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Better Protection Needed For Media
Tuesday, 23 December 2008, 11:09 am | United Nations
The UN has condemned yesterday’s attack against staff at the Himal Media publishing house in Kathmandu as an assault on the freedom of expression, and urged authorities in Nepal to ensure a safe environment for media professionals. More >>
Closing Guantánamo Bay Will end a ‘Dark Chapter’
Tuesday, 23 December 2008, 11:07 am | United Nations
A group of independent UN human rights experts have welcomed US President-elect Barack Obama’s announced decision close the Guantánamo Bay detention centre, stressing it will end “a dark chapter in the country’s history.” More >>
Gaza Crossings Remain Closed
Tuesday, 23 December 2008, 11:05 am | United Nations
No humanitarian aid, fuel or other commodities were able to get into Gaza today, as the border crossings into the area remained closed, the United Nations reported. More >>
Enormous Numbers Facing Food Insecurity
Monday, 22 December 2008, 1:04 pm | United Nations
Despite record breaking bumper cereal harvests for 2008, some one billion people around the world are malnourished, the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization FAO announced today. More >>
UN Launches Year-Long Campaign
Monday, 22 December 2008, 1:01 pm | United Nations
The UN today launched a year-long advocacy campaign to help scores of millions of internally displaced persons (IDPs), focusing on mitigating the impact of conflict and natural disasters that drive so many people from their homes. More >>
UN Campaign Receives Award
Monday, 22 December 2008, 12:36 pm | United Nations
A United Nations-backed campaign aimed at eliminating obstetric fistula, a debilitating injury resulting from giving birth, has been recognized with an award for championing collaboration between countries of the global South, the UN Development Programme ... More >>
$92 Million To Ease Plight Of Somalis
Monday, 22 December 2008, 12:34 pm | United Nations
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) today appealed for $92 million to ease the plight of some 250,000 Somalis living in one of the world’s oldest and most congested camps in Kenya and to meet the needs of new arrivals from ... More >>
Japan To Take In Myanmar Refugees
Monday, 22 December 2008, 12:32 pm | United Nations
The United Nations refugee agency has welcomed Japan’s decision to introduce a pilot resettlement programme to accept Myanmar refugees in Thailand starting in 2010, making it the first country in the region to launch such an initiative. More >>
Rural Poverty Projects In 16 Countries
Monday, 22 December 2008, 12:31 pm | United Nations
Efforts to reduce rural poverty in 16 developing countries received a major boost thanks to $258 million in new funding approved by the United Nations agency working to help men and women in impoverished areas. More >>
Assets Freeze On Liberian Ex-President
Monday, 22 December 2008, 12:29 pm | United Nations
The Security Council today voiced concern at the lack of progress in freezing the financial assets available to former Liberian president Charles Taylor, now on trial at the United Nations-backed court for Sierra Leone for war crimes and crimes against ... More >>
Latin America’s Economic Outlook Dismal
Monday, 22 December 2008, 12:27 pm | United Nations
After six years of strong performance, Latin American and Caribbean economies will slow considerably next year as the global economic meltdown takes its toll on the region and unemployment rises, a United Nations agency for economic development announced ... More >>
People Must Not Be Forced Back To Their Villages
Monday, 22 December 2008, 12:26 pm | United Nations
The UN refugee agency has called on mainly Tutsi rebels in eastern DR of the Congo (DRC) to ensure the rights of 10,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) amid reports that they are being pressured to go back to their villages. More >>
Former Government Responsible For Disappearances
Monday, 22 December 2008, 12:23 pm | United Nations
A UN investigation into a series of disappearances during the decade-long civil war in Nepal has uncovered eyewitnesses accusing former Government forces of killing a number of its captives, according to a report released by the world body today. More >>
Moves To Expedite Work Of War Crimes Tribunals
Monday, 22 December 2008, 12:21 pm | United Nations
The Security Council today called on the United Nations war crimes tribunals dealing with the 1994 Rwanda genocide and the Balkans conflicts of the 1990s to conduct their trials as quickly and efficiently as possible, and pledged to support their efforts ... More >>
Burundian Refugee Saga In Tanzania
Monday, 22 December 2008, 12:18 pm | United Nations
The long saga of hundreds of thousands of Burundians who fled to Tanzania to escape decades of ethnic conflict in their small homeland is finally approaching its end with the last camps closing down as the refugees return home or integrate into the ... More >>
Stronger Enforcement Of Somali Arms Embargo
Monday, 22 December 2008, 12:17 pm | United Nations
The United Nations Security Council today called for enhanced monitoring of the arms embargo in Somalia, declaring that strict enforcement would improve security in a country that has been torn by factional fighting and has had no functioning central ... More >>
State Of Hospitals In Cholera-Struck Zimbabwe
Monday, 22 December 2008, 12:16 pm | United Nations
The overall health situation in Zimbabwe, which is suffering from its worst ever recorded cholera epidemic, is “quite worrying,” with medical staff basically not going to work because their salaries were too small, according to a senior United ... More >>
Ban Calls For End To Rocket Attacks
Monday, 22 December 2008, 12:14 pm | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called for an immediate end to rocket attacks against Israel from Gaza and all other violence, and a continuation of the Egyptian-brokered calm in the area. More >>
Violence Intensifies In Darfur
Monday, 22 December 2008, 12:13 pm | United Nations
The violence in Darfur has intensified in recent months with attacks on humanitarian workers, peacekeepers and the growing number of displaced persons sheltering in makeshift camps, with inter-tribal clashes and fighting between the Government and armed militia ... More >>
Ongoing Darfur Conflict Threatens UN Mission
Saturday, 20 December 2008, 3:17 pm | United Nations
Violent clashes between the warring factions in conflict-ravaged Darfur threaten humanitarian work and the joint United Nations-African Union peacekeeping operation in the Sudanese region, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warns in his latest report ... More >>
