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Flood Victims In Sudan Mount To Over Half Million
Tuesday, 25 September 2007, 11:24 am | United Nations
With the number of flood victims in Sudan rising by at least another 100,000 to well over half a million, United Nations agencies and their partners are putting contingency measures into effect to respond to the emergency despite a $19 million funding shortfall. More >>
Opening Market Access For Ugandan Farmers
Tuesday, 25 September 2007, 11:22 am | United Nations
A new programme funded partially by a $15 million loan from the UN International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) will help redress that situation for some 8.8 million people - some 35 per cent of Ugandans. This programme will improve roads. More >>
Human Rights Violations Continue In Darfur
Tuesday, 25 September 2007, 11:21 am | United Nations
Serious violations of international humanitarian and human rights law by all sides in the Darfur conflict continue to be reported, a group of seven independent UN rights experts said today in an interim report on the situation in the war-wracked Sudanese ... More >>
UN Calls For Research To Curb Care-related Deaths
Tuesday, 25 September 2007, 11:18 am | United Nations
In Europe alone, an average of 1 in every 10 patients admitted to hospital suffers some form of preventable harm, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said in a news release at the opening of an international conference in Porto, Portugal on patient ... More >>
Ban Ki-moon Urges Young People To Harness ICT
Tuesday, 25 September 2007, 11:17 am | United Nations
Stressing the growing role of information and communication technology (ICT) in the quest for development, Ban Ki-moon has called on youth attending a UN-backed summit to harness the power of the digital revolution to tackle global challenges. More >>
Film Star Rupert Everett Visits Russia As UN Envoy
Tuesday, 25 September 2007, 11:15 am | United Nations
Rupert Everett, the actor who is a Special Representative of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), is on a four-day visit to Russia to learn what is being done to reverse the spread of the epidemic. More >>
Local Purchase By UN Agency Boost To Farmers
Tuesday, 25 September 2007, 11:14 am | United Nations
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) reported that its purchase of maize directly from small farmers in Lesotho, who used conservation to produce a surplus amid the country's worst drought in 30 years, is having a beneficial effect on local communities. More >>
Push To Phase-Out Ozone-Depleting Compounds
Tuesday, 25 September 2007, 11:09 am | United Nations
Ban Ki-moon has welcomed the agreement by the signatories to the Montreal Protocol - the UN-backed treaty to curb the release of harmful substances into the atmosphere - to accelerate the freeze and phase-out of hydrochlorofluorocarbons. More >>
Big Meeting Of Global Leaders On Climate Change
Tuesday, 25 September 2007, 11:08 am | United Nations
"We hold the future in our hands," United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said. "Together, we must ensure that our grandchildren will not have to ask why we failed to do the right thing, and let them suffer the consequences." More >>
Youth Challenges UN To Stand On Climate Change
Tuesday, 25 September 2007, 11:06 am | United Nations
"I have nothing but my future ahead of me and you have nothing but my future to protect," Catherine Gauthier, 18, told heads of State or government or other top officials from over 150 nations, the largest-ever gathering of its kind on climate change. More >>
UN Climate Change Pro Stresses Dangers Of Inaction
Tuesday, 25 September 2007, 11:05 am | United Nations
A top United Nations climate change expert today underscored the dangers of inaction by global leaders in reversing global warming at a gathering of heads of state and government and other top officials at the world body's headquarters in New York. More >>
UN To Offset Carbon Emissions From Meeting
Tuesday, 25 September 2007, 11:05 am | United Nations
The UN will substantially offset the carbon emissions - estimated at approximately 5,000 tons of carbon dioxide - resulting from today's high-level climate change meeting, which has brought together heads of State and government as well as other senior ... More >>
Tackling Climate Change A Moral Obligation
Tuesday, 25 September 2007, 11:04 am | United Nations
In addition to the incontrovertible scientific data, there is an ethical dimension to combating climate change, General Assembly President Srgjan Kerim said today in an address at the historic meeting on the issue at UN Headquarters in New York. More >>
Climate Change Not Just Concern Of Scientists
Tuesday, 25 September 2007, 11:03 am | United Nations
The high-level gathering in NY builds on an "unprecedented momentum" of public and political attention that is now being given to climate change, which is no longer just the preoccupation of scientists or negotiators but has become a "people's issue". More >>
California Gov And Delhi Mayor On Climate Change
Tuesday, 25 September 2007, 11:01 am | United Nations
Addressing today's landmark United Nations meeting on climate change, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Delhi Mayor Arti Mehra today said governments can learn from the prominent role that local efforts play in addressing the problem. More >>
New UN Somalia Envoy Holds Mogadishu Meetings
Monday, 24 September 2007, 8:22 am | United Nations
The newly appointed United Nations envoy to Somalia arrived today in country's capital, Mogadishu, for talks with leaders of the Transitional Federal Institutions (TFIs) in a bid to encourage national reconciliation. More >>
Meeting Urges Sustained Support For Afghanistan
Monday, 24 September 2007, 8:22 am | United Nations
Participants at a high-level meeting convened today at the United Nations by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Afghan President Hamid Karzai called for sustained international efforts to support the war-torn nation as it proceeds on the difficult path. More >>
Push To Protect Ozone, Combat Climate Change
Monday, 24 September 2007, 8:21 am | United Nations
An historic agreement to tackle the twin challenges of protecting the ozone layer and combating climate change has been agreed by governments meeting in Montreal on the 20th anniversary of a United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) treaty. More >>
Global Climate Change Meeting Call For Action
Monday, 24 September 2007, 8:20 am | United Nations
Just before national leaders from across the world gather at UN Headquarters in NY for the largest-ever high-level meeting on the problem of climate change, a senior UN official said the event should produce a strong call for action. More >>
Time Has Come For Collective Action On Iraq
Monday, 24 September 2007, 8:19 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today emerged from a high-level meeting on Iraq he convened with Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki calling for international action to help the country and pledging full United Nations support in this effort. More >>
