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Crisis Deepens in Horn of Africa
Sunday, 21 September 2008, 2:59 pm | United Nations
The United Nations humanitarian relief chief made a passionate plea today for more funding to avoid a famine in the Horn of Africa on the scale witnessed in the 1980s. More >>
Contaminated Powdered Infant Formula
Sunday, 21 September 2008, 2:56 pm | United Nations
The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) is assisting Chinese authorities with a melamine-contaminated powdered food crisis that has caused more than 6,000 cases of kidney stones in infants and three deaths across the country. More >>
UN Atomic Experts Conduct Review
Sunday, 21 September 2008, 2:53 pm | United Nations
An international team of experts assembled by the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA has wrapped up a two-week review of Germany’s nuclear regulatory system, offering advice on how to improve in certain areas. More >>
Details on Scaled-Down Peacekeeping Mission
Sunday, 21 September 2008, 2:50 pm | United Nations
The head of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Kosovo, known as UNMIK, today unveiled details of the its reconfigured role, noting that the mission must evolve in line with realities on the ground. More >>
Ban Deplores 'Heinous' Terrorist Attack
Sunday, 21 September 2008, 1:49 pm | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has strongly condemned today's "heinous" terrorist attack on the Marriott Hotel in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, which has reportedly killed and injured a large number of people. More >>
UN Steps Up Emergency Aid For Children In DR Congo
Friday, 19 September 2008, 2:38 pm | United Nations
UNICEF is scaling up existing emergency programmes in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, where recent fighting has forced over 100,000 people to flee their homes, social services to close, and humanitarian organizations to suspend aid. More >>
Israeli Attack On Beit Hanoun A Possible War Crime
Friday, 19 September 2008, 11:03 am | United Nations
Israel’s shelling of Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip in November 2006, which killed 19 Palestinian civilians, may constitute a war crime, the head of the United Nations-backed investigation into the incident said today. More >>
UN Urges Respect For Afghan Children’s Rights
Friday, 19 September 2008, 10:51 am | United Nations
UN agencies working in Afghanistan have urged all parties in the strife-torn nation to respect the rights of children by allowing safe access for vaccinators and ensuring that students, teachers and schools are free from violence. More >>
UN Report Spotlights Successes In Fighting Malaria
Friday, 19 September 2008, 10:45 am | United Nations
Greater access to bed nets and medicines has helped bring sharp progress in tackling malaria, a disease that claims 1 million lives every year, according to a report released today by the United Nations World Health Organization. More >>
Djibouti-Eritrea Border Tension Could Escalate
Friday, 19 September 2008, 10:38 am | United Nations
Africa: A UN fact-finding mission concluded that Djibouti is being drawn into a crippling and expensive military mobilization to deal with a situation that may threaten national, regional and international peace. More >>
Zimbabwe: UN Supplies Life-Saving Aid, Needs Funds
Friday, 19 September 2008, 10:32 am | United Nations
The United Nations and other organizations are rushing to provide basic life-saving aid to millions of Zimbabweans following the recent political settlement in the southern African country and urgently need additional funds. More >>
Two New UN Envoys Chosen To Tackle Climate Change
Friday, 19 September 2008, 10:25 am | United Nations
The former leader of Botswana and the immediate outgoing president of the United Nations General Assembly have been appointed as Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s new Special Envoys on climate change. More >>
Poland To Comply With UN War Crimes Tribunal
Friday, 19 September 2008, 10:08 am | United Nations
Poland today became the sixteenth European country to sign an accord agreeing to enforce the sentences imposed by the United Nations tribunal set up to deal with the worst war crimes committed during the Balkan conflicts of the 1990s. More >>
Journalists' Deaths In Caucasus Spark New Concern
Friday, 19 September 2008, 10:04 am | United Nations
The head of the United Nations agency mandated to defend press freedom today voiced renewed concern over the safety of journalists in the Caucasus region, this time citing the deaths of two newsmen in the Russian Federation. More >>
UN Conference Tackles Racism In European Cities
Friday, 19 September 2008, 10:00 am | United Nations
A United Nations-backed conference to fight racism and discrimination in the everyday lives of people living in European cities starts in Bologna today in partnership with the European Coalition of Cities against Racism and FC Barcelona. More >>
More Accountability Needed To Boost Women’s Rights
Friday, 19 September 2008, 9:57 am | United Nations
Stronger accountability measures are needed to track progress governments and multilateral organizations have made in implementing their commitments to enhancing women’s rights, according to a new report by UNIFEM. More >>
High Food Prices Drive 75 Million More Into Hunger
Friday, 19 September 2008, 9:54 am | United Nations
Rising food prices have pushed 75 million more people into the ranks of the world’s famished, and threaten efforts to realize the goal of halving the number of those in hunger by 2015, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization said today. More >>
Decisive Steps Needed In Middle East Peace Process
Friday, 19 September 2008, 9:45 am | United Nations
The peace process between Israel and the Palestinians is at a crossroads and needs to make decisive advances in the months ahead, as disturbing developments counter-balance recent positive steps, a senior UN official said today. More >>
UN Deplores Anti-Indigenous Violence In Bolivia
Friday, 19 September 2008, 9:38 am | United Nations
The United Nations expert on the human rights of indigenous people today condemned the recent wave of violence in Bolivia directed at indigenous communities, individuals and institutions that work in their defence. More >>
Countries Pledge to Implement International Pacts
Friday, 19 September 2008, 12:58 am | United Nations
Nearly three dozen Member States have indicated that they intend to sign, ratify or accede to at least one international treaty as part of the annual campaign to promote such conventions during the opening of the General Assembly session. More >>
