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Gaza: Situation At Border Crossings ‘Intolerable’
Wednesday, 11 March 2009, 1:35 pm | United Nations
BAN SAYS New York, Mar 10 2009 3:10PM A lasting ceasefire was urgently needed to keep Gaza crossings open, which will allow the Palestinian economy to recover, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today. More >>
UN Envoy To Iraq Deplores Latest Suicide Bombing
Wednesday, 11 March 2009, 1:34 pm | United Nations
New York, Mar 10 2009 2:10PM The top United Nations envoy in Iraq strongly condemned today’s suicide bombing that killed dozens of people in Baghdad’s Abu Ghraib suburb. More >>
Efforts To Ease Political Tensions In Madagascar
Wednesday, 11 March 2009, 1:33 pm | United Nations
President Marc Ravalomanana and Andry Rajoelina, the mayor of the capital, Anatananarivo, declared last month that they are committed to start a UN-facilitated dialogue. Nearly 100 people were killed and many more injured in violence that erupted recently amid ... More >>
Declining Trade Hurts Women In Poorer Nations
Wednesday, 11 March 2009, 1:32 pm | United Nations
New York, Mar 10 2009 1:10PM A decline in trade resulting from shrinking global markets may cost many women in developing countries their jobs, the head of the United Nations agency that promotes commerce to fight poverty warned today. More >>
Human Rights, Harm Reduction Key To Drug Policy
Wednesday, 11 March 2009, 1:30 pm | United Nations
“Individuals who use drugs do not forfeit their human rights,” Navi Pillay, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said in the run-up to an international meeting later this week that will take stock of progress in international drug control over ... More >>
New Disappearance Cases Taken On By UN Unit
Wednesday, 11 March 2009, 1:29 pm | United Nations
New York, Mar 10 2009 10:10AM Over 300 new missing-persons cases suspected to be forced disappearances will be reviewed in the current session of a dedicated United Nations unit meeting in Geneva, a UN spokesperson said today. More >>
Trademark Registrations Hit Record In 2008
Wednesday, 11 March 2009, 1:28 pm | United Nations
New York, Mar 10 2009 10:10AM A record number of applications for international registration of trademarks were filed in 2008, though activity slowed in the second half of the year, the United Nations agency entrusted with protecting intellectual property rights ... More >>
New Economic Governance Partnership
Wednesday, 11 March 2009, 1:26 pm | United Nations
New York, Mar 9 2009 9:10PM The “enormous challenges” facing the world present a unique opportunity to forge a new partnership for governance of the world economy, the chief of the United Nations’ development arm told a meeting of advisers that ... More >>
Markets Cannot Provide Adequate Housing For All
Wednesday, 11 March 2009, 1:25 pm | United Nations
New York, Mar 9 2009 9:10PM The over-reliance on private home ownership that contributed to the sub-prime mortgage crisis and the subsequent global financial meltdown highlights the need to view housing through the lens of human rights and not just as a commodity, ... More >>
Law And Order; First TV Series Filmed At UN HQ
Wednesday, 11 March 2009, 1:24 pm | United Nations
New York, Mar 9 2009 9:10PM The historic United Nations Headquarters building in New York played a starring role in the hit television series Law and Order: Special Victims Unit this weekend. More >>
Serious Test Of UN Agreement On Israel
Wednesday, 11 March 2009, 1:22 pm | United Nations
New York, Mar 9 2009 9:10PM The recent hostilities in Gaza have posed the most serious challenge since the adoption of a resolution which helped end the war between Israel and Hizbollah in the summer of 2006, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a new ... More >>
Haiti: Recovery And Reconstruction Efforts
Wednesday, 11 March 2009, 1:21 pm | United Nations
New York, Mar 9 2009 3:10PM Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will arrive in Haiti today to raise global awareness of the Caribbean nation’s recovery and reconstruction needs. More >>
Cholera Death Toll In Zimbabwe Passes 4,000
Tuesday, 10 March 2009, 11:46 am | United Nations
New York, Mar 9 2009 4:10PM Zimbabwe’s widespread cholera epidemic has now claimed over 4,000 lives since August, and almost 90,000 people have contracted the deadly disease, according to the latest United Nations report on the outbreak. More >>
Children Are ‘Innocent Victims Of Conflict’
Tuesday, 10 March 2009, 11:45 am | United Nations
New York, Mar 9 2009 12:10PM Children pay the price of armed conflict, stressed the head of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) at the conclusion of a week-long Middle-East trip this weekend that included a visit to Gaza, where she saw first-hand ... More >>
UN Working To Reverse Expulsions
Tuesday, 10 March 2009, 11:41 am | United Nations
New York, Mar 9 2009 4:10PM The United Nation’s top humanitarian official said today that the world organization continues to strive at all levels to reverse the ordered departure of 13 major aid groups from Sudan’s war-torn Darfur region. More >>
Food Crisis Not Yet Over
Tuesday, 10 March 2009, 11:36 am | United Nations
New York, Mar 9 2009 6:02PM Despite falling food prices worldwide, the global food crisis has not ended, the top United Nations human rights official cautioned today, emphasizing the need to view the issue through the very basic right to adequate food. More >>
Large Financing Shortfall Due To Credit Crisis
Tuesday, 10 March 2009, 11:35 am | United Nations
New York, Mar 9 2009 2:10PM With many in the private sector eschewing emerging markets, developing countries – only one quarter of which have the resources needed to prevent a spike in poverty – face a financing shortfall of up to $700 billion this year, ... More >>
Efforts Needed To Boost Women’s Rights In Iraq
Tuesday, 10 March 2009, 11:34 am | United Nations
New York, Mar 9 2009 12:10PM With years of conflict curbing progress towards equality for women in Iraq, the United Nations has called for bolstered steps to ensure their rights are protected and advanced. More >>
Teamwork In Support For Liberia
Tuesday, 10 March 2009, 11:27 am | United Nations
New York, Mar 9 2009 4:10PM The opening of a joint United Nations office in a provincial capital of Liberia will boost cooperation in international support to the West African country, which is recovering from a devastating 14-year civil war, a UN official ... More >>
Top UN Envoy To Afghanistan Visits Iran
Tuesday, 10 March 2009, 11:25 am | United Nations
New York, Mar 9 2009 3:10PM The top United Nations envoy to Afghanistan is in Iran today to explore further areas of cooperation between the neighbouring nations. Kai Eide, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative, addressed a high-level meeting ... More >>
