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Fund Backs Water Projects To Help Rural Poor
Friday, 15 June 2007, 10:47 am | United Nations
The United Nations International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has announced the creation of two new programmes designed to improve irrigation for needy Ethiopian families and to overcome water shortages and create jobs in north-eastern Syria. More >>
Livestock Production Threatens Diversity
Friday, 15 June 2007, 10:44 am | United Nations
The United Nations Food and Agricultural Organizations (FAO) warned today that the ramping up of large-scale industrial livestock production which focuses on a limited range of breeds is the single largest threat to global farm animal diversity, with ... More >>
Major Boost To Feeding Programme In DPR Korea
Friday, 15 June 2007, 10:32 am | United Nations
The United Nations food agency today welcomed a contribution in excess of $20 million from the Republic of Korea to provide food assistance to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), where a lack of funds has already led to cutbacks in critically ... More >>
Major Boost To Feeding Programme In DPR Korea
Friday, 15 June 2007, 10:02 am | United Nations
The United Nations food agency today welcomed a contribution in excess of $20 million from the Republic of Korea to provide food assistance to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), where a lack of funds has already led to cutbacks in critically ... More >>
Airlifts Supplies To Sudanese In CAR
Friday, 15 June 2007, 10:01 am | United Nations
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today announced the launch of an operation to airlift emergency food supplies to over 2,600 Sudanese refugees who recently crossed into the the Central African Republic (CAR). More >>
UNESCO Chief Condemns New Attack On Samarra Shrine
Friday, 15 June 2007, 10:01 am | United Nations
Joining a chorus of UN officials led by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, the head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has decried the bombing of the al-Askari shrine in the northern Iraqi city of Samarra. More >>
UN Advocate Salutes Cape Verde’s Graduation
Friday, 15 June 2007, 12:42 am | United Nations
A United Nations official today hailed the graduation of Cape Verde from the category of Least Developed Countries (LDCs) while cautioning that the State’s success should not lull the UN or other development partners into thinking that its problems have ... More >>
UN Tribunal For Rwandan Genocide Details Progress
Friday, 15 June 2007, 12:41 am | United Nations
The United Nations war crimes tribunal for the 1994 Rwandan genocide says it expects to double the number of completed trials by the end of next year, leaving only a handful of trials remaining involving detainees in its custody. More >>
Education And Media Key Aspects
Friday, 15 June 2007, 12:37 am | United Nations
Education, the media, youth and migration are at the heart of a two-year plan to bridge the divide between Islam and the West that was presented today to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon by the United Nations envoy heading the global campaign on the issue, ... More >>
UN Rushes Aid To Flood-Stricken Bangladeshis
Friday, 15 June 2007, 12:35 am | United Nations
United Nations agencies are rushing aid to victims of a series of landslides in Bangladesh brought on by torrential rains in Chittagong District in the east. More >>
Security Council Stresses Contingency
Friday, 15 June 2007, 12:30 am | United Nations
The Security Council today signalled the need for contingency planning for a new United Nations mission in Somalia, which has been wracked by violent clashes and massive displacement in recent months but where observers also see hope for reconciliation. More >>
Safe Blood Donation Key To Maternal, Child Health
Friday, 15 June 2007, 12:17 am | United Nations
Voluntary blood donors help prevent the death and improve the health of millions of women and their newborns around the world, the United Nations health agency said today. More >>
Leaders Reaffirm Commitment To Fight Aids
Thursday, 14 June 2007, 1:55 pm | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and business leaders reaffirmed the need for public-private partnerships to fight HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria at a meeting in New York today. More >>
DR Congo: UN Envoy Stresses Value Of Disarmament
Thursday, 14 June 2007, 1:21 pm | United Nations
The processes of disarmament, demobilization and reintegration are essential if countries emerging from conflict are going to make a successful and lasting transition to peace and stability, the senior United Nations envoy to the Democratic Republic of the ... More >>
Deadly Bombing In Beirut
Thursday, 14 June 2007, 1:19 pm | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has condemned today’s bombing in the Lebanese capital that has killed a parliamentarian, his son and at least six others, calling it “a heinous crime aimed at destabilizing Lebanon.” More >>
Concern Over Worsening Violence In Gaza
Thursday, 14 June 2007, 1:18 pm | United Nations
United Nations organizations said today that they are “gravely concerned” about the escalating violence in Gaza, where 59 people – including two UN workers – have been killed and 273 others injured since the weekend. More >>
Human Rights Violations In Beit Hanoun Attack
Thursday, 14 June 2007, 11:52 am | United Nations
The head of a fact-finding mission dispatched by the United Nations Human Rights Council to Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip, where an Israeli attack killed 19 Palestinian civilians last November, said today that œsignificant human rights ... More >>
Liberia: Jobs Project Jumpstarts Economic Growth
Thursday, 14 June 2007, 11:24 am | United Nations
The United Nations is working with the Government of Liberia on a project that has so far generated some 21,000 jobs in the country, where employment is considered vital to consolidating stability. More >>
Crime & Inequality Still Holding Back C America
Thursday, 14 June 2007, 11:23 am | United Nations
Twenty years after a landmark peace process helped end decades of conflict across Central America, the region has posted impressive gains but still faces daunting challenges that include deep income inequality and persistent crime, Secretary-General ... More >>
Implementation Of Darfur Hybrid Force Agreement
Thursday, 14 June 2007, 11:22 am | United Nations
On the eve of its mission to Africa, the Security Council today called for the full implementation of an agreement reached to deploy a hybrid United Nations-African Union peacekeeping force to the violence-stricken Darfur region of Sudan. More >>
