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UN Concern At Extreme Violence In Somalia
Sunday, 30 September 2007, 7:17 am | United Nations
Civilians faced severe violations by all parties to the conflict including of the right to life, disappearance, torture, recruitment as child combatants and sexual and gender-based violence, as well as continued obstacles to the right to food, health ... More >>
UN Darfur Action Too Little & Late - St Vincent PM
Sunday, 30 September 2007, 7:16 am | United Nations
Ralph Gonsalves told the Assembly's annual high-level debate that the actions of the UN in recent years "have caused the world to wonder about the relative worth of a Sudanese or Rwandan life, versus an Israeli, Chinese, American or European life." More >>
UN Distributes Vital Aid To Ugandan Flood Victims
Sunday, 30 September 2007, 7:15 am | United Nations
United Nations agencies and their partners are providing food and health care to tens of thousands of people in Uganda, one of several African countries reeling from the aftermath of the worst flooding the Continent has seen in decades. More >>
Lebanese Pres. Urges Open Hariri Tribunal Hearing
Sunday, 30 September 2007, 7:15 am | United Nations
Open hearings on the proposed Special Tribunal to try those suspected of involvement in the February 2005 assassination of Lebanon's Prime Minister Rafik Hariri could help quell controversy, the country's President told the United Nations General Assembly ... More >>
UN Launches New 'e-agriculture' Platform
Sunday, 30 September 2007, 7:14 am | United Nations
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) today launched a new interactive web-based site, underscoring the important role information and communication technology (ICT) can play in promoting agriculture and rural development. More >>
Seafood Industry Must Adapt To 'Greener' Fish Era
Sunday, 30 September 2007, 7:13 am | United Nations
"The push towards sustainable fisheries is not just coming from government or environmental groups, but from the market itself," FAO Fishing Industries Division Director Grimur Valdimarsson told a three-day Seafood Industry Congress which ended in Dublin, Ireland. More >>
Summit Supports Moves To End Cervical Cancer
Sunday, 30 September 2007, 7:13 am | United Nations
Participants at a United Nations-sponsored conference in Brussels have called for increased investment in vaccination, screening and treatment to eliminate cervical cancer, a preventable disease that kills 250,000 women annually - 80 per cent of ... More >>
Material Found In UN Office Not Harmful
Sunday, 30 September 2007, 7:12 am | United Nations
United States authorities have determined that the potentially hazardous substances removed from the New York office of the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) last month pose no threat. More >>
UN Bolsters Ties With European Network
Sunday, 30 September 2007, 7:11 am | United Nations
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE), a network of 76 organizations in 31 countries, agreed to enhance their collaboration to promote better treatment of refugees and asylum-seekers. More >>
Use Of Force At Root Of Conflicts, Malaysian PM
Sunday, 30 September 2007, 7:10 am | United Nations
The use of force, and not religious difference, lies at the root of conflicts between Islamic and Western countries, the Prime Minister of Malaysia told the United Nations General Assembly today, emphasizing that all genuine religions advocate peace. More >>
Thousands Flee More Fighting In Eastern DR Congo
Sunday, 30 September 2007, 7:09 am | United Nations
"Hundreds of knee-high children with heavy loads and women with bundles on their heads and babies on their backs stream along the pot-holed road," UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) official Sarah Crowe reported from outside the emptied ghost villages around ... More >>
UN Standing Police Capacity Unit To Train In UK
Sunday, 30 September 2007, 7:08 am | United Nations
Officers from the United Nations Standing Police Capacity will undergo two weeks of training in transitional justice and other aspects of peacekeeping at the top police leadership centre in the United Kingdom from 8-19 October ahead of deployment ... More >>
Turkish Leader: UN Needed To End Cyprus Problem
Sunday, 30 September 2007, 7:08 am | United Nations
The United Nations remains the only platform for resolving the Cyprus problem, Turkey's Prime Minister told the General Assembly today as he called on the members of the international community to remove all of their restrictions on Turkish Cypriots as ... More >>
Japan Urges Total Elimination Of Nuclear Weapons
Sunday, 30 September 2007, 7:07 am | United Nations
Japan is committed to bolstering global efforts for the elimination of nuclear weapons, the country's newly-appointed foreign minister told the United Nations General Assembly's annual high-level debate today. More >>
Migiro Urges Maternal And Child Health Funding
Sunday, 30 September 2007, 7:06 am | United Nations
Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro has called on donor nations to keep their development aid promises, citing the lack of funding as a major reason for the slow progress in reducing maternal and child mortality. More >>
UN Placed To Overcome Cultural, Religious Divides
Sunday, 30 September 2007, 3:47 am | United Nations
Adrian Mihai Cioroianu said the Alliance of Civilizations - launched by the UN in 2005 at the initiative of Spain and Turkey to reduce tensions between religions and cultures - "had the great potential to construct a real dialogue between the West ... More >>
Summit Offers Chance For Progress On Korea
Sunday, 30 September 2007, 3:46 am | United Nations
Addressing the Assembly's annual high-level debate, Song Min-soon said the leaders "will explore ways to increase mutual trust through political and military confidence-building measures, as well as ways to lay the groundwork for an eventual Inter-Korean Economic ... More >>
EU Nations Spotlight Value Of Partnerships At UN
Sunday, 30 September 2007, 3:45 am | United Nations
Austria's Federal Minister for European and International Affairs Ursula Plassnik said the major global problems and challenges of the current era are so complex that partnerships are the only feasible option. More >>
Singapore Calls For Gradual Institution Evolution
Sunday, 30 September 2007, 3:44 am | United Nations
Addressing the annual high-level debate, George Yeo said it was time for the key institutions to reflect the world of the current era and not that prevailing at the end of World War II, when so many were established. More >>
Togolese Repatriation From Ghana Kicks Off
Sunday, 30 September 2007, 3:42 am | United Nations
A group of 176 men, women and children are the first Togolese refugees to return home from Ghana by road convoy with the assistance of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). More >>
