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Ban Urges EU To Act Swiftly On Climate Change
Thursday, 23 October 2008, 10:03 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has stressed to leaders of the European Union the need to wrap up the bloc’s energy and climate package by the end of the year. More >>
64,000 Somali Children To Receive Nutritional Help
Thursday, 23 October 2008, 9:57 am | United Nations
The United Nations World Food Programme is planning to provide a highly nutritious, peanut-based food to some 64,000 children in Somalia over the next six months to combat the growing threat of malnutrition. More >>
UN Deplores Attacks Against Afghan Civilians
Thursday, 23 October 2008, 9:45 am | United Nations
The top United Nations envoy to Afghanistan has condemned recent attacks against civilians in the violence-wracked nation, including a suicide bombing on Monday that killed five children in Kunduz. More >>
Peaceful Agreement For New Bolivian Constitution
Wednesday, 22 October 2008, 2:36 pm | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed the agreement reached today by Bolivia’s National Congress on the text of a proposed new constitution and the process for its approval. More >>
Countries Lack Adequate ‘Bird Flu’ Response Plans
Wednesday, 22 October 2008, 1:55 pm | United Nations
Most countries that have strategies in place to deal with a possible avian influenza pandemic have not properly tested those plans, leaving them extremely vulnerable if a major outbreak were to occur. More >>
UN Official To Visit Hurricane-Battered Haiti
Wednesday, 22 October 2008, 12:43 pm | United Nations
United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator John Holmes will visit Haiti later this week to assess the response to a series of storms which ravaged the impoverished Caribbean nation recently, it was announced today. More >>
UN Peacebuilding Efforts Producing Results
Wednesday, 22 October 2008, 11:42 am | United Nations
The United Nations peacebuilding arm is making steady progress and has produced concrete results in the four post-conflict countries placed under its direction in the two years since its work started. More >>
Global Religious Leaders Partner To Tackle AIDS
Wednesday, 22 October 2008, 11:40 am | United Nations
Over 75 religious leaders and representatives of Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, Jewish, Christian and Muslim groups attending a UN summit have formed a Global Interfaith Network to address the crucial issues of maternal death, AIDS and poverty. More >>
UN Task Force To Review Global Financial System
Wednesday, 22 October 2008, 11:06 am | United Nations
The President of the General Assembly has announced he is setting up a high-level task force to review the global financial system, including major bodies such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. More >>
Bad Darfur Security Renders UN Mission Ineffective
Wednesday, 22 October 2008, 10:51 am | United Nations
The security conditions in Darfur remain so poor that the joint United Nations-African Union peacekeeping operation cannot operate effectively, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says in his latest report on the mission, urging the parties to the conflict in western ... More >>
UN Helps Effort To Rid Liberia Of Marijuana
Wednesday, 22 October 2008, 10:30 am | United Nations
The United Nations is assisting Liberian National Police (LNP) tackle the drug trade in remote areas of the West African nation, with the latest joint raid bringing the total amount of marijuana seized to almost 1,000 kilograms. More >>
UN Urges Central Asia To Strengthen Economic Ties
Wednesday, 22 October 2008, 10:27 am | United Nations
Greater cooperation between Central Asia and the rest of Asia is essential to achieve sustainable development for the whole continent, given the current climate of global financial instability and food and energy insecurity. More >>
Nepal: Excluded Groups Give Input On Rebuilding
Wednesday, 22 October 2008, 10:24 am | United Nations
United Nations human rights officials today convened a workshop in Nepal’s west with the aim of giving traditionally marginalized groups a greater say in how the Asian nation rebuilds after its decade-long civil war. More >>
Global Businesses Gather For ‘Caring For Climate'
Wednesday, 22 October 2008, 10:19 am | United Nations
A UN-backed “Caring for Climate” gathering today is drawing representatives from more than 150 corporations, civil society organizations and governments from around the world to discuss business solutions to the problem of global warming. More >>
UN Brings 24-Hour Educational TV To Iraqi Children
Wednesday, 22 October 2008, 10:16 am | United Nations
Iraqi children who are unable to attend classes due to security concerns will now be able to continue their studies through distance learning thanks to a new educational television channel launched today by the United Nations. More >>
Northern Kenya Floods Uproot Nearly 14,000 People
Wednesday, 22 October 2008, 10:11 am | United Nations
Almost 14,000 people in northern Kenya have been displaced by flash floods that occurred last week, and are in need of urgent supplies such as food, shelter and clean water, the United Nations humanitarian wing reported today. More >>
Action Needed To Simplify Technology Standards
Wednesday, 22 October 2008, 10:07 am | United Nations
The telecommunications industry needs to take aggressive action to streamline its work on standardizing the industry and end duplication of effort within the sector, the United Nations technology agency stressed today. More >>
Ban Lauds Intercultural Dialogue In Europe
Wednesday, 22 October 2008, 10:05 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has lauded Europe’s commitment to the values of cross-cultural tolerance, dialogue, respect and understanding, all of which “must be pillars of the better world we are trying to build.” More >>
Yemen Denies Entry To Eritrean, Ethiopian Refugees
Wednesday, 22 October 2008, 10:01 am | United Nations
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) today announced that it is seeking an explanation from the Yemeni Government on recent statements that Eritreans and Ethiopians will be denied access to the Middle East country. More >>
UN Labour Chief Urges Action To Avert Job Crisis
Tuesday, 21 October 2008, 2:56 pm | United Nations
The head of the UN labour agency has called for bold and innovative action to avert an unemployment crisis resulting from the current global financial turmoil, which could increase the number of jobless people worldwide by 20 million. More >>
