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Latin American Youth Experience Discrimination
Thursday, 30 October 2008, 10:46 am | United Nations
Over two-thirds of young people in Latin America feel they suffer discrimination, partly because so many are poor and under-educated, according to a report released today by the United Nations office for the region. More >>
Congo: Increased Violence Takes Humanitarian Toll
Thursday, 30 October 2008, 10:44 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today expressed his alarm at the escalating violence over the past 24 hours in the volatile east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. More >>
$900 Million In Reparations For Kuwait Invasion
Thursday, 30 October 2008, 10:38 am | United Nations
The UN Compensation Commission, which settles the damage claims of those who suffered losses because of Iraq’s 1990 invasion of Kuwait, today announced that it will make $889 million available to 16 successful claimants. More >>
Ban Highlights Benefits Of Global Migration
Thursday, 30 October 2008, 10:36 am | United Nations
International migration could be an effective tool to tackle the current financial crisis, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told a summit in the Philippines. More >>
Yemen: UN Airlifts Food Supplies To Flood Victims
Thursday, 30 October 2008, 10:30 am | United Nations
The UN World Food Programme has today airlifted 17 tons of high-energy biscuits to assist Yemenis affected by a tropical storm that struck last Thursday, killing 180 people and displacing some 10,000 others from their homes. More >>
UN Joins Relief Efforts After Quake Hits Pakistan
Thursday, 30 October 2008, 10:24 am | United Nations
United Nations agencies are taking part in emergency relief efforts in south-west Pakistan, where a powerful earthquake struck early this morning, killing and injuring hundreds of people and leaving many more homeless. More >>
Ban Deplores Attack On UN Office In Somalia
Thursday, 30 October 2008, 10:20 am | United Nations
Ban Ki-moon has vehemently condemned the multiple attacks in northern Somalia today, which included a suicide car bombing at the UN Development Programme compound in Hargeisa that killed two UN staff and seriously injured six others. More >>
Carbon Financing Scheme Can Boost Farming
Wednesday, 29 October 2008, 2:41 pm | United Nations
Agricultural experts met today to discuss how the sector can tap into the billions of dollars available every year under the United Nations-sponsored Kyoto Protocol to improve the lives of poor farmers from around the world. More >>
Nepalese-Driven Peace Process Globally Acclaimed
Wednesday, 29 October 2008, 2:38 pm | United Nations
The world has recognized the strides towards peace Nepalis have made, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a new report made public today, commending the parties in the Asian country for their commitment to consolidating democracy. More >>
UN Agencies Rush To Help As Floods Ravage Honduras
Wednesday, 29 October 2008, 2:36 pm | United Nations
United Nations humanitarian agencies have started mobilizing and distributing aid in Honduras, where floods brought on by a tropical depression have forced tens of thousands of people to evacuate their homes and destroyed vast areas of cropland. More >>
Progress In Darfur Undermined By Ongoing Conflict
Wednesday, 29 October 2008, 2:33 pm | United Nations
The United Nations and African Union are making good progress in the deployment of their joint peacekeeping force in Darfur but the war-wracked region of western Sudan remains beset by deadly fighting. More >>
Pacific Rim Countries Stage Tsunami Warning Drill
Wednesday, 29 October 2008, 10:16 am | United Nations
The staged tsunami drill, “Exercise Pacific Wave 08,” will involve two days of testing the Pacific Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System – a UNESCO-established network to promote the exchange of seismic and sea level data for rapid tsunami detection. More >>
2 Million Hurricane-Affected Cubans To Receive Aid
Wednesday, 29 October 2008, 10:14 am | United Nations
Almost two million Cubans affected by hurricanes Gustav and Ike – two of the worst disasters to strike the small island nation in the past 50 years – will receive vital assistance from the UN World Food Programme over the next 6 months. More >>
Severe Flooding In Yemen Displaces 10,000
Wednesday, 29 October 2008, 10:03 am | United Nations
The United Nations has begun providing assistance to Yemenis affected by recent severe flooding, which has killed 180 people and displaced some 10,000 from their homes. More >>
Ban In Philippines On First Leg Of Asia Tour
Wednesday, 29 October 2008, 10:01 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived today in the Philippines, the first stop on a four-nation Asia tour that will also take the United Nations chief to India, Nepal and Bangladesh. More >>
Upsurge In Violence In DR Congo Sparks Concern
Wednesday, 29 October 2008, 9:56 am | United Nations
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs today voiced its concern over the situation in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, where many more people have been displaced following a recent upsurge in fighting. More >>
Drug Crime Poses Serious Threat To West Africa
Wednesday, 29 October 2008, 9:53 am | United Nations
West Africa is at the heart of an illegal drug trade transporting massive amounts of narcotics from South America to Europe, the United Nations chief on drugs and crime said today, warning of the danger the scourge poses to the region. More >>
Summit To Resolve Zimbabwean Power-Sharing Impasse
Tuesday, 28 October 2008, 11:52 am | United Nations
27 October 2008 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed today’s initiative of regional leaders in Southern Africa to hold a summit in Harare, Zimbabwe, to resolve the outstanding issues to a power-sharing deal for a new government in the troubled ... More >>
Nearly 1 Billion People Hungry Worldwide
Tuesday, 28 October 2008, 11:48 am | United Nations
Propelled by this year’s global food crisis, nearly one billion people worldwide are now hungry, an independent United Nations expert said today, urging the issue to be viewed through the lens of human rights. More >>
Hurricane Relief In Haiti Badly Under-Funded
Tuesday, 28 October 2008, 11:45 am | United Nations
rgent action is required to respond to the “worst disaster in the last 100 years” to strike Haiti, the UN relief chief reported today, warning that aid agencies remain far short of the millions they need to help the country recover. More >>
