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Pakistani Flood Victims Not Out Of Danger, Says UN
Saturday, 1 September 2007, 3:18 pm | United Nations
An estimated 250,000 Pakistanis still face a critical humanitarian situation, more than two months after a cyclone and torrential rains brought floods to the South Asian country, United Nations aid agencies warned today as they urged donors to contribute ... More >>
Microcredit Helps Hard-pressed Palestinians
Friday, 31 August 2007, 11:25 am | United Nations
With Palestinians going through "one of the most dramatic and difficult periods of their troubled history," microcredit can play a vital role for survival and recovery in the occupied territory, a senior United Nations official said today. More >>
Kyoto Protocol Moves Closer To Emission Trading
Friday, 31 August 2007, 11:21 am | United Nations
The secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) today released first results indicating that countries will meet criteria to begin trading in Kyoto emission allowances for 2008, the first year of the Treaty’s first ... More >>
UN Alarm On Rising Number Of Disappearances
Friday, 31 August 2007, 11:18 am | United Nations
Marking the International Day of the Disappeared, a United Nations working group voiced concern over the increasing number of enforced disappearances worldwide and reaffirmed its solidarity with victims and human rights defenders working on their ... More >>
Growing Int'l Police Role Highlighted In Australia
Friday, 31 August 2007, 11:17 am | United Nations
Highlighting the unprecedented global demand for United Nations peacekeepers in general and police officers in particular, the new UN Police (UNPOL) chief today stressed the importance of Member States and international policing organizations. More >>
UNICEF Aid For Northern Iraq Cholera Victims
Friday, 31 August 2007, 11:17 am | United Nations
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) is providing life-saving assistance to thousands of victims of a cholera outbreak in northern Iraq, as local authorities and their partners try to limit the spread of the infectious and often fatal water-borne ... More >>
Weapons Inspectors: Vials From Iraq Pose No Threat
Friday, 31 August 2007, 11:16 am | United Nations
United Nations weapons inspectors in Iraq archiving their headquarters in New York have discovered vials that may contain a potentially deadly chemical removed from an Iraqi facility 11 years ago, but they said today that the containers are properly ... More >>
UN Congratulates Somalis On Reconciliation Debate
Friday, 31 August 2007, 11:15 am | United Nations
The top United Nations envoy to Somalia today lauded the success of the national reconciliation summit, which ended today, but cautioned that much work remains to foster better internal relations in the war-ravaged country. More >>
UN Appeal For End To Nepal Violence Ahead Of Polls
Friday, 31 August 2007, 11:14 am | United Nations
The top United Nations envoy to Nepal today called for a halt to violence and threats of communal attacks to ensure a "good climate" for the Constituent Assembly elections scheduled for later this year in the Himalayan nation. More >>
UNESCO Chief Denounces Somali Journalist Killing
Friday, 31 August 2007, 11:13 am | United Nations
Condemning the murder of a radio journalist in Somalia, the head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) today called for urgent measures to halt attacks on media professionals in the country. More >>
Refugee Agency Aids New Wave Of Fleeing Colombians
Friday, 31 August 2007, 11:12 am | United Nations
The United Nations refugee agency is working with its partners to help more than 1,500 Colombians who have fled an outbreak of violence in their home areas and sought safety in Ecuador over the past week - the latest influx in a years-long exodus that ... More >>
Carbon Trading Plan To Cut Greenhouse Gas Closer
Friday, 31 August 2007, 11:11 am | United Nations
Initial reviews indicate that countries will meet criteria to implement an essential tool in efforts to reduce global warming gases with a trading mechanism that allows States which cut emissions below treaty targets to sell their surplus allowances. More >>
Ban Ki-moon Encouraged By Progress In M. East
Friday, 31 August 2007, 11:10 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today he was encouraged by recent international efforts to return Palestinians and Israelis to the path of negotiations, but warned the leaders of both sides still face internal obstacles that may prevent any serious ... More >>
UN: 10K+ People On Food Rations In Wake Of Dean
Friday, 31 August 2007, 11:10 am | United Nations
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is providing emergency daily rations to more than 10,000 people in Jamaica and Belize as they try to rebuild their lives in the wake of Hurricane Dean's deadly and destructive sweep through the region earlier ... More >>
UN On Conviction Of Bangladesh Human Rights Expert
Friday, 31 August 2007, 11:09 am | United Nations
A United Nations expert on the independence of judges and lawyers today voiced concern regarding the trial proceedings of Sigma Huda, a fellow Special Rapporteur who was sentenced to three years in prison by a Bangladeshi court. More >>
UN Alarmed By Reports HIV Sufferers Buried Alive
Friday, 31 August 2007, 11:08 am | United Nations
The UN human rights chief and the world body's HIV/AIDS agency today issued a joint statement voicing alarm at reports that people living with HIV have been buried alive in the Southern Highlands region of Papua New Guinea. More >>
UN Nuclear Watchdog Circulates Latest Iran Report
Friday, 31 August 2007, 11:07 am | United Nations
The head of the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has circulated his latest report on the nuclear programme of Iran to the agency's Board of Governors. More >>
UNWTO Strengthens Media Programmes
Thursday, 30 August 2007, 2:15 pm | United Nations
The United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) is strengthening its media partners programme to support its major events. It announced that eTurboNews and TravelMole had joined forces to help support the Organization with a leading edge ... More >>
UN: End Violence Against Women In Liberia
Thursday, 30 August 2007, 2:10 pm | United Nations
The United Nations envoy to Liberia has called for an end to violence against women, while stressing that security is paramount for everyone throughout the West African nation as it works to rebuild after a brutal 14-year civil war. More >>
UN Urges End To Fighting In Troubled East DR Congo
Thursday, 30 August 2007, 2:10 pm | United Nations
Deploring clashes among opposing factions of the armed forces in the volatile east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the vast country today said that it is fully committed to helping find a peaceful ... More >>
