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Sec-Gen set to travel to Africa next week
Thursday, 19 February 2009, 12:27 pm | United Nations
18 February 2009 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is slated to leave early next week for Africa where he will make his first official visits to South Africa and Tanzania, as well as stops in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Rwanda ... More >>
One-Third Of UN States Scrutinized On Human Rights
Wednesday, 18 February 2009, 1:46 pm | United Nations
Having completed the review of another 16 countries, the United Nations Human Rights Council is now one-third of the way through to reviewing the human rights records of all 192 Member States of the Organization, according to the President of the Geneva-based ... More >>
New UN Envoy For Western Sahara
Wednesday, 18 February 2009, 12:46 pm | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s Personal Envoy for Western Sahara is on his way to the region for consultations with the parties, Morocco and the Frente Polisario, as part of United Nations efforts to help broker a just, lasting and mutually acceptable ... More >>
UN Demands Release Of Abducted Staff Member
Wednesday, 18 February 2009, 12:21 pm | United Nations
New York, Feb 17 2009 4:10PM The United Nations today once again appealed to those holding John Solecki, a staff member kidnapped in Pakistan two weeks ago, for his immediate and safe release. More >>
Nepal: Abuses Impunity Encourages Violence - UN
Wednesday, 18 February 2009, 8:44 am | United Nations
United Nations human rights officials have called on the Nepalese Government to ensure full army cooperation with police and judicial authorities in bringing to justice the former royal army personnel who tortured and killed a 15-year-old girl five years ... More >>
UN To Work With Europe On A Standard For Refugees
Wednesday, 18 February 2009, 8:40 am | United Nations
The United Nations refugee agency hopes that a new European Union (EU) asylum system due to be announced tomorrow will ensure more consistent decision-making across the 27-nation block, where asylum-seekers of similar backgrounds now have widely varying ... More >>
Economic Stimulus Must Launch Green Revolution
Wednesday, 18 February 2009, 8:38 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and former United States Vice-President Al Gore today called on the world to use the coordinated economic stimulus urgently needed to tackle the global economic crisis to launch a long-term 21st century revolution ... More >>
Over 15,000 Congolese Fleeing Ugandan Rebels
Wednesday, 18 February 2009, 8:34 am | United Nations
More than 15,000 Congolese have fled to South Sudan since the Ugandan rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) began launching attacks in north-east Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the United Nations refugee agency reported today. More >>
Global fiscal stimulus could jump-start economy
Tuesday, 17 February 2009, 12:20 pm | United Nations
16 February 2009 – Investing one-third of the roughly $2.5 trillion planned stimulus funds in “greening” the global economy will give a large boost to efforts to lift the world out of recession, according to a new United Nations Environment Programme ... More >>
Human Trafficking: The Faces & Sorrow - UN Report
Monday, 16 February 2009, 6:40 pm | United Nations
Rose was just a teenager in Cameroon when she was promised a chance to go to school in the United States. What she got was slavery, working 15 hours a day for years, paid nothing, and beaten. More >>
Security Council Urges Humanitarian Access To Gaza
Monday, 16 February 2009, 4:28 pm | United Nations
The United Nations Security Council again voiced deep concern today about the humanitarian situation in Gaza following Israel's military offensive against Hamas and stressed "the importance and urgency that more needs to be done." More >>
UN Security Council Reform To Be Negotiated
Monday, 16 February 2009, 4:26 pm | United Nations
On-going work on reshaping the size and membership of the Security Council and making the vital organ of the world body more democratic is finally heading for serious negotiations, the Ambassador to the United Nations for Afghanistan, Zahir Tanin, ... More >>
Chad: UN Aid Reaches Central African Refugees
Monday, 16 February 2009, 4:21 pm | United Nations
A team from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has reached thousands of people who fled violence in the Central African Republic (CAR) to a remote area of south-eastern Chad. More >>
Hariri Murder Anniversary - Ban Expresses Sorrow
Monday, 16 February 2009, 4:00 pm | United Nations
On the fourth anniversary of the massive car bomb blast that killed Lebanon's former prime minister Rafiq Hariri and 22 others, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today expressed his sorrow to the Lebanese people over the tragic loss of a man who stood strongly ... More >>
UN Urges Govt To Protect Indigenous Colombians
Monday, 16 February 2009, 3:57 pm | United Nations
The United Nations refugee agency today called on the Colombian Government to fulfil its obligation to protect civilians after some 200 indigenous people, many suffering from very poor health and severe hunger, were forced to flee a massacre on their ... More >>
Green Growth Needed To Reach Kenya's Goals - UN
Monday, 16 February 2009, 3:51 pm | United Nations
An innovative United Nations atlas of Kenya using satellite images to pinpoint shrinking tea-growing areas, disappearing lakes, rising loss of tree cover and increased mosquito breeding grounds has highlighted the East African country's need to invest in 'green' ... More >>
Pakistan: Release Of Kidnapped UN Staffer Urged
Monday, 16 February 2009, 3:48 pm | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, who spoke with President Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan today, reiterated his appeal for the release of a United Nations staff member abducted nearly two weeks ago in the west of the South Asian nation. More >>
Cholera Outbreak Hits Overcrowded Kenyan Camp
Monday, 16 February 2009, 3:46 pm | United Nations
Kenya's sprawling and overcrowded Dadaab refugee complex is grappling with a cholera outbreak that has infected 14 people so far, most of them children, and already claimed the life of a three-year-old boy, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ... More >>
UN Human Rights Expert To Visit Myanmar
Monday, 16 February 2009, 3:41 pm | United Nations
The independent United Nations expert on the situation of human rights in Myanmar will begin a six-day visit beginning tomorrow to assess developments in the South-East Asian nation since his previous mission last year. More >>
Ban Appalled At Attack Targeting Iraqi Pilgrims
Monday, 16 February 2009, 3:38 pm | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned the suicide bomb attack against Shi�a pilgrims near Baghdad today, and recent similar attacks targeting innocent civilians which have left dozens of people dead and wounded, including many women and children. More >>
