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Call To Halt Rising Acidity In World’s Oceans
Saturday, 31 January 2009, 1:25 pm | United Nations
Leading Scientists At UN Forum Call For Action To Halt Rising Acidity In World’s Oceans More >>
Ban Pays Tribute To Late Women’s Rights Advocate
Saturday, 31 January 2009, 1:21 pm | United Nations
Ban Pays Tribute To Late Women’s Rights Advocate And Senior Un Official, Lucille Mair More >>
Israel Must Open Crossings To Gaza - UN
Saturday, 31 January 2009, 1:17 pm | United Nations
Almost two weeks after the devastating Israeli offensive against Hamas in Gaza ended, full access for relief supplies is the key issue, above all in curbing a rising tide of extremism, the top United Nations official in the Strip warned today. More >>
Murder Of Three Candidates On Eve Of Iraq Polls
Saturday, 31 January 2009, 1:11 pm | United Nations
New York, Jan 30 2009 10:10AM The top United Nations envoy to Iraq today strongly condemned the murder of three candidates who were killed while campaigning for the provincial council elections slated for Saturday. More >>
Offensive Against Rebels Sends Thousands Fleeing
Saturday, 31 January 2009, 1:09 pm | United Nations
New York, Jan 30 2009 1:10PM The military operation by the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda against ethnic Rwandan Hutu militias is heightening tensions in South Kivu province, driving at least 5,000 people from their homes and threatening ... More >>
UN Envoy To Begin Four-Day Visit To Myanmar
Saturday, 31 January 2009, 1:05 pm | United Nations
New York, Jan 30 2009 3:10PM Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s Special Adviser on Myanmar will begin a four-day visit to the South-East Asian nation tomorrow at the invitation of the Government, the United Nations confirmed today. More >>
Cyclone Victims Need Help To Rebuild Livelihoods
Friday, 30 January 2009, 1:17 pm | United Nations
Helping survivors of Cyclone Nargis, which struck Myanmar last year and claimed nearly 140,000 lives, restore their livelihoods is crucial in helping the South-East Asian nation rebuild, according to participants at a United Nations-sponsored donors meeting. More >>
UN Helped Return Normalcy To Haitian Slum
Friday, 30 January 2009, 9:56 am | United Nations
The United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) has been key to returning law and order to the Cité Soleil neighbourhood of the capital city Port-au-Prince, which was formerly controlled by armed gangs, the UN’s top peacekeeping official ... More >>
‘Green New Deal’ To Fight World Recession
Friday, 30 January 2009, 9:46 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called on the world’s business and other leaders to use the current economic crisis to launch a global “Green New Deal” that creates jobs and fights climate change by investing in renewable energy and technological ... More >>
UN: Food Access Difficult In Post-Cyclone Myanmar
Thursday, 29 January 2009, 5:06 pm | United Nations
Although overall crop production was satisfactory last year in Myanmar due to increased harvests in areas not impacted by the devastating Cyclone Nargis, a new United Nations report cautioned that access to food is still a problem for the most vulnerable people ... More >>
UN Seeks To Strengthen Battle Against Pirates
Thursday, 29 January 2009, 4:56 pm | United Nations
Regional States, countries patrolling the pirate-infested waters off Somalia, and United Nations agencies are set to adopt an agreement this week to reinforce the fight against a scourge that has seen dozens of ships held for ransom in recent years, ... More >>
UN: Stranded Sudanese Leave Iraq For Romania
Thursday, 29 January 2009, 2:52 pm | United Nations
A second group of Sudanese refugees, most of whom are fleeing strife-torn Darfur, have been evacuated from perilous circumstances in Iraq to a groundbreaking transit centre in Romania, from which they hope to be resettled in the United States, the ... More >>
UN Highlights World's Food Shortage
Thursday, 29 January 2009, 2:46 pm | United Nations
In spite of the “unprecedented” effort launched last year to respond to the food crisis, greater efforts are needed to feed the hungry as the world faces an economic slowdown, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today. More >>
Peacekeeping Chief Renews Un Support For Haiti
Thursday, 29 January 2009, 2:41 pm | United Nations
The United Nations peacekeeping chief is on a five-day field visit to Haiti, discussing with national and local leaders the Organization’s mission in the impoverished Caribbean country where it has been seeking to promote stability and development ... More >>
UN Arm To Help Poor Farmers In Tajikistan
Thursday, 29 January 2009, 2:38 pm | United Nations
Farmers in Tajikistan’s poorest region will receive a $12 million boost from the United Nations International Fund for Agricultural Development to help curb poverty, boost incomes and improve the lives of farmers in 250 villages. More >>
UN Visits Site Of Us Attack In Afghanistan
Thursday, 29 January 2009, 2:34 pm | United Nations
A team from the human rights unit of the UN Mission in Afghanistan today visited Garoosh in the eastern province of Laghman, after a dispute arose over whether or not civilians had been killed in an attack there over the weekend involving United ... More >>
Ban Calls On World To Fight Holocaust Denial
Thursday, 29 January 2009, 2:31 pm | United Nations
Over six decades after 6 million Jews, nearly a third of the total, and countless other minorities were butchered in the Nazi German Holocaust, it is more vital than ever to learn from the tragedy to prevent further atrocities, United Nations Secretary-General ... More >>
UNHCR Calls Halt on Somali Refugee Returns
Thursday, 29 January 2009, 2:27 pm | United Nations
The United Nations refugee agency today called on Kenya to stop the forcible return, or refoulement, of Somali asylum-seekers, after three people, who were wounded crossing the border while fleeing violence in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, were sent back. More >>
UN Concern As More Indigenous Flee Violence
Thursday, 29 January 2009, 2:13 pm | United Nations
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees is calling on Colombian authorities to take necessary measure to protect indigenous people from violence and displacement, as more of them flee growing insecurity in the country’s northeast. More >>
UN Decries Ugandan Rebels Abuses in Congo
Thursday, 29 January 2009, 2:07 pm | United Nations
The top United Nations human rights official today spoke out against abuses committed by Ugandan rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and voiced alarm about the impact on civilians of a joint military operation being conducted by DRC and ... More >>
