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Sec. Council Backs Plan To Resolve Chad Crisis
Tuesday, 5 February 2008, 9:11 am | United Nations
The Security Council today demanded an immediate end to the violence engulfing Chad and welcomed an African Union initiative to try to engage both the Government and the armed opposition groups to find a durable solution. More >>
Bahamas Accedes To UN Marine Pollution Treaties
Tuesday, 5 February 2008, 9:10 am | United Nations
The Bahamas, home to the world's third-largest registered fleet of ships, has acceded to two key International Maritime Organization (IMO) conventions that aim to discourage environmental pollution on the high seas. More >>
WFP Thanks French Navy For Protection From Pirates
Tuesday, 5 February 2008, 8:48 am | United Nations
A WFP Executive said in a statement yesterday from the agency's headquarters in Rome that "safe travel through Somali waters has made an enormous impact on our ability to reach more than a million hungry, vulnerable people. More >>
Ban Ki-moon Applauds India's Assistance To Nepal
Tuesday, 5 February 2008, 8:48 am | United Nations
India has played a vital and long-standing role in helping the people of Nepal and also in supporting the efforts of the United Nations across the South Asian region, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says. More >>
Sec. Council Emergency Session On Chad Crisis
Tuesday, 5 February 2008, 8:46 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called for an immediate end to the fighting engulfing Chad as the Security Council held emergency consultations to discuss the worsening situation inside the country. More >>
UN Ready To Assist After Major DR Congo Quake
Tuesday, 5 February 2008, 8:45 am | United Nations
The United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is preparing to assist local authorities help people in the far east of the impoverished country after a major earthquake struck the region. More >>
Ban Ki-moon Urges Peaceful Settlement In Chad
Monday, 4 February 2008, 4:03 pm | United Nations
Ban Ki-moon has voiced deep concern at the deteriorating security situation inside Chad, where fierce fighting has resumed between Government forces and opposition groups, and called on the parties to settle their differences peacefully. More >>
L. America, Caribbean Have Key Climate Change Role
Monday, 4 February 2008, 10:39 am | United Nations
The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a 2007 Nobel Prize laureate, has said the impacts of climate change in the region will intensify as time goes by. More >>
Crisis Underscores Gap Between Hopes And Reality
Friday, 1 February 2008, 2:28 pm | United Nations
New York, Jan 30 2008 6:00PMThe recent troubles in the Middle East illustrate “the gap between the aspirations of the political process and the grim realities of the situation on the ground,” the United Nations political chief told the Security ... More >>
Nepal: Envoy Speaks Out Against Rally Bombing
Friday, 1 February 2008, 10:32 am | United Nations
"I have no doubts that acts of terror will discredit whatever cause they are claimed to promote with the Nepalese people as well as the international community." Police are still investigating today's attack. More >>
UN Human Rights Chief Begins Visit To Slovenia
Friday, 1 February 2008, 10:31 am | United Nations
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights arrived today in Slovenia for a two-day official visit in the country that current holds the presidency of the Council of the European Union. More >>
Mining In Tanzania: Health, Environmental Threat
Friday, 1 February 2008, 10:30 am | United Nations
Voicing concern about the impact of mining on the environment, workers and communities in Tanzania, an independent United Nations expert has recommended closer national monitoring of industry there. More >>
Colombian Ratification Of CTBT Welcomed By UN
Friday, 1 February 2008, 10:28 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today welcomed Colombia's ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), which will enter into force when it becomes law in nine more countries. More >>
Arab Rights Charter Deviates From Int'l Standards
Friday, 1 February 2008, 10:27 am | United Nations
The Arab Charter on Human Rights contains provisions that do not meet international norms and standards, including the application of the death penalty for children, the treatment of women and non-citizens, and the equating of Zionism with racism. More >>
Peace Deal Between DRC Gov't, Rebels Welcomed
Friday, 1 February 2008, 10:25 am | United Nations
Welcoming the peace agreement between the Government and armed groups in the violence-torn eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the Security Council today urged all sides to respect the ceasefire. More >>
Sec. Council Discusses Violence Engulfing Kenya
Friday, 1 February 2008, 10:24 am | United Nations
The Security Council today heard a closed-door briefing on the situation in Kenya, where post-electoral violence has claimed hundreds of lives, including dozens in recent days. More >>
Sec Council Extends Ethiopia, Eritrea UN Mission
Friday, 1 February 2008, 10:23 am | United Nations
Security Council voted today for a six-month extension of the mandate of the United Nations peacekeeping mission monitoring the 2000 ceasefire that ended the border war between the two countries. More >>
Somalia: Rights Expert Decries Aid Workers Killing
Friday, 1 February 2008, 10:22 am | United Nations
30 January 2008 - The United Nations Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Somalia today condemned the recent killing of three aid workers there and called for justice in the case. More >>
Equatorial Guinea Postpones Visit Of Rights Expert
Friday, 1 February 2008, 10:21 am | United Nations
A planned visit by a United Nations human rights expert to Equatorial Guinea has been cancelled after the Central African country's Government postponed it suddenly, citing "urgent activities." More >>
New UN Partnership With Chocolate Giant Cadbury
Friday, 1 February 2008, 10:20 am | United Nations
UNDP is setting up a partnership with the confectionery conglomerate Cadbury to support cocoa-farming communities in Ghana, India, Indonesia and the Caribbean by helping them to boost their crop yields. More >>
