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UN Initiative To Help Govts. Tackle Climate Change
Thursday, 6 November 2008, 9:12 am | United Nations
The United Nations Development Programme has launched a new initiative to help both national governments and local regions strengthen their capacity to deal with the challenges posed by climate change. More >>
UN Human Rights Expert Addresses Scourge Of Racism
Thursday, 6 November 2008, 9:08 am | United Nations
The relationship between racism and migration, ethnic conflicts and poverty will all be under the spotlight of the new United Nations independent expert on racism during his time in office, he told journalists today. More >>
Chad: UN Assesses Status Of Stabilization Force
Thursday, 6 November 2008, 9:03 am | United Nations
The United Nations official overseeing support for the world body’s various peace operations is in Chad to assess the deployment of the force tasked with bringing stability to the eastern part of that strife-torn nation. More >>
UN Forum To Promote Clean Energy In Asia-Pacific
Wednesday, 5 November 2008, 3:26 pm | United Nations
The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific today launched a new forum to try to develop energy policies across the region that are more gender and poverty-sensitive across the region. More >>
Norwegian Prince Promotes UN Anti-Poverty Targets
Wednesday, 5 November 2008, 3:20 pm | United Nations
Crown Prince Haakon of Norway, a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Development Programme , is conducting a three-day visit to Mongolia as part of his efforts to promote the global anti-poverty targets known as the Millennium Development Goals. More >>
UN’s Intangible Cultural Heritage List Launched
Wednesday, 5 November 2008, 12:20 pm | United Nations
A UN-endorsed list of the planet’s intangible cultural heritage, ranging from folk music and shadow puppetry to ox-herding traditions and sand drawings, came into being today as part of efforts to safeguard such elements around the world. More >>
Human Smuggling Across Gulf Of Aden Keeps Rising
Wednesday, 5 November 2008, 11:59 am | United Nations
The number of people illegally crossing the Gulf of Aden and the Mediterranean Sea is on the rise, the United Nations refugee agency reported today, as it confirmed that 12 people fleeing Somalia in the past week have been found dead. More >>
Science And Technology Can Boost Angola’s Recovery
Wednesday, 5 November 2008, 11:57 am | United Nations
A greater focus on science, technology and innovation can enable Angola to diversify its economic base and help the southern African nation recover from its nearly three-decade long civil conflict. More >>
Iraq: Electoral Change Bodes Well For Minorities
Wednesday, 5 November 2008, 11:55 am | United Nations
The United Nations has welcomed the decision by the Iraqi legislature to allocate a specific number of seats for representatives of the country’s minority communities ahead provincial elections. More >>
UN To Assess Japanese Nuclear Plant Hit By Quake
Wednesday, 5 November 2008, 11:53 am | United Nations
A team of global experts led by the UN International Atomic Energy Agency will visit Japan next month as part of the latest round of assessments on the impact of a strong earthquake last year on the world’s largest nuclear power plant. More >>
Afghanistan: UN Urges Release Of Kidnapped Worker
Wednesday, 5 November 2008, 11:50 am | United Nations
The top United Nations relief official has called for the immediate and unconditional release of an aid worker kidnapped today in Kabul and deplored the killing of an Afghan citizen shot while trying to prevent the incident. More >>
Yellow Fever In Burkina Faso Reveals Vaccine Needs
Tuesday, 4 November 2008, 3:34 pm | United Nations
Two boys in northern Burkina Faso have contracted yellow fever in a fresh outbreak of the disease that has already claimed the life of the eldest child, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) reported today. More >>
Killings In Colombia Concern UN Rights Chief
Tuesday, 4 November 2008, 2:20 pm | United Nations
Colombia faces grave human rights challenges in its ongoing conflict, including hostage-taking, extrajudicial executions and arbitrary arrest and detention, despite measures taken by the Government to protect vulnerable groups. More >>
UN Aid Convoy Reaches Rebel-Held Town In DR Congo
Tuesday, 4 November 2008, 11:16 am | United Nations
A United Nations aid convoy has reached one of the major rebel-held towns in the far east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo providing urgent supplies to civilians trapped amid the fighting in the region. More >>
Another UN Food Convoy On Its Way To Sri Lanka
Tuesday, 4 November 2008, 10:12 am | United Nations
The United Nations said today it has dispatched another major food convoy into the Vanni region of northern Sri Lanka, as part of the continuing humanitarian aid effort to assist some 230,000 people uprooted by recent clashes. More >>
Safer Alternatives To Malaria-Controlling DDT
Tuesday, 4 November 2008, 10:10 am | United Nations
Some 80 delegates today kicked off a three-day UN-backed meeting in Geneva focusing on cost effective and environmentally-friendly alternatives to DDT, a controversial chemical used to control malaria. More >>
Afghan Returnee Numbers This Year Top 276,000
Tuesday, 4 November 2008, 10:05 am | United Nations
The United Nations refugee agency said today that some 276,700 Afghans returned to their homeland this year through its voluntary repatriation programme, 99 per cent of them coming from neighbouring Pakistan. More >>
UN Sends Electoral Team To Bangladesh Before Polls
Monday, 3 November 2008, 11:44 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced on Sunday that the UN will soon be sending an electoral team to Bangladesh ahead of next month's parliamentary polls, which he described as a “historic opportunity” for the South Asian nation. More >>
Sport Plays Role In Bringing Peace To West Africa
Monday, 3 November 2008, 10:01 am | United Nations
The United Nations envoy tasked with promoting sport for development and peace has wrapped up a week-long visit to West and Central Africa, where he underscored the role that sport can play in consolidating peace. More >>
International Criminal Court At ‘Critical’ Stage
Monday, 3 November 2008, 9:57 am | United Nations
The International Criminal Court (ICC) is at a “critical” juncture, with its success hinging on such factors as guaranteeing its judicial independence and universal ratification, the Court’s President said in New York today. More >>
