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Citing Unfinished Tasks In Cote D’ivoire
Tuesday, 13 January 2009, 10:31 am | United Nations
To safeguard the gains made in Cote d’Ivoire in the two years since the Ouagadougou peace agreement was signed, a new report by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon recommends extending the United Nations peacekeeping force there, known as UNOCI , for another ... More >>
ICC Charges Former DRC Leader With War Crimes
Tuesday, 13 January 2009, 10:29 am | United Nations
Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court ICC today formally charged a former Vice-President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) with multiple counts of crimes against humanity and war crimes committed in the Central African Republic ... More >>
Cypriot Leaders Resume Discussions
Tuesday, 13 January 2009, 10:27 am | United Nations
United Nations-led talks between the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot leaders aimed at reunifying the Mediterranean island continued today with a focus on relations between a federal government and constituent States, as well as on deadlock-resolving ... More >>
Mine Clearing Progresses In Afghanistan
Tuesday, 13 January 2009, 10:26 am | United Nations
More than 82,000 anti-personnel mines were cleared in Afghanistan in 2008, but the funding needed to meet the 2013 demining completion goal – around $500 million – is threatened by the world economic situation, a senior United Nations official ... More >>
UN Rights Office Condemns Killing Of Journalist
Tuesday, 13 January 2009, 10:24 am | United Nations
The United Nations human rights office in Nepal deplored the brutal murder of a female journalist who was hacked to death in her own home yesterday and called on local authorities to conduct an immediate investigation. More >>
Israel Should Allow Media Into Gaza
Tuesday, 13 January 2009, 10:23 am | United Nations
The United Nations agency entrusted with defending the freedom of the press, condemning the fatal wounding of a journalist on the first day of the Israeli offensive against Gaza, today called on Israel to allow local and international media professionals ... More >>
UN To Send Fact-Finding Mission To Gaza
Tuesday, 13 January 2009, 10:22 am | United Nations
The UNHRC today adopted a resolution strongly condemning the ongoing Israeli military operation in Gaza, and decided to dispatch a fact-finding mission to investigate human rights violations committed in the territory. More >>
Family Killed By An Israeli Shell
Monday, 12 January 2009, 12:06 pm | United Nations
An international Human Rights Activist, working with medical teams in northern Gaza, today assisted in the collection of six members of the same family killed by an Israeli shell. More >>
'Operation Lifeline Gaza' To Feed Thousands
Monday, 12 January 2009, 11:19 am | United Nations
The UN food agency today announced an initiative to help ramp up food distribution to the growing number of hungry people in the Gaza Strip, where a military offensive Israel says it launched in response to Hamas rocket attacks is in its 15th day. More >>
UN Official Meets With US Vice President-Elect
Monday, 12 January 2009, 11:18 am | United Nations
United States Vice President-Elect, Joseph Biden, today met with the top United Nations official in Afghanistan to discuss the situation on the ground in the war-ravaged country as well as priorities for the next 12 months. More >>
UN Envoy Misquoted By Rebel Leader In Media Report
Monday, 12 January 2009, 11:16 am | United Nations
The top United Nations envoy, leading peace talks in the war-ravaged eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), today denied remarks attributed to him in an article published yesterday by the Reuters news agency. More >>
Mobile Phones Adapted To Monitor Child Health
Monday, 12 January 2009, 11:12 am | United Nations
The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) will share first prize in the United States Development Agency’s innovation competition, known as the “Development 2.0 Challenge,” for adapting basic cell phones to monitor the health of children in danger of malnutrition. More >>
Refugee Exodus Across The Perilous Gulf Of Aden
Monday, 12 January 2009, 11:10 am | United Nations
Over 50,000 people fleeing war and poverty made the nearly always perilous and sometimes deadly voyage in smugglers’ boats across the Gulf of Aden from Somalia last year, a 70 per cent increase over 2007. More >>
UN-Backed Talks Between DR Congo And Rebels
Monday, 12 January 2009, 11:08 am | United Nations
United Nations-backed talks aimed at bringing an end to the deadly conflict between the Government and rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have been focusing on security matters, including a possible ceasefire, since resuming ... More >>
‘Green’ Stimulus Plans By Japan And Republic Of Ko
Monday, 12 January 2009, 11:05 am | United Nations
The announcement that Japan and Korea will invest billions of dollars in environmentally smart projects to create jobs and spur economic growth is the latest sign that the Green New Deal advocated by the UN is gaining momentum. More >>
Supporting Security In Violence-Wracked Somalia
Monday, 12 January 2009, 10:56 am | United Nations
A United Nations team will head to the Horn of Africa next week to explore how the world body can support the African Union (AU) peacekeeping force in Somalia, which has seen an upsurge in violence in recent months despite the signing of a UN-facilitated ... More >>
Sri Lanka To Ensure Safety For Returnees
Monday, 12 January 2009, 10:45 am | United Nations
The United Nations refugee agency has called on the Government of Sri Lanka to ensure security for civilians in the eastern part of the strife-torn nation, citing a significant increase in the number of killings, abductions and injuries in areas of return, including ... More >>
Sudanese North-South Peace Pact
Monday, 12 January 2009, 10:43 am | United Nations
While commending the parties to the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) that ended the long-running north-south civil war in Sudan for the progress achieved so far, the United Nations today marked the fourth anniversary of the signing of the ... More >>
Security Council Calls For Ceasefire
Friday, 9 January 2009, 4:04 pm | United Nations
The United Nations Security Council tonight overwhelmingly called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza leading to a full Israeli withdrawal, the unimpeded provision throughout Gaza of food, fuel and medical treatment. More >>
Cholera Cases In Zimbabwe Climb
Friday, 9 January 2009, 3:38 pm | United Nations
The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) says the number of suspected cases of cholera in Zimbabwe has now reached almost 36,000 while nearly 1,780 people have died from the infection since the outbreak began over five months ago. More >>
