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With Bells In NY, Afghanistan, UN Marks Peace Day
Saturday, 22 September 2007, 11:06 am | United Nations
"In countless communities across the world, peace remains an elusive goal," Ban Ki-moon said. "From the displaced person camps of Chad and Darfur [Sudan] to the byways of Baghdad, the quest for peace is strewn with setbacks and suffering.." More >>
Georgia: UN Urges Restraint After Deadly Incident
Saturday, 22 September 2007, 11:05 am | United Nations
Expressing concern at reports of yesterday's deadly incident in Georgia between units of the Ministry of the Interior and Abkhaz de facto personnel, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called for restraint on all sides. More >>
UN Calls On Industry To Support Emission Reduction
Friday, 21 September 2007, 11:37 am | United Nations
The UN's top climate change official on Wednesday called on business to support serious emission-reduction commitments on the part of industrialized countries to ensure continuity in the international response to climate change and continuity in the ... More >>
Success Reported For UN-backed HIV, TB Facility
Friday, 21 September 2007, 10:32 am | United Nations
In the year since it was established to provide medicines for HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis to the poorest people of developing countries, the United Nations-backed international drug purchase facility UNITAID has managed to reduce the price of HIV ... More >>
DR Congo: Teams Provide Quicker Disease Diagnosis
Friday, 21 September 2007, 10:31 am | United Nations
The UN World Health Organization (WHO) and its partners now have substantial teams in the field in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where nine cases of the deadly Ebola virus has been confirmed, it was announced today. More >>
Global Network Of Biosphere Reserves: Sites Added
Friday, 21 September 2007, 10:30 am | United Nations
The World Network of Biosphere Reserves now has 529 sites in 105 countries after the 23 sites were added by the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) following a three-day meeting this week at its Paris headquarters. More >>
UN Wants More Troops, Specialist Units For Darfur
Friday, 21 September 2007, 10:29 am | United Nations
The United Nations said today that it has still not received any offers for some essential units of the hybrid peacekeeping force it plans to deploy with the African Union in the war-wracked Sudanese region of Darfur. More >>
Calculated Risks' Crucial For Middle East Peace
Friday, 21 September 2007, 10:28 am | United Nations
The situation on the ground in the Middle East is volatile and "calculated risks" are necessary to achieve peace, the top United Nations political official told the Security Council today, ahead of a series of high-level meetings to be held this ... More >>
Extending UN Mission In Liberia, Troop Drawdown
Friday, 21 September 2007, 10:27 am | United Nations
UNMIL was established in 2003 to support Liberia's ceasefire and peace process, and currently has over 14,000 troops and nearly 1,200 police officers, along with around 500 international civilian personnel, almost 1,000 local staff and 220 UN Volunteers. More >>
Tribunal For Rwandan Genocide Urges Support
Friday, 21 September 2007, 10:17 am | United Nations
The United Nations war crimes tribunal for the 1994 Rwandan genocide says it will not succeed in meeting the Security Council-imposed timetable for completing its work unless UN Member States help to arrest suspects still at large. More >>
Afghan Children Fly Kites For Peace
Friday, 21 September 2007, 10:16 am | United Nations
The initiative has grown to encompass scores of organizations, businesses, and institutions, politicians and individual citizens. Since the Taliban was ousted, kite flying has re-emerged as a popular past-time, particularly for Afghan children. More >>
Renewal Of Intl Security Force In Afghanistan
Friday, 21 September 2007, 10:15 am | United Nations
Voicing its concern about increased violence and terrorism in Afghanistan, the Security Council has approved the extension of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in the country for another year. More >>
Businesses Must Support Emissions Reduction
Friday, 21 September 2007, 10:14 am | United Nations
"Without binding commitments and the resulting downward pressure on greenhouse gas emissions, there is no carbon market. What's worse, we might fail in our battle against climate change, and that would result in costs that are much higher." More >>
Putting Teeth Into Boosting African Development
Friday, 21 September 2007, 10:14 am | United Nations
Senior development leaders met to forge an operational work agenda to boost Africa's as yet failing efforts to meet the ambitious goals the world has set itself to slash poverty, hunger, maternal and infant mortality, and other social ills. More >>
Anna Cataldi Joins Campaign To Curb TB
Friday, 21 September 2007, 10:12 am | United Nations
Italian author and journalist Anna Cataldi, a former UN Messenger of Peace, has been appointed Ambassador of the Stop TB Partnership to raise awareness worldwide about the unfair burden of tuberculosis on refugees, migrants, people living in poverty. More >>
Calls For Burundian Rebels To Re-engage With Govt
Friday, 21 September 2007, 10:12 am | United Nations
The UN Peacebuilding Commission has called on the last major rebel hold-out group in Burundi to "resume promptly without condition" its participation in efforts to finally close the chapter on years of ethnic violence in the Central African country. More >>
Revision Planned For Nuke Accidents Info System
Friday, 21 September 2007, 10:11 am | United Nations
The United Nations-sponsored system to enhance international safety by promptly communicating to the public the significance of nuclear and radiological accidents and incidents is being upgraded to make it even more versatile and informative. More >>
Flooding Hampers Humanitarian Efforts In Chad
Friday, 21 September 2007, 10:10 am | United Nations
Aid can only be transported to some outposts by air and even then the rain often makes airstrips unusable, UNHCR said in its latest update from Abeche in eastern Chad. Earlier this month, two flights to Goz Beida were cancelled. More >>
Ban Ki-moon Condemns Murder Of Lebanese Lawmaker
Thursday, 20 September 2007, 3:19 pm | United Nations
Ban Ki-moon has condemned today's assassination of a Lebanese lawmaker, who was killed along with at least eight others after an apparent car bomb attack in the capital, Beirut. In a statement issued by his spokesperson, Mr. Ban said he was "shocked by ... More >>
UN Rushing Aid To 1.5 Million Flood Victims
Thursday, 20 September 2007, 11:59 am | United Nations
United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) teams are fanning out across a wide arc of sub-Saharan Africa, from Mauritania in the west to Kenya in the east, bringing in helicopters and boats where necessary to help an estimated 1.5 million people ... More >>
