saddened By Death Of Aid Worker
Friday, 20 March 2009, 1:22 pm | United Nations
New York, Mar 19 2009 5:10PM The United Nations said today it was saddened to learn of the death of an aid worker with the non-governmental organization CARE in the so-called “no-fire” zone in Sri Lanka’s strife-torn north. More >>
Ban To Depart On Six-Nation Tour Next Week
Friday, 20 March 2009, 1:21 pm | United Nations
New York, Mar 19 2009 3:10PM Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will embark next week on a trip that will take him to Russia, Qatar, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, France and Turkey to tackle issues such as consolidating stability in Afghanistan, ... More >>
Food Price Fluctuation Driven By Speculation
Friday, 20 March 2009, 1:19 pm | United Nations
New York, Mar 19 2009 4:10PM Both the surging food prices from 2007 to 2008 and their subsequent drop in some areas are a result of large-scale speculation by financial investors, according to a new report by the United Nations trade body, which called ... More >>
Housing Shortage Looms For Congolese Returnees
Friday, 20 March 2009, 1:18 pm | United Nations
New York, Mar 19 2009 2:10PM The United Nations refugee agency says it will not be able to provide thousands of Congolese refugees, many of them returning from Tanzania, with adequate housing unless its shelter programme receives additional funds. More >>
Strategies To Improve Situation Of Iraqi Women
Friday, 20 March 2009, 1:17 pm | United Nations
New York, Mar 19 2009 3:10PM With the illiteracy rate among Iraqi women twice as high as that of men and women making up only 18 per cent of the country’s labour force, a United Nations conference that opened in Baghdad today is seeking ways to ... More >>
DR Congo: Militias Must Go
Friday, 20 March 2009, 1:15 pm | United Nations
New York, Mar 19 2009 1:10PM In order to end the sexual violence plaguing the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), it is necessary to stop the activity of armed groups but also to ensure security forces have strong discipline, the top United ... More >>
Areas To Spur Sustainable Economic Recovery
Friday, 20 March 2009, 1:14 pm | United Nations
New York, Mar 19 2009 10:10AM Robust investment into five key sectors, from renewable energy to sustainable transport, could help revive the global economy and boost employment while accelerating the fight against climate change, environmental degradation and ... More >>
Food Prices In Poor Countries Have Yet To Fall
Friday, 20 March 2009, 1:12 pm | United Nations
New York, Mar 19 2009 9:10AM A new online database of staple food prices on national markets in 55 developing countries from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe shows that local prices have not fallen the way they have at the global level, the United Nations ... More >>
Greater Access For Goods And People Into Gaza
Friday, 20 March 2009, 1:11 pm | United Nations
New York, Mar 18 2009 5:10PM The overall levels of humanitarian assistance allowed into Gaza remain below what is urgently required, the United Nations reports, adding that lengthy clearance procedures for aid workers are also hampering vital relief ... More >>
Expansion Of AU Peacekeeping Capabilities
Friday, 20 March 2009, 1:10 pm | United Nations
New York, Mar 18 2009 5:10PM Difficulties in securing necessary funding are impeding the ability of the African Union (AU) to maintain and expand its peacekeeping capacities, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon cautioned today. More >>
Darfur Rife With Violence Against Peacekeepers
Friday, 20 March 2009, 1:09 pm | United Nations
New York, Mar 18 2009 6:10PM Attacks on peacekeeping staff, carjacking, other banditry, and harassment of civilians continue to proliferate in Darfur, the African Union-United Nations mission in the strife-torn region of Sudan (UNAMID) reported today. More >>
Elimination Of Cluster Munitions
Friday, 20 March 2009, 1:08 pm | United Nations
New York, Mar 18 2009 6:10PM The pace of the ratification of a global pact outlawing cluster bombs must be accelerated to relegate the deadly weapons “to the pages of history,” Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro said today. More >>
Battlestar Galactica Creators At UN Panel
Friday, 20 March 2009, 12:33 pm | United Nations
Through its newly established Creative Community Outreach Initiative, the United Nations Department of Public Information and the SCI FI Channel will co-host a panel discussion in connection with the final episode of the Battlestar Galactica television ... More >>
Over 5,000 Central Africans Uprooted By Violence
Thursday, 19 March 2009, 1:11 pm | United Nations
New York, Mar 18 2009 5:10PM The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has registered more than 5,200 refugees in Chad who fled intensified fighting between Government forces and rebels in the north of their native Central African Republic ... More >>
Condoms Essential In Fighting Aids
Thursday, 19 March 2009, 1:10 pm | United Nations
New York, Mar 18 2009 2:10PM With over 7,400 new HIV infections daily, comprehensive approaches – including condom use – are essential to stop the spread of the AIDS epidemic, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) said today, warning ... More >>
Restoration Of Law In Somalia
Thursday, 19 March 2009, 1:08 pm | United Nations
New York, Mar 18 2009 3:10PM Despite the launch of “one of the largest anti-piracy flotillas in modern history,” the clan-organized taking of vessels off the coast of Somalia will only cease when order is restored to the Horn of Africa nation, Secretary-General ... More >>
