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Intimidation Of Children, Teachers In Madagascar
Saturday, 7 March 2009, 11:59 am | United Nations
New York, Mar 5 2009 11:10AM Teachers and their pupils in Madagascar suffered threats and intimidation yesterday, prompting the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to call on Malagasy authorities, parties and people to “respect the fundamental ... More >>
Number Of Unemployed Women To Soar
Saturday, 7 March 2009, 11:57 am | United Nations
New York, Mar 5 2009 6:10PM The global economic crisis will plunge a further 22 million women into unemployment and make decent work for women increasingly more difficult to find in 2009, predicted a new United Nations report issued today. More >>
Worsening Human Rights Situation In Afghanistan
Friday, 6 March 2009, 11:37 am | United Nations
New York, Mar 5 2009 10:10AM The human rights situation in Afghanistan is marked by a rise in civilian casualties, setbacks for women, mounting attacks on freedom of expression and a culture of impunity when it comes to punishing perpetrators of ... More >>
Silence Surrounding Violence Against Women
Friday, 6 March 2009, 11:36 am | United Nations
New York, Mar 5 2009 10:10AM Women around the world are no longer fearful of speaking out against the violence they encounter, according to Yakin Erturk, whose mandate as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, its Causes and ... More >>
Combat Against Discrimination Is Top Priority
Friday, 6 March 2009, 11:34 am | United Nations
New York, Mar 5 2009 11:10AM The United Nations’ top human rights official said today that combating discrimination against women, indigenous people, minorities, migrants and other vulnerable groups was the top priority for her office. More >>
Cypriot Leaders Move On With UN-Led Reunification
Friday, 6 March 2009, 11:34 am | United Nations
New York, Mar 5 2009 1:10PM Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot leaders held talks today in the latest bout of United Nations-backed talks aimed at reunifying the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. More >>
Sri Lanka: Ban Deplores Rising Civilian Death Toll
Friday, 6 March 2009, 11:33 am | United Nations
New York, Mar 5 2009 2:10PM Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today strongly deplored the mounting civilian death toll in areas of fighting between Sri Lankan Government forces and Tamil rebels, and called for an immediate halt to the fighting. More >>
Ban Decries Violence Against Women As Abomination
Friday, 6 March 2009, 11:31 am | United Nations
New York, Mar 5 2009 1:10PM Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today reiterated his urgent call to bring an end to violence against women, a scourge whose impact is devastating and immeasurable, as the United Nations began a series of events to mark International ... More >>
Public Support To End Human Trafficking
Friday, 6 March 2009, 11:30 am | United Nations
New York, Mar 5 2009 12:10PM The United Nations has launched a new campaign, represented by a blue heart, aimed at raising awareness about the millions of victims of human trafficking and rallying support to combat this modern form of slavery. More >>
Efforts Must Be Made To Realize Rights to Food
Friday, 6 March 2009, 11:29 am | United Nations
New York, Mar 5 2009 3:10PM With the number of hungry people around the world surging amid the current global financial crisis and the effects of climate change, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today stressed the need to scale-up efforts to combat hunger and realize ... More >>
Steps Taken Towards Freedom Of Expression
Friday, 6 March 2009, 11:27 am | United Nations
New York, Mar 5 2009 3:10PM An independent United Nations expert today welcomed measures taken by the new Government of the Maldives to establish democratic reforms, including on freedom of expression, in the Indian Ocean archipelago, which held its first-ever ... More >>
Sudan Must Reverse Expulsion Of Aid Groups
Friday, 6 March 2009, 11:26 am | United Nations
New York, Mar 5 2009 3:10PM Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today appealed to the Government of Sudan to urgently reconsider its decision, taken after an international court’s indictment of the country’s President yesterday, to expel 13 groups aiding some ... More >>
African Women Bear Brunt Of Global Crises
Thursday, 5 March 2009, 12:38 pm | United Nations
New York, Mar 4 2009 6:10PM The global economic, food and climate change crises have hit African women the hardest, a delegation of African and United Nations female officials attending a conference on gender equality cautioned today. More >>
Attainment Of Rights By World’s Poorest
Thursday, 5 March 2009, 12:37 pm | United Nations
New York, Mar 4 2009 5:10PM The twin economic and financial crises threatens poorer nations’ ability to attain basic human rights, such as the right to food and access to water and sanitation, the head of the General Assembly declared today. More >>
880 Children Linked To Armed Groups In DR Congo
Thursday, 5 March 2009, 12:36 pm | United Nations
New York, Mar 4 2009 4:10PM The United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has demobilized 880 children associated with armed groups in the volatile eastern province of North Kivu between 30 January and 2 March, it ... More >>
Efforts To Tackle Violence Against Children
Thursday, 5 March 2009, 12:34 pm | United Nations
New York, Mar 4 2009 1:10PM The head of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has highlighted Jordan’s efforts to tackle violence against children in schools, a problem affecting over half of the country’s young people. More >>
Consolidation Of UN Efforts For Women’s Equality
Thursday, 5 March 2009, 12:33 pm | United Nations
New York, Mar 4 2009 1:10PM The Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations has urged a speedy consolidation of women’s programmes at the United Nations, in order to intensify efforts for gender equality and women’s political, economic and social ... More >>
Supporting Myanmar Cyclone Recovery Extended
Thursday, 5 March 2009, 12:32 pm | United Nations
New York, Mar 4 2009 2:10PM The United Nations-backed group assisting the reconstruction of Myanmar after it was devastated by Cyclone Nargis, which left around 140,000 dead or missing and uprooted 800,000 from their homes, has been given a another year in ... More >>
Roadmap For Halving Auto Emissions Unveiled
Thursday, 5 March 2009, 12:31 pm | United Nations
New York, Mar 4 2009 1:10PM With the world's car fleet expected to triple by 2050, a road map to halve greenhouse gas emissions from automobiles by that date was laid out today at the Geneva Motor Show by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) ... More >>
Chair Of Guinea-Bissau Peacebuilding Office
Thursday, 5 March 2009, 12:29 pm | United Nations
New York, Mar 4 2009 11:10AM The head of the United Nations Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) office in Guinea-Bissau has joined the chorus of voices at the world body condemning the killing of the country’s president and its chief of staff of the armed forces ... More >>
