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Gender Inequality Renders Aid Ineffective
Wednesday, 3 September 2008, 4:05 pm | United Nations
Governments and aid donor partners need to make greater efforts in tackling gender inequality if they are to successfully combat global poverty, the United Nations and the European Commission (EC) stressed today at a high-level forum in Accra, Ghana. More >>
Disasters Amplify Need For Urgent Action On Climat
Wednesday, 3 September 2008, 3:45 pm | United Nations
The destruction wreaked by Hurricane Gustav in the past week and the uprooting of some two million Indians by the worst flood in five decades has reinforced the need for countries to reach agreement on a successor pact to the Kyoto Protocol, the head ... More >>
Aid Plane With 17 On Board Crashes in DR Congo
Wednesday, 3 September 2008, 3:40 pm | United Nations
A plane carrying humanitarian supplies with 17 people on board, including United Nations staff, has crashed into a mountain near Bukavu, in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the world body confirmed today. More >>
Shutdown Looms For UN Air Service
Wednesday, 3 September 2008, 3:37 pm | United Nations
The future of the United Nations air service that helps relief workers to deliver life-saving supplies and assistance to hundreds of thousands of West Africans is in jeopardy because of a funding shortfall of more than $5 million, the UN World ... More >>
UN Launches Campaign To Text Message For Peace
Wednesday, 3 September 2008, 3:34 pm | United Nations
The United Nations launched a text messaging for peace campaign today, urging cell phone users in the United States to compose peace messages to be published on a website and delivered to world leaders gathered for the General Assembly later this month. More >>
Climate Forecasting Crucial To Water Resources
Wednesday, 3 September 2008, 3:31 pm | United Nations
The chief of the United Nations meteorological agency today called for weather forecasts to play a greater role in planning for economic development and poverty reduction because of the impact climate change has on water resources. More >>
UNICEF Announces Boost to Programmes in Togo
Wednesday, 3 September 2008, 3:21 pm | United Nations
M The head of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) today announced $3 million of extra support for education, health and nutrition programmes in Togo during her first visit to the West African country. More >>
UN Reports 3M Affected by Floods in India
Wednesday, 3 September 2008, 3:17 pm | United Nations
More than 3 million people have been uprooted and 60 people killed by the worst flooding to hit north-east India in five decades, the United Nations World Health Organization WHO reported today. More >>
UN Mission Assists Haitians
Wednesday, 3 September 2008, 3:08 pm | United Nations
The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti is assisting local authorities in rescue and relief efforts in the northern city of Gonaives after it was hit this morning by floods and mudslides triggered by Tropical Storm Hanna, the second storm ... More >>
UN Police Help Local Authorities Destroy Narcotics
Wednesday, 3 September 2008, 3:02 pm | United Nations
The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti has helped the national police destroy more than 2,000 kilograms of drugs as part of its efforts to work with authorities in the impoverished Caribbean country in the fight against the illegal trafficking ... More >>
UN Sounds Alarm on Conditions in Georgian City
Wednesday, 3 September 2008, 2:58 pm | United Nations
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) today expressed concern over the humanitarian conditions facing people in and around the town of Gori, which lies just south of the border of the separatist region of South Ossetia. More >>
UN Peacekeeping Official Visits Chad
Wednesday, 3 September 2008, 10:48 am | United Nations
A senior United Nations peacekeeping official is visiting Chad and the Central African Republic (CAR) for talks on the performance of the nascent UN mission to the neighbouring African countries. More >>
Top Un Relief Official Assesses Ethiopia
Tuesday, 2 September 2008, 11:53 am | United Nations
The top United Nations humanitarian official has begun his three-day visit to Ethiopia, where he is holding talks with Government officials, relief groups and individuals affected by the country's drought and food crisis. More >>
UN Working To Meet Needs Of Gustav Victims
Tuesday, 2 September 2008, 11:11 am | United Nations
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Food Programme (WFP) are teaming up to bring life-saving assistance to thousands of people living in temporary shelters in Haiti, after deadly Hurricane Gustav struck the country last week. More >>
Ban Renews Pledge To Protect UN Staff Worldwide
Tuesday, 2 September 2008, 9:38 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today reiterated his pledge to protect United Nations staff around the world, as he met in Geneva with the families of the victims and survivors of the deadly 2003 terrorist attack on the world body's headquarters in ... More >>
New UN Human Rights Chief Takes Up Post
Tuesday, 2 September 2008, 9:34 am | United Nations
Navanethem Pillay today began her duties as the top United Nations human rights official, taking over a growing office that now has 1,000 staff working in 50 countries. More >>
Greater Efforts Needed to Provide Safe Water
Tuesday, 2 September 2008, 9:31 am | United Nations
More than one billion people still lack access to safe drinking water, Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said today, calling for greater efforts to achieve the water and sanitation targets set by world leaders in 2000. More >>
Site of Recent DR Congo Clashes Now Calm
Tuesday, 2 September 2008, 9:25 am | United Nations
Alan Doss, the top United Nations official in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), says calm has returned to Rutshuru in the country's volatile North Kivu province following last week's clashes between Government forces and armed rebel groups. More >>
UN Provides Emergency Aid To Afghans
Monday, 1 September 2008, 11:00 am | United Nations
United Nations team has delivered emergency relief assistance to some 900 people in the country's western Herat province who were affected the recent military operations which the world body said resulted in the deaths of numerous civilians, including ... More >>
Ban Hails Nobel Prize-Winning UN Climate Panel
Monday, 1 September 2008, 10:55 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today paid tribute to the accomplishments of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), co-recipient of last year's Nobel Peace Prize, as he marked its 20th anniversary. More >>
