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Poor Nations Are Not Benefiting From Globalization
Thursday, 27 September 2007, 11:39 am | United Nations
Globalization has failed to help the poor in many parts of the world, but instead served to benefit already affluent consumers in wealthy countries, the President of the African island nation of São Tomé and Príncipe told the United Nations ... More >>
Urgent Action Needed For Wide Access - UNAIDS
Thursday, 27 September 2007, 11:38 am | United Nations
Achieving the goal of providing universal access to comprehensive HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, care and support by 2010 will require a dramatic and urgent scale-up of efforts, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) said in a new report ... More >>
UN Rushes Aid To 5,000 Uprooted Nepalese
Thursday, 27 September 2007, 11:37 am | United Nations
United Nations agencies today announced an emergency aid programme to feed and provide other relief for 5,000 people displaced by communal violence across two districts in western Nepal. More >>
Cuba Seeks More Democratic And Transparent UN
Thursday, 27 September 2007, 11:37 am | United Nations
The Foreign Minister of Cuba, which chairs the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), today called for improvements in the work of the United Nations to make it more transparent and democratic. More >>
Judges At UN War Crimes Re-elect Their President
Thursday, 27 September 2007, 11:36 am | United Nations
Judges on the United Nations war crimes tribunal set up to deal with the worst atrocities of the Balkan wars of the 1990s today re-elected their President and Vice-President to each serve another two-year term. More >>
Global Challenges Aggravated By Intolerance
Thursday, 27 September 2007, 11:35 am | United Nations
Promoting tolerance is a vital part of tackling many of today's global challenges which, though mostly political in nature, are aggravated and rendered intractable by the distrust, and even hostility, among different cultural and religious groups. More >>
UN Dispatches Burma Envoy Amid Rising Tensions
Thursday, 27 September 2007, 11:14 am | United Nations
Noting reports of the use of force and of arrests and beatings, Mr. Ban called again on authorities "to exercise utmost restraint toward the peaceful demonstrations taking place, as such action can only undermine the prospects for peace, prosperity and ... More >>
Chile President Calls For Action On Climate Change
Wednesday, 26 September 2007, 3:54 pm | United Nations
The President of Chile called for a new global political consensus to deal with climate change, based on a shared but differentiated set of responsibilities and within the framework of the United Nations, during an address to the General Assembly today. More >>
Sustained Momentum On Climate Change Required
Wednesday, 26 September 2007, 3:53 pm | United Nations
The President of the United Nations General Assembly today opened its annual high-level debate with a call for action to sustain the international momentum generated by yesterday's high-level meeting on addressing the problem of climate change. More >>
UN Must Reform To Respond To Global Challenges
Wednesday, 26 September 2007, 3:53 pm | United Nations
"The long-term success of a global organization such as the UN depends upon its capacity to respond to ever-changing challenges and new international players, by reforming, adapting and continuously reinventing itself," Prime Minister José Sócrates stated ... More >>
Climate Change Solutions Must Also Tackle Poverty
Wednesday, 26 September 2007, 3:52 pm | United Nations
The solution to the problems posed by climate change must be linked to sustainable development so that the world's least affluent countries can conquer poverty, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono told the United Nations General Assembly today. More >>
Powerful Nations Skew Global Forums Such As UN
Wednesday, 26 September 2007, 3:51 pm | United Nations
The powerful countries of the world continue to dominate global forums such as the UN to the detriment of freedom, justice and equality, ensuring that while there is often lofty talk of solving major international problems, little is actually done ... More >>
U.S. President Voices Support For Strong UN
Wednesday, 26 September 2007, 3:50 pm | United Nations
United States President George W. Bush today told the General Assembly that he supports a "strong and vibrant" United Nations empowered to carry out the shared goals of the world body and its host country, from addressing global pandemics to stopping ... More >>
UN The Only Place To Solve Global Challenges
Wednesday, 26 September 2007, 3:49 pm | United Nations
Strengthening the effectiveness of the United Nations is crucial to the world's common future because it is the sole forum where meaningful joint agreements can be struck to meet global challenges, Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel told the General Assembly's ... More >>
Most Severe Drought In Memory In Moldova
Wednesday, 26 September 2007, 3:48 pm | United Nations
"Reduced yields not only affected overall production, but drastically reduced returns on leased land and on labour, hitting small farmers, who usually receive in-kind payments of wheat, corn and oil, particularly hard," UN Food and Agriculture Organization ... More >>
Honduran Leader Says Migration Is A Rights Issue
Wednesday, 26 September 2007, 3:47 pm | United Nations
Jose Manuel Zelaya Rosales said it is a great paradox of the current age that while borders are opening for commerce and goods, they are closing for people and migrants. The issue of migration should be a central concern to both sending and receiving ... More >>
Emir Of Qatar Calls For Successful Outcome To Doha
Wednesday, 26 September 2007, 3:47 pm | United Nations
"While we are concerned abut the deadlock in the ongoing consultations on the implementation of the Doha Development Agenda, we hope we would be able to put that phase behind us and that all parties concerned, especially the developed countries, would show ... More >>
UN Appeals To Aid Flood Victims Fall On Deaf Ears
Wednesday, 26 September 2007, 3:45 pm | United Nations
Despite urgent appeals United Nations agencies are facing a huge shortfall in funding to help well over a million flood victims across a wide swath of sub-Saharan Africa, from Ghana in the West to Ethiopia in the east, as they face food shortages, loss ... More >>
Funding Shortfall Threatens UN Aid In Darfur Regio
Wednesday, 26 September 2007, 3:45 pm | United Nations
"We fear we may be compelled to scale down our existing operations in West Darfur if we do not receive additional funding very soon," UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) spokesperson Jennifer Pagonis told a news briefing in Geneva today. More >>
Meeting Backs Enhanced UN Ties With African Union
Wednesday, 26 September 2007, 3:44 pm | United Nations
The heads of State or government or the senior ministers of the Council's 15 members, as well as Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and AU Commission Chairperson Alpha Oumar Konaré, discussed how to improve peace and security on a continent often beset by ... More >>
