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UN Refugee Chief Urges Help For 6M Displaced
Thursday, 11 December 2008, 10:32 am | United Nations
The top United Nations refugee official has called on the world to do more to help nearly 6 million long-term refugees, who have spent years and sometimes decades in exile, often in the poorest countries in Africa and Asia. More >>
IC Seeks Info On Arrest Warrants For Darfur Rebels
Thursday, 11 December 2008, 10:21 am | United Nations
The pre-trial chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) today has asked prosecutors to submit additional information regarding their request for arrest warrants for three rebel commanders for their role in last year’s deadly attack against peacekeepers ... More >>
UN Daily News For December 9, 2008
Wednesday, 10 December 2008, 4:41 pm | United Nations
Corruption is partly to blame for the current global financial crisis and is also an obstacle to the achievement of development and human rights goals, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today, calling for stepped up efforts to wipe out the scourge. More >>
Urgent Action Needed To Alleviate Plight In Gaza
Wednesday, 10 December 2008, 4:33 pm | United Nations
Steps to alleviate the “humanitarian catastrophe” in Gaza must be taken immediately, an independent United Nations human rights expert said today, calling on the world body to turn its words into action. More >>
UN: Financial Crises Could Threaten Development
Wednesday, 10 December 2008, 4:32 pm | United Nations
Challenges facing the Asia-Pacific region – the food, energy and financial crises, as well as climate change – could unravel development successes, a top United Nations official warned today. More >>
Corruption Impedes Development And Human Rights
Wednesday, 10 December 2008, 4:26 pm | United Nations
Corruption is partly to blame for the current global financial crisis and is also an obstacle to the achievement of development and human rights goals, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today, calling for stepped up efforts to wipe out the scourge. More >>
Kosovo: European Police Phase In As UN Phases Out
Wednesday, 10 December 2008, 4:25 pm | United Nations
After nine and a half years of policing Kosovo, the United Nations mission has started phasing out its police component, handing over to European Union’s Rule of Law Mission known as EULEX. More >>
DR Congo: Government, Rebels Enter Into Talks
Wednesday, 10 December 2008, 4:24 pm | United Nations
United Nations-backed talks between the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and a main rebel militia kicked off today, in a bid to end the upsurge in the fighting which has uprooted an additional 250,000 people in country’s far ... More >>
Slavery, Though Legally Abolished, Is Widespread
Wednesday, 10 December 2008, 4:23 pm | United Nations
Slavery may have been legally abolished around the world, but it remains “a widespread and deeply rooted component of contemporary life,” ranging from human trafficking to child labour to sexual servitude to bonded service, according to the first-ever ... More >>
Haiti: Operation To Protect Crime-Ridden Centres
Wednesday, 10 December 2008, 4:19 pm | United Nations
Haitians beset by a staggering rise in acts of banditry, including kidnapping, are set to benefit from a new United Nations-backed urban security plan launched by the national police, including an increased presence and nighttime patrols. More >>
Number Of Hungry People Worldwide Nears 1 Billion
Wednesday, 10 December 2008, 4:16 pm | United Nations
With 40 million people being pushed into hunger this year mostly due to soaring food prices, the number of undernourished people worldwide is approaching the 1 billion mark, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) announced today. More >>
Call On Govts To Protect Human Rights Defenders
Wednesday, 10 December 2008, 4:01 pm | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed his “serious concern” today at the inactivity on recovering the remains of Kuwaiti and other nationals missing since the 1990 Gulf war, in a report made public today. More >>
Ban Voices Serious Concern Over Stalemate
Wednesday, 10 December 2008, 3:58 pm | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed his “serious concern” today at the inactivity on recovering the remains of Kuwaiti and other nationals missing since the 1990 Gulf war, in a report made public today. More >>
Human Rights Still Not A Reality For All
Wednesday, 10 December 2008, 3:56 pm | United Nations
The promises enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) remain unfilled for tens of millions of people worldwide, the top United Nations human rights official said today, on the eve of the landmark document’s 60th anniversary. More >>
UN Visits Zimbabwe To Contain Cholera Outbreak
Wednesday, 10 December 2008, 3:12 pm | United Nations
A delegation United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) is currently visiting Zimbabwe, to help the Southern African nation respond to its worst cholera outbreak in over a decade. More >>
60 Years On From Pledge To Prevent Genocide
Wednesday, 10 December 2008, 2:57 pm | United Nations
Sixty years ago to the day after the United Nations adopted the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned that the world has continued to witness appalling acts that violate ... More >>
Kosovo: European Police Phase In As UN Phases Out
Wednesday, 10 December 2008, 2:53 pm | United Nations
After nine and a half years of policing Kosovo, the United Nations mission has started phasing out its police component, handing over to European Union’s Rule of Law Mission known as EULEX. More >>
Steam Could Power E. Africa’s Electricity Needs
Wednesday, 10 December 2008, 11:01 am | United Nations
East Africa is set to get a natural boost next year by tapping into the sizeable reservoir of geothermal energy in its Rift Valley, according to a statement released today by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). More >>
Information May On Killing Of Lebanese Ex-Premier
Wednesday, 10 December 2008, 10:16 am | United Nations
Political Talks In CAR Could Herald Reconciliation
Tuesday, 9 December 2008, 1:08 pm | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today that the long-awaited multi-party talks launched in the Central African Republic (CAR) set the stage to begin a national reconciliation process that is crucial to bringing stability to the land-locked country. More >>
