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Israel’s Detention Of UN Expert
Wednesday, 17 December 2008, 11:27 am | United Nations
Israel’s refusal to allow a United Nations expert to transit to carry out his officially mandated functions in the occupied Palestinian territory, his detention and subsequent expulsion is “unprecedented and deeply regrettable,” the world body’s top human ... More >>
Papua New Guinea Receives UN Assistance
Wednesday, 17 December 2008, 11:25 am | United Nations
The United Nations is sending a disaster assessment team to Papua New Guinea after severe sea swells hit the northern shoreline, affecting up to 60,000 people, according to government estimates. More >>
Ensuring Food Security In Timor-Leste
Wednesday, 17 December 2008, 11:23 am | United Nations
Timor-Leste faces a number of challenges in its quest to ensure that all of its citizens have access to adequate food, such as poor infrastructure connecting villages to local markets, according to a new report by the United Nations mission in the country, ... More >>
UN Is Bringing Somali Pirates To Justice
Wednesday, 17 December 2008, 10:27 am | United Nations
The United Nations crime-fighting agency today proposed a regional approach to bringing pirates off the Somali coast to justice similar to one that has proved successful in fighting drug traffickers in the Caribbean. More >>
‘Human Rescue’ Package Needed To Feed Millions
Wednesday, 17 December 2008, 10:23 am | United Nations
Without a “human rescue” package, costing a mere fraction of the financial bailout and economic stimulus initiatives tabled in Western Europe and the United States, millions of people around the world will go hungry early next year, " warned" the ... More >>
Stranded Sudanese Refugees Leave Iraq For Romania
Wednesday, 17 December 2008, 10:20 am | United Nations
A group of 97 Sudanese refugees, mainly from the strife-torn region of Darfur, who have been stranded in a makeshift camp in the Iraqi desert since 2005, are on their way to Romania, where they hope to be resettled. More >>
UN Meeting On Ensuring Right To Education
Wednesday, 17 December 2008, 10:19 am | United Nations
A United Nations conference aimed at overcoming global inequalities in education, especially for children in the poorest nations and girls, kicked off in Norway today. More >>
Top UN Envoy Discusses Status Issues
Wednesday, 17 December 2008, 10:17 am | United Nations
The top United Nations official in Iraq held talks today with local leaders and representatives of the various communities in Kirkuk, where the world body is assisting with efforts to resolve the eventual status of the oil-rich northern city. More >>
Zimbabwe Cholera Death Toll Nears 1,000
Tuesday, 16 December 2008, 3:55 pm | United Nations
The death toll from Zimbabwe’s worst-ever cholera outbreak is approaching 1,000, the United Nations reported today, as Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned that the country’s leadership is not doing enough to address the dire situation in the Southern ... More >>
Peace Talks Intensify
Tuesday, 16 December 2008, 3:54 pm | United Nations
The United Nations and its diplomatic partners in the search for Middle East peace – the European Union (EU), Russia and the United States – called today for an intensification of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, urging both sides to take the ... More >>
Businesses Have Key Role In Restoring Confidence
Tuesday, 16 December 2008, 3:26 pm | United Nations
The private sector, as well as the alliance of businesses created by the United Nations in 2000, has an important role in helping to bring the global economy back on track, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today, noting that what began as a financial crisis ... More >>
Security Council Hears From Sanctions Committee
Tuesday, 16 December 2008, 3:25 pm | United Nations
The United Nations Security Council was briefed today by the heads of its subsidiary bodies entrusted with monitoring sanctions on Sudan, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), Somalia, Al-Qaida and the Taliban, Côte d’Ivoire, Iran, Democratic ... More >>
UN Envoy Goes Missing In Niger
Tuesday, 16 December 2008, 3:19 pm | United Nations
A United Nations envoy dealing with Niger, Canadian Robert Fowler, has gone missing while driving near the West African country’s capital Niamey, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today. More >>
Release of Child Soldiers In Nepal
Tuesday, 16 December 2008, 11:54 am | United Nations
New York, Dec 15 2008 5:10PM A senior United Nations official today welcomed recent breakthroughs made in Nepal and the Philippines to release child soldiers. More >>
UN Chief To Lead Meeting With Spanish Premier
Tuesday, 16 December 2008, 11:16 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today that he and the Prime Minister of Spain have agreed to co-chair a high-level meeting next month aimed at tackling the urgent hunger crisis afflicting one billion people worldwide. More >>
UN Assembly President Responds to Allegations
Tuesday, 16 December 2008, 10:36 am | United Nations
United Nations General Assembly President Miguel D’Escoto today called media stories that he tried to prevent Israel’s representative from speaking on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights “a malicious ... More >>
Political Leadership To Combat Climate Change
Tuesday, 16 December 2008, 10:31 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has stressed the importance of political will and leadership in tackling the “quintessential global threat” posed by climate change. More >>
UN Deploys 17,500 Peacekers to DR Congo
Tuesday, 16 December 2008, 10:29 am | United Nations
More than 90 per cent of the nearly 17,500 United Nations peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are now deployed in the strife-torn east of the vast country, including over 6,000 in North Kivu province. More >>
Massive Hydro Scheme For Africa
Tuesday, 16 December 2008, 10:26 am | United Nations
A senior United Nations official today told a meeting of African ministers that harnessing the continent’s largely untapped water resources is critical in feeding and providing for its people. More >>
Ensure Development Gains Are Not Lost
Tuesday, 16 December 2008, 10:23 am | United Nations
Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro today urged countries to work together to ensure that critical development gains are not lost at a time when the world’s people are facing multiple crises involving food, fuel and finance, all of which ... More >>
