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Peace, Development And Human Rights - UN Focus
Wednesday, 19 September 2007, 12:43 am | United Nations
International pacts that deal with peace, development and human rights will be the focus of this year's annual campaign to promote the signature and ratification of treaties during the opening of the General Assembly session. More >>
Refugee Agency Assists Asylum Seekers
Wednesday, 19 September 2007, 12:42 am | United Nations
Pressing forward in efforts to ensure that asylum-seekers have access to European Union (EU) territory and asylum procedures, the United Nations refugee agency today announced that it has signed an agreement to monitor activities along Slovakia's ... More >>
Pacific Countries Meeting On Tsunami Preparations
Tuesday, 18 September 2007, 11:59 am | United Nations
Experts from countries bordering the Pacific Ocean are gathering in Ecuador this week for a United Nations-organized meeting to assess the state of preparations in the region, home to most of the world's tsunamis, to predict and deal with any future ... More >>
Ana Ivanovic Named UNICEF National Ambassador
Tuesday, 18 September 2007, 11:57 am | United Nations
Tennis superstar Ana Ivanovic has officially been named as a National Ambassador for the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) for her home country of Serbia, where she will advocate for children's rights, especially in the realms of education and ... More >>
Nepal: UN Human Rights Official Condemns Killings
Tuesday, 18 September 2007, 11:53 am | United Nations
Urging tolerance and calling on the population to desist from further violence, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees (OHCHR) today condemned the killings of a local leader and a member of the Armed Police Force in south-central ... More >>
Tribunal Hears Arguments On Former Rwandan Mayor
Tuesday, 18 September 2007, 11:51 am | United Nations
Prosecutors at the United Nations war crimes tribunal for the Rwandan genocide today urged its judges to sentence to 12 years' imprisonment a former mayor who has pleaded guilty to a charge of extermination as a crime against humanity. More >>
UN Official Urges Dialogue Among Civilizations
Tuesday, 18 September 2007, 11:50 am | United Nations
As the United Nations General Assembly wrapped up its sixty-first session today, the outgoing president, Sheikha Haya Rashed Al Khalifa of Bahrain, urged greater focus in the years ahead on dialogue among civilizations before passing the gavel ... More >>
New Thinking Needed To Rebuild Afghan Agriculture
Tuesday, 18 September 2007, 11:50 am | United Nations
Efforts to rebuild the rural economy of Afghanistan must start with a better understanding of the country's complex history, social background and extraordinary resilience of the Afghan people in repeatedly rebuilding their livelihoods, according to a new ... More >>
Action Needed To Curb Threat Of Nuclear Terrorism
Tuesday, 18 September 2007, 11:48 am | United Nations
Stepping up his fight to reinforce nuclear security and prevent nuclear terrorism, the head of the United Nations atomic watchdog agency today called on all countries to ratify an international agreement strengthening the protection of nuclear materials. More >>
Greenhouse Gases Could Aggravate Ozone Loss
Tuesday, 18 September 2007, 11:47 am | United Nations
Increased atmospheric concentrations of global warming greenhouse gases (GHGs) could lead to more severe loss in the polar regions of ozone, the naturally occurring gas that filters out cancer- and cataract-causing ultraviolet (UV) rays from the sun, ... More >>
Conditions In Darfur Are Deteriorating, Says UN
Tuesday, 18 September 2007, 11:46 am | United Nations
The humanitarian situation inside Darfur deteriorated further last month, with thousands of civilians fleeing their homes, camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs) becoming increasingly crowded and recent heavy rains only adding to the misery of many locals ... More >>
Fossil Fuels Efficiency Projects Get Boost
Tuesday, 18 September 2007, 11:45 am | United Nations
Projects boosting the burning efficiency of fossil fuels are now eligible to be registered under the United Nations-backed Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), which allows projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions in developing countries ... More >>
DR Congo Govt Forces Commit Worst Of Abuses
Tuesday, 18 September 2007, 11:43 am | United Nations
Government soldiers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) remain responsible for the country's worst human rights abuses, carrying out arbitrary executions and raping, robbing or extorting civilians, according to the latest report by the United ... More >>
Eleventh Anniversary of the Nuclear Test Ban Pact
Tuesday, 18 September 2007, 11:41 am | United Nations
As the eleventh anniversary of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) approaches, Ban Ki-moon today called on participants at a meeting in Vienna designed to foster its entry into force to intensify efforts toward this goal. More >>
UN Initiative To Recover Assets Of Corrupt Leaders
Tuesday, 18 September 2007, 11:38 am | United Nations
The United Nations today launched a new partnership between the World Bank and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) to help developing nations to recover assets stolen by corrupt leaders and invest those funds in development programmes. More >>
Recent Surge In Darfur Violence Threatens Peace
Tuesday, 18 September 2007, 11:37 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today expressed deep concern at the recent surge in fighting across the war-torn Darfur region in Sudan, warning that it jeopardizes the chances of success of the peace talks being held next month to try to end the ... More >>
UN Officials See Progress In Eliminating Landmines
Tuesday, 18 September 2007, 11:37 am | United Nations
On the eve of the 10th anniversary of the adoption of the Anti-Personnel Mine-Ban Treaty, over a dozen United Nations officials have joined their voices to hail progress in reducing these weapons while urging greater action to eliminate them. More >>
Sec-Gen Pledges UN Help To Sierra Leone Pres-Elect
Tuesday, 18 September 2007, 11:36 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today pledged continuing support for Sierra Leone following the announcement of the opposition victory in presidential elections, the first since United Nations peacekeepers left in 2005 after helping to bring peace and stability ... More >>
Chinese Doubles Ace Teams Up With UNESCO
Tuesday, 18 September 2007, 11:35 am | United Nations
China's Grand Slam-winning Zheng Jie today became the latest female tennis ace to join forces with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Educational Organization (UNESCO ) to encourage the emergence of gender equality around the world. More >>
Montreal Protocol, Kyoto Protocol, Mutual
Tuesday, 18 September 2007, 12:05 am | United Nations
International efforts to safeguard Earth's climate and protect the ozone layer are mutually supportive, say the United Nation's top climate change and environment officials. Negotiations on the future direction of the Montreal Protocol in protecting the ozone ... More >>
