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UN Launches Year-Long Campaign
Saturday, 20 December 2008, 3:15 pm | United Nations
The United Nations 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 within ... More >>
Gays, Lesbians Must Be Treated As Equals
Friday, 19 December 2008, 2:59 pm | United Nations
The top United Nations human rights official lamented today that there are still too many countries that criminalize sexual relations between consenting adults of the same sex and that some 10 States still have laws making homosexual activity punishable ... More >>
Enormous Numbers Will Face Food Insecurity
Friday, 19 December 2008, 1:54 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 >>
Faces Of The UN Campaign On Internal Displacement
Friday, 19 December 2008, 1:52 pm | United Nations
Mohammed huddles under a tent after walking six hours through the mountains of Pakistan to escape the bombs and fighting. Qadir seeks work in Kabul after being driven from his home by drought. More >>
"AIDS Has Been An ‘Agent For Change’"
Friday, 19 December 2008, 1:50 pm | United Nations
The United Nations agency, charged with coordinating the world body’s fight against HIV/AIDS, has seen a great deal of change since it was launched in 1996, said its outgoing chief. More >>
‘Decisive’ Push For Israeli-Palestinian Peace
Friday, 19 December 2008, 1:48 pm | United Nations
With the goal of reaching an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal by the end of this year out of reach, a top United Nations envoy today stressed the need to step up efforts by both sides to attain a comprehensive settlement. More >>
Dr Congo: UN-Backed Peace Talks
Friday, 19 December 2008, 1:45 pm | United Nations
UN-backed talks between the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and a main rebel group, aimed at finding a peaceful resolution to the strife-ridden country’s brutal armed conflict, resumed today after a week Break. More >>
Death Toll From Zimbabwe’s Cholera Tops 1000
Friday, 19 December 2008, 1:43 pm | United Nations
The United Nations said today that the death toll from the worst cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe’s history has now surpassed 1,100 and the epidemic continues to spread to new areas of the capital, Harare. More >>
Minister Named To Head UN’s Economic Commission
Friday, 19 December 2008, 1:40 pm | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Slovakia’s Foreign Minister, Ján Kubiš, as the new Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), which promotes dialogue and cooperation among 56 nations. More >>
Talks Between UN Envoy And Lebanese Leader
Friday, 19 December 2008, 1:38 pm | United Nations
The United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon and President Michel Suleiman held talks today on a range of issues, from the holding of national dialogues and reconciliation to the “encouraging” developments regarding the country’s budding ... More >>
Talks On Russian-Georgian Conflict
Friday, 19 December 2008, 1:37 pm | United Nations
International talks on the Russian-Georgian conflict in South Ossetia have now entered issues of substance, with in-depth political discussions focusing on a mechanism to help prevent and resolve incidents as they arise, a senior UN envoy said today. More >>
Tackling Corruption is Crucial for Afghanistan
Friday, 19 December 2008, 1:35 pm | United Nations
The top UN envoy to Afghanistan today called the fight against corruption one of the single most important issues for the future of the young democracy, and urged all of its citizens and its international partners to combat the scourge. More >>
Rwanda: UN Court Jails Ex-Military Leader
Friday, 19 December 2008, 1:31 pm | United Nations
A United Nations court today sentenced the alleged mastermind behind the 1994 massacre of hundreds of thousands of people in Rwanda and two co-defendants to life imprisonment for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. More >>
UN Officials Call For the Protection of Dignity
Friday, 19 December 2008, 1:28 pm | United Nations
Top UN officials are marking International Migrants Day by stressing the need to ensure the dignity and human rights of the more than 200 million people who cross borders to live and work, and who make a vital contribution to their societies. More >>
Achieving Quality Education Will Cost
Friday, 19 December 2008, 1:25 pm | United Nations
Achieving the goal of quality education for all by 2015 will require countries to devote greater funds to this critical sector and to address the growing shortage of qualified teachers, according to a United Nations meeting that concluded today ... More >>
UNSC Extends Probe Into Lebanon Killings
Friday, 19 December 2008, 1:22 pm | United Nations
The Security Council today extended for a further two months the mandate of the independent probe into the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri and several other political killings in Lebanon. More >>
Attacks On Civilians In Eastern Dr Congo
Friday, 19 December 2008, 1:20 pm | United Nations
Elements from a mainly Tutsi rebel group in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are continuing to commit abuses, beating and detaining civilians and pillaging businesses and private homes. More >>
Military Action Against Ugandan Rebels
Friday, 19 December 2008, 1:17 pm | United Nations
The Security Council today voiced support for the joint military operation launched by the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Uganda and Southern Sudan to flush out the Ugandan rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) from a remote national park ... More >>
More Ethiopian Troops Arrive In Darfur
Friday, 19 December 2008, 1:16 pm | United Nations
More than 300 Ethiopian troops arrived in Darfur over the last two days to boost the strength of the joint United Nations-African Union force, known as UNAMID, deployed earlier this year in an attempt to suppress the violence and humanitarian suffering ... More >>
Military Action Against Ugandan Rebels
Thursday, 18 December 2008, 2:00 pm | United Nations
The Security Council today voiced support for the joint military operation launched by the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Uganda and Southern Sudan to flush out the Ugandan rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) from a remote national park ... More >>
