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Racism Targets Visible Minorities In France -- UN
Wednesday, 3 October 2007, 4:55 pm | United Nations
"Racism is alive, insidious and clearly targeted at those 'visible' minorities of immigrant heritage, the majority of whom are French citizens," the UN Independent Expert on minority issues, Gay J. McDougall, said in a statement issued last week. More >>
Strengthened UN Crucial For Resolving Conflicts
Wednesday, 3 October 2007, 4:54 pm | United Nations
Ireland's Foreign Minister has advocated strengthening United Nations efforts in the field of conflict prevention and resolution, as well as sharing lessons learned, as key factors to achieving peace in today's strife-ridden world. More >>
UN Urged To Address Proliferation Of Small Arms
Wednesday, 3 October 2007, 4:53 pm | United Nations
"In West Africa, the phenomenon is particularly distressing and its eradication requires cooperation supported by States and the international community," Djibrill Yipènè Bassole told the Assembly's annual high-level debate. More >>
Multilateral Trading System Is Threatened - Belize
Wednesday, 3 October 2007, 4:52 pm | United Nations
"The international community must keep development in perspective in the current climate change debate, since economic development better enables countries to tackle climate change." More >>
Easing Tensions In DR Congo Ease Aid Delivery
Wednesday, 3 October 2007, 4:51 pm | United Nations
The "window of opportunity" offered by the current calm allows the humanitarian community to continue to assess vulnerable populations and provide the necessary assistance, stated the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). More >>
UN Envoy Meets With Burma's Top General
Wednesday, 3 October 2007, 9:20 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's Special Envoy to Myanmar Ibrahim Gambari today met with the South-East Asian nation's top general on the last day of his mission in response to the deteriorating situation there amid reports of the use of force and ... More >>
Calls For Burma To Free Political Detainees
Wednesday, 3 October 2007, 9:19 am | United Nations
The UN Human Rights Council today strongly deplored the continued violent repression of peaceful demonstrations in Burma, calling on the authorities to release without delay all those recently arrested as well as all political detainees, including democracy ... More >>
Gandhi's Message Of Non-violence Needed Now
Wednesday, 3 October 2007, 9:18 am | United Nations
"And we have witnessed lethal force being used against unarmed and non-violent marchers who exemplified the very spirit of the Mahatma's teachings," he added, referring to the recent wave of peaceful protests witnessed in Myanmar. More >>
Kenya's FM Urges Enhanced UN Role In Somalia
Wednesday, 3 October 2007, 9:17 am | United Nations
The Foreign Minister of Kenya today cautioned that the crisis in Somalia threatens to be overshadowed by the Darfur conflict, and called for a stepped-up United Nations role in the volatile Horn of Africa country. More >>
Muppets At Kosovo School To Bridge Ethnic Divide
Wednesday, 3 October 2007, 9:17 am | United Nations
The Muppets are going to school in Kosovo in a new project to teach tolerance to children in the Albanian-majority Serb province, which the United Nations has run since Western forces drove out Yugoslav troops in 1999 amid ethnic fighting. More >>
UN Calls Inclusive Development A Moral Necessity
Wednesday, 3 October 2007, 9:16 am | United Nations
The head of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) characterized inclusive development - which allows developing countries to reap gains from globalization - as a "crucial moral and political imperative." More >>
Attacks On Darfur Peacekeepers Must Be Punished
Wednesday, 3 October 2007, 9:16 am | United Nations
Addressing the General Assembly today, the Foreign Minister of the Republic of Congo decried the recent attack on African Union peacekeepers serving in the strife-torn Darfur region of Sudan and said the crime must be punished. More >>
Costa Rica Urges Military Spending Cuts
Wednesday, 3 October 2007, 9:15 am | United Nations
The Foreign Minister of Costa Rica today urged leaders attending the General Assembly's annual high-level debate to work for cuts in military spending to fund development objectives. More >>
UNHCR Facing New Funding Shortfall In Sudan
Wednesday, 3 October 2007, 9:14 am | United Nations
The United Nations refugee agency today reported another critical shortfall in its funding for Sudan, this time threatening its reintegration operations to help the South recover from two decades of civil war More >>
Inter-Korea Summit Can Open New Phase Of Peace
Wednesday, 3 October 2007, 9:13 am | United Nations
The north-south summit between the two Koreas now under way in Pyongyang can open a new chapter in relations between the countries, a senior official from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) told the General Assembly today. More >>
Some Asian Nations Not On Track To Reach Goals
Wednesday, 3 October 2007, 9:13 am | United Nations
A new United Nations report finds that despite the region's economic prosperity, some countries in Asia and the Pacific are not on track to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), eight targets to slash such ills as poverty, hunger, disease ... More >>
Maltese Gets Top UN Award For Aiding Boat People
Wednesday, 3 October 2007, 9:11 am | United Nations
"We are all privileged to be able to give the Nansen Refugee Award to an angel," UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres said in handing over the prize, consisting of a medal and $100,000, to Katrine Camilleri at a ceremony in Geneva ... More >>
WFP Appeals For More Funds To Feed Mauritanians
Wednesday, 3 October 2007, 9:11 am | United Nations
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today appealed for urgent new funding to feed 470,000 people in Mauritania, warning that flooding is putting greater pressure on its dwindling supplies for both flood victims and returning refugees. More >>
Pacific Nations Spotlight Perils Of Climate Change
Tuesday, 2 October 2007, 4:35 pm | United Nations
Developing countries must be allowed to make voluntary commitments to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions under any new global agreement to deal with the effects of climate change, the Deputy Prime Minister of Tuvalu told the General Assembly ... More >>
UN Accused Of Allowing Ethiopia To Disregard Law
Tuesday, 2 October 2007, 4:34 pm | United Nations
Ethiopia seems to be planning to renounce the accord that ended its border war with Eritrea so that it can renew hostilities, the latter's Foreign Minister told the General Assembly today, accusing some Security Council members of accommodating the ... More >>
