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WFP Plans Emergency Operation In Bangladesh
Friday, 30 November 2007, 8:02 am | United Nations
The emergency operation will follow the work of a just-completed UN assessment which found that there are approximately 4.7 million people in the worst affected districts and 2.2 million people are in need of immediate food assistance. More >>
Action Urged To Curb Piracy Off Coast Of Somalia
Friday, 30 November 2007, 8:01 am | United Nations
The United Nations International Maritime Organization (IMO) today renewed its call for measures to prevent and suppress acts of piracy and armed robbery against ships off the coast of Somalia. More >>
Iraqis Returning From Syria, UN Agency Confirms
Friday, 30 November 2007, 8:01 am | United Nations
A convoy of buses carrying an estimated 800 Iraqis has left the Syrian capital of Damascus and crossed the border on its way to Baghdad, according to the United Nations refugee agency, which said most are returning because their resources are exhausted. More >>
Measles Deaths In Africa Plummet By 91 Per Cent
Friday, 30 November 2007, 8:00 am | United Nations
Deaths from measles in Africa have dropped by 91 per cent - or from an estimated 396,000 to 36,000 - between 2000 and 2006, thus achieving the United Nations goal to cut measles deaths by 90 per cent four years early, it was announced today. More >>
$100M Needed To Help Feed Indonesia's Poorest
Friday, 30 November 2007, 12:01 am | United Nations
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has appealed for $98 million to run a three-year project to feed the hungry in Indonesia, where millions of poor children across the South-East Asian archipelago are malnourished. More >>
UN Commander In DRC Urges Peaceful Resolution
Friday, 30 November 2007, 12:01 am | United Nations
The Force Commander of the United Nations mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC) today urged a peaceful resolution of clashes in the country's troubled eastern region, but said his troops stood ready to support Government efforts to ... More >>
UN & OSCE Cooperation Stronger Than Ever -- UN
Friday, 30 November 2007, 12:00 am | United Nations
"Whether in the security sector or in the human rights and economic fields, cooperation between our two institutions continues to set the standard that others aspire towards," Mr. Ban said in a message delivered on his behalf to the 15th Ministerial Council ... More >>
Serge Brammertz Appointed UN Balkan Prosecutor
Thursday, 29 November 2007, 6:36 pm | United Nations
In a resolution adopted unanimously this morning, Council members noted that the ICTY completion strategy calls for the court to do its best to complete all trials at first instance by the end of next year and all work, including appeals, by 2010. More >>
Decent Work For All Should Be Centre Of Policy
Thursday, 29 November 2007, 6:35 pm | United Nations
Johan Schölvinck, Director of the Division for Social Policy and Development, said "the report finds employment increasingly dominated by the service sector, with a global trend towards informal and casual forms of employment. More >>
New Manual To Help Vulnerable Rural African Youth
Thursday, 29 November 2007, 6:34 pm | United Nations
The programme has targeted several thousand youth in 11 African countries - Cameroon, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe - since 2004. More >>
UN-backed Tree-planting Drive Hits 1 Billion Goal
Thursday, 29 November 2007, 6:33 pm | United Nations
One billion trees have been planted under a drive backed by the United Nations and the World Agroforestry Centre, hitting the milestone as planned ahead of next month's international climate change conference in Bali. More >>
UN Works With Liberian Govt To Generate Jobs
Thursday, 29 November 2007, 6:32 pm | United Nations
Workers hired through the scheme include ex-combatants, returnees, and young men and women who are recruited from communities along the various roads that are being rehabilitated. More >>
UN Population Fund Receives €32K From EU Benefit
Thursday, 29 November 2007, 6:32 pm | United Nations
Obstetric fistula is a hole in the birth canal caused by prolonged labour without prompt medical intervention, usually a Caesarean section. The woman is left with chronic incontinence and, in most cases, a stillborn baby. More >>
UNICEF Launches Maldives Teacher Resource Centres
Thursday, 29 November 2007, 6:31 pm | United Nations
Using technology to bridge distance, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the Government of the Maldives have opened 20 broadband-enabled teacher resource centres to help provide quality education to a population spread across 200 small ... More >>
Cameroon Needs Help Caring For C. African Refugees
Thursday, 29 November 2007, 6:31 pm | United Nations
Unless more assistance is provided, local and national authorities in Cameroon may not be able to keep up with the needs of the rising number of refugees from the Central African Republic (CAR), the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) ... More >>
UN Supports 'Closed' Afghan Juvenile Rehabilitatio
Thursday, 29 November 2007, 6:30 pm | United Nations
The Centre is a pilot project that the agency has begun in Kabul and hopes to expand throughout Afghanistan, which is seeking to rebuild a functioning juvenile justice system following decades of conflict. More >>
Genocide Tribunal Reduces Jail Terms For 3 Execs
Thursday, 29 November 2007, 6:30 pm | United Nations
The United Nations tribunal dealing with the worst crimes committed during the 1994 Rwandan genocide today reduced the jail sentences of three former media executives convicted for inciting their compatriots to kill ethnic Tutsis More >>
Sri Lanka Suicide Attacks Condemned
Thursday, 29 November 2007, 4:03 pm | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has voiced outrage at today’s twin suicide attacks in the Sri Lankan capital, which have killed or wounded dozens of people, and yesterday’s aerial assault on a United Nations aid office in the far north of the troubled country. More >>
Angola: Concern on Religious Freedom
Thursday, 29 November 2007, 4:02 pm | United Nations
Although the freedom of religion is enshrined in the Angolan constitution, an independent United Nations human rights expert today voiced concern that the right to practise religion or belief is infringed in the Southern African nation. More >>
Link Between Hunger, Health and HIV
Thursday, 29 November 2007, 4:02 pm | United Nations
In a major report released today ahead of World AIDS Day, observed on 1 December, the United Nations World Food Programme ( WFP ) has called for paying greater attention to the link between hunger and health, pointing out that food is often cited as the ... More >>
